7. Leading The Fight Against The Builders - Infinity
Marvel Comics
2013's Infinity was the single-biggest influence on 2018's Avengers: Infinity War, and with the story likely to inform a big part of the follow-up, Avengers: Endgame, taking another look at the story could actually clue us in on how Captain Marvel will be depicted come April.
The comic sees Carol square off against Thanos (more on that later), but she also takes a leading role in leading the intergalactic coalition against the Mad Titan's army, a struggle that gets so desperate that the Avengers even sanction the release of the Annihilation Wave against the Builders, who are on the march and destroying the entire galaxy.
Even the Wave itself falls to their advance, but Carol Danvers is unperturbed. Instead, she returns to her Binary form and decimates dozens of ships in the Fleet. It doesn't prove enough to halt their advance entirely, but it's a testament to her power that she was able to cause so much damage in the first place.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
