To those who dwell on Earth, the name Captain Marvel is that of a hero! Yet, only I...of all who walk this planet...know the mind-wrenching truth--that it may one day be my hand which signals the fatal attack upon an unsuspecting sphere...that mine may be the voice which decrees its total destruction! 
- —Captain Marvel[src]
History
Early Life[]
Background[]
Captain Mar-Vell was a member of the Kree, the alien humanoid warrior race which had forged an empire throughout the galaxy known as the Large Magellanic Cloud. More specifically, he was one of the so-called "Pink Kree." This Kree race had the same color skin as Caucasian Earth humans, and those Kree who belonged to this race were also more biologically similar to humans than blue Kree were. Their existence was supposedly the result of inter-breeding of many of the original blue Kree race with humanoids of other worlds, and they had come to outnumber, by far, the blue Kree, who, however, still dominated positions of wealth and governmental power in the Kree Empire.[6]
The Supreme Intelligence, or "Supremor," the computerized fusion of great blue Kree minds of the Empire's past that governed the Kree Empire for millenniums, had initially encouraged the inter-breeding in question because of its realization that the original blue Kree race had reached an evolutionary dead end and hence, being composed as it was of blue Kree minds which it absorbed into itself by means of the "Supremorization" process, it would evolve no farther either. Though it had originally believed that such inter-breeding could have infused new life into the Kree gene pool, in recent years, it had come to believe that this was not having the desired result; the worst example of this was that it could not absorb pink Kree minds directly into itself.[16]
Origin[]
Mar-Vell joined the Imperial Kree Army, having trained in a military school after he was forced to separate from his parents since he was a child. He grew up to become a honorable and skilled member in the Army, putting the lives of others over his own.[17] One of the first missions Mar-Vell got assigned to was the pursuit of the criminal organization known as the Spoilers which had been ravaging numerous planets in the Kree Empire. Under the command of Captain So-Lar, Mar-Vell scouted one of the planets attacked by the Spoilers, going against the Chainsaurs which he and his group barely defeated. There Mar-Vell found three Flora colossi children each named Groot, Gleef and Tweeg that had been captured by the Spoilers. Suspecting that Planet X had also fallen to the Spoilers, the Kree decided to go investigate it, with Mar-Vell bonding with the three Flora colossi on their way.[18]
However, upon their arrival, they were attacked again by Chainsaurs, killing So-Lar while Mar-Vell barely survived with Flora colossi, hadn't been for the intervention of the Centaurian Yondar. Learning that the Spoilers were stationed in Planet X's Deadwoods, Mar-Vell decided to stop them, promoting himself to a status of Captain as per regulations following the previous captain's death. Going into the Deadwoods, they were again attacked by the Chainsaurs, this time getting captured brought to the Spoilers' leader, an evil Flora colossi going by the name of Agz.[19] Agz demanded that Mar-Vell tell him the codes to override the Kree military to facilitate his destruction of the Kree worlds, but he refused, instead offering the Flora colossi help as Mar-Vell could see that Agz was infested by a parasite. Agz refused his help and threatened to kill him and his companions if Mar-Vell didn't hand over the codes. With no other option, Mar-Vell freed himself of his restrains and fought Agz, only to be pinned down by the Flora colossi.[20]
Tweeg and Gleef distracted Agz long enough for Mar-Vell to use his Uni-Beam to burn off most of Agz's fungus infection, temporarily incapacitating him. Mar-Vell then grabbed the two Flora colossi and attempted to escape, but unfortunately his suit ran out of battery, stranding them and leaving them vulnerable to the Chainsaurs. Suddenly, Groot and Yondar intervened, having managed to evade capture and fought against the Spoilers. The Kree Starforce soon arrived, having received a signal from the Flora colossi matriarch Granopy and razed the Deadwoods to the ground, exterminating the fungus infection. With the Kree securing Planet X, Mar-Vell and his companions were saved, while Agz was taken prisoner. The Kree Space Fleet's Colonel Yon-Rogg sought to exploit the resources of Planet X, but Mar-Vell convinced him to leave the world rebuild itself. Mar-Vell and his fellow Kree departed from Planet X, leaving Groot to spread the legends about him to the Flora colossi children.[21]
The Supremor's Plans[]
The defeats of Sentry 459 and Ronan the Accuser caused Kree's attention to be turned towards the planet Earth,[22] where the Inhumans had been spawned by Kree genetic experimentation on some of the early natives. The Supremor now saw the spontaneous emergence of Earth humans who possessed super-humanoid powers, and realized the human potential for development of nearly limitless psionic powers.
