Can I ask you something? You just turn into anything you want? Oh well, I have to see it first. Can you all do it? Physiologically? Yeah, but it takes practice and, dare I say, talent to do it well.
Captain Marvel (2019) dir. Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck
captain marvel is a reflection of the female experience. having a mentor telling you that you are only there because he allows it, that you have to control your emotions and that “what is giving can be taken away” is a female experience. seeing Carol setting herself free from that man and discovering that not only he was lying, but that he was restraining her because he knew that she was stronger than him is so fucking powerful to women because we can relate to it on a deep level
so I don’t give a shit if men can’t relate to captain marvel. this movie isn’t for you.
Some screenshots taken from Captain Marvel’s Official Website
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#it’s a date in All-New, All-Different Avengers Annual
and here’s what the artist had to say:
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@tuntematonkorppi mwhahahaha
look I have nothing against Brie Larson as a person or an actor but her casting feels like an undeniable result of the cultural fixation with Women Under Thirty
okay so I fired this off on my phone just as a thought but let me elaborate on this a little:
Carol Danvers is a Colonel in the US Air Force.
Even if we accept that Carol was promoted at younger age than most, that kind of promotion doesn’t come lightly. According to military-ranks.org (a website that I have no reason to question):
By law, colonels must have twenty-two years of service and a minimum of three years of service as a lieutenant colonel. Most colonels spend three years as a lieutenant colonel before being promoted.
I think it’s pretty widely established that Carol joined the Air Force as soon as she was 18, which would place her squarely at age 40 after the minimum 22 year service, assuming she got promoted as soon as she was eligible.
What I’m getting at here is that, unless the Marvel Cinematic Universe is stripping Carol of her illustrious military history, there’s no damn reason for her to played by a 26 year old. At all.
… Unless they think a woman in her forties has no business being a superhero, in which case I’d like to direct your attention to Jeremy Renner (cast as Hawkeye at 40), Ben Affleck (Batman at 43), Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man since age 44), and Paul Rudd (debuting as Ant-Man at forty-fucking-six).
Listen to me. Listen. Women over forty are badasses. ¾ of the new Ghostbusters cast are women in their 40′s. Ming-Na Wen is kicking asses and taking names all over Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. at 52. Those old ladies from Mad Max: Fury Road - including Megan Jaffer, who’s 78 - did their own fucking stunts.
There Is No Expiration On Women Being Awesome.
I ADORE Brie Larson (seriously, she is one of my favourite actresses), but I am so fucking annoyed with this casting.
I’m not surprised, though. The only actresses playing main female characters in MCU that were over 30 when cast were Gwenyth Palrow and Evageline Lilly. And Evageline is a full DECADE younger than Paul. Marvel is obsessed with young woman and are more than happy to pair them with much older men.
In fact, let’s take look at the ages of the actors playing reoccuring characters when they were cast (using the logic of reoccuring meaning they appeared significantly in more than one film and the previous year to the release being when these actors were cast/shot the first movie):
Scarlett: 25 Gwenyth: 35 Cobie: 27 Natalie: 29 Kat: 24 Hayley: 28 Elizabeth: 25 Evangeline: 35 Brie: 26 Jamie: 26 Emily: 27 Rene: 56 BREAKDOWN: 9 20-30, 2 30-40, 1 40-60 AVERAGE AGE: 363/12 = 30 (28 if you take the outlier of Rene out)
Robert: 43 Jeremy: 40 Mark: 41 Chris E: 29 Samuel: 61 Grillo: 48 Chris H: 27 Sebastian: 28 Paul R: 45 Don: 45 Stellan: 59 Paul B: 43 (age when he was cast for a physical role) Jon: 41 Tom: 29 Anthony H: 73 Anthony M: 35 Clark: 45 BREAKDOWN: 4 20-30, 1 30-40, 9 40-50, 3 50-80. AVERAGE AGE: 778/17 = 46
FUCKIN’ NOTICE ANYTHING THERE? SIXTEEN YEAR DIFFERENCE. And honestly, I left a bunch of guys out from the Thor franchise that would have bumped up the men’s age even more, like Idris & Ray.
This is particularly egregious because Captain Marvel is MEANT to be an older female character. She has the same military rank as fucking RHODEY, who is played by Don Cheadle, who is FIFTY. FUCKING. ONE. There is no fucking way that a 26 year old would ever be a colonel, which means they’re either going to be stupid and ignore this (unlikely), or they’re going to retcon her character and take away that title (more likely). And FUCK. THAT.
