

Marvel into Captain Marvel, a move that immediately ignited a community, captured imaginations and proved that Danvers could shoulder the weight of being the first female character to get her own Marvel Cinematic Universe movie.

While DeConnick didn’t create Carol Danvers, she did reshape the hero’s legacy from Ms. “I think of Carol as someone who is forever running, forever chasing, always in motion,” says comic writer Kelly Sue DeConnick. But what is the Marvel hero’s real origin story? Who is Carol Danvers?

Trailers for Captain Marvel have revealed hints at her origin story: A woman drafted into an alien war, haunted by scattered memories of the life she used to have.