It thus formed a complex plan for the preservation of both the Kree Empire and its own governance of that empire. It would:
- Awaken, in an Earth human, the vast psionic power their species could evolve;[23]
- Cause this Earth human's mind to be linked with that of a pink Kree, since, as mentioned above, they had greater biological similarity to Earth humans than blue Kree did;[24]
- Forge a psionic link with these two minds, with an unusual plant, the "Millennia Bloom," aiding this, resulting in the Supremor acquiring almost limitless psionic powers but rendering both the pink Kree and the Earth human mindless and subject to the Supremor's full control; and, finally,[16]
- Destroy Earth, using the pink Kree and the Earth human as its agents, to prevent any Earth human with power matching its own from arising.
Other factors in its calculations involved treachery by Ronan and Zarek intended to overthrow it. After causing a near disaster by framing a pink Kree for treason against the Empire, which they would blame on the Supremor after they had killed the supposed traitor, they planned to supplant it as Kree Imperial ruler. The Supreme Intelligence planned, even as it intended to foil that conspiracy, have the pink Kree pawn whom the plotters selected for it be the very pink Kree whom it would have linked to the Earth human.[citation needed]
An Agent is Found[]
Seeking the pink Kree who would best meet these many requirements of its highly complex plan, the Supremor found him in Mar-Vell, who became a captain in the Kree Space Fleet by that time he was already a renowned Kree Imperial war hero, despite his youth. He was then in a relationship with a nurse in the Kree Space Fleet, Una; the Supremor was aware that both of these possessed humane attitudes and sympathies, which had been suppressed in most other Kree in their educations. Moreover, the Supremor was also aware of the unrequited love of, or rather the lust after Una that Yon-Rogg felt, and that he was ruthless enough to use any means of disposing of his rivals for her affections; Mar-Vell and Yon-Rogg despised each other as a direct result. The crew, under the command of Zen-Pram, were sent to retrieve the Kree Admiral Devros after he had ceased communication with the Kree. During their journey, the crew stumbled across a battle between a Skrull and Shi'ar fleet and Mar-Vell intervened in aid of the Shi'ar Empire's Imperial Guards against the Skrulls.[25]
After that, Cal'syee Neramani, known as Deathbird, a member of the Shi'ar royal family, before leaving informed the Kree crew the reason why her fleet had gone to the Skrulls' space, was due to the Brood stealing their ships. Mar-Vell and his crew soon arrived at the planet destination, only to be ambushed by the Brood, led by a Brood-infected Devros.[10] Though they were then infected with Brood eggs, Captain Mar-Vell, Una, and Colonel Yon-Rogg managed to cure themselves and successfully escaped the Brood.[26] After those events, the Supreme intelligence arranged to have a spy ship dispatched towards Earth, with Captain Mar-Vell serving aboard it, Colonel Yon-Rogg assigned as his commander, and Una serving as a nurse on their spy starship.[6]
Earth Identity[]
Soon after his arrival on Earth, Mar-Vell witnessed the apparent death of Dr. Walter Lawson, a scientist on his way to his new assignment at Cape Canaveral, Florida, in an automobile accident. Coincidentally, Dr. Lawson bore an astonishing resemblance to Mar-Vell, so the latter decided to pose as him, the better to study humanity's progress towards developing means of space travel.[5] While posing as Dr. Lawson, Mar-Vell first met the Cape's security chief, Carol Danvers, for whom he developed a special concern that, in time, caused him to experience love for her. Meanwhile, Kree Sentry #459, which the Fantastic Four had defeated, had been brought to the Cape for study, and Yon-Rogg, hoping that it would destroy Mar-Vell, re-activated it from his starship. But Mar-Vell publicly appeared in his green Kree helmet and green-trimmed sky blue uniform to fight against the Sentry, which he succeeded in defeating. Onlookers, hearing the Sentry call him by name, believed him to be a new Earth-born super-human adventurer named "Captain Marvel," and acclaimed him as a hero.[5]
The Supremor's Plans Unfold[]
Captain Marvel and Ms. Marvel
