The Marvels is a strange MCU outing: It’s largely forgotten I feel – with most people only remembering the end when Beast shows up – but it’s not as scrutinised as other films of these phases have been. It’s really not the best, it’s tonally inconsistent and it has a lot of forgettable elements – especially the villain – but it’s also kind of fun and cute. The three main leads work very well together, Nick Fury is a lot of fun when paired up with the more civilian characters from Kamala Khan’s supporting cast and the action is genuinely very solid. So, why am I changing it? Well, for one, I feel it could be much better, but I also feel that with Captain Marvel supposedly set up as a member of the new “big three”, she needs a story that ties into the bigger picture a little bit more. So, How am I going to change it?

My whole pitch for this version of the Marvels is dialing the original ALLLL the way up to 11. Every aspect we enhance, we make grander, bigger, larger, more expansive – whatever you wanna call it. To show you what I mean: “The Marvels” refers to our trio of heroines, Monica, Kamala and Carol, that doesn’t change in my pitch – what does change is that I want there to be MORE “Marvels”. Yes, those initial three characters will still be the main focus of my pitch, they’re the central driving force of the film, they’re the emotional core, but maybe along the way they meet more of these “Marvels”.

In the original film this group travel from planet to planet as Dar-Benn plunders the natural resources of each to reforge Hala, Homeworld of the Kree. In my pitch they’ll go to more planets, meet more civilizations and go to known and unknown corners of the Marvel Universe. I’m literally turning it into an inter-planetary roadtrip. That’s my pitch: Captain Marvel, Ms Marvel and Monica go on a roadtrip through the cosmos to help a series of unexpected allies with similar branding. Instead of seeing around 3 planets, like we do in the original, let’s make it-a-dozen-or-so. How and why? Let’s get into it.

In the very first moments of this new story we meet a fleet of Kree Warriors as they set course for Earth. They’re led by a Kree-Male who’s authoritarian voice belters the order to touchdown and attack, no matter the cost. They’ve heard tales of a woman who’s taken up a “Marvel” mantle, unknowingly becoming an emeny of the Kree. On the other side of Earth, floating above the edge of the exosphere, The “Sentient World Observation and Response Department”, better known as SWORD, takes note of the enemy ships as they quickly descend onto earth, targeted touchdown-point: New Jersey. Abigail Brand – leader of SWORD ponders to herself: “Whatever is in New Jersey?”

Kamala Khan of course! We meet her as she’s making quick work of a group of nameless thugs robbing the local Circle-Q convenient store before the Kree touch-down in her street. She is a little excited at first, it is her first Alien Invasion after all, but she keeps composure and begins fighting them. Meanwhile SWORD is ready for this fight as well and sends in their best agents, including Monica Rambeau. Monica is an important member of SWORD of course, her mother started the agency, but Abigail is not happy she’s going on this mission. Wherever the Kree go Captain Marvel follows – everyone knows that – and Monica and Captain Marvel are not on great terms. Abigail suspects Monica might be so eager to go along on this mission to face off with Captain Marvel – and if that’s the case it could jeopardize the whole crew. It doesn’t matter though, before she can get another word in Monica’s already into a departing shuttle, on her way to Earth.

Canon note: I had a tough time with the Ms Marvel show and how it fits in with the story I’m trying to tell but this is what I came up with: While the story itself happened, she’s had her origin and stuff, she DOES not have any intergalactic ties and her bangles are not the source of her powers. We are not doing big purple light constructs: My Kamala is stretchy, bouncy and Shapeshifty. When the MCU decided to give Kamala “pretty” powers they kind of lost me forever – a change so spineless and boring it killed my excitement for most of the entire forthcoming slate. I’m also scrapping the post credit scene since we’re not doing the body-swapping stuff! My version of the Ms. Marvel show is much more street-level and way more faithful to those amazing G. Willow Wilson issues she started out with. 

Both Monica and Kamala are having a rough time with the fight against the Kree. They’re both still in the infamy of their careers as superpowered people and a team-up takes some time to adjust too. Time they don’t have, since Kamala is quickly worked to the ground and held at knife-point. A Kree Soldier holds his purple dagger mere millimeters from her face as he spouts some threats along the lines of: “Death To All Pretenders Who Dare To Bear The Marvel Name”. Before he can plunge the knife into Kamala’s face though, he is struck by an immensely powerful beam of light and sent flying into a wall.

Kamala looks to her left, Monica looks as well, every SWORD agent and Kree Soldier turns their head to look at… CAROL DANVERS. Together with the one and only Captain Marvel, the team of heroes is able to swiftly send the Kree packing, but not before another litany of threats come their way from the leader of the group: “No Longer Shall The Marvel Name Be Blemished! We Shall Put An End To Every Fake Who Dares Sully The Name And We Will Be Back For You Pretender.” 

