History ComicBook / CaptainMarvelMarvelComics

** ''ComicBook/DeathOfCaptainMarvel''

** ''Death of Captain Marvel''

** The original series underwent a few as it struggled to find its identity. Mar-Vell went from alien stranded on Earth, to an alien taking missions from a secretly despotic MasterComputer to an alien tasked with defending the universe by a CosmicEntity that granted him CosmicAwareness. The latter was Mar-Vell's best received run.

* ''VideoGame/MarvelUltimateAlliance'' (2006): Ms. Marvel is a playable character, with Sharon Ventura as one of her alternate costumes.

* ArchEnemy: The original Mar-Vell is often considered this to Thanos, and his cancerverse version retains this animosity. Before Thanos, the archenemy role was occupied by Colonel Yon-Rogg.
* BackFromTheDead: Mar-Vell has been teased to be brought back to life several times. But not really has. At most his shade has been summoned for a chat with Thanos before being sent back to wherever it came from, and his living body has been brought back as [[NightOfTheLivingMooks a zombie to destroy The Avengers]], Monica Rambeau in particular, be he never passed from undead to simply not dead and returned to fully dead.

* TheHedonist: Genis spent his life gambling and drinking booze before meeting Silver Surfer, who convinced him to continue his father's heroic legacy.

%%* ReTool: The original series underwent a few as it struggled to find its identity.%%Like?

* SuperheroesInSpace: Most holders of the Captain Marvel title end up heavily involved in spaceborne and cosmic conflicts.

%%* TimeTravelEscape: Mar-Vell, but not really.

* TotallyRadical: Genis characterisation in the nineties.

* HaveIMentionedImHeterosexualToday: Prior to ''Seduction Of The Innocent'' and the resulting comics code Marvel Comics made a great deal of their money on romance stories, a legacy that can still be felt with the Captain Marvels in particular where romance and or sex tends to be a recurring topic, especially with Genis. The sole exception is Phyla, and [[InvertedTrope only because Phyla is gay.]]

%%* RasputinianDeath: Genis-Vell about a year after joining the Thunderbolts as resident {{Gamebreaker}}.%%Is an example how?

%%* BackFromTheDead: Mar-Vell. But not really.

* CaptainSuperhero: A superhero named Captain Mar-Vell. He actually did hold a Kree military rank equivalent to captain before being exiled to Earth.

%%* EldritchAbomination: Eon from Jim Starlin's run is a rare benevolent example.%%How?

%%* AGodAmI: Genis-Vell during his crazy period where he restarted the universe.%%Is an example how?

%%* HyperAwareness: His Cosmic Awareness.

** ''Captain Marvel'' Vol. 5 (2002 -- 2004)

** ''ComicBook/CaptainMarvel2023'' Vol. 11 (2023 -- Present)

* RatedMForManly: Musclebound and square-jawed with a crewcut, Genis-Vell is the only Captain Marvel thus far that has slept with women all across the galaxy. Helps that he's got a lot of swagger and charisma. This [[http://tinyimg.io/i/ww9n4L5.jpg image]] really sells that.

In 2018, her origin story was retconned in ''The Life of Captain Marvel'', in which it was revealed that Carol was half-Kree all along (gaining her alien genes from her mother Marie, AKA Mari-Ell, a former Kree Warrior) and the Psyche-Magnetron just awakened her Kree genetics. It was also revealed that her true Kree name is Car-Ell. It was followed by an ongoing comic by Creator/KellyThompson, which is still being published.

And in an age when ComicBook/JeanGrey, ComicBook/BuckyBarnes, ComicBook/GwenStacy ([[ComicBook/SpiderGwen sorta]]) and even Mar-Vell's enemy ComicBook/{{Thanos}} have all [[ComicBookDeath returned from the dead]] (and that's only sticking with examples within Marvel), Mar-Vell is still usually considered the last great symbol of death meaning something in comics (aside from ''ComicBook/SpiderMan''[='=]s Uncle Ben). There have been a handful of stories where it ''seems'' like Mar-Vell has somehow returned to life, only for it to be revealed to be some kind of fake-out.

During the events of the ''ComicBook/CivilWar'' series, the original Mar-Vell reappeared, apparently having been accidentally transported from the past. He tried to fit in the present, knowing he would have to go back in time and die at some point... until it was revealed during the events of the ComicBook/SecretInvasion that he was actually a spy for the alien Skrull race -ironically the Kree's biggest enemies- named Khn'nr who had, like many other such sleeper agents, been brainwashed into ''thinking'' that he was the real Marvel. Still, he ends up embracing the Mar-Vell identity and becoming a true hero anyway. Before he died.

* AbortedArc: Before it was decided that the mysterious Captain Marvel who had been glimpsed during ComicBook/CivilWar was the "returned" Mar-Vell (see Back from the Dead below), it was intended to be the recently introduced character Gravity, who had somehow been given the costume and the role of Earth's protector. One can only assume it would have eventually been revealed just who gave Gravity the costume and the job.

** ''The Marvels'' (2022)

** ''ComicBook/{{Captain Marvel|KellyThompson}}'' Vol. 10 (2019 -- present)

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'' (2010): First makes an appearance as Carol Danvers in Season 1, then joining the Avengers in Season 2 as Ms. Marvel. Voiced by Creator/JenniferHale.

* DownerEnding: Genis-Vell ends his adventure by experiencing an [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity extreme bout of madness twice, [[HerowithBadPublicity has the whole galaxy hate and fear him,]] suffers torture at the hands of his family [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan to pacify him]] by [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beating him]] and [[IWillTearYourArmsOff nearly tearing his limbs off]], [[TimeTravel goes to see a future]] that only [[BadFuture becomes more and more dystopian,]] watches his own [[KidFromTheFuture future son]] [[AntagonisticOffspring get corrupted by The Magus]] who goes on to slaughter 5 star systems and threatened the whole galaxy to free his master, [[OffingTheOffspring forced himself to erase his son in the timeline by promising to smother his son in the crib,]] watches Rick and Marlo leave him behind and later [[CruelAndUnusualDeath dies himself via interdimensional dismemberment]] due to meddling from Helmut Zemo that causes him to become a threat to the universe with [[ShootTheShaggyDog few mourning his passing or remembering him at all.]] The only bright spot is Eulogy being proven wrong that Genis’ fans didn't want or need him anymore when the phone rings for Genis after he had left, implying there’s people who still want Genis even after his adventure is over.]]

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The betrayal from his own people (and the eventual death of Una) leads Mar-Vell to adopt Earth (and the name Captain Marvel) as his own. He had a brief relationship with ComicBook/CarolDanvers, a NASA security agent, who later becomes a superhero herself (and eventually takes on the mantle of [[LegacyCharacter Captain Marvel]]). He gains new powers from an Earth scientist, and later, from The Supreme Intelligence, a supercomputer who is the Kree's true ruler. He also gained his more famous, red-and-blue costume from it.

!! Mar-Vell

!! Monica Rambeau

!! [[Characters/MarvelComicsCarolDanvers Carol Danvers]]
In July 2012, a new ''Captain Marvel'' series was launched, with Carol Danvers taking on Mar-Vell's title, while [[ComicBook/MsMarvel2014 teenager Kamala Khan]] uses the ComicBook/MsMarvel name.

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