Over the succeeding months, as Ronan, Zarek, and the Supreme Intelligence had all secretly planned, Mar-Vell's sympathy for the people of Earth grew increasingly stronger, and on many occasions, he surreptitiously subverted orders from Yon-Rogg and Ronan that would have brought harm to Earth people had they been obeyed. Finally, Yon-Rogg caught Mar-Vell in direct disobedience of an order from the Empire's Supreme Council, and Ronan sentenced Mar-Vell to death by firing squad. Mar-Vell was about to be executed on Earth when a contingent of Aakon warriors attacked Yon-Rogg's firing squad. In the melee, Una was fatally wounded by a stray shot from an Aakon's weapon. Mar-Vell escaped on an Earth missile and laid Una's corpse to rest on an asteroid. But Yon-Rogg then seized Mar-Vell's missile with a tractor beam and hurled it into hyperspace. As the Earth missile had no means of leaving hyperspace, it drifted there for 63 days, by which point Mar-Vell was reduced to an utter state of exhaustion and had lost consciousness.[27]
In time, Ronan and Zarek brought the missile to a small world on the edge of the Kree Galaxy, and once there, they took the now unconscious Mar-Vell to a "multi-sensory illusion chamber" they had constructed. There they caused him to have the illusion that he encountered a godlike being named Zo, which gave him the power that he wanted to be able to destroy Yon-Rogg. The powers that Mar-Vell then received were not illusory: he became far stronger than other known Kree except for Ronan, and he gained the ability to cast sensory illusions and to teleport himself across even intergalactic distances. Mar-Vell briefly returned to Earth. However, Zo "appeared" to him again and ordered him to Hala to battle a gigantic generator of magnetic power, disguised as an idol of the Kree god Tam-Bor, which was capable of destroying the entire planet. Right after Mar-Vell found the generator, Ronan, carrying out his and Zarek's planned attempt to overthrow the Supremor as ruler of the Kree Empire, appeared and accused Mar-Vell of being its creator. Mar-Vell and Ronan fought, but Mar-Vell succeeded in destroying the generator. The Supreme Intelligence's personal "Super Sentry" then appeared, drove off Ronan, and brought Mar-Vell to the chamber of the Supreme Intelligence, where Zarek stood as a captive. Suddenly, Ronan teleported into the chamber and teleported out again with Zarek, leaving a spherical antimatter bomb behind. Though Mar-Vell leaped upon the sphere to save the Supreme Intelligence, the Supremor explained to him that its devices had already neutralized it. The Supreme Intelligence honored Mar-Vell with a special uniform colored in red with black trim and gold decorations, and allowed him to retain his newly increased strength and abilities to fly unprotected through space and hyperspace, though he lost his powers to teleport himself and to cast illusions as a result. However, as soon as Mar-Vell left for space, he was suddenly bombarded with a wavelength of electromagnetic radiation and found himself blasted into the Negative Zone, an antimatter continuum alongside that of Earth.[28]
The Linkage with Rick Jones[]
Next, the Supreme Intelligence secretly enabled Mar-Vell to make telepathic contact with Richard "Rick" Jones, a youth who had previously been a companion to the Hulk, Captain America, and the original Avengers. At the time, Jones was attempting to replace James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes as Captain America's partner, even going so far as to wear a duplication of Barnes's special outfit as Bucky. He then did not know that Captain America's greatest enemy, the Red Skull, had recently employed a "Cosmic Cube" to transpose his and the real Captain America's minds into each other's bodies. The Red Skull, in Captain America's body, gave Jones a brush-off that angered the youth, and he abandoned Avengers Mansion in a huff. It was then that Mar-Vell's image, disguised as Captain America's, lured Jones to a hidden and abandoned Kree base on Earth, where he had Jones slip on a pair of "Nega-Bands" around his wrists; owing to their unique properties, the bands promptly shrank to fit Jones's wrists, for which, up to then, they had been too large. Mar-Vell then appeared to Jones in his true form and had Jones strike the nega-bands together above his own head.