After the Kree have gone, supposedly continuing their assault somewhere else in the cosmos, and our heroes back at the SWORD space station, Carol can explain what is happening: this faction of the Kree call themselves the “Brotherhood of Hala” and have set on a crusade to kill “All Who Bear The Marvel Name”. She’s been tracking them for a while now, coming across a litany of planets left in ruin and bloodshed. She thought they were headed for someone else in this corner of the Universe but was surprised to find them here on Earth, having been unaware of Ms. Marvel’s presence. Carol wants to immediately continue her search for them, coldly ignoring the other two heroes, but is stopped by Monica. She wants to tag along – help wherever needed, while Kamala insists on going as well. Kamala wants to prove herself to Carol, this is the biggest shot of her life to make her fanfiction into reality and if it means helping innocent people along the way she is here for it. Monica’s motivation is similar, she wants to prove herself to Carol, though she’s doing it for more vindictive reasons. She has the feeling that Carol abandoned her and her mom, and now she has to prove how unbothered she is by that. She is not Lieutenant Trouble anymore – as much as Carol may want that to still be the case. This scene, where the three heroes reluctantly band together serves both as a display for their motivation and the beginning of their character arcs:

• Carol is a loner, she thinks she needs to be a loner to function and to not put anyone else in danger.
• Monica is angry, and lets her anger decide what she does and how she does it.
• Kamala is insecure as she journeys alongside these heroes of hers, thinking that she’ll never be good enough – not seeing their humanity and flaws.

Trying to come up with excuses to ditch Kamala and Monica, Carol points out that two of them can’t fly or breath in space. Monica rightfully points out that they’re in a space station surrounded by a triple-dozen space-crafts and two of them are decorated pilots – so they set upon their journey in a loaned spaceship.

Because I wanna hone-in on that Roadtrip aspect, I want to have the space-ship resemble a kind of RV / Campervan feel. It’s kind of dingy and it sputters as it gets off the ground, it has interiors and beds and enough seats for everyone to sit in the cockpit together, it needs to be fun and homey in there. SWORD just doesn’t have the resources right now to give them the greatest spacejet they have, Abigail mentions there’ve been two Celestial-citings in the last year (Canonizing Eternals) and those alone mean they need as much fire-power on-base as they can get. Thus they get the “RV-unit”, which stands for something like “Rocket-Vehicular-Unit” or something along those lines.

The first stop on their trip is to Carol’s original lead. A man working in an isolated research facility in the proximity of Mars: Doctor Adam Brashear. When they get there they arrive to a quiet scene, no Kree or other alien war-mongers running amok, just a Kirby-esque space station floating in solitude. Inside things are – somehow – even quieter, it’s lonely and desolate, it’s almost sad. Not in a decrepit way, the whole thing is spotless and clean, but it’s just so big and empty. In one of the rooms Kamala and Monica stumble upon a glass case with a beautiful blue costume inside. It’s got this white helmet piece and a blue emblem on the chest – a look that Monica appears to recognize. She’s learned quite a few of the world’s biggest secrets working for the government and this is one of them. 

Now we get a little bit of an Origin story for Adam Brashear: A researcher studying anti-matter in the late 90s, Adam Brashear became a respected scientist in his field. Together with his research-partner Conner Sims, he created a portal of sorts between a strange dimension completely made-up of Anti-Matter, one they could harness the power off to fuel human civilization for decades to come. But when their portal explodes, Adam and Conner are changed, one becoming a force for good, and the other a force of evil. 

“The rest of the story is hearsay, some believe the government covered it up, either killed Adam and Conner or sent them to some remote location never to be seen again, others believe they never made it out of the explosion. Most believe it to be a fairy tale though, a cautionary tale for scientists and such, the tale of Project Perseus, The Blue Bomb, The-“

“The Blue Marvel”.

Carol stands behind the two with a knowing look in her eyes, one filled with grief. “That’s what happened. Adam became the Blue Marvel. He became a hero, he became Fury’s big dream. After I left, Adam became Fury’s hero of the future, as powerful as me but tied down to earth, no ambition to roam the stars. Conner was the other side of that coin, a nightmare, an unstoppable evil, too powerful for any army to face. Conner attacked, Adam went after him and things went wrong so Fury called me. When I answered it was… it was already too late.”

“Danvers.” A deep voice sternly puts an end to the story. “You know I don’t like unannounced house-visits”. Adam Brashear, the Blue Marvel, stands behind the trio of heroes – he’s younger than you might expect, perpetually stuck at the age he was at the time of the explosion.

Monica and Kamala try to warn Adam about the Kree soldiers on their way to come take his head off but he doesn’t really listen. Him and Carol are locked in a stare down of sorts, him facing a past-life he desperately tried to forget while she’s facing one of the worst mistakes of her life. A tear streams down her cheek. Monica and Kamala on the other hand realize that it’s strange how the Kree haven’t shown up yet – they had a sizable head-start after all. A question that is answered almost immediately as the Kree fleet shows up again, this time accompanied by a plethora of other, smaller, ships. 

