Captain Marvel's Ultimate Armor Is the Coolest Costume Marvel Forgot
The coolest costume ever worn by Captain Marvel has been completely forgotten by fans, not because it didn’t have an impact, but because it was used in a universe that the company has since all but abandoned. While the many costumes worn by Mar-Vell and Carol Danvers on Earth-616 have all been unarguably epic, they don’t even come close to comparing to the one shown in the Ultimate Universe, Earth-1610, for more reasons than one.
While many fans associate the superhero moniker ‘Captain Marvel’ with Carol Danvers due to her prominence in the MCU, the original Captain Marvel was a Kree hero named Mar-Vell who came to Earth and became a champion of its people. Mar-Vell was introduced in Marvel Super-Heroes #12 by Stan Lee and Gene Colan, where he didn’t show any signs of having superhuman abilities outside of the normal capabilities of the Kree race. Over time, however, Mar-Vell was granted cosmic powers from the entity Eon as well as through use of the Nega-Bands. While he started off as a Kree soldier, he became a photon-empowered cosmic superhero and his costume, while a fitting symbol of his heroism, was just an outfit — something that can’t be said of his Earth-1610 counterpart.
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In the Ultimate Universe, Captain Mahr Vehl came to Earth on a mission to study its people's response to the incoming planet-devouring threat of Gah Lak Tus, a collective hive of world-eating cosmic parasites. Upon his arrival, Mahr Vehl came to love the planet and decided to stay as an agent of SHIELD and a protector of Earth. While he quickly proved himself to be a brave and valiant warrior, the thing that stood out most about this version of Captain Marvel was the costume.
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