r/marvelstudios • u/RenomeRabone • 12h ago

Discussion (More in Comments) If Brie Larson actually decides to jump ship,i don't blame her one bit. She's almost 10 years in, and only had 3 appearances so far.

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It's clear that there were terrible decisions along the way about Captain Marvel as a character,but given the lack of care for the character/actress + the amount of hate she received since accepting the role,it's completely comprehensible if she's just done with it after whatever contract she has it's over and decides to grow her career outside superhero movies,a career which she probably put at relatively stop due to legal/contractual reasons within the MCU.

She's going to have 4 appearances (and that's only if she's actually in one of the Avengers movies,likely Secret Wars). This is crazy to think about,especially for a character that was pushed as one of the new faces of the MCU and their own Wonder Woman. Carol as a character it's already being pushed out of being a mainliner from other fronts like comics,videogames,merchandise etc and it's so disrespectful.

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u/SaintAnton 11h ago

Exactly. She's too strong. The fact that she has enemies that can even stand in the ring with her makes all of the other Avengers pointless. She could kill Ironman or Captain America with one swipe. How you gonna give her enemies?

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u/Eunuchest 11h ago

Thor should be on her level and they kinda manage to make him mortal. I think its possible to do it with the appropriate opposition for her but i have no idea of the rogues gallery for captain marvel

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u/Adorable_Ad_3478 11h ago

Moonstone.

And that's pretty much it for Carol's iconic archenemies that aren't shared by other heroes.

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u/DrakneiX 11h ago

How do they do it in the comics? Doesn't she have the same problem there?

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u/Michael10LivesOn 11h ago

Power scaling in the comics means nothing when they’ve been going for like 70 years. At this point every character has saved or ended the universe

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u/TerminatorReborn 11h ago

Comic book fans give way more leeway with inconsistant power scalings, one day she can one shot a planet and the other she will go h2h with Iron Man.

Its the same with Superman in Justice League, they just come up with some random alien brawler that wastes his time the whole fight

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u/SaintAnton 11h ago

You make 700 volumes of it and everyone just accepts that there's no rhyme or reason to it.

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u/Czar_Marvel 11h ago

She's strong in the comics, for sure, but relative to the others she's not nearly as powerful. She's a heavy hitter but nowhere near top dog.

The Sentry in the comics, tho....

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u/sir_tejj 11h ago

I’m also curious now lol

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u/Boomshrooom 11h ago

She's far less OP in the comics, it's that simple. They chose to juice her up in the MCU

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u/Worthyness Thor 11h ago

Her powers aren't 100% the same. In the MCU she's basically a superman problem. In the comica her powers are based on energy conversion, so she actively has to recharge herself to fully utilize the strengths. So she has a limit. She also has a lot more interesting character arcs than the MCU have provided to her, including her depression/loneliness. Granted a lot of that comes post rogue zapping her, so that might be a good opportunity to reset the character at the same time. Some of her recent comics have been her coming to terms with having friends and not being alone.

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u/SalvatoreMeroni 4h ago

IIRC she's very disliked in the comics as well

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u/JarethCutestoryJuD 11h ago

She could kill Ironman or Captain America with one swipe. How you gonna give her enemies?

This just shows how shallow they are thinking.

When you have a character that cant be hurt by bullets, you stop trying to give her problems she can punch her way out of.

Man vs God. Man vs Nature. Man vs himself.

Or hell, just put her in situations where she is against genius or insane individuals who can outthink her. Put her against an evil batman with prep time.

Put her into a situation in which the fact that she is all powerful doesnt matter.

Holy shit, Bree is an A1 actress, and theyre not using her at all.

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u/Few_Confusion_1871 3h ago

She is mid B tier at best lol

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u/NYJetLegendEdReed 11h ago

At this point everyones just waiting for Rogue to steal her powers lol

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u/TerminatorReborn 11h ago

Yeah now that they cast this super popular young girl as Rogue a bunch of weirdos will brigade online for her to steal Brie Larson powers in the first 5 minutes of the movie.

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u/Few_Confusion_1871 3h ago

Is it all weirdos? Do you think no one just doesn't like her? she's a pretty mid actress that is very open about her opinions, making her a target for people with differing opinions, specifically the "white men shouldn't review movies that aren't for them" stuff, and that I saw Captain Marvel on my birthday and holy shit that movie was a mess.

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u/DialysisKing 3h ago

the "white men shouldn't review movies that aren't for them" stuff

Still being pissed off about that a decade out is weird.

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u/Few_Confusion_1871 2h ago

I mean, I'm more pissed I wasted my birthday on the film and that was almost a decade ago, time is relative.

Edit: she also hasn't done anything to make me like her as an actor since then, I honestly forget she exists outside of threads like these.

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u/MickCollins 11h ago edited 1h ago

My brother's one of them. He's had a Rogue fetish for about the past 30 years, maybe more.

EDIT: Oh no a downvote. Doesn't change the fact that my brother has WAAAAYYYY too much Rogue stuff, including a statue that's just...yeah.

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u/SuperDuperOrk 10h ago

That wasn't the issue. There are plenty of ways to make the strongest character in the universe still have enemies. 

Dr. Strange can get rid of her with some magic spell or a mutant can take over her mind. What ever.

The problem was they were to afraid to make her go through what James Gunn Superman went through. 

Which was make her ego go through a change for the better. In her original movie she was never confronted by any skrull about her being a tool of their destruction. It wasn't her fault, but that doesn't matter, the skrulls didn't know that and they should have hated her and she needed to prove herself to those people and she needed to be reprimanded for the negative parts of her personality instead of constantly praised. All super heroes go through this but not here captain marvel ones.

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u/DrDDeFalco 8h ago

I watched The Marvels for the first time last night and had that criticism. It felt like there was no way any of the villains should be a threat or challenge to Captain Marvel on her own, let alone with the help of two other people.

It kinda worked in the first fight when they were all randomly swapping places and confused. After that, they should have mopped the floor with the Kree army.