Captain Marvel might have made over a billion dollars at the box office when it came out in 2019, but the title character, even if for reasons that haven’t always been the most rational, has been famously unpopular among her Marvel Cinematic Universe peers. With her second proper outing coming later this year with The Marvels, fans are hoping for a change of sentiment.
Carol Danvers wasn’t really herself throughout most of Captain Marvel, one fan argues. Now free of the Kree’s mind control and with 30 years of hindsight behind her, Marvel has the perfect opportunity to reintroduce the character. Critics should at least have that in mind before they dismiss The Marvels altogether.
The type of hate Larson received, however, had less to do with her performance and more to do with her daring to speak out on the lack of diversity in the film review community. This was then projected onto the film by way of review bombing and general negativity. Captain Marvel wasn’t perfect, but it also wasn’t as bad as those few hurt egos made it out to be. And those won’t be motivated to keep an open mind going into The Marvels if you paid them to.
Most of the comments under this Reddit post present a sample of that exact scenario. It turns out a lot of people don’t actually have a problem with Carol Danvers at all, even if they admit the film wasn’t as good as it could have been.
As some also point out, the request to give Carol a second chance stems from the contained space of online fandom, where issues and debates tend to be blown out of proportion. The outside world, as proven by Captain Marvel‘s billion-dollar box office, never really cared.
The Marvels will see Iman Vellani’s Kamala Khan/Ms. Marvel and Teyonah Parris’s Monica Rambeau join Laron’s Captain Marvel in her intergalactic adventures. The film hits theaters Nov. 10.