Carol Danvers (Captain Marvel)

Carol Danvers, also known as Binary, Warbird, Ms. Marvel and Captain Marvel, is one of the major characters from the Marvel comics.

After encountering the Kree hero Captain Marvel, Carol Danvers was accidentally subjected to otherworldly radiation that transformed her into a superhuman warrior. Calling herself Ms. Marvel, she established herself as one of the most powerful and prominent heroes, both as a solo heroine and as a member of the Avengers. She has now adopted the mantle of Captain Marvel for herself.

Personality
Carol is a brilliant and fiercely independent woman with a strong personality and indomitable willpower. She pursues her goals and dreams to the fullest, battling her way through any adversity and allowing nothing to get in her way. Going against gender typing as well as the wishes of her domineering father, she dreamed of becoming an ace fighter pilot, and quickly achieved this goal through sheer determination and hard work, learning an unusual degree of self-reliance in the process.

This lead to remarkable success in many other professions, including becoming a top CIA agent, an editor-in-chief of a well-known New York magazine, and a successful novelist. From being editor-in-chief, she has proven to become successful in the male dominated industry of journalism and through this, has proven to be able to manage a newspaper team. In this sense, she is a feminist and has challenged many men, including Captain America in his views and is quite confrontational if someone crosses her line. Through this ability of hers to achieve, she is strong willed and this is why she has been able to achieve her career as a pilot and an editor, even though she has had many tragedies that could easily break down someone without a will like hers. She will fight to the end and has a warrior’s will and because of tragedies, she has proven to be quite resistant to mental domination.

However, she has resorted to alcohol when her life had gone down the drain. Events like Captain Mar-vell’s death and losing her powers to Rogue have turned her to become an alcoholic. Because Rogue had absorbed all her powers, this included the absorbing of memories with her friends and family. She still knew who her friends and family were, but felt nothing for them. It was then Professor X who has restored her memories and finds it difficult and awkward to talk with those who she was once close with. To note, this kind of emotional disconnection is not because of her independence, but her memory loss because of Rogue.

However, her military training will say otherwise. Sometimes she has had to make choices that were seen as cold and uncaring. Through this though, she has been trained to think fast in how to deal with emergency situations. She is perhaps seen as outspoken as she is very direct and assertive.

Abilities
Carol's powers were originally derived from those of Captain Marvel, though they have since diverged and increased to become uniquely her own. This has made her one of the most powerful female heroes in the Marvel Universe. Due to being a unique Kree/human genetic hybrid, Carol also possesses the potential to wield vast cosmic power, which was fully realized during the period when she became Binary and which she can still attain under the right circumstances. In truth, Captain Marvel is a natural born human/kree hybrid; whose resting genetic potential was extrapolated by the psyche magnetron radiation affecting her cells. All of her superhuman abilities are a byproduct of her genetic inheritance further bolstered by Kree science.

Super Strength: When she originally became Ms. Marvel, Carol's strength level was such that she could lift approximately 50 tons under normal conditions. This made her many times stronger than heroes such as Spider-Man, but not as strong as others such as the Thing. Ms. Marvel was shown easily lifting and hurling cars and tanks, tearing through five-inch steel with her bare hands, and shattering reinforced concrete with her fists. It was this strength level that the mutant Rogue acquired after stealing Carol's original Ms. Marvel powers. Being captured and experimented on by the Brood awakened an almost godlike level of power in Carol due to her unique Kree/human genetic configuration, causing her to become Binary. As Binary, Carol could tap into the energy of a white hole, giving her class-100 strength, meaning she could easily lift well over 100 tons under normal conditions. Her strength level became so great that it was never accurately quantified. After losing her Binary powers and reverting back to Ms. Marvel, Carol's strength dropped much closer to its original level, though it was still greater than before. She could now lift 75 tons under normal conditions, making her approximately fifty percent stronger than she was prior to losing her powers to Rogue. Under extreme circumstances Carol has shown the ability to tap into her cosmic Binary powers once again, allowing her to reach class-100 strength levels for brief periods. She has also shown an ability to achieve class-100 strength if she has absorbed a great deal of external energy. Recent tests by Avengers scientist Hank Pymhave shown that Carol's base strength level is still increasing. Even when not augmented by any additional energy, Carol can now lift 92 tons and strike with a similar level of force, and Pym has theorized that this is likely not her limit. This was shown to be the case as time and experience had increased her physical capabilities well beyond their original limits, with and without the need of absorbing energy. Carol having lifted a dead celestial barehanded, which considering the immense height and mass, can weigh well into billions of tons.

