Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel

Subject Facts

Full Name: Carol Danvers
Codename: Captain Marvel
Age: 32
Gender: Female
Archetype: Super-Hero
Aliases: N/A
Marital Status: Single
Affiliation: Avengers / New Avengers / Alpha Flight

Subject Attributes

Superhuman Abilities:
Altered Genetic Structure: Half-human, half-kree, Carol Danvers was caught in an explosive blast originating from a damaged Kree device - a Psyche-Magnitron. The energy from the machine awoke her mostly dormant alien genes and altered her genetic structure to be more like that of Kree hero Mar-Vell, granting her superhuman strength, speed, durability and near immunity to disease and toxins. This power was further enhanced when, following experimentation at the hands of the 'Brood', Carol was linked with a 'white hole'. Taking the name 'Binary', she was granted the control and manipulation of stellar energies and could achieve light speed travel. She also possessed the ability to survive unaided in the vacuum of space. However, Carol was forced to exhaust her 'Binary' gifts while attempting to save a dying star, and was for a period of time severely weakened by the ordeal. Since then, Danvers' abilities have started to return, and she can still utilise a portion of the powers once possessed as 'Binary'. Now acting as Captain Marvel, carrying on her deceased mentor's legacy, she has access to the following gifts:

Enhanced Physiology: Carol possesses enhanced strength, stamina, speed and durability, all of which can be further enhanced through channeling the absorbed energy stored within her person. She is immune to most known diseases and toxins.

Flight: Danvers is capable of flying up to six times the speed of sound, and has shown herself able to survive in the vacuum of space.

Cosmic Sense: Carol has access to a rather unreliable 'sixth sense' that allows her to predict the movements of those around her.

Energy Absorption and Manipulation: Much like her namesake and predecessor, Captain Marvel can control, absorb and manipulate various types of energy to be discharged however she sees fit.

• Absorption: Her body is capable of absorbing various types of energy for the purpose of temporarily enhancing her own physical attributes, though it must be noted she cannot absorb magical energy without severe consequence. This energy can then be used to augment her strength, speed, durability and regenrative healing factor. Should she absorb enough energy, Carol is capable of assuming a form not dissimilar to that of her Binary persona.
• Photonic Blasts: Carol can discharge powerful concussive blasts of photonic and stellar light energy from her hands and fingertips, formed of absorbed energy.
• Molecular Manipulation: By channeling absorbed energy, Carol is able to manipulate and alter matter and energy on a molecular level. As such, she can use absorbed energy to transform her regular clothing into her costume and vice-versa.

Regenerative Healing Factor: Captain Marvel boasts a healing factor supplemented by absorbed energy. With it, she is capable of quickly regenerating from catastrophic wounds - be they nuclear detonation, genetic disruption or even Brood infection. It has been stated by some of Earth's most famous scientists that Carol's healing factor amounts to what some would call 'Convetional Immortality' - her cells constantly regenerating, thus never deteriorating. It has been theorised that this could possibly keep her in her prime for centuries to come.

Standard Abilities:
Pilot: Carol is a more-than accomplished pilot, having extensive experience with USAF planes as well as with Kree, Shi'ar, and other alien starships.

Military Training: Having worked with both marines and the Avengers throughout her life, Carol has been extensively trained in armed and unarmed combat.

Journalist: Carol is a talented journalist, excelling as a freelance writer and magazine editor

Multilingual: Danvers is fluent in English and Russian, as well as Kree and Shi'ar languages. She also knows vocabulary from many other races - from Rajaki to Badoon.

Intelligence Operative: Having worked with Air Force Intelligence and the CIA, Carol has developed advanced espionage skills, including infiltration, surveillance and interrogation.

Paraphernalia:
N/A

Subject Weaknesses:
Mortal: Despite her augmented Kree physiology, Carol is mortal, and thus suffers a number of weaknesses that entails.

Magic and Telepathy: While greatly resistant to physical damage, Captain Marvel is susceptible to mind control and powers originating from eldritch sources.

Recovering Alcoholic: Throughout Carol's life, she has suffered a number of traumatic experiences, and she has, on numerous occasions, turned to alcohol for help. While she is currently sober, her low self-esteem could cause her to relapse.

Inferiority Complex: Carol often questions herself and her decisions, feeling insecure and mediocre when compared to other heroes. While she has worked hard to overcome this, there are still times that she limits her potential

Subject History

Carol Danvers was born to Joe Danvers, a former U.S. Navy officer and construction worker, and his then lover - Mari-Ell, a champion of the Kree, who lived on Earth posing as a human. The two married, and eventually brought Car-Ell into the world; or "Champion" in Kree. Her name was then altered, changed to "Carol" in order to fit in with Terran naming conventions.

