Comics lore, timeline questions, and more things to know before seeing The Marvels
What do you call a Marvel Studios movie based on Marvel Comics set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe featuring Captain Marvel and Ms. Marvel? The Marvels, clearly. There’s no other choice.
With the MCU returning to theaters for the first time since May’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, it’s time for a refresh. Here’s what you should expect from The Marvels, without any spoilers in the way.
The Marvels has one mid-credits scene, between the flashy animated credits and the plain white-on-black scroll credits. There is no post-credits scene, just a small jokey sound effect right at the end.
The Marvels is about a trio of superpowered characters — Monica Rambeau, Carol Danvers (Captain Marvel), and Kamala Khan (Ms. Marvel) — who discover that their energy-based powers are entwined and they’re spontaneously trading places whenever they use those powers. That’s complicated, since one of them works in Earth orbit, one lives way out in distant space, and one is a New Jersey high school student. There’s a villain who’s busting down the walls between universes, or something similar; Nick Fury is there, and so is Goose the cat — I mean, the Flerken — from Captain Marvel.
The Marvels is most directly a sequel to 2019’s Captain Marvel, which introduced Brie Larson’s Carol Danvers to the MCU as a woman who was brainwashed into joining an alien war after getting godlike abilities from an Infinity Stone.
The other two heroes at the helm of The Marvels also got their introductions in previous Marvel projects. In WandaVision, Teyonah Parris’ Monica Rambeau (known as Spectrum in the comics) walked away from an encounter with the Scarlet Witch with the ability to see and control all forms of electromagnetic energy. And Iman Vellani’s
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