We do another big fight though this time everything goes much worse. The trio of heroines are not meshing well together, Monica doesn’t know what she can and can’t do, she’s pigheaded and not listening to the others, Kamala’s power set doesn’t make for great team-ups with the others and her inexperience leads to constant second guessing during the fight while Adam refuses to use his powers during the whole thing. This only reaffirms Carol’s suspicion, she needs to work alone or people will get in her way. Things only get worse when one of the Kree targets Adam, knocks him out and takes him with as the other three Marvels are incapacitated. That’s when they meet the leader of this “Brotherhood Of Hala, a mysterious Kree by the name of Legacy. He taunts Carol, telling her he didn’t expect much from her and she still managed to disappoint. He leaves the three heroines be, defeated and wallowing in it – he’s got bigger plans to focus on. 

Carol, Kamala and Monica get back on the RV to lick their wounds. The trip away from mars is quiet and solemn before Carol tells the others that she’s seen enough, she’ll drop them off back on earth and go after the Kree alone. Monica gets pissed in return and Kamala tries to interject how unfair it all is as the RV begins to sputter and stutter louder than before. Their in-fighting continues as the clunking sounds continue to grow and grow until the entire thing just shuts down, only adding fuel to Carol’s frustration. “Stupid thing!” she yells, beating the controls senselessly to no avail. Instead, Carol decides to go out and push the RV, she knows of a nearby station where they can get this thing fixed – then she can turn around and make a b-line for Earth and continue on this adventure alone. Before anyone can get another word in she’s out of the door, pushing them along.

The atmosphere in the ship is solemn as Kamala sits in her corner of the RV, disappointed in this whole adventure. This is not how she imagined her first team-up with Carol Danvers would go. Monica notices and goes up to her and the two begin to talk. This scene in particular is important because it features Kamala and Monica discussing Carol, with Monica really expressing her anger towards her old best friend while Kamala tries to reason with her. These characters are both at polar opposite points from one-another and this scene is meant to both reflect that while also making them sort of realize that they’re not treating Carol like the person she is. Kamala, at one end of the spectrum, views her as this amazing superpowered goddess and Monica, all the way on the other end, sees her as this great hero who has no time for simple people like her or her mom – when in reality Carol is still a human being, one with faults and flaws, someone who makes mistakes – maybe a lot of them at that, and someone who is scared to face people she doesn’t wanna disappoint. This conversation marks the beginning of the evolution of their character arcs. 

Carol drops off the RV at this weird intergalactic garage around Mintaka of the Orion Belt, where the alien mechanic tells our heroes that it’ll take him a few hours to get the RV back up and running again. I want to show audiences all these different worlds in space, I want them to see all these wonderful alien designs and sprinkle in some hints for what is still to come. The future of the MCU lies in space and establishing that this is a lively and expansive side of the universe is key in setting that up. I feel like you really wouldn’t be jumping-the-gun if you show audiences some of those more iconic alien-races before they become more important. Show us Strontians and Shi-Ar warriors and talk about threats like the Brood, establish this world so you don’t have to later. 

Now that the RV is stranded for a while, Carol gets enough time to follow up on a lead that could help her track the Kree. She tells the others to stay put while she goes out – flying off into orbit before either Kamala nor Monica can contest. 

Carol’s frustration boils over as she flies through the cosmos, becoming so angry she can’t help but decimate an entire asteroid as it drifts into her path of flight. Obviously she’s frustrated with herself, she’s frustrated over the abduction of Adam, she’s frustrated that her heroism is costing more and more lives everyday and she’s frustrated that she’s taking it out on Monica and Kamala. Her anger is short-lived though as a familiar face enters the scene: Tessa Thompson’s Valkyrie, riding a pegasus.

The Valkyrie and Captain Marvel relationship is a really fun bit of character building on-paper, yet it’s basically non-existent in the MCU when you think about it. I like the little scene of Carol and Valkyrie in The Marvels but it’s not like… memorable. It’s a little gay I guess, mostly because that’s what’s being implied in interviews after the fact, but even that is like a sidenote at best. In my version of the Marvels we have Carol and Valkyrie going on a little date, not a real one but the two of them go out for coffee in a space diner – filled with lively alien creatures among the 50s retro decor.

The two sit down, discuss what’s been happening with the Kree and with Monica and Kamala and Valkyrie kind of gives the same speech as she does in the original telling Carol that having a team isn’t a bad thing and that having people close to you is important. She’ll function as the first chip in Carol’s hard exterior, informing the first step of her character arc. Carol then asks Valkyrie if she knows anyone else who also carries the Marvel name since they might be in danger. Valkyrie, hesitantly, tells Carol of a story from Sakaar, about a man – nay a boy – who came into the Sakarian battle-arena, beat up the Grandmasters champion and lived like a king for a day before growing bored of it and flying off again. No one had ever done that before and no one has ever done that since. There had been many rumors about this supposed “Marvel Boy” but most of them ended with him disappearing to a planet called Blatodeon. Valkyrie does warn Carol though, Blatodeon is a nasty place and this Marvel Boy is an even nastier dude. 