Raised in Beverly, a suburban community to the north of Boston, Massachusetts, Carol was the youngest of three children; her half-brothers Stevie and Joe Jr both her senior. Life was not perfect, and Joe, following Mari-Ell's strange disappearance after Carol's birth, became physically abusive to both Stevie and Joe Jr. However, they did their utmost to appear a united family unit, and worked to build a summer home in Cape Cod. Carol insisted on working as hard as her two older half-brothers, trying to appear equal in her father's eyes. A voracious reader, she dreamed of becoming an astronaut and traveling to distant planets; as a teen she even hitchhiked to Cape Canaveral to view a launch there. Her father, however, could not accept women as men's equal, and when financial troubles meant he could only send one child to college, he chose Steve despite Carol's superior grades.

This drove a rift between Carol and her father, and as soon as she turned 18, she joined the U.S. Air Force, intending to get her college degree through serving in the military. However, Stevie, who had unexpectedly followed a similar path, perished in service. While this healed some of the animosity between members of the Danvers family, Carol never truly felt accepted by her father.

Carol was quick to prove herself – she rose to the top of her Air Force class and took the call sign "Cheeseburger". In one of her earliest missions, Carol was shot down and captured by a man named Ghazi Rashid while flying through Arabic airspace. She was tortured for several days but managed to escape, reach a CIA safe-house in the area and provide key information to the intelligence community. This in turn saw her recruited to Air Force Intelligence.

For years, she worked alongside colonel Michael 'Ace' Rossi, and accomplished missions across the globe – from Berlin to Russia, and crossed paths with the likes of Nick Fury, Logan, Ben Grimm and Victor Creed. Her success saw her targeted by NASA, who approached her requested that she join them as their head of security. Still dreaming of space as she had as a child, Carol was quick to accept the offer. In doing so, Carol became the youngest security captain in NASA's history and soon became embroiled in the schemes of the interstellar alien Kree Empire.

It was during this time that she met and eventually befriended the Kree soldier Mar-Vell. In the moths following their meeting, Carol's life became increasingly difficult - being kidnapped on more than one occasion. One such capture was at the hands of the invading Yon-Rogg. Though Mar-Vell saved Danvers, she found herself knocked into a damaged Kree Psyche-Magnitron, a powerful device which could warp reality. Carol's genetic structure was altered, effectively making her a half-Kree superhuman and imbuing her with their strength and resilience, though she was initially unaware of the transformation.

Following said change, Carol began to experience black outs, and her career at NASA was severly stinted. She was reassigned to a small facility in Chicago, and then demoted to a Cape Canaveral security guard. She resigned shortly after. Writing an expose on the inner workings of her former employers, she burned her bridges with the space agency, but was hired as an editor for 'Woman's Magazine', a publication owned by the Daily Bugle. Still suffering black outs, Carol had no idea that her 'fainting spells' were due to her harbouring a dual personality – that of a Kree warrior influenced by the alterations of the Psyche-Magnitron.

Continuing to experience these blackouts, Carol refused to let them stint her new career path, while her 'secondary' persona took the name Ms. Marvel, after Kree hero Mar-Vell. She finally realigned the two fractured personas within her with aid and treatment from Hecate and Ronan the Accuser, and she established herself as one of New York's newest superheroes, eventually drafted into the Avengers, taking the Scarlet Witch's place during the Maximoff's brief leave of absence.

During her work with the Avengers, Carol battled a variety of enemies, but none were more strange than 'Marcus', son of Immortus – who kidnapped her and took her to Limbo, hoping to impregnate her. Luckily Ms. Marvel was able to escape, and for a long while expressed resentment toward some of her team mates, who she felt could have better aided her in the situation.

Shortly after, Ms. Marvel moved to San Francisco, hoping to find peace of mind following her capture at the hands of Marcus. It was there that she met and battled the mutant Rogue. The ordeal left Danvers physically drained – her memories and strength sapped. Left to die beneath the Golden Gate Bridge, Spider-Woman rescued Carol and took her to the X-Men, where upon Charles Xavier restored as many of Carol's memories as he could. He could not, however, return her emotional bonds linked to those memories.

Later, Carol was abducted by the alien race known as the 'Brood', and subjected to an evolutionary ray that triggered latent potential found within her augmented Kree genes. Thus, she became the cosmically powered mutate called Binary, her powers linked to that of a White Hole. No longer possessed of strong emotional ties to people and places on Earth, Carol decided to leave the planet and pursue new challenges as a member of the space-faring band of adventurers known as the Star-Jammers.

