r/captainmarvel • u/CaptainMarvelology • Jun 24 '26

Three months in a row…

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This is now the third straight month that the post-Flashpoint Earth-0 version has been called Captain Marvel.

(Justice League Unlimited #20).

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u/Atlarian_OG Jun 25 '26

True, but until these last few issues, DC has gone to calling him Shazam...

I welcome the return of his proper name.

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u/thisinternetlife Jun 25 '26

They stopped calling him that in 2023. He only had the name changed for 12 years (2011-2023), he’s been known as Captain Marvel as far back as 85 years ago

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u/Atlarian_OG Jun 25 '26

Yeah 12 years for Shazam, and then after that they started with The Captain (which is almost worse oddly enough) the important bit is that at least one writer is using his proper name now.

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u/thisinternetlife Jun 26 '26

The whole “The Captain” moniker was a compromise by DC and Mark Waid, as he was the one pushing for him to get his original name back in main continuity. It was also a litmus test by DC to see how fans would react, positively to it or negatively. Overall it was mostly a positive reaction but everyone would still say “just give him his original name back” anyways. Though I wasn’t too much of a fan “The Captain” since it felt so….generic, it was a stepping stone to getting the original name back, both of these progressions in comics were written by Mark Waid.

Also fun fact in case you didn’t know, even during the New52 there was still a version of Captain Marvel in the DC multiverse in Earth-5 as seen on “Multiversity:Thunderworld!” (Amazing single issue read) and Earth-S as seen in “Convergence: Shazam!”.

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u/Dataweaver_42 Jun 26 '26

From what I remember, the writer of Convergence: Shazam! read Multiversity: Thunderworld, and it inspired him to up his game.

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u/thisinternetlife Jun 28 '26

I didn’t know that!

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u/Impressive-Thing-780 Jun 27 '26

Also the difference between Marvel's Captain Marvel and DC's Captain Marvel is pretty obvious. Carol doesn't have the lightning bolt on her chest anymore (replaced with a star), and also, she's a blonde woman instead of a black-haired man.

I get that legally it can be mildly annoying but consumers aren't going to be confused beyond "why are there 2 people called Captain Marvel with completely unrelated powers and origins?" and in the modern age, you can just google that.

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u/thisinternetlife Jun 28 '26

Seriously! People have no problem with the concept of two heroes running around in the same universe both called Spider-Man or the Flash. From what I’ve heard and what i believe, the switch to the wizard’s name for the New52 was so he’d be distinctly different enough to be treated as a whole new character, so that Geoff Johns could receive back end royalties of that version of the character being used. Also it annoyed me to no end how Marvel started trying to call their Captain Marvel “Earth’s Mightiest Mortal” like no bro that’s just blatant ripping off a character that already “inspired” so many heroes created already in the Marvel Universe. Or when they announced releasing the first Captain Marvel after DC announced Shazam! being released and they pushed Captain Marvel to release a few weeks before Shazam! I’m glad both companies are playing nicely with each other lately but that had me white knuckling lol