Valkyrie gives Carol a peck on the cheek and some final words of wisdom as the two say their goodbyes: “You can stand tall without standing alone, Marv”. She hops back on her pegasus and flies away into the bifrost as Carol looks on.

Later at night, once the RV has been fixed and Monica has flown it into the quiet night, Kamala begins to speculate about Monica’s powers. She’s updating her selfmade Handbook of the Marvel Universe and wants to know exactly what Monica’s power entails. The two talk about Monica’s control over the Electromagnetic Spectrum and we get a little montage where the two of them test out a bunch of ways to use her powers. They have Monica turn on a lightbulb just by holding it, see if she has X-Ray vision (which she doesn’t), pop a bag of popcorn without touching it, try and fail to Kamehameha together and she even tries to recreate the Palpatine Force-Lightning to no avail. 

The two laugh together and Monica asks Kamala: “How do you think of this stuff?”

“I take an extra science class – being a superhero is NOT good for your grades and I need the extra credit – we did this experiment one day with a battery but me and my friend Bruno overloaded it and it kind of exploded… I’m definitely not passing this year.”

“Well you’re a smart girl. Don’t forget it”

Kamala smiles, this whole scene functions to sort of boost Kamala’s confidence and develop Monica’s powers at the same time. Kamala needs to understand that her nerdiness and her unique way of looking at this world are a benefit and not something she should hide.

When Carol returns, Kamala and Monica are still going at it. The entire RV is a mess of failed power experiments. The two of them begin to show Carol what they’ve learned, with their biggest accomplishment being a chameleon style metamorphosis. Kamala uses her stretching abilities to stretch and fold her entire appearance into someone else’s – while Monica controls the light around her to distort her appearance into someone else’s. They both illustrate this ability by transforming into Carol, who’s freaked out by the sight of two more of hers in the same room.

When they’re done showing off, Kamala mentions how hungry she gets when she uses her powers and Monica agrees that they need to eat. Carol protests at first, stating that they need to hurry if they wanna catch up to the Kree and stop another kidnapping from happening, but the other two make her realize that she’s actually pretty hungry. “Can’t fight a Kree army on an Empty stomach, Ms Danvers” Kamala tells her before Carol quickly corrects the last part: “it’s Carol, Kamala. Call me Carol.” (Which obviously makes Kamala very happy, since they’re basically BFFs now). It might seem like a silly scene but that moment where Carol realizes that – oh yeah I am hungry – is very important for that humanization that we’re honing in on. Carol realizes that she needs to take care of herself if she wants to save everyone – she needs to have people close to her that remind her of that, while Kamala and Monica (maybe subconsciously) see that Carol is also a human who needs food and water to live. Carol takes the three of them to one of her favorite intergalactic food spots.

This whole scene is supposed to give us a glimpse of how we want these characters to be: Kamala, Carol and Monica looking out on the double moons of the Starlin-System as they eat together and laugh together. They’re sitting on the top of their RV-ship, eating alien gyros and just enjoying the moment for a bit. Carol apologizes to her teammates, clearing up the air a little and making space for their next adventure. 

The next day they arrive at the planet Blatodeon, a dark and grisly planet inhabited by gnarly looking extra-terrestrials that look like roach-human hybrids. Our heroes make their way through busy market streets with vendors selling all sorts of ghastly foods and merchandise, from heads on sticks to burgers made out of gelatinous meat-substances – this whole place should give you the creeps. When Carol starts asking one of the vendors about a “Marvel-Boy” his eyes fill with fear: “HE’S BACK?! OH NO NO OH NO” he shrieks before slamming his market-stand shut. One of the roaming townspeople also approaches the others and pleads with them to leave: “it’s not safe! He’s horrible!”. This goes on for a bit until most of the marketeers and customers have fled – with only one shadowy voice accompanying our Marvels. It’s a female – she tells them to head to the canyon up ahead if they want to find this “Marvel-Boy”. 

As they head up to the canyon, following the shadowy woman from earlier, they discuss how creepy this all is and we continue to build the expectation that whoever they’re seeing is gonna be a FREAK. This way the audience is even more surprised when they see: Noh-Varr, young and beautiful. Perhaps the most beautiful anyone has ever looked – certainly the cutest boy Kamala has ever seen. He’s sitting on a throne of stone, surrounded by roach-babes of all genders and has a not amused look on his face. See, as pretty as Noh-Varr is, he’s also a huge asshole with a disdain for most other life-forms. When the Marvels explain what is happening and how they want to help him he becomes agitated – mad – offended that they’d underestimate him so severely and goes off into a tirade:

“Do you seriously think I need the help of a bunch of humans? HA! Now that is Dumbspeak! This is idiotic! Against the Kree of this world I am a GOD. I am Morrisonian – you are basic. I am Noh Varr of the 18th Kree Diplomatic Gestalt, I am the ensign of the Marvel – I have single-handedly helped maintain the peace between the Kree and The Skrulls after this time flarked it all up beyond recognition! I am Noh-Varr – I do not – need – you!”

He’s then shot in the head.

