59 Fun Facts About Captain Marvel

Who plays Carol Danvers in Captain Marvel?

Brie Larson began training nine months before filming, learning judo, boxing and some wrestling to play the hero Marvel's boss called its most powerful yet.

Captain Marvel's mid-credits scene leads straight into which film, released just weeks later?

Avengers: Endgame opened seven weeks later, and the scene leads into it by dropping Carol among the surviving Avengers just after Thanos's snap.

What colour is Carol's Kree uniform before she restyles it in red and blue in Captain Marvel?

Green and black are the Kree colours, so once she learns the truth she asks Maria's young daughter Monica to help recolour the suit.

What is the Kree capital planet called in Captain Marvel?

Hala is where the film opens, with Carol living as a Kree soldier, and she ends it by sending her beaten commander back there with a warning for the Supreme Intelligence.

Who directed Captain Marvel?

Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck had made small character dramas like Half Nelson, and won the job by impressing Marvel over numerous meetings with their vision for Carol.

In Captain Marvel, what do the shapeshifting Skrulls turn out to be?

Refugees searching for a new home is the twist: Talos only wants to reach his family, who have been hiding in Dr. Lawson's laboratory, and Carol has been fighting on the wrong side.

Where does Carol crash-land when she falls to Earth in Captain Marvel?

A Blockbuster Video store takes the hit: she falls through its roof, and her arrival soon brings a young Nick Fury to investigate.

Whom does the Skrull leader Talos impersonate to keep tabs on Carol in Captain Marvel?

Fury's boss, Keller, is the face Talos wears, which lets him order Fury to stick close to Carol and steer S.H.I.E.L.D.'s hunt from the inside.

In Captain Marvel, which secret project's base do Carol and Fury search to dig up her past?

Project Pegasus kept the files showing she was a test pilot presumed dead in 1989, six years before she fell back to Earth with no memory of it.

In Captain Marvel, where has Dr. Lawson hidden her secret laboratory?

Cloaked in orbit above Earth, it is found only when the crash's black box and Carol's returning memories give up its coordinates.

Who plays both Mar-Vell and the Supreme Intelligence in Captain Marvel?

Annette Bening plays both because the Supreme Intelligence shows a different face to each visitor, and to Carol it appears as her old mentor.

What is the name of Dr. Lawson's cat in Captain Marvel?

Goose is named after a Top Gun character, a nod to Carol's flying days, whereas in the comics the cat is Chewie, after Chewbacca.

In Captain Marvel, what kind of creature is Dr. Lawson's cat revealed to be?

A Flerken resembles a house cat, but it hides a pocket dimension inside its body and can shoot tentacles from its mouth to swallow things whole.

How does Nick Fury lose his left eye in Captain Marvel?

The cat scratches it when his guard is down, blinding the eye for good, so the spy who came through an alien war unhurt is maimed by a pet.

In which state do Carol and Fury find Maria Rambeau in Captain Marvel?

Louisiana is home to Maria, the last person to see Carol and Dr. Lawson alive, and her memories there tell Carol who she was before the Kree.

Who plays Maria Rambeau in Captain Marvel?

Lashana Lynch took the role after DeWanda Wise, who was cast first, withdrew over a scheduling clash with her series She's Gotta Have It.

What is Maria Rambeau's Air Force call sign in Captain Marvel?

Photon is a hero name her daughter Monica goes on to use in the comics, where Monica held the Captain Marvel title long before Carol did.

What was Carol Danvers's call sign as an Air Force pilot?

Avenger is painted on her jet in an old photo, and when Fury spots it he renames his draft Protector Initiative after her.

Who killed Mar-Vell to stop her destroying the light-speed engine in Captain Marvel?

Yon-Rogg killed her, then carried the amnesiac Carol off to the Kree and spent six years as the commander and mentor she trusted.

Who plays the Kree commander Yon-Rogg in Captain Marvel?

Jude Law got a little guidance on life at Marvel from Robert Downey Jr., his co-star in two Sherlock Holmes films, around the time he joined.

What powered Dr. Lawson's experimental light-speed engine in Captain Marvel?

The Tesseract powered it, so when Carol shot the engine to keep it from the Kree, the blast of its energy soaked into her and gave her her powers.

