Captain Marvel Super Bowl Trailer Breakdown: 10 Things You Need To See
4. Is This The Moment Carol Gets Her Powers?
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As previously mentioned, the entire test flight sequence shown earlier in the teaser appears to build up to the moment Carol Danvers finally gets her powers. She's seen battling in a dogfight against an alien spacecraft, and with her on the ground in this scene with her flight-suit on one would presume it takes place shortly after.
In the comics, Carol Danvers gets her powers after being caught up in a Kree explosion. As she is in the vicinity of the original Mar-Vell, the blast ends up melding Danvers' genes with Mar-Vell's, effectively becoming half human, half Kree.
More recently, the comics revealed that Carol's mother was actually Kree too, and that the blast merely awakened her inherited genetic makeup. We don't know which route the film will take, but it would be safe to assume that this encounter is what eventually transforms Captain Marvel into the most powerful superhero of the MCU.
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.