“Marvel-Boy! You have been sentenced to DEATH by the Brotherhood of Hala! – HOW DO YOU PLEAD?!”  The Kree soldiers stand a-top the Baltodeon mountains, rapidly approaching with an artillery that matches that of a large army. Another fight breaks out between the Marvels and the Kree, only this time it’s clear that the Marvels have a little bit of a better rapport with one-another and they end up sort of beating these guys for a bit. That is until a single energy blast rips through the battlefield and lays waste to both half the Kree Armada as well as all three of our heroes. “I PLEAD: FUCK YOU!” Noh-Varr yells, his face still smoking from the shot earlier and 

displaying a furious anger. He starts just laying waste to almost the entire Kree army they’ve sent. He flips and jumps around and we get a little showcase of how weird this guy really is. 

For those who don’t know: Marvel-Boy is a Grant Morrison creation; a futuristic Kree explorer whose DNA has been spliced with that of a Cockroach (hence why he’s hiding out on a cockroach planet, he feels an… attraction – let’s put it like that). He’s triple jointed and a hothead who looks down on earth in most of his first solo-miniseries. I want all that insanity in this little fight. He should be scuttering about like a bug and snapping his limbs in weird ways the whole time.  

As the three Marvels pick themselves back up from the floor the entire battlefield has been cleared and the remaining Kree all flee to their ships, broken limbs included. Only one of them remains on Blatodeon, a poor unfortunate one who’s been pinned: his own sword rammed through his shoulder and into a boulder. Noh-Varr has gotten to him before Carol could and is interrogating him thoroughly. He’s angry and mad and a little sadistic, pressing on the sword, jiggling it and even pushing it a little deeper as The Kree Soldier grunts in anguish. Carol cannot look on. She pushes Noh-Varr away: “That’s enough!” – leading to a screaming match between the two. 

We kinda need to convey that these two characters are on the same path, one is just further along. Noh-Varr is who Carol will be if she doesn’t take it easy, if she keeps isolating and if she keeps getting angrier. The scuffle ends when the Kree soldier interrupts:

“Your squabble is futile, Pretenders. Soon you will all be gone, removed like the cancer that you are. The Brotherhood of Hala will right the wrongs of this Universe, clearing the path for his return.”

He grins like a lunatic. He’s a zealot, a fanatic of the Brotherhood and this cause is one he’s willing to die for.

“Who? Who’s gonna return” Monica asks

“Mar-Vell, Hero of the Kree Empire” he states, his grin seemingly void of any pain or anguish. 

Carol’s focus deepens.

“Marvel? Like him? Her? Us? Wait, Who?” Kamala asks, there have been a lot of Marvels so far.

“No.” Carol interjects, “He said Mar-Vell. She was my – my mentor, she’s the reason I have these powers.”

“No no NO! A fake, another pretender like you. Mar-Vell will be salvation, He’ll be our savi-“

“Mar-Vell is dead. She dedicated her life to protecting the world from the Kree empire. She died to keep the Tesseract out of your hands: you do not get to pretend she was anything other than a hero”

As Carol’s anger grows, she also realizes the Kree seems to be slipping away. Is it blood-loss, Noh-Varr? What’s happening to him?

“Shit, he cracked a capsule! He’s dying.” Monica says as the purple foam spews out of his mouth. I told you he was willing to die for this cause. With his final breaths he gives a warning, a threat: “this world is wrong… a mistake… a dirty little flaw that needs to be corrected… you will be corrected!” 

And so the only lead to Blue Marvel dies, leaving more questions than answers. 

Noh-Varr walks off. He’s annoyed by this whole thing, this was more of a nuisance than anything else. Kamala pleads for him to come with, help them out and hopefully stop these people from coming after them but Noh-Varr just scoffs at the idea: “You think I need a bunch of humans around to help me? Don’t be ridiculous.”. He walks off, hoping to never have to see these folks again.

Now we finally focus on our villains for a moment; we are in HALA, as Legacy begins a sweeping sermon. It starts off gruesome: he has these heads on spikes standing around him on the stage, with him pinning the last one to an empty spike at the beginning of his ramblings. All of the heads belonged to “Marvels” – some heroes of distant worlds, but most just happened to have the unfortunate last name – innocent lives on display for all the cheering Kree to see. It’s supposed to have this fascistic tone as Legacy rants on and on about this plan of theirs. The Kree think there’s something wrong with this world, things aren’t the way they’re supposed to be according to them and the biggest flaw is the absence of Mar-Vell. Now, this is a pretty big deal of course because the MCU has already kind of used Mar-Vell in the first Captain Marvel film, a huge deviation from the original Mar-Vell, who was a hero for years before passing away from cancer. I feel he’s too big of a player in Marvel’s history for them to not address him ever again, not because I want him to replace Carol, I’m far from interested in that, this all just ties into my LARGER plan for this Doomsday project. On the surface this is about a group of fanatics who can’t deal with changes to the status quo – they want to be rid of these “faux” Marvels, they only want this one guy! On a meta-textual level this is about fandom and their rejection of diverse, fresh new takes on characters they love, a theme I love exploring in stories like these, especially since you know they’ll be looked at through a scrutinizing lens given the genders and race of the main characters. 

