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This article contains spoilers forAll - Out Avengers # 1
Marvel’sCaptain Marvelis often considered the fellowship ’s equivalent ofSuperman , but her latest dangerous undertaking rise without a doubt thatCaptain Marvel is Marvel ’s own Woman of Steelfor copying one overused cliché . Carol Danvers has many of Superman ’s ability and more ( she has the power to draw energy and redirect it by shooting beam of light from her fists ) but has enough conflict to be distinct . That changes withAll - Out Avengers # 1 , in which Carol simulate the most important of Superman history : call on evil on a dime bag .
Carol Danvers has a foresighted and storied history within Marvel Comics , but only became Captain Marvel right in 2012 . Before , she was a supporting character in the original male person Captain Marvel ’s adventures , eventually gain powers of her own and travel by Ms. Marvel ( a name Kamala Khan would espouse in 2014 ) . She eventuallylost her power to the X - Men ’s Rogue , gained novel ones and became Warbird , then Binary , then Ms. Marvel again before finally acquiring the Captain Marvel name . Since then , her powerfulness level has only increase over sentence , and Marvel sports fan wondered if she would eventually replace Hyperion as the society ’s Superman equivalent .
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InAll - Out Avengers # 1 , written by Derek Landy with graphics by Greg Land , the Avengers are immediately thrust into a conflict with Captain Marvel - but she appears quite different , feature spike along her arms , fangs and hopeful cherry eyes . She is distinctly possessed or insure somehowand Iron Man surmises as much:“Carol ! This is n’t you ! This is the Dark Tide!“Tony Stark says , but Carol does n’t seem to like . She service the secret Queen Arrok and simply will not halt attacking . This forces the Avengers to post her through a portal into outer space ; by the time she render to Earth hour later , the Dark Tide ’s influence on Carol will have worn off .
Carol Danvers honors a time - tested Superman tradition : become evil and storm one ’s full team to stop them . Superman is easily the most powerful member of the Justice League , and writer realized the best way to prevent the Man of Steel from defeating the scoundrel in a single pageboy was to place him under the scoundrel ’s control . The trope of " malign Superman " is so widespread that an entire genre is devote to the conceit : the " Dictator Superman " narrative , in which Clark Kent lay claim infrangible mogul over the Earth and the remaining sub ( usually Batman ) intercept him .
At the closing of the exit , Carol is in quad once more , and will most likely devolve to her honest-to-goodness self by the time she returns to Earth . But there ’s no rationality why the Dark Tide ca n’t corrupt Captain Marvel again . Captain Marvel’smany interstellarvillainshave finally become aware that her neat power is well used against her friends - thus copyingSuperman’sgreatest modern tendency .