Super Speed: Carol has the ability move at supersonic speeds, making her literally too fast for the human eye to follow. She can achieve speeds of at least Mach-3 during atmospheric flight and has shown the ability to hit even greater velocities when the need arises. At her Binary power level, she could achieve faster-than-light speed and journey across the galaxy under her own power.

Super Agility: Carol possesses great superhuman agility and reflexes to compliment her superhuman speed. She can perform acrobatic feats far beyond that of the finest human athlete and easily evade bullet-speed projectiles. During the period after Rogue took her powers, but before she regained them, she was stated to have been in peak physical condition - again the result of being a Kree/Human hybrid.

Super Stamina: Carol can exert herself at maximum effort for up to 24 hours before tiring. During the Skrull Empire's assault on New York, Carol single-handedly fought off a massive Skrull invasion force for an entire day without rest, successfully keeping the city out of enemy hands until reinforcements arrived.

Flight: As previously mentioned, Carol can fly at speeds of at least Mach-3 in the atmosphere. She is a highly agile flier and can turn on a dime in midair, even while traveling at great velocity. Since she is also a talented and highly-trained fighter pilot, Carol's advanced knowledge of flight mechanics and aerial combat allows her to easily outmaneuver most opponents in the air.

Invulnerability: Carol is impervious to most forms of damage and can take a tremendous amount of punishment without injury. She can survive unharmed in the cold vacuum of space. She is bullet-proof and such attacks merely bounce off her skin on contact. More powerful attacks such as rockets, mortar shells, and bombs are only slightly more effectual, due to the fact that she can absorb their explosive energy. She is unfazed by blows delivered from opponents weaker than her and can withstand blows even by those who are stronger, though continuous and repeated hits by opponents of such great strength can eventually wear her down. She is also impervious to most forms of energy attack, and in fact such attacks can make her stronger (see Energy Absorption, below).

Energy Absorption: Carol has the ability to absorb a wide variety of energy and utilize it to further augment her own super-strength, speed, invulnerability, energy projection, and other powers. This ability was not present before Carol became Binary, and could be an after-effect of having once been Binary (as Binary, Carol could absorb and wield energy equivalent to that of a binary star system). Extremely high-energy attacks may eventually overload Carol's absorbing ability, but she has shown that she can absorb and utilize energy up to the magnitude of a nuclear explosion. Carol has also shown an ability to absorb magical energy (though not without consequence), recently demonstrated when she helped Doctor Strange defeat a formidable magic-wielding villain named Warren Traveler.

Energy Projection: Carol can generate extremely powerful photon blasts, which are roughly equal in force to Iron Man's full-strength repulsor blasts. If she has absorbed a great amount of energy, Carol can generate even stronger energy blasts. Like her energy absorption power, Carol did not originally possess this ability prior to becoming Binary, though it has now become one of her signature powers.

Energy Manipulation: Like her predecessors Carol Danvers eventually learned to better utilize her energy power for more constructive uses. Such as changing and alternating the various types of energy at her disposal; such as X-Rays, Gravitons, cosmic rays, etc. In her time as Captain Marvel she has become extremely fluent in changing and alternating the various outputs energy at her disposal. Alt. versions of herself have show to use said energy based abilities in ways she'd never even considered before; e.i. firing her energy stores from her eyes as well as her hands.

Energy Constructs: Both as Captain Marvel and Binary, Carol showed far more refined control over her cosmic energy than in her non-empowered state of being. Potentially she can shape whatever energy she has on hand into practical shapes, like razor blades of pure energy or protective barriers for defense. Her doppelgänger showed she often used her cosmic power to create energy lances with which to stab, cut and bifercate an enemy with. And as Captain Marvel, be able to create energy bubbles around a giant robots exhaust/energy gun in order to choke the release valve until it exploded from an internal pressure overload.

Regeneration: In the event that Carol suffers an attack that is actually powerful enough to overload both her invulnerability and her energy absorption abilities, she possesses a super-healing factor and is able to quickly regenerate from almost any injury. Her healing rate is accelerated even further if she is able to absorb and utilize external energy to aid in the process. She has fully recovered from nuclear explosions and attacks of similar magnitude in a matter of hours. She gained these restorative powers and had them amped to an absurd degree after coming in contact with the extraterrestrial Cru, whom pieces of the former's biotech mass had been spliced into her biology. Making Carol functionally immortal; able to heal and regenerate even from the most serious of injuries as well as stopping her from physically aging and making her immune to sickness and disease. Whether she still retains this attribute after the aliens demise is currently unknown.

Healing:  Carol can also apply her cosmic energies to accelerate the healing process within others by focusing different forms of energy into their body. Boosting both the internal and external rate of recovery to an unknown degree.

Danger Sense: One of Carol's original powers was a precognitive sense, called her "seventh sense," which allowed her to subconsciously recognize danger before it occurred. It was this sense that triggered her early transformations from Carol Danvers to Ms. Marvel. Her seventh sense also allowed her to subconsciously predict an opponent's attacks before they made them, greatly enhancing her fighting and tactical prowess in battle. After Carol's original powers were stolen by Rogue, her seventh sense was lost, and because it was a subconscious power, Carol was uncertain whether it had returned even after regaining her powers. Eventually, certain incidents left no doubt that her seventh sense had since been restored.

Minor Molecular Control: Carol possesses a limited degree of molecular manipulation, which she can use to transform regular clothing into her costume and vice versa. This power works almost instantaneously, and has the effect of changing her from Carol Danvers to Ms. Marvel/Captain Marvel in much the same way that Clark Kent can become Superman in the blink of an eye. She hasn't used this power much beyond changing outfits, but shows to use it in a more refined manner by fixing a kids iron man cosplay mask.

Hyper-Cosmic Awareness: As Binary, Carol possessed cosmic awareness, much like that of the Silver Surfer. She could visually perceive all types of energy patterns and was instantly aware of any significant disruptions in space. She seemingly lost her cosmic awareness after losing her Binary powers, though like her other Binary abilities, her cosmic awareness can re-emerge under the right circumstances. Eventually they became so advanced that it allowed her to see and understand threats from beyond reality, this state was coined by the life bringer Galactus as Hyper Cosmic Awareness. Where the individual can sensually perceive things happening across space and time, as well as without the universe itself.

Binary Powers
After undergoing torturous experimentation by the Broodrace. Carols Physiology mutated even further beyond even their initial expectations, transforming her into a creature of pure energy. More reminiscent to a solar body than that of flesh & blood, she became a literal living star powered and bolstered through a cosmic connection to a quantum singularity either on the other end of the universe or within an entirely separate reality.Through this pandimensional breach, Carol is able to divert small portions of the cosmic energies used to firmament genesis of a new universe into creating mentally activated disturbance of space/time around herself. Perpetuating the appearance of a living, breathing stellar effigy that she's able to shape and mold using disturbances in the space/time continuum through various lenses that focus or diffuse the relative energies she's channeling. Regardless of how and what she became, Ms. Marvel not only transcended her initial powerloss but gained even greater ability than she initially possessed before losing them to Rogue.

Absolute Force Manipulation: At the height of her power, Carol in her Binary form had virtually limitless stores of raw energy she could consciously tack into for unlimited purposes. She could feed on and project every known form of energy up and down the EM Spectrum able to radiate heat, light, cosmic, x-ray and the like as well as gravity; with which to presumably use in a telekinetic fashion. Operating objects remotely with fine enough precision even from vast distances with concentration. Her EM Based powers outclassing even those of then current Captain Marvel; Monica Rambeau. She could even harness other forms of the fundamental forces of reality such as nuclear fission and nuclear fusion given her star based energy physiology. Often showing a steady flux of cold "pseudo flames" coruscating in small spheres around her head and hands that represent the greatest regions of her concentration. The total amount of energy she can manifest is related to the cross-section, or "'window" she allows to open between universes. For example, an 8-inch diameter "hole" in the surface of a point singularity would let out a torrent of various energies.

FTL Flight:  As Binary, she can aviate through space unaided. By directing stellar energy uni-directionally, she has a means of propulsion enabling her to fly at near or beyond light speed. Whether she can travel unaided through inter-universe regions is not yet known. What is known is she's able to reach planet to planet and galaxy to galaxy in the blink of an eye in hours if not seconds when she traverses across the cosmos at will.