Carol returned to Earth some years later, Danvers exhausted the powers she had gained as Binary in order to save the sun. This left her severely depleted, and she spent months recouperating within the Avengers' Mansion. Now known as Warbird, she rejoined the team, though suffered through a period of emotional emptiness and alcoholism, brought on by the substantial reduction of her powers. However, eventually steeling herself, she was able to prove her worth to the Avengers by aiding in the defeat of Kang. Shortly after, she was offered a role with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security – which she accepted, taking the job alongside her role as an Avenger.

During the infamous Civil War, Carol sided with Iron Man, supporting the Registration Act. She was instrumental in recruiting young heroes to the cause, and aided in the capture of Julia Carpenter, the former Spider-Woman. After the war, she was given leadership over the Mighty Avengers, the New York branch of the 50-State initiative. Coming to lead Operation: Lightning Storm, Carol was instrumental in keeping organisations like A.I.M and the Brood at bay.

Soon after, she joined the Avengers in the Battle of Manhattan during the Skrull invasion – where she fought bravely, killing many Skrulls and several Super-Skrulls single-handedly before leading a group of survivors to the Raft.

In the aftermath of the Skrull invasion, the entire original roster of the Mighty Avengers left the team, and Carol was no exception. Since S.H.I.E.L.D. was simultaneously disbanded, she was left without a job, and rather than stay solo, she joined the New Avengers. She adamantly refused to join Norman Osborn's team of Avengers. She was replaced with Karla Sofen, known as Moonstone. The pair duelled many times – Carol suffering from numerous assassination attempts – though she was eventually able to best her opposite. During her final fight with Karla, Carol removed the moonstone – the source of Sofen's powers - from her body, leaving her weakened. Seeing Karla powerless and lost, Carol offered to return the moonstone if she were able to redeem herself.

Following the Siege of Asgard, Ms. Marvel remained a member of the New Avengers. When it became known that the Phoenix Force was returning to Earth, Carol was sent to delay it by any means necessary. During this time, she encountered a resurrected Mar-vell, who had been brought back to life utilising an M'kraan Crystal. Brainwashed, along with other Kree, into thinking the Phoenix Force was their salvation, Mar-vell drew the Phoenix toward Hala, the extra-dimensional force coming to reclaim the crystal used to give Mar-vell life. Vision and Carol were able to free the Kree from their brainwashing, but too late – there simply wasn't time to evacuate the planet before the arrival of the Phoenix. Sacrificing himself, Mar-vell surrendered the crystal, and the phoneix departed once more for Earth. In the aftermath, Carol decided to continue the brave Mar-vell's legacy, and became the new Captain Marvel.

Following this, Yon-Rogg returned to Earth in order to reform it, utilising a stolen fragment of the Psyche-Magnitron. In battling this threat, Carol suffered incredible memory loss, as the Kree invader planned to to use Carol's brain as a power source for the Magnitron. In order to prevent its functioning, Danvers flew to space, aggravating a brain lesion in the process and forgetting much of her former life. In order to move on from this, Captain Marvel left her home planet and worked with the Guardians of the Galaxy, hoping to 'rediscover' herself. It was not a long absence though, as she soon returned to Earth in order to help SHIELD track down the Illuminati, and she began dating Jim Rhodes – the War Machine.

During the evengs of 'Secret Wars', Carol was one of the heroes placed on the 'lifeboat', allowing her to survive the destruction of the multiverse. She awoke years later on 'Battleworld', brought round by Doctor Strange. Standing against Doom and Sinister, Captain Marvel was integral in the fight against the Cabal, and the eventual restoration of the multiverse following Sinister's betrayal of Doom and murder of Baroness Pryor. Eight months later, and Carol found herself recruited by the Alpha Flight Space Program to work as the commander of the Alpha Flight Low-Orbit Space Station, the Earth's first line of defense againt extra-terrestrial threats. She also became a member of the Ultimates.

Carol's ensuing adventures with the Ultimates provided her with a look at the scope of the different threats that could endanger the Earth at any minute, causing her to develop an intense concern for the long-term well-being of the planet. The answer, she thought, lay with the newly discovered Inhuman, Ulysses Cain, a man who possessed the power of precognition with seemingly uneering accuracy. Using Cain, Carol hoped to predict threats before they happened, and thus halt them before immesurable damage was done. However, Tony Stark – Iron Man – stood opposed to the idea, feeling that convicting people before committing a crime was unjust, especially if Ulysses gifts only predicted one possible future.

Six months into her tenure as the Alpha Flight Space Station Commander, Carol proposed the idea utilising Ulysses to improve their effectiveness against future attacks, but explained that she would need the support of the Inhuman Royal Family and further testing of Cain's accuracy. However, shortly after, Min-Erva unleahed a biological weapon upon Earth, leading to the death of hundreds of civilians. Furious that so many had fallen, she asked Aurora to set up an immediate meeting between herself and the Inhumans. It was agreed that Ulysses would aid Danvers in her new ploy.

