![]() ![]() As Binary, Carol Danvers could explore the galaxy like she’d always dreamed of, flying out of the clutches of white female stereotypes. The formerly helpless hero was reborn as a cosmic avenger with an Afro of solar fire, white disco thigh-highs and a new identity: Binary. When the Brood, an insectoid alien race, took the X-men captive as potential hosts for their spawn, their experiments on Carol rebooted her Kree DNA. In 1982, however, she got her chance to burn away the past in the pages of Uncanny X-Men. She sought sanctuary with the X-men, defeated, de-powered, and without her cosmic spark. After departing the team, Carol soon took another hit when the future X-man Rogue drained her of her abilities. The all-male creative team of early-’80s Avengers stories put the character through a bizarre gauntlet of abuse - involving mind control, rape, and a grueling inter-dimensional pregnancy. Marvel faced backlash during the Reagan era. Like many women (both in real life and in comic books) at the vanguard of ’70s women’s liberation, Ms. Just as progress seemed inevitable, Carol suffered a setback. Behold, a history of Carol’s evolution from girlfriend to blockbuster lead, told through costumes:īinary’s debut in Uncanny X-men Vol. ![]() On the occasion of actress Brie Larson’s turn as Captain Marvel’s title character on March 8, we’re running down the superhero’s uncanny climb through a fictional multiverse designed for, and by, men. Before she could end up in theaters as one of Marvel’s mightiest, she’d endure decades of spotty, incremental progress toward empowered superstardom that made itself most readily apparent in the form of Carol’s constantly changing uniforms. ![]() Introduced in 1968 as a romantic interest for the original (male) Captain Marvel, Carol would start her superhero career as a bikini-clad Ms., the product of (male-driven) editorial mishegoss that reflected the general perception of American women at the time. Carol Danvers’s onscreen apotheosis in this month’s Captain Marvel is no less marvelous than it is miraculous, considering the revamps, reboots, and exploitation the comic-book character she’s based on has had to face over the last 51 years. ![]()
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