The result of Jones doing so was that he and Mar-Vell exchanged places: Mar-Vell was instantly teleported to Earth, and Jones, his body surrounded by a protective aura that allowed him to survive, was just as instantly teleported into the Negative Zone. As long as they wore the bands, Mar-Vell and Jones were in total telepathic contact; thus, the Supreme Intelligence had created the psychic link that it sought between an Earth human and a pink Kree. The nega-bands remained on Earth on the wrists of whichever of the two, Mar-Vell or Jones, was on Earth at the time. Hence Mar-Vell could return to the Negative Zone by striking the bands together above his own head, thereby returning Jones to Earth. Mar-Vell soon discovered that he could only remain on Earth for brief periods of time; if he stayed a total of three hours or used enough energy to consume three hours(as he once did against the Hulk), he and Jones would exchange places automatically. This meant that it was Jones who spent most of the time on Earth. However, he was usually willing to exchange places with Mar-Vell at intervals.[24]
The Origin of Ms. Marvel[]
Soon after becoming linked with Jones, Mar-Vell confronted Yon-Rogg, who had abducted Carol Danvers as a hostage to use against him. Mar-Vell defeated Yon-Rogg, who died when a nearby Kree device exploded. But in the course of this fight, Danvers was bombarded with radiation from a Kree Psyche-Magnetron, which caused her to develop a half-Kree physiology that was similar to Mar-Vell's own; using the super-human powers she had accidentally acquired by this means, Danvers later became the first costumed adventurer known as Ms. Marvel.[29] But unfortunately, owing to the unique properties of the Psyche-Magnetron, Yon-Rogg was himself resurrected from the dead, and he became an independent terrorist under the alias of Magnitron.[30]
Sometime later, Mar-Vell used the Fantastic Four's machine that created a doorway into the Negative Zone to transport Jones out of the Zone, so that they both then existed in the Earth dimension simultaneously and separately.[31]
Kree-Skrull War[]
It was at this point that Ronan, who had been imprisoned along with Zarek, now broke free and seized control of the Kree Imperial government.[31] Almost immediately afterward, war broke out between the Kree and Skrull Empires; this war directly involved the Avengers. Eventually, the Supreme Intelligence contacted Rick Jones and awakened his latent psionic powers. Jones used them to paralyze the entire Skrull Space Fleet as well as Ronan and his forces, thereby ending the "Kree-Skrull War" and allowing the Supreme Intelligence to return to power. The Supreme Intelligence then robbed Jones of his power, leaving the young man exhausted and lying on the point of death. As the Supreme Intelligence had planned, Mar-Vell had to be linked with Jones, in the same manner as before, so that his own life force would restore Jones to health.[32]
Later Life[]
The Link Healed[]
Mar-Vell returned to Earth, where he discovered that because of the Supreme Intelligence having stripped him of his latent psionic powers, Jones's body had lost its ability to contain both his own life force and Mar-Vell's. Jones was bombarded with a form of electromagnetic radiation by Professor Benjamin Savannah, which had two effects. The first of these was that Jones's body regained its ability to contain both his and Mar-Vell's life forces. The second of these was that Mar-Vell himself acquired the power to absorb solar energy and use it for flight, strength, and firing bolts of force.[33] Unfortunately, Savannah himself was killed just after administering this radiation treatment to Jones.[34]
Encounter with Eon[]