As the Kree sermon continues, the speaker reveals more of their plan: they want to open a portal to another dimension and steal Mar-Vell from that timeline, and they need Adam Brashear’s help to do so. He’s dragged on stage, tied up and beaten, as the Kree speaker hurls insults at him while simultaneously praising his work on dimensional-gateways. The Kree have taken Adam instead of just killing him so he can work on the portal technology – something he is convinced to do after they threaten innocent lives, showcasing that while Adam might not be a superhero anymore, he still has that prevailing sense of protectiveness that a hero needs. They’ve also recruited another scientist to assist Adam wearing a name badge that read: Marv L. A burly human with thick glasses and a fashion sense straight out of the 70s – a Ron Swanson type dressed like Carl Sagan. Marv L is short for Marv Liebermann, and he is not a superhero or anything, he’s just unlucky. 

Later, as the cold evening has fallen upon Baltodeon, Carol stands on the rocks overlooking the city, contemplating the information she’s just learned.

You okay there, Captain?” Monica playfully asks as she walks up behind her..

“Stop calling me Captain, Monica… unless I get to call you Lieutenant Trouble again?” she smiles back. 

“Nooooo, we are far beyond that time of our lives”

“So, so far” Carol says, a distant smile on her face as she stares into the stars, maybe hoping to catch a glimpse of those memories again. “I miss her a lot, you know, miss hanging out with you guys. Right now all I would want is to talk to her about this. Mar-Vell was our hero and all of this… it just can’t be.”

“I know what you’re feeling, Carol. Everyday, in that first second of every morning, before I’ve opened my eyes to the world again, I feel like that little girl – waiting for mom to come and wake me up… and then she’s gone again… I miss her so much.”

It is silent for a moment as the two reminisce together before Monica asks Carol the question she’s been meaning to ask for her entire adult life: “Why didn’t you visit us?”

“You never came by again. You promised me you’d be back and I never once saw you again. Why? What is so great about all of this that we became unworthy of your time? You know all these people and planets and aliens and you’ve lived entire lives in galaxies I didn’t even know existed.”

“I had to help – there were emergencies and-”

“Was my mom’s cancer not an emergency? It took The Snap for you to finally go see her again? It took me dying for you to show your face again on earth? Why Carol? Because I know it’s not your hero-missions and planetary adventures!”

“I was scared okay… I messed up. I have all this amazing power and I can’t even live up to a promise I made to you when you were 10. I didn’t find the Skrulls a new home, I didn’t put an end to the Kree’s reign of terror on this universe and I wasn’t able to save Maria from all the pain she had to face. I was scared to face it all again, face you… disappoint you.”

With tears in her eyes, Monica scoffs: “that’s the most human thing you’ve said yet.”

“You know as a kid, whenever I’d get picked on or I was scared or I just needed a little push, I would look to the sky and imagine you swooping down and lending me a hand. You giving me some of that power of yours so I could face all of it. I guess I never realized you probably needed that push as well…”

“I still do.”

Monica hugs Carol: “Whenever you need it, Captain.”

This is obviously a little rough around the edges but you get the gist, these characters are coming full circle and making up as we start to put the pieces in motion for our third act. 

The two hold each other for a moment longer as the moon has fully risen into frame. 

“I like that you still wear my jacket. It looks good on you.”

“Your jacket? This was mine before you even existed, kid.”

“I wore it more though – and better!”

“Tell that to the Ketchup stains on the sleeves!” she laughs. “This was all I had left in my wardrobe, my suit has been burned to a crisp by that asshole’s Marvel Blast.”

“Same, actually, this thing has more holes than fabric at this point.”

“You know… I might know a guy who can help!”

I don’t really have this sequence planned out or anything, I just want to have a dress-up sequence. They go to some distant planet where an intergalactic costume-designer works and they get some upgraded looks. I really love Carol’s suit from the latter half of the Marvels, though I think the colors need to be brighter while Kamala’s standard suit is perfect. One of the best modern superhero designs of the last 30 years rivaled only by like Miles Morales, so we’re not touching that.  Obviously Monica doesn’t have a suit yet, she’s been wearing a SWORD suit for the duration of the film and totally deserves a comic accurate superhero suit as they approach the final act, though I imagine if I had something to say about it, it’d be a little more streamlined and a little less… line-y. 

There they are, our Marvels, rocking beautiful costumes and looking badass while doing so – and it’s not just the audience who appreciates it.