I love Brie, but this role would have been better suited for an older woman. I am so sick of Marvel feeling like the only characters over 35 that women can play are mothers & aunts of male characters.
Even though Katee Sackhoff is still on the young side (for the character), she would have made an absofuckinglutely incredible Captain Marvel. I was really rooting for that casting. Or Tricia Helfer. Both of these women are gorgeous, talented actresses with a proven record of playing straight-up smoke show badasses who also happen to be older than 30. I love Brie, but I’m sorry, she isn’t remotely in their league, and robbing Carol of the life experience and maturity that DEFINES the character of Captain Marvel is a goddamn travesty.
She’s a statement, and a very important one, that women don’t just fucking lose their significance once they hit forty and can no longer be commodified for their age (or lack thereof). Carol Danvers gives the finger to the youth-obsessed culture of comics and the media that says a woman’s value is intrinsically linked to beauty and beauty to youth.
I was hoping Marvel would prove an exception to this because, whatever your feelings about Gwyneth, she was a smart, powerful, and sexy Pepper Potts and proof that women can be those things and be over 40–not just men, and even though she’s been absent from recent films, Iron Man neither overly sexualized nor de-sexualized her. And while Deadpool was produced by Fox and not Marvel, we still saw gorgeous 37-year-old Morena Baccarin who WAS sexual and sexy without feeling like a puppet for the male gaze playing opposite a guy her own age. Plus, with the exception of Vision and Wanda (Bettany is 45 and Olsen is 27), the ages between the romantic couples in the films are comparatively closer than you see in a lot of other films; in some cases, like with Natalie Portman and Chris Hemsworth, the woman is older. Outside of a Sandra Bullock flick, that’s pretty rare and–surprise!–the story or their characters don’t suffer for it. (A friend and I were recently commenting on the fact that, despite our mutual love for Alicia Vikander and Mads Mikkelsen, their romantic story in A Royal Affair still had a then-23-year-old playing against a 46-year-old man, which is pretty much par for the course in Hollywood. Just watch any film with George Clooney or Tom Cruise. The men keep aging and their romantic leads keep getting younger. This is not news.)
But this is the fucking game, folks. For years we have been clamouring for a female-led film in the Marvel franchise, and now that we finally get it, we have to be satisfied with a character being taken shamelessly out of context in order to appeal to studios and the people Hollywood execs are still convinced are the only ones capable of buying movie tickets–men. And god forbid they should have to look at a woman over 40 in spandex for 2 hours.
THIS IS THE COVER FROM PATSY WALKER AKA HELLCAT #2, available January 2016. This cover is, I think, the best representation of what we’re going for with this series. Friendship, superheroes, burgers. Brittney Williams and I came up with this piece together with our amazing editor Wil Moss and she knocked it out of the park.
Avengers Assemble #11
written by Kelly Sue DeConnick art by Stefano Caselli
these are some of the greatest panels in Marvel history
Please note Tony was already taking off his pants in the second panel.
AMAZING.
that cat’s like “gurl I really don’t think you do”
Secret Wars #1 Travelling Man Variant Cover
Done in acrylic paint and oil pastels on watercolour paper.
A few Galentines for all of my favorite gal pals!
I saw a post going around suggesting Natalie Dormer for the upcoming Captain Marvel movie and I couldn’t get it out of my head!! So I drew ya’ll a fake poster to go along with my other fake Marvel poster.
Captain Marvel (2012-2014) #16
Look at this and tell me Natalie Dormer isn’t perfect for this role. Can we try our hardest to get Marvel to notice this haha.
HOLY SHIT. I’m on board.
NATALIE DORMER WAS ALREADY IN THE MCU. OR DO YOU WANNA EXPLAIN WHY CAPTAIN MARVEL TIMETRAVELED TO THE 1940S TO MAKE OUT WITH STEVE ROGERS
Do we have to explain how Captain America and The Human Torch have the same face? I don’t think so. Or maybe the extensive plastic surgery Bruce Banner must have undergone to look like Mark Ruffalo instead of Edward Norton.
Fancast: Anna Torv as Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel Can we please have this??
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
i don’t really know anything about captain marvel but i completely approve of casting anna torv for anything
OMG YES PLEASE YES. YES. YES. SUGAR ON TOP YES.
