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Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell):
Honorary member of the Avengers, deceased.
An alien Kree
military officer whose innate pacifism and respect for humanity
prompted him to desert his Kree superiors during their infiltration of
Earth, Captain Mar-Vell (who was known on Earth as Captain Marvel)
became a heroic adventurer on Earth, opposing the militaristic
advances of the Kree and battling other menaces.
In later years, he
gained a variety of super-powers through such sources as genetic
restructuring by the Kree Supreme Intelligence, the acquisition of the nega-bands (which allowed him to absorb and manipulate solar energy
for various effects), and the bestowal of "cosmic awareness"
upon him by the alien Eon, who named Mar-Vell the latest in a long
line of adventurers designated "Protector of the Universe.
Mar-Vell first encountered the Avengers
after he was linked to their longtime ally, Rick Jones (with whom he
shared a sort of symbiotic existence for a time), and they co-operated
in the defeat of the crime cartel called Zodiac. Later, Mar-Vell and
the Avengers fought side-by-side during the Kree-Skrull War and joined
forces several times to thwart Thanos's plans for universal conquest
and interstellar genocide. By the time Mar-Vell assisted the Avengers
against the would-be universe-conqueror Korvac, he was already
considered an unofficial member of the team. Sadly, he never
formalized his membership since he died of cancer shortly after the
Korvac conflict.
The Avengers posthumously awarded him honorary
membership in their group. Two other heroes have since employed the
Captain Marvel name: longtime Avenger Monica Rambeau, later known as
Photon and Pulsar; and Genis-Vell, son of the late Mar-Vell, also
known as Legacy and Photon, who was recently destroyed by his
Thunderbolts teammates after becoming a cosmic menace. Mar-Vell's
"Protector of the Universe" role has been inherited by Avengers member
Wendell Vaughn, alias Quasar.
Captain Marvel (Monica Rambeau):
First
costumed alias employed by Monica Rambeau after she became a
super-hero, and the name under which she joined the Avengers.
Dubbed
Captain Marvel by the media, she used the name until a new Captain
Marvel appeared: Genis, the son of the deceased alien warrior Mar-Vell
(the original Captain Marvel and an honorary Avengers member). After
meeting and fighting alongside Genis, Rambeau decided to let him
inherit his father's Captain Marvel title, assuming the new alias of
Photon instead. Later, when a transformed Genis usurped the Photon
alias, Monica took the new alias Pulsar instead.
Captain Marvel (Genis-Vell):
Second
costumed alias of the adventurer Genis-Vell, previously known as
Legacy and later known as Photon.
His late father Mar-Vell had been
known as Captain Marvel, and Genis gradually became known by that
title as well since people associated him with his famous father;
however, Genis was never fully comfortable carrying the Captain Marvel
name, and eventually adopted a new alias as Photon prior to his
apparent demise.
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