Unfortunately, tensions between Carol and Tony continued to rise, and came to a head when to tragedies occurred while acting on Ulysses visions. The first saw War Machine 'die', and She-Hulk end up in a coma. The second saw Hawkeye kill Bruce Banner. However, Danvers – though hurt by this – was undeterred. She moved on to arrest Alison Green, a finance banker, who turned out to be innocent. Iron Man enlisted the help of several superheroes who opposed Marvel's profiling to attack the Triskelion and rescue Green. The ensuing battle between Iron Man's and Captain Marvel's forces was cut short when a new vision announced Captain America's death at the hands of the new Spider-Man on the steps of the Capitol Building. The vision was eventually proved wrong, but not before Captain Marvel and Iron Man came to blows once more – leaving Tony hospitalised. However, realising the error of her ways, Carol relented, and Ulysses travelled to space in order to join other cosmic entities.

During the war against HYDRA, Carol and Maria Hill developed a planetary shield to protect Earth from various space-borne threats – chief amongst them the Chitauri. However, in battling them, Danvers was separated from those on Earth through the betrayal of Cpatain America, who locked Danvers and her team out using the shield she'd help create. For months, she and Alpha Flight held back Chitauri invaders, all the while trying to break through to Earth. When they eventually succeeded, she joined Earth's other heroes in standing against Captain America, restoring him to his former self. However, the Alpha Flight Station was destroyed. In the aftermath, Carol was at loose ends. She was a protector of space with no space station, and Alpha Flight's funding was proving particularly hard to maintain. Alpha Flight was placed on indefinite paid leave. Her loft in the Statue of Liberty had been destroyed under the dome, and thus Carol took to crashing in Jessica Drew's baby room while trying to find her own lodging.

Most recently, Captain Marvel was forced to use SHIELDS defunct Project Gemini to make 'unliving' clones of the Avengers in order to stop 'Vox' from murdering vast camps of Kree refugees, the alien race at a loss having had their homeworld, Hala, destroyed in a war for the Black Vortex. Despite being bonded to an attire of alien origin, Carol was able to overcome the confused Avengers that stood against her (mistaking her for an alien invader) with help from Singularity, and Vox ended up locked in 'the Raft.'

Subject Interview

Carol rose from the rubble with the slightest of groans, looking down at the shattered glass, crushed brick and dusted mortar that both surrounded and covered her prone form. For a moment, perhaps two, her ears rang, but they quickly adjusted to the sounds of shrieks and cries for help that filtered through the empty space ahead of her - a space that had once been the south-facing wall of an 'artisan' cafe. That was, of course, before she'd been punched through it.

“Cheap shot,” she muttered to no-one in particular, referencing the blow that had propelled her across a busy Manhattan street, turning her into the living battering ram that had made such short work of a supposedly solid structure.

Pushing herself to her knees, she dusted herself down, before quickly examining her attire: rips in her jeans, tears in her 'Cat-tain America' t-shirt, and a few feet away from her, her aviators lay bent and twisted, one lens cracked, the other missing. Carol's brow furrowed, and a bright white glow emanated from her body – stored energy warping and changing the atoms around her. When said luminesence dissipated, her destroyed casual clothing had been replaced with something a little more business-like.

Civilian Carol was no more. In her place knelt Captain Marvel.

Rolling her head about her neck, crimson plating rose from her shoulders, snapping into place to form headgear styled somewhere between a helmet and a mask, covering the upper part of her face and pinning her hair – preventing it becoming a distraction. Then, she moved to stand, marching through the debris and out onto the side-walk, ducking through the cement-lined hole she'd created.

Upon exiting the cafe, she paused to take stock of her new surroundings, gaze darting among the crowds of fleeing innocents to find her assailant. Luckily, it wasn't hard – not that usually was. If the attacker had been strong enough to knock Captain Marvel off her feet, it tended to be fairly obvious who'd swung the punch. Case in point, a lumbering, twisted monstrosity shambled in a tight circle, lashing out at any civilians unable to clear its path quickly enough. Some had been tripped and maimed, clutching wounds, while others, unable to flee and trapped by the beast, cowered in fear.

Carol had to intercede – she didn't have time to do any threat analysis beyond pin-pointing her target. If she could get it away from casualties and potential casualties alike, then she could spend a little more time working out what she was up against.

“Hey, ugly!” Her voice, confident and unwavering, cut through the shouts and screams with ease. The chaos seemed to still almost instantly, and the monster turned toward the speaker, affixing her with a seven-eyed stare. But a second later, it was met with a powerful blast of energy that knocked it clean off its feet.
“That's for ruining my favourite shirt.”

Author's Notes

Player Alias: Star

Other Characters: Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow

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