“Looking beautiful ladies.” A male voice says from behind them. As soon as she hears the voice Carol’s face goes from scared-surprised to exasperated-and-annoyed as she rolls her eyes. “No…”. It’s Eros! Remember! (…) Harry Styles from the Eternals post credit sequence. (…) No, yeah, this is a weirdly deep cut to bring up but just stick with me. I don’t hate “The Eternals”, it’s a solid film, with pretty fun characters and it looks great. My enjoyment of the film only seems to grow as Marvel continues to serve up more grey-sludge films as the years pass. Ignoring that such a film exists, that these powerhouses of characters are just roaming around in your universe, is stupid. The MCU has made a lot of mistakes and wasted a lot of characters over the years but what I hate the most is when they ignore those mistakes instead of improving them. The Eternals didn’t connect with audiences, that is clear, but it’s not like they never can! Just keep trying. It’s my biggest issue with Doomsday currently: it seems like such a gigantic course-correction, such a pivot, that it renders the entire last 7 years inconsequential. They’re trying to correct a mistake that was never a mistake; just because you made a bad Captain America movie once doesn’t mean you have to bring your white-boy-of-the-month back!

Anyway, Eros. He’s also on the fashion planet for a new costume – even though he’s already got a wardrobe bigger than Kamala, Monica and Carol’s combined – and, by coincidence, stumbled upon Carol. We imply that they know each other and specifically that Carol does not like him. You could read the situation as something more romantic, perhaps they’re an ex-situationship, but at-least they have a past. Eros follows them around the planet as they walk back to the RV, while hitting on Monica and flattering Kamala along the way, before letting them know he knows what’s been happening, he knows about Mar-Vell and more specifically he knows about the leader of the Brotherhood of Hala. I kind of want to establish Eros as THE gossiper of the universe. He knows everything that’s going on, every scandal, every fight and break-up: if it’s juicy, he knows it! 

Carol, Monica and Kamala sit in Eros’ chambers on the Fashion planet. It’s gaudy, kitsch and way too big but Kamala is fascinated. Eros offers everyone a drink, very much trying to make this anything BUT business, but once Carol gives him a stern look even he realizes the games are over. He tells Carol that The Brotherhood is led by a Kree they call Legacy – and legacy doesn’t just hate Mar-Vell for no reason, it’s not just the “Multiversal Mistake” stuff, it’s deeper. Legacy is Mar-Vell’s Neglected off-spring and his real name: Genis-Vell. 

“Mar-Vell’s whole life was her work for the Kree – then when she discovered her whole life was a lie she pivoted and dedicated it all to Skrulls and Technology and Space-Stones hidden in cosmic cubes. So little time for fun, so little time for love, so little time for fun-loving and no time for little Genis at all. Genis grows up angry, upset and full of Cosmic Radiation from mommy’s experiments, giving you one very mean and very powerful older brother, Carol Danvers” He cheekily smiles. 

“That man is not my brother.”

“Come on, Captain. You know Mar-Vell looked at you like a daughter – you’re the child she never had – and that makes Genis very angry… you took his mom! Now he’s gonna take you for all your worth.”

“Why are you telling me this, Eros?”

“It’s a warning. I know all about having an evil brother, Captain, and when family gets involved things cut so much deeper, are you prepared for that?”

Carol thinks for a moment, this has all gotten so much more intense all of a sudden and quite honestly, Eros is right. This is all a lot and she doesn’t know if she can take all that on.  

“We are.” Monica says with her hand on Carol’s shoulder. Carol looks at Monica with a smile, she’s not alone anymore – this is a burden to share with her friends.

When they leave Eros’ suite, he leaves her with a smile and one final message: “It’s nice to see you again Carol. Having friends looks good on you.” before the doors close and he disappears. “Why are there so many cute boys in space? It’s not fair.” Kamala comments before Carol quickly dismisses the thought: “You know his brother is Thanos right?” to which Kamala “EEP”s.

Now that we the audience, as well as the characters in the story, know what the stakes are, it’s important not to waste anymore time. The RV sets out for Hala, Homeworld of the Kree. 

We are reintroduced to Hala not from a grand point of view overlooking the expansive alien city or a cool shot of the Kree-statues overlooking the people, but from the inside view of a dingy apartment. A shower, or the kree equivalent of one, is heard being turned off behind what we can only assume is the bathroom, as a male voice softly hums a song. He steps out, a towel wrapped on his head and another fixed to his waist – a scruffy beard and a little bit of a belly, Yon-Rogg – Carol’s mentor turned foe. He screeches when he sees Carol, Monica and Kamala awaiting him on his couch. 

I’m not sure why I feel the need to bring Yon-Rogg back, he’s not a particularly strong villain in the first film and I think he doesn’t necessarily fit with what I’m doing here and yet, I kept thinking of ways to involve him. He’s just such a dangling plot-thread from the first film and I quite like the dynamic between Carol and Him in their last scene together so I thought… why not!? 