Soon afterward, Mar-Vell became embroiled in fighting Thanos and his plans for destroying all life in the universe. Mar-Vell was teleported to the presence of the extraterrestrial being called Eon, which had been created thousands of years before to watch over the evolution of super-human beings on Earth. Eon induced Mar-Vell to reject the Kree's love of warfare entirely, and to reach inner peace. Eon then granted Mar-Vell a psionic ability called "Cosmic Awareness," whose exact nature and scope were not clearly defined, and designated him as "Protector of the Universe." Thanks to these changes in himself, Captain Mar-Vell became the primary force in bringing about Thanos's defeat and in the total failure of Thanos's plans.[35]
Mar-Vell Against Nitro[]
But Mar-Vell's next encounter was the one that ultimately led directly to his own death. For in it, Mar-Vell faced off against the criminal Robert Hunter, an agent of the "Lunatic Legion" of Kree insurgents, which had granted him the power to explode his own body at will and later re-integrate himself physically without being harmed, and who called himself Nitro. Just before he and Mar-Vell fought, Nitro had stolen a canister of a powerful, top-secret government nerve gas called Compound 13. During the fight between the two, which Mar-Vell won by having Jones strike his own Nega-Bands together above his head just at the moment Nitro exploded, a leak developed in the canister of gas due to Nitro having exploded his body, and even though Mar-Vell used his high strength level to seal the canister, he could not avoid breathing in some of the Compound 13 nerve gas himself, and it caused him to collapse.[36] Nitro had lost their fight, and Mar-Vell himself seemed to recover fully afterwards. Unfortunately for Mar-Vell, however, as he was eventually to learn, the Compound 13 nerve gas also caused cancer.[citation needed]
The Supremor's Plans Ruined[]
As time passed, Mar-Vell and Jones learned that they could both exist in the Earth dimension simultaneously by concentrating on the nega-bands. However, to maximize Mar-Vell's power when necessary, they would still merge. The Supreme Intelligence, as per its true plans (described above) for them, orchestrated events so as to force Jones and Mar-Vell to share the power of the nega-bands and then, as the Supremor, challenged them in battle at the same time, intending to defeat them in time for the "Millennia Bloom" to ravage their minds, reducing both of them to mindless soldiers whom the Intelligence would use to destroy Earth, so that no Terrestrial could ever arise with power matching its own, and absorb Jones's potential.[37] But its plans were foiled when Jones activated the Intelligence's ship's weapons systems to trigger a solar flare from Hala. The Intelligence was forced to divert all of its energy into the planetary shields, leaving it and all of the Kree powerless and unconscious.[38]
The Link Broken[]
After Mar-Vell passed too closely to a black hole, Jones was again trapped in the Negative Zone. Mar-Vell and Jones lost their shared ability to communicate with each other through the bands, and neither of them could last longer than nine hours in the Zone at a time. Mar-Vell managed to solve this problem during a battle with the Super-Adaptoid, tricking the robot into mimicking the nega-bands and then striking them together above its own head, which dispatched the Adaptoid to the Negative Zone and returned Jones to Earth, freed of his dependence on Mar-Vell.[39]
The Death of Captain Marvel[]
The lung cancer ("Blackend" in Kree medical terminology) that the Compound 13 nerve gas Mar-Vell had breathed in had given to him, finally took its toll upon him and became terminal. Mar-Vell's Nega-Bands had suppressed the cancer, but when it eventually mutated, the bands also prevented all known cancer treatments from working. Removing the bands would allow the cancer to advance much faster and kill him within hours. Although the best chance for a successful treatment would necessitate access to the Kree medical community, the Kree Empire's government considered Mar-Vell a traitor.
