Captain Marvel’s Complete Timeline In The MCU

Brie Larson is returning as Captain Marvel in The Marvels, which finally hits theaters on November 10th. The latest entry in Phase 5 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Marvels will see Carol Danvers join a superhero trio that includes Monica Rambeau, a.k.a. Photon (Teyonah Parris), and Kamala Khan, a.k.a. Ms. Marvel (Iman Vellani).

Despite being one of the MCU’s newer characters, Captain Marvel already has a rich and storied history in the franchise. There are several points in Carol’s history that fans will want to be familiar with before her return in The Marvels.

8 1989: Carol Danvers Disappears During A Flight Test

Captain Marvel (2019)

10 MCU Characters Known to Make Catastrophic MistakesIn her early twenties, Carol Danvers served as a test pilot in the United States Air Force. While she was not permitted to fly the same missions that her male colleagues did, Danvers worked hard to prove herself, eventually earning the attention of Dr. Wendy Lawson. Unfortunately, this relationship would lead to a major mishap that resulted in Carol being abducted by aliens.

While performing a test flight involving Tesseract technology, Carol and Dr. Lawson, who was secretly a deserter from the Kree Empire, were shot down and attacked by Yon-Rogg and his band of Kree warriors. Lawson was killed and Carol was caught in an explosion, wherein her body absorbed intense amounts of cosmic radiation. Seeing that she contained the power they sought, Yon-Rogg and his companions abducted Carol, leaving her colleagues on Earth to believe she had died in the crash.

7 1989-1995: Carol Danvers Trains With The Kree

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For the next six years, Carol lived on Hala, the capital planet of the Kree Empire, where she trained with Yon-Rogg. Known only as “Vers,” Carol served the Supreme Intelligence in the Kree-Skrull War. However, all of her memories of her life on Earth were erased in order to ensure her complete cooperation with the Kree Empire.

During this time, Carol picked up several abilities, including weapons training and hand-to-hand combat skills, which would serve her well in years to come. Moreover, she inherited some of the physical abilities of the Kree after receiving a blood transfusion from Yon-Rogg. In order to limit her growing powers, however, the Kree outfitted Carol with a power dampener, which kept her from unlocking her full potential too soon.

6 1995: Carol Danvers Returns To Earth And Becomes Captain Marvel

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In 1995, Carol and her Kree companions were ambushed by Skrull freedom fighters while on a mission. Carol was incapacitated and held captive by Talos, the leader of the Skrulls. Managing to escape, she found herself stranded on Earth, where she began to learn about her life before the Kree.

After reconnecting with old allies like Maria Rambeau, Carol joins forces with SHIELD and the Skrulls to fight the Kree. In a showdown with the Supreme Intelligence, she finally removes the power dampener and unlocks her full potential. Carol Danvers finally becomes Captain Marvel, using her powers to repel a Kree invasion of Earth.

5 1995-2018: Carol Fights The Kree

Off-Screen

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After the events of Captain Marvel, Carol Danvers disappears from the Marvel Cinematic Universe for over twenty years. Having vowed to help find the Skrulls a new homeworld, she left Earth in 1995 with Talos and a ship full of refugees.

It is implied that Carol spent the next few decades helping the Skrulls and fighting the Kree, whom she vowed to destroy before they could harm anyone else. It can also be assumed that Captain Marvel spent much of her time defending innocent planets in various plights, becoming a defender of the galaxy in her decades off-screen.

4 2018: Captain Marvel Joins The Avengers

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Captain Marvel was finally summoned back to Earth after twenty-three years away when Nick Fury activated the beacon she had given them after their first mission together. Captain Marvel immediately made her way back to Earth, where she joined up with the Avengers, who revealed that the Mad Titan Thanos had used the Infinity Stones to wipe out half of all life in the universe–including Fury.

In a desperate bid to set things right, Captain Marvel joins the fight against Thanos, tracking him down three weeks after the Battle of Wakanda. Carol helped the Avengers subdue and interrogate Thanos, who revealed that he had destroyed the Infinity Stones to ensure that no one could undo what he had done. Thor beheads Thanos and the Avengers retreat, defeated once more.

3 2018-2023: Captain Marvel And The Avengers Protect TheUniverse

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Captain Marvel has a small role in Avengers: Endgame, which establishes her character as an official member of the Avengers. In the five years following the events of Avengers: Infinity War, Carol helped the Avengers safeguard the galaxy from various threats that arose in the aftermath of the Decimation.

Alongside Black Widow, Rocket Raccoon, Nebula, and War Machine, Carol did her best to keep the galaxy from descending into chaos as a result of the Decimation. Given her ability to travel through space, Carol proved to be an asset to the Avengers, covering many planets and galaxies whereas most of the other heroes could only protect Earth.

2 2023: Captain Marvel Participates In The Battle Of Earth

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Carol Danvers was not involved in the Avengers’ Time Heist, which saw Earth’s Mightiest Heroes gather Infinity Stones from the past in order to bring back everyone that Thanos had snapped away five years earlier. However, Captain Marvel finally intervened once more when an alternate-timeline version of Thanos attacked Earth with his armies.

In what is now dubbed the Battle of Earth, Captain Marvel destroyed Thanos’s warship and faced the Mad Titan head-on. She, however, was unable to stop him, leaving Iron Man to sacrifice his life in destroying Thanos once and for all. In the aftermath, Captain Marvel paid her respects at Tony Stark’s funeral before leaving Earth once more.

1 2025: Captain Marvel Founds The Marvels

The Marvels (2023)

Brie Larson returns as Captain Marvel once more in The Marvels, where she will act as the leader of the eponymous superhero team. The film takes place two years after Avengers: Endgame, in the year 2025. After remaining a key ally to the Avengers following the Blip, as seen in the mid-credits scene of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Carol inadvertently ends up forming her own team when she finds that her powers are somehow linked to those of Photon and Ms. Marvel.

While Captain Marvel has always preferred to work alone in the MCU, she may finally have to give up this proclivity in The Marvels. With the rise of the villainous Dar-Benn, a Kree zealot following in the footsteps of Ronan the Accuser, Carol Danvers will need all the help she can get to save the galaxy once more.

MCU

The Marvel Cinematic Universe or the MCU is a media franchise created by Marvel Studios based on the Marvel Comics. It’s set primarily in a shared universe, with some installments also set in adjacent or branching realities.

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Captain America: The First Avenger

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