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Mar-Vell is still dead. But his legacy would live on stronger than ever. After the tragic death, the hero Monica Rambeau took up the Captain Marvel name. Captain Mar-Vell’s son Genis would take up his father’s mantle as well.
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To those who dwell on Earth, the name Captain Marvel is that of a hero! Yet, only I...of all who walk this planet...know the mind-wrenching truth--that it may one day be my hand which signals the fatal attack upon an unsuspecting sphere...that mine may be the voice which decrees its total destruction!
—Captain Marvel
Early LifeLater LifeSecret InvasionChaos WarDuring the Chaos War event, Mar-Vell was one of the deceased Avengers resurrected due to a weakening in the veil between life and death. Alongside several other Avengers, he faced off against minions of the Japanese god Amatsu-Mikaboshi and former Avengers foes Grim Reaper and Nekra while working to save the living Avengers who, due to Nightmare's earlier defeat, had been left in a comatose state. In the end, Mar-Vell again died when the Grim Reaper impaled him.The Coming of the PhoenixPowers
Originally, Captain Mar-Vell possessed no super-humanoid powers. However, the various Kree races had all evolved with higher strength levels than Earth humans to combat the heavier gravitation of their home worlds. Kree Physiology: Owing to his Kree physiology, Captain Mar-Vell possessed the natural attributes of the Kree race; he possessed resistance to poison, toxins and disease (systemic antidote), and a higher natural strength level and more durable body than a human, approximately twice the level. •Super-Humanoid Strength: The shared super-normal, but not super-humanoid, strength level of the Kree races enables a Kree to lift (press) between 1 ton and 1.2 tons under optimal conditions, including Earth gravitation. •Super-Humanoid Durability: As a Kree, Mar-Vell was of sturdier genetic stock than humans, making him more resilient to impact, pressure, and temperature extremes. •Super-Humanoid Speed: Mar-Vell was impressively fast even for a Kree, possessing a level of speed that would qualify as enhanced for a human. •Super-Humanoid Agility: Mar-Vell's agility, balance, and body coordination were enhanced to levels that are beyond the natural physical limits of the finest Earth athlete. •Super-Humanoid Reflexes: Mar-Vell's reflexes were beyond those of the finest human athlete, which made it possible for him to dodge gunfire, even at point-blank range, from multiple gunners at the same time. Over the course of Mar-Vell's life he was, both artificially and cosmologically, augmented and evolved by a host of outside sources that all bolstered his natural Kree genetic structure. The first was by being empowered by cosmic entities, both the false cosmic entity "Zo" and, later, the true cosmic entity Eon. He was also empowered by the Nega-Bands, and his body was further treated with photonic energy, giving him additional powers he could channel through the bands. Solar Energy Metabolics: Dr. Benjamin Savannah's radiation treatment of Rick Jones had altered Mar-Vell's genetic structure, giving him the ability to absorb energy from outside sources, especially solar energy, and metabolize it back, convert, and manipulate it for a variety of uses. •Simulated Psychokinesis: Mar-Vell could manipulate his energies in such a way as to move people/objects about by focusing constructs around them.[citation needed] •Healing/Restoration: Captain Marvel would eventually learn that he could use solar/photonic energy used to empower him as a means to accelerate his own recovery process. A skill initially utilized through use of his Nega-Bands, he came to realize he could heal himself through his natural ability to absorb and metabolize solar energy. Using the Nega-Bands, he could redistribute absorbed photon power to heal as well as reinvigorate others. He discovered in his last years that this healing power would not, however, work on the lung cancer he contracted from the Compound 13 nerve gas he had proved unable to avoid breathing in during his fight against Robert "Nitro" Hunter. •Photon Energy Blasts: Captain Mar-Vell could project photon energy blasts that channeled his available energies into a devastating blast. •Energy-Enhanced Strike: Captain Mar-Vell was also able to channel the said energy behind his blows to increase their striking power, once employing this power to knock out the Super-Skrull with one punch. •Physical Augmentation:[citation needed] •Size-Shifting: After one occasion when he accidentally absorbed too much energy from a destroyed star, Captain Marvel found that he could unconditionally shift his size to monolithic heights. •Virtual Invulnerability[citation needed] •Regenerative Healing Factor[citation needed] •Minor Molecular Control: Mar-Vell demonstrated the ability to use his absorbed energy to transform the regular clothes he wore in Earth disguise as the false Dr. Walter Lawson into his Kree uniform, and vice versa. Cosmic Awareness: Captain Mar-Vell's most impressive power was his "Cosmic Awareness," which he received from Eon. This ability allowed him to know exactly what he needed to know at any moment. This could range from what his current location was to discovering an opponent's weakness; upon acquiring this power, he first demonstrated it by realizing, not only that certain details of the special uniform with which the Supreme Intelligence had honored him for preventing its destruction (as described above) had been altered, but also that Eon had transformed the color of his previously silver-white hair to blond. This power alone made Captain Mar-Vell a force to be reckoned with, but its exact nature and scope have never been clearly defined. It might have been somewhat comparable to Spider-Man's "spider-sense" and to Mantis's awareness of psychic "vibrations," but its scope was far greater than either of those. Former Powers The Casting Of Sensory Illusions: The false comic entity "Zo", in reality an illusion created by Zarek and Ronan, bestowed upon Captain Mar-Vell the semi-telepathic ability to project highly convincing sensory illusions into the minds of any adversary he came across. The power had limits, however, as it only worked on the optics of organic beings; robotic agents like the Man-Slayer were immune to its effects. Augmented Physiology: "Zo" had greatly enhanced Mar-Vell's condition beyond his initial regular limits, making him strong enough to crush boulders, resist heavy impacts, and move even faster than ever before. Under the influence of Eon, his bodily frame was augmented further still. With the aid of the Kree Nega-Bands, he was further empowered both physically and dynamistically. •Bolstered Strength: At "Zo's" temperance, Captain Mar-Vell's base strength level subsequently became sufficiently high for him to lift (press) at first 10 tons, later 15 tons; this enabled him to smash known almost-unbreakable Kree elements such as daxilium. •Bolstered Durability: Mar-Vell's tolerance of blunt-force trauma was also strengthened, to where he was able to withstand a full force blast from Iron Man's repulsor rays or blasts from Ronan's universal weapon, and trade blows with the likes of the Man-Slayer while himself emerging unscathed.