What does Carol remove to unleash her full powers in Captain Marvel's climax?

A Kree implant had been suppressing her powers all along, and once it is off she destroys a Kree bomber single-handed and sends the fleet into retreat.

Which two Guardians of the Galaxy villains return in Captain Marvel, years before their deaths?

Ronan the Accuser and Korath both return: Korath is second-in-command of Carol's own squad, while Ronan leads the warships that fire missiles at Earth.

Besides the actor playing Nick Fury, which returning Marvel actor was digitally de-aged for Captain Marvel?

Clark Gregg plays a rookie Agent Coulson, and both he and Samuel L. Jackson were made 25 years younger for the entire film rather than for a brief flashback.

Why was Pulp Fiction rejected as a reference for making Nick Fury's actor look younger in Captain Marvel?

His wig and facial hair made him look too different, so the effects team leaned instead on the little-seen 1997 drama One Eight Seven.

Who plays the Skrull leader Talos in Captain Marvel?

Ben Mendelsohn was the directors' pick from the moment they began the story, having worked with them on the gambling drama Mississippi Grind.

In Captain Marvel, which accent does Talos speak with in his true Skrull form, the actor's own?

Australian is the actor's native accent, settled on after long debate for what he called its 'earthy correctness', while his human disguise speaks American.

Which Marvel series reunited Nick Fury and Talos to continue the Skrull story from Captain Marvel?

Secret Invasion moves the film's story to the present day, pairing Fury and Talos again as a rebel faction of Skrulls quietly infiltrates Earth.

Why was Captain Marvel's comic-book origin changed for the film?

It was too similar to Green Lantern's, co-writer Nicole Perlman said in 2016, so the film reinvented how Carol gains her powers rather than adapt the comics directly.

Which earlier MCU film had Captain Marvel in an early draft before she was cut?

Avengers: Age of Ultron had her in an early draft, but Kevin Feige cut the cameo rather than show her fully formed in costume before audiences knew who she was.

In a scene made famous by the trailer, whom does Carol punch on a train in Captain Marvel?

An elderly woman takes the punch because she is a shape-shifting Skrull in disguise, which the second trailer spelled out after the first left viewers baffled.

Where was most of Captain Marvel shot, unusually for a modern Marvel film?

Los Angeles, California felt like fresh territory, its producer said, because 'not a lot of big movies shoot in LA anymore', and the city could play its own 1990s self.

Why did Captain Marvel's crew use a realistic cat puppet on set?

Its star is allergic to cats, so a realistic puppet stood in whenever she had to hold the animal, while a computer-generated cat handled other shots.

Why did four different cats share one role in Captain Marvel?

Each had a different skill: Reggie, the lead, did most scenes, while Archie, Gonzo and Rizzo stepped in whenever the script called for a particular trick.

Which 1970s thriller, famous for a chase under an elevated train, inspired Captain Marvel's train sequence?

The French Connection gets what the directors called 'a big homage', and the effects crew even nicknamed the train chase after the 1971 film.

Who composed Captain Marvel's score, becoming the first woman to score an MCU film?

Pinar Toprak won the job by going big on her audition: she hired a 70-piece orchestra to perform the demo music she had written.

How did Captain Marvel change the opening Marvel Studios logo?

It was filled with Stan Lee's cameos because this was the first Marvel Studios film released after his death in November 2018, and a card reading 'Thank You Stan' followed.

In Captain Marvel, Stan Lee's cameo shows him memorising lines for which 1995 film?

Mallrats came out in 1995, the year the story is set, and featured him as himself, so he is seen on a train rehearsing its line 'Trust me, true believer'.

Captain Marvel is dedicated to Major Stephen Del Bagno, a consultant on the film who flew with which display team?

The Thunderbirds, the Air Force display team, lost him in a training crash in April 2018, shortly after he advised on set, and he appears briefly in a flashback.

Who directed Captain Marvel's mid-credits scene, in which Carol meets the Avengers?

Anthony and Joe Russo shot it themselves because, as the film's own directors put it, the scene is a direct lead-in to the brothers' movie.

Captain Marvel's American release in 2019 fell on which annual observance?

International Women's Day falls on March 8, where the release settled after two delays, first to make room for a Spider-Man film and then for an Ant-Man sequel.

Which milestone did Captain Marvel reach first among superhero films led by a woman?

Grossing $1 billion worldwide took it less than four weeks, despite an online campaign to sink its audience scores before anyone had seen it.

Which Motown classic does Nick Fury sing in Captain Marvel?

Please Mr. Postman is sung on screen by the actor himself, and the 1961 original, Motown's first Billboard Hot 100 chart-topper, came from the aptly named Marvelettes.

Which film took Captain Marvel's record for the biggest American opening weekend by a female-directed film?

Barbie took the American record in July 2023, four years on, yet worldwide Captain Marvel's $456 million start remained the bigger of the two.

Which horror film knocked Captain Marvel off the top of the box office in its third weekend?

Us, directed by Jordan Peele, opened to about $70 million, twice what Captain Marvel took that weekend and a record start for an original horror film.

Captain Marvel was the first Disney cinema release withheld from which streaming service and saved for Disney+?

Netflix lost its supply when Disney let a lucrative licensing deal lapse, so from this film on its cinema releases went to the company's own service, launched late in 2019.

What did Rotten Tomatoes change after Captain Marvel's 'Want to See' score was review-bombed?

It hid the percentage before release, showing only a raw count of interested users, after the film's figure sank to 28% in the weeks ahead of opening.

What was the title of Captain Marvel's 2023 sequel?

The Marvels teams Carol with Kamala Khan and a grown-up Monica Rambeau after their powers become entangled, so the three swap places whenever they use them.

In her 1968 comics debut, years before gaining powers, what job did Carol Danvers hold?

Base security chief was her post in Marvel Super-Heroes #13, where she meets Dr. Walter Lawson, secretly the Kree hero Captain Marvel, whose name she would one day take.

Which writer, co-creator of the Punisher, created Ms. Marvel with artist John Buscema in 1977?

Gerry Conway wrote just the first two issues before Chris Claremont took over, and it was Claremont who later carried Carol into his long-running X-Men stories.

In the 1977 comic Ms. Marvel, Carol Danvers edits which Daily Bugle spin-off publication?

Woman Magazine struck publisher Jonah Jameson as too feminist, so he hired Carol to steer it toward more traditional fare, and she flatly refused.

What device's explosion melded Danvers's genes with Captain Marvel's in the original comics origin?

The Psyche-Magnetron was a Kree machine, and being caught in its blast rewrote Carol's DNA, leaving her a human-Kree hybrid with powers like the original hero's.

Which mutant permanently absorbed Danvers's powers and memories in a 1981 Marvel comic?

Rogue kept the stolen flight and super-strength for years, and although Professor X restored Danvers's memories, he could not give back her emotional ties to them.

Which insect-like alien race, old foes of the X-Men, turned Danvers into the star-powered hero Binary?

The Brood implant their young in captives, but they experimented on Danvers instead because of her unusual genetics, and the result tied her to the energy of a white hole.

Writer Kelly Sue DeConnick pitched her 2012 Captain Marvel comic as 'Carol Danvers as' which famous American pilot?

Chuck Yeager, the test pilot who first broke the sound barrier, was her model: she wanted Danvers written as a fiercely competitive flier with swagger before she was ever a superhero.

In the 2015 comic Captain Marvel and the Carol Corps, whom does Danvers command?

Female fighter pilots of the Banshee Squadron fly under her, and she alone has superpowers; after an order goes wrong she tells them they have been lied to and vows to find out what lies beyond their sky.

Which gadget of Fury's does Danvers upgrade so he can call her from across the galaxy?

His pager, modified so it can summon her in an emergency, is the device Earth's heroes are still watching decades later in the mid-credits scene, when Danvers herself turns up.

In Marvel's 2016 comic event Civil War II, which hero leads the side opposing Captain Marvel?

Iron Man argued that a young Inhuman's visions of the future were only calculated probabilities, not certainties, and his final battle with Danvers left Tony Stark in a coma.

Which Crazy Rich Asians star plays the Starforce sniper Minn-Erva?

Gemma Chan played Astrid in Crazy Rich Asians the year before, and Marvel later cast her again as an entirely different character, Sersi, in Eternals.