Superhero Special
Captain Marvel lands in March, kicking off an epic
few months of superhero films that culminates in
the blockbuster event of 2019 – Avengers: Endgame
ou want superheroes?
We’ve got superheroes.
With Shazam! , Hellboy,
and Avengers: Endgame
in the pipeline, spring is so
rammed with must-see spandex-
twanging releases that you might
as well set up camp outside your
local ODEON and subsist on a
diet of popcorn and fizzy drinks.
And the all-you-can-watch hero
marathon starts on Friday 8
March, with a white-knuckle
origin story that fills in the holes
of the Marvel Cinematic Universe
– and introduces us to an essential
and significant new character.
Maybe you’ve heard the
whispers about Captain Marvel,
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but as her alter-ego Carol
Danvers (Brie Larson) tells us
in one key soundbite: “I’m not
what you think I am.” She ain’t
kidding. This complex character
has been dodging the superhero
stereotypes since she was first
inked by comic-book veterans
Roy Thomas and Gene Colan
back in 1968. Once upon a time,
Danvers was fully human: an ace
US fighter pilot who flew the
missions nobody else dared to.
But after a horrific crash-landing
that wiped her memory, she
was pulled from the wreckage
by the race of noble alien
warriors known as the Kree,
reborn as the all-powerful