Although various colleagues like Reed Richards, Henry McCoy, and Hank Pym attempted to conduct quick research for a medical solution, those efforts all proved unsuccessful. Mar-Vell spent his last days at his home on Titan. He died there, surrounded on his deathbed by his lover Elysius of Titan, Jones, the Avengers (who accepted him into their ranks on an honorary and posthumous basis),[9] and various other friends. He was even awarded the Royal Skrull Medal of Valor by General Zedrao.[11]
Secret Invasion[]
The Skrull Impostor[]
As part of the Skrull Secret Invasion, a shape-shifting Skrull called Khn'nr was locked into the shape of Mar-Vell, the first Captain Marvel, and given technological replicas of the Kree nega-bands to replicate Captain Marvel's powers. Khn'nr received memory implants to turn him into a sleeper agent making him believe he was Captain Marvel supposedly up until the time of the invasion when a psychological trigger would be activated to return him to his Skrull persona.[40]
Bit the process went wrong, leading Khn'nr to believe that he truly was Mar-Vell and making him forget his Skrull persona. He eventually came to realize the truth and that it was pointless trying to fight his true nature. Thus he attacked Thunderbolts Mountain on behalf of the Skrulls, but Norman Osborn talked him out of his attack. As Khn'nr was leaving, he crash-landed, sustaining terminal injuries, and encountered Noh-Varr. Before he died, he begged Noh-Varr to take up his mantle and protect Earth from the Skrulls.[41]
Chaos War[]
During the Chaos War event, Mar-Vell was one of the deceased Avengers resurrected due to a weakening in the veil between life and death. Alongside several other Avengers, he faced off against minions of the Japanese god Amatsu-Mikaboshi and former Avengers foes Grim Reaper and Nekra while working to save the living Avengers who, due to Nightmare's earlier defeat, had been left in a comatose state. In the end, Mar-Vell again died when the Grim Reaper impaled him.[42]
The Coming of the Phoenix[]
During the war between the Avengers and the X-Men, Captain Mar-Vell was again resurrected when the Kree Empire used the M'kraan Crystal to unite and protect all of the Kree against the Phoenix Force. Minister Marvel, the nephew of Mar-Vell, and his son jointly orchestrated this plan to clear the Vell family name. Mar-Vell himself was brainwashed, along with all the other Kree and everyone powered by Kree energies, into believing that the Phoenix would bring their salvation. The Vision managed to free Mar-Vell and the other Kree from the illusion, but not in time to evacuate the planet, as the Phoenix drew ever closer to Hala. Mar-Vell realized that the Phoenix was coming to claim the portion of its power that had been used to resurrect him and still resided within him. He re-sacrificed himself to save Hala, and the Phoenix departed for Earth. Mar-Vell's corpse later landed on a desert planet and, with the Phoenix having touched it, the corpse sprouted the first plant life on the planet, which was subsequently named "New Hala."[43]Attributes
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Powers
Originally, Captain Mar-Vell possessed no super-humanoid powers. However, the various Kree races had all evolved with higher strength levels than Earth humans to combat the heavier gravitation of their home worlds.
Kree Physiology: Owing to his Kree physiology, Captain Mar-Vell possessed the natural attributes of the Kree race; he possessed resistance to poison, toxins and disease (systemic antidote), and a higher natural strength level and more durable body than a human, approximately twice the level.
- Super-Humanoid Strength: The shared super-normal, but not super-humanoid, strength level of the Kree races enables a Kree to lift (press) between 1 ton and 1.2 tons under optimal conditions, including Earth gravitation.
- Super-Humanoid Durability: As a Kree, Mar-Vell was of sturdier genetic stock than humans, making him more resilient to impact, pressure, and temperature extremes.
- Super-Humanoid Speed: Mar-Vell was impressively fast even for a Kree, possessing a level of speed that would qualify as enhanced for a human.
- Super-Humanoid Agility: Mar-Vell's agility, balance, and body coordination were enhanced to levels that are beyond the natural physical limits of the finest Earth athlete.
- Super-Humanoid Reflexes: Mar-Vell's reflexes were beyond those of the finest human athlete, which made it possible for him to dodge gunfire, even at point-blank range, from multiple gunners at the same time.
Over the course of Mar-Vell's life he was, both artificially and cosmologically, augmented and evolved by a host of outside sources that all bolstered his natural Kree genetic structure. The first was by being empowered by cosmic entities, both the false cosmic entity "Zo"[44] and, later, the true cosmic entity Eon.[45] He was also empowered by the Nega-Bands,[24] and his body was further treated with photonic energy, giving him additional powers he could channel through the bands.[46]
Solar Energy Metabolics: Dr. Benjamin Savannah's radiation treatment of Rick Jones had altered Mar-Vell's genetic structure, giving him the ability to absorb energy from outside sources, especially solar energy, and metabolize it back, convert, and manipulate it for a variety of uses.[46]
- Simulated Psychokinesis: Mar-Vell could manipulate his energies in such a way as to move people/objects about by focusing constructs around them.[citation needed]
- Healing/Restoration: Captain Marvel would eventually learn that he could use solar/photonic energy used to empower him as a means to accelerate his own recovery process. A skill initially utilized through use of his Nega-Bands, he came to realize he could heal himself through his natural ability to absorb and metabolize solar energy.[47] Using the Nega-Bands, he could redistribute absorbed photon power to heal as well as reinvigorate others.[48] He discovered in his last years that this healing power would not, however, work on the lung cancer he contracted from the Compound 13 nerve gas he had proved unable to avoid breathing in during his fight against Robert "Nitro" Hunter.
- Photon Energy Blasts: Captain Mar-Vell could project photon energy blasts that channeled his available energies into a devastating blast.[49]
- Energy-Enhanced Strike: Captain Mar-Vell was also able to channel the said energy behind his blows to increase their striking power, once employing this power to knock out the Super-Skrull with one punch.
- Physical Augmentation:[citation needed]
- Size-Shifting: After one occasion when he accidentally absorbed too much energy from a destroyed star, Captain Marvel found that he could unconditionally shift his size to monolithic heights.[50]
- Virtual Invulnerability[citation needed]
- Regenerative Healing Factor[citation needed]
- Minor Molecular Control: Mar-Vell demonstrated the ability to use his absorbed energy to transform the regular clothes he wore in Earth disguise as the false Dr. Walter Lawson into his Kree uniform, and vice versa.[48]
Cosmic Awareness: Captain Mar-Vell's most impressive power was his "Cosmic Awareness," which he received from Eon. This ability allowed him to know exactly what he needed to know at any moment. This could range from what his current location was to discovering an opponent's weakness; upon acquiring this power, he first demonstrated it by realizing, not only that certain details of the special uniform with which the Supreme Intelligence had honored him for preventing its destruction (as described above) had been altered, but also that Eon had transformed the color of his previously silver-white hair to blond. This power alone made Captain Mar-Vell a force to be reckoned with, but its exact nature and scope have never been clearly defined. It might have been somewhat comparable to Spider-Man's "spider-sense" and to Mantis's awareness of psychic "vibrations," but its scope was far greater than either of those.[45]
Abilities
Paraphernalia
Equipment
- Nega-Bands: Kree "nega-bands" use energies of the Negative Zone and the wielder's own energies. Those who wear them are capable of interstellar flight and become resistant to many attacks and the micro-pressure of deep outer space as well as ceasing to require food, water, air or sleep. The bands, however, are not capable of distinguishing water from a proper atmosphere; therefore, a wielder of the Nega-Bands could still drown despite being protected from spatial micro-pressure. Such wearers are also granted super-human strength.
- Immunity To Cold, Radiation, Micro-Pressure, And Suffocation: Wearers of Kree Nega-bands acquire such super-humanoid powers as described above; however, they can still be affected by gas-based attacks, as Mar-Vell himself was in conflict against Robert "Nitro" Hunter, in whose course he contracted the lung cancer that killed him.
- Nega-Band Based Energy Absorption: Mar-Vell also demonstrated the ability, drawn from the Nega-Bands, to absorb and project various types of energy, except mystic energies, but to a lesser extent than that of the Quantum Bands.
- Captain Mar-Vell's Kree Uniform: While serving in the Kree Space Fleet, Mar-Vell wore the green-trimmed sky blue Kree uniform that signified his rank as a captain.[53] Later, the uniform was modified, by the imaginary cosmic being Zo, to resist the rigors of spontaneous teleportation through space. Later still, the Supreme Intelligence honored him for his efforts to save it from destruction with a black-trimmed red uniform bearing gold decorations.[54]
- Knockout Capsules:
- Smoke Grenades:
Weapons
- Wrist-Mounted Uni-Beam: Mar-Vell, before his subsequent changes, utilized miniature Kree Universal Beam weaponry, fashioned into a pocket-sized laser band that he wore on his wrist. Whatever it blew apart, it could reconstruct on a molecular level. It could also emit electric arcs that once proved powerful enough to stun the Super-Skrull momentarily, cast blinding glares or shrouds of darkness, and strike down a Kree Sentry with one shot.