Abilities
General Zedrao praised Mar-Vell as "quite possibly the greatest warrior who walked the stars." Possessed of extensive knowledge of the technologically advanced vehicles and devices of the Kree Empire, Captain Mar-Vell was considered the best soldier and warrior in the Kree Space Fleet. Having been highly trained and a capable hand-to-hand combatant, starship pilot, spy, marksman capable of using both blasters and ballistic weapons, and swordsman, and as a tactician, he was often compared to the likes of Captain America in terms of ability. Being from a highly advanced alien civilization, Captain Mar-Vell also had extensive knowledge in highly advanced Kree technology; this was due to Mar-Vell's upbringing in an advanced alien culture in which intelligence was superior to that of humans. Mar-Vell was capable of matching the most advanced thinkers in the Marvel Universe, as he was known to make great calculations in seconds. On top of that, Mar-Vell was highly enough skilled in the fields of mathematics, robotics, and mechanics to be able to pose, undercover, as the deceased Earth scientist Dr. Walter Lawson at Cape Canaveral.
Equipment
•Nega-Bands: Kree "nega-bands" use energies of the Negative Zone and the wielder's own energies. Those who wear them are capable of interstellar flight and become resistant to many attacks and the micro-pressure of deep outer space as well as ceasing to require food, water, air or sleep. The bands, however, are not capable of distinguishing water from a proper atmosphere; therefore, a wielder of the Nega-Bands could still drown despite being protected from spatial micro-pressure. Such wearers are also granted super-human strength. •Immunity To Cold, Radiation, Micro-Pressure, And Suffocation: Wearers of Kree Nega-bands acquire such super-humanoid powers as described above; however, they can still be affected by gas-based attacks, as Mar-Vell himself was in conflict against Robert "Nitro" Hunter, in whose course he contracted the lung cancer that killed him. •Nega-Band Based Energy Absorption: Mar-Vell also demonstrated the ability, drawn from the Nega-Bands, to absorb and project various types of energy, except mystic energies, but to a lesser extent than that of the Quantum Bands. •Captain Mar-Vell's Kree Uniform: While serving in the Kree Space Fleet, Mar-Vell wore the green-trimmed sky blue Kree uniform that signified his rank as a captain. Later, the uniform was modified, by the imaginary cosmic being Zo, to resist the rigors of spontaneous teleportation through space. Later still, the Supreme Intelligence honored him for his efforts to save it from destruction with a black-trimmed red uniform bearing gold decorations. •Knockout Capsules: •Smoke Grenades:
Weapons
•Wrist-Mounted Uni-Beam: Mar-Vell, before his subsequent changes, utilized miniature Kree Universal Beam weaponry, fashioned into a pocket-sized laser band that he wore on his wrist. Whatever it blew apart, it could reconstruct on a molecular level. It could also emit electric arcs that once proved powerful enough to stun the Super-Skrull momentarily, cast blinding glares or shrouds of darkness, and strike down a Kree Sentry with one shot.
Transportation
•Jet Belt: The Jet Belt was a standard Kree soldier equipment item utilized by many of its trained military personnel. Mar-Vell utilized the rocket-powered utility belt to achieve self-propelled flight at various speeds.
Stan Lee created, and Gene Colan designed, Captain Mar-Vell, in Marvel Super-Heroes #12, primarily so that the Marvel Comics Group could retain ownership of the "Captain Marvel" character-name trademark after Fawcett Publications ownership of it had lapsed. Their approach to the character, however, was oriented primarily towards science fiction and...
•Not to be confused with the DC eponymous character, who currently goes under the name Shazam.
•174 appearance(s) of Mar-Vell (Earth-616)
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By surprise, Mar-Vell was killed before she could fire, causing Danvers to pick up the pistol to defend herself from Yon-Rogg. He asked Danvers where the core was, but she bluffed him by informing him that he would be surrounded soon, in the hopes he'd run from a threat of a show of force.
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Character Evolution. Mar-Vell continued to live on Earth, both under the identity of Dr. Walter Lawson and as Captain Marvel. During his stay, he began to appreciate the human spirit and...
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