Vastly Augmented Abilities:  In her altered form, Carol's initial powers as Ms. Marvel have all been supercharged to an incredible degree. That being strength, speed, resilience, stamina, agility and the like are well and truly above the natural parameters of baseline homo sapiens and well beyond those of her former abilities. Putting her on par with the likes of Galactus's Heralds in terms of physical prowess, her energy control and output are similarly bolstered to an incredible degree. Being capable of controlling and alternating different force types to much greater degree's than she could before. Her 7th sense is also enhanced to the point of having greater range and more conscious control, gaining a sensitivity to the flux of ambient cosmic energies around her both bestowing and increasing certain heightened perceptions she already has. Using it as a means to expand her sensory range well beyond the physical spectrum and to the farthest reaches of the cosmos. She also doesn't require the need to eat, sleep or breath while in the void of outer space, seeming to subsidize on her own internal energy over human sustenance.

Wormhole Connection:  Ms. Marvel's penultimate cosmic power stems from a hyperspactial link between herself and the region of space which acts as the exit-point of a singularity's ultimate inward collapse out of this universe and into another. Binary is apparently able to apply a mental filter to these lenses, allowing only the energies she chooses to pass through. It was believed she'd lost these abilities after contact to the whitehole that energized her had been severed, but Cru restored this power potential and Carol could always re-enable the transformation either by absorbing enough energy or using Black Holes as a cosmic link instead.

Fused Powers
For a short time to date. Carol's physiology had been merged with the alien Brood hunterkiller named Cru, who boasted an amorphous techno-organic semblance that was further modified with her species advanced technologies. When she last battled this entity Carol caused it to self-destruct by overloading a Cavorite crystal she/it had on hand. Causing some of its protoplasmic mass to fuse to Carols being at a genetic level. These organites flowing around within her system possessed a consciousness of their own and often spoke between one another while also talking through Ms. Marvel herself. Their speech patterns were choppy and monotone, kind of like an automaton, due in part to they're lacking of earth and human lingual exchange.

Regeneration Manipulation:  Cru's physiological augments had the ability to bio-physically reorder Carol's physiology from the DNA outward. Enabling her to recover and survive from just about anything sent her way, from horrible genetic disintegration, impalement, lacerations and even high yield explosive discharge. They enable Carol to survive just about anything that's thrown her way, as the blue substance will constantly rebuild her body from the ground up.

Metamorphosis:  Her exposure to Cru's biomass often caused her to physically change and morph on a dime. Her skin would turn blue and her eyes would glow red every time these strange new abilities kicked in. When she shared a body with the eponymous alien, Carol's body would change between hers and the original form of whom whenever the passenger willed it.

Biomass Augmentation:  When faces with the genetic scrambling technologies implanted within M.O.D.O.K. Ms. Marvel's Physiological form had been hideously distorted into an over muscled, cyan skinned behemoth of a woman with enough raw physical might to hurl the full body head of said biomechanical entity into low orbit. This was a one time change however as she quickly reverted back to her regular physical build within a few short seconds. Whenever Danvers and and Cru would fight over their shared physical container however, the latter still retained the capacity to eugenically ramp up physical toughness coupled with muscle/skin and bone density just enough to handle a few Brood without Ms. Marvel's Kree born powers.

Skills and Equipment
Apart from her powers, Carol possesses many other qualities and impressive wears that she developed and/or ascertained on her own in her travels as a cosmic adventurer and U.N. Officiator.

Air force Training/ Master Spy / Multilingual
Captain Marvel's advanced military training along with her Kree warrior skills naturally makes her a very dangerous hand-to-hand fighter. When used in combination with her many superhuman powers, she becomes a truly formidable adversary. As a CIA agent, Carol developed highly advanced espionage skills, including infiltration, surveillance, interrogation, and disguise. Traveling around the world as an intelligence agent she learned to speak several other languages, such as German and Japanese, as if they were her first language. After her time in the Air Force she became a renowned fighter pilot in the Marvel Universe, and is also skilled at flying aircraft and spacecraft built by the Kree. Her advanced flying knowledge is used to great effect when fighting enemies in the air.

Gifted Artisan
A more artistic ability Carol possesses is her writing talent. She had been a freelance journalist for some time and was also a magazine editor in New York. She is an accomplished author and has published several books, including a popular science-fiction novel based on her deep space adventures with the Starjammers.

Adept Interplanetary Knowledge
Because Carol's recently revealed Kree ancestral background, with her genetic structure partially awakened by the union between herself and Captain Mar-Vell augmented physiology by the Kree Psyche-Magnitron. Carol has intimate knowledge of all aspects of the Kree race, including their language, culture, customs, politics, and technology. Though she is virtually and literally half-Kree, she has never been emotionally tied to them, and sometimes has gone against Kree authority on certain matters. During her time as Binary she spent considerable time away from Earth, gathering valuable knowledge on other advanced alien races such as the Brood and the Shi’ar.

Supernatural Beauty / Charisma
Though it is usually understated in her civilian persona since she shuns glamor in favor of more comfortable clothes, Carol is an extremely attractive woman. Blonde-haired, blue-eyed, and with a curvaceous figure, she conforms to most traditional Western standards of beauty. She is sometimes drawn as more muscular and solidly built than the thinner bodies of some other heroines, as befitting of her military background of physical fitness and training. Her beauty combined with her strength, intelligence, and willpower has earned her loyalty and affection from many people in the Marvel Universe (as well as a few crushes), though this same beauty can lead some to underestimate her (to their detriment).

Nega Bands
For the briefest of times, Carol was granted a pair of Nega Bands by Tony Stark in order to aid in stopping the recent showing of her legacy namesake; Captain Marvel. Their design and how they were obtained were questionable this pair was handed to her by the former head of S.H.I.E.L.D. when he was working for and under the Super-Human Registration Act. They seemingly function just as well as any other pair of Nega Bands as they afforded Ms. Marvel the same space livability that many other users of the wears are endowed with. This was further justified as they're main function was to interact with the Mar-Vell lookalikes Nega Bands in order to trigger the dimension swapping effect they had whenever a wearer was bonded between hosts. Used to jettison him into the Negative Zone from which they derive power from, as well as swap places with the entrapped individual within the allotted time limit.

Hover Bike
For a time Carol was confined to using a flying motorcycle as her primary means of aerial locomotion. This was due in part to a brain lesion that cropped up and threatened to burst whenever she used her power of flight, inevitably wiping out a good chunk of her memories as a consequence. Her ride comes equipped with rocket boosters, captured netting and high concussive discus launched from it as a main means of offense.

Alpha Flight Station
A personalized orbital space platform sitting within geosynchronous orbit around the globe. Under the care of Alpha Flight, whom Captain Marvel currently works as the director of. The vessel acts as the worlds first & foremost line of defense against alien invasion; which is in constant linear-magnetic alignment with the The Triskelion several hundred kilometers Earthbound below it. Though initially destroyed in an attempt to breach the Planetary Defense Shield after it was hijacked by Captain Hydra and his forces, it was soon after rebuilt and set back into extraterrestrial monitoring orbit once more.

Astro Carriers
Specialized interplanetary assault ships devised for heavy space combat and planetary support. These Carriers are prototypes constructed in secret in the event of heavy extraterrestrial incursion, outfitted with their own remote piloted drone fighter carriers to act as an extension of pilots aboard the armada's interior.

Trivia

 * At the time that she lost her memories (due to Rogue), Carol was reportedly 29-years-old. She was a retired Major of the United States Air Force. She was also chief of security at the Kennedy Space Center, and former editor of Woman Magazine. Her Air Force file was classified, but she was reportedly one of the best people they had. Top-notch pilot, fluent in three languages, and expert in armed and unarmed combat. Carol was single and her last known residence was in Greenwich Village. She had disappeared six months before her apparent "suicide".


 * In Uncanny X-Men #153, Carol is shown wearing a shirt with the symbol of DC Comics' Captain Marvel (aka Shazam) on it.
 * Carol's poker tell is that she flares her nostrils.
 * It's been hinted over drinks that Carol and Wolverine had some brief romantic past.
 * Carol didn't deny that she had feelings for Spider-Man.
 * Carol has owned a pet cat named Chewie, which is actually an alien from the Flerken species.
 * Carol possesses an Avengers Clearance Alpha.
 * Before it was revealed that Car-Ell was her real name, Carol used Car-Ell as an alias during an adventure in Mydonia.