Transportation
- Jet Belt: The Jet Belt was a standard Kree soldier equipment item utilized by many of its trained military personnel. Mar-Vell utilized the rocket-powered utility belt to achieve self-propelled flight at various speeds.
Notes
- Stan Lee created, and Gene Colan designed, Captain Mar-Vell, in Marvel Super-Heroes #12, primarily so that the Marvel Comics Group could retain ownership of the "Captain Marvel" character-name trademark after Fawcett Publications ownership of it had lapsed. Their approach to the character, however, was oriented primarily towards science fiction and technology rather than the original magic-oriented approach first of Fawcett Publications, and later of DC Comics.[55]
Trivia
- Not to be confused with the DC eponymous character, who currently goes under the name Shazam.
See Also
- 175 appearance(s) of Mar-Vell (Earth-616)
- 28 appearance(s) in handbook(s) of Mar-Vell (Earth-616)
- 102 minor appearance(s) of Mar-Vell (Earth-616)
- 160 mention(s) of Mar-Vell (Earth-616)
- 15 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Mar-Vell (Earth-616)
- 307 image(s) of Mar-Vell (Earth-616)
- 25 quotation(s) by or about Mar-Vell (Earth-616)
- 2 victim(s) killed by Mar-Vell (Earth-616)
- 4 item(s) used/owned by Mar-Vell (Earth-616)
Links and References
References
- ↑ Captain Marvel #51
- ↑ Captain Marvel #24
- ↑ Incredible Hulk #246
- ↑ Incredible Hulk #245
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Marvel Super-Heroes #13
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Marvel Super-Heroes #12
- ↑ Captain Marvel #27
- ↑ Captain Marvel #29
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Avengers Log #1
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Untold Legend of Captain Marvel #2
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Death of Captain Marvel #1
- ↑ Chaos War: Dead Avengers #1
- ↑ Chaos War: Dead Avengers #2–3
- ↑ Secret Avengers #26
- ↑ Secret Avengers #28
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Captain Marvel #41
- ↑ Untold Legend of Captain Marvel–2
- ↑ Groot (Vol. 2) #1
- ↑ Groot (Vol. 2) #2
- ↑ Groot (Vol. 2) #3
- ↑ Groot (Vol. 2) #4
- ↑ Fantastic Four #65
- ↑ Avengers #89
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 24.2 Captain Marvel #17
- ↑ Untold Legend of Captain Marvel #1
- ↑ Untold Legend of Captain Marvel #3
- ↑ Captain Marvel #1–12
- ↑ Captain Marvel #13–17
- ↑ Captain Marvel #18
- ↑ Avengers Assemble (Vol. 2) #16
- ↑ 31.0 31.1 Avengers #89
- ↑ Avengers #96–97
- ↑ Captain Marvel #22–24
- ↑ Captain Marvel #25
- ↑ Captain Marvel #25–33
- ↑ Captain Marvel #34
- ↑ Captain Marvel #41
- ↑ Captain Marvel #46
- ↑ Captain Marvel #47–50
- ↑ Captain Marvel (Vol. 6) #1–5
- ↑ Secret Invasion #5–6
- ↑ Chaos War: Dead Avengers #1–3
- ↑ Secret Avengers #26–28
- ↑ 44.0 44.1 44.2 44.3 44.4 Captain Marvel #11
- ↑ 45.0 45.1 Captain Marvel #29
- ↑ 46.0 46.1 Captain Marvel #22
- ↑ Captain Marvel #43
- ↑ 48.0 48.1 Captain Marvel #58
- ↑ Captain Marvel #47
- ↑ Captain Marvel #57
- ↑ Captain Marvel #12–16
- ↑ All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z: Update #4
- ↑ Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe (Vol. 2) #7
- ↑ Captain Marvel #16
- ↑ https://www.webcitation.org/mainframe.php
- ↑ Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z #2
- ↑ All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z: Update Vol 1 4