He warns Carol that coming here was a mistake, not a trap per-se but a miscalculation on her part. The Brotherhood of Hala are fueled by anger towards her and there isn’t a place for her to hide. “Legacy is stronger than you could ever imagine. He has power that rivals even yours – and his eyes… he sees things Vers, he looks into the universe and sees it all. He has a cosmic awareness…, it’s incredible” Yon-Rogg becomes creepy, he becomes fanatical as his speech goes on. He inches closer to them, his pupils dilate and the towel on his head falls off to reveal: The Captain Marvel Logo cut into his forehead. “He sees all, he sees our future, he sees our past, he sees YOU!” As Yon-Rogg grunts out and leaps towards the three he’s blasted through the walls of his apartment into the city, comically flying across buildings before disappearing into the tall Kree Architecture. The commotion has caught the attention of the surveilling Kree soldiers and our heroes are quickly spotted through the hole in Yon-Rogg’s wall. As jetpack-wearing Kree soldiers fly toward them, Carol yells: “TIME TO GO!” and pulls her compatriots through the hole and into the busy Kree city. 

Our heroes run over the rooftops, in the alleys and through the living rooms of Hala as the Kree shoot at them from every angle. For a moment they even split up, Carol in the air, Monica on the ground and Kamala twisting herself into knots as she squeezes through small alley gaps and the pipe-systems surrounding the housing-blocks they’re in before Carol manages to grab the other two, lifting them up in the air with one hand each. As they fly through Hala, one of the Kree soldiers grabs a rocket-launcher of sorts and blasts it towards them, catching Carol mid-air, sending her and the others falling to earth. They land in an alley, Carol unconscious and the Kree soldiers hot on their tail. They try to hide but are quickly spotted again and cornered. The threat is real, Kamala tries to go for a swing but gets zapped by a stun-blast from one of the soldiers, leaving Monica as the only one left standing. Things aren’t looking good, the Kree approach, their weapons hissing like snakes in their hands ready to strike, this all seems hopeless… how will she get out: CUT TO BLACK.

The darkness fades when two gigantic doors open, revealing Carol being hauled into the Legacy’s room by the two Kree soldiers. Legacy patiently awaits her arrival with a grin. He taunts her, reminding her of her failure – that it’s gotten her friends killed and that she’ll be unable to stop what’s about to come. She calls him a madman, an insane freak who’s tricked himself into thinking his delusions are real, but he assures her his visions are authentic – and he’s gonna make sure she knows it. The Space-Stone is calling to him, using the remnants of its immense power to show Genis that things are wrong and to plead for him to fix them. 

He’s used Adam to create this portal to another world, one not broken and flawed like this one is, and now he’s gonna pull the “original Mar-Vell” out of that universe and into ours: restoring the first of many mistakes woven into the Sacred Timeline. “Once he’s here, he’ll see what needs to change. Me and Him will be side-by-side as we eradicate all this ugliness… and we’ll start with you.”

“I think we’ve heard enough! Right?!” One of the guards holding Carol says to the other. “Hell yeah we have, I can’t stand to listen to this guy’s mumbling any longer!”. Before Genis can realize what’s happening the two guards punch him in the nose. Obviously, Kamala and Monica aren’t dead, they’ve used their new-found abilities to turn into the guards from earlier and trojan horse themselves right into Genis’ base. Genis is shocked and calls in more Kree guards. The fight that breaks out is the first time that these three heroes have ever worked together in perfect unison. Kamala, Monica and Carol are perfectly harmonized in battle, easily laying waste to the Kree Guards. Genis, annoyed and frustrated, walks off and heads for the portal, he’s not to waste anymore time and begins the portal sequence, typing in some final numbers and adjusting everything before he can finish his life’s work.

The one problem though is that to run a portal of this size, you need a magnificent amount of power – so much so that there isn’t a battery or generator large enough on this side of the galaxy to run it. But there is a man powerful enough to do so. Genis brings in Adam, chained and hooked up to machinery, and explains that he’ll serve as a battery of sorts to run the portal. Adam refuses to use his powers, but Genis doesn’t need this to be voluntary. Instead he flicks on the machine and it begins to syphon Adam of his strength, ripping the anti-matter from his molecular structure in gruesome fashion. As Adam grunts and screams in pain the portal begins to sizzle and crack, much to the delight of Genis, who feels his ultimate destiny is finally coming to fruition. This is a shocking sight for our Marvels as they come into the room, having made quick work of the Kree soldiers outside.

Genis grunts as they approach, cracks his neck and knuckles and gets ready: if they want a fight, he’ll give them one. This is where we get to show off: One fully charged all-powerful Genis-Vell against our Three heroes. Against Kamala and Carol and Monica: Our Marvels. The fight is evenly matched and it’s clear just how formidable Genis really is but even so our heroes are doing a number on him, blasting him, beating him, kicking him and Kamala even manages to shrink down and poke him in the eye. Genis is more on the defensive side the entire time until he finds one opening as Kamala goes in for an attack and takes it. He grabs her arm and slams her into the wall, hitting Carol and Monica in the process. The three women realise that while they have the upper hand numbers wise, Genis is simply too resilient. Most of their attacks have done nothing to him – and the ones that have are quickly rendered obsolete by his rapid healing – all the while the portal continues to grow. 

Monica realizes that the portal is growing too fast and if they don’t deal with it soon it’s going to cause gigantic problems, including the death of Adam who’s starting to slip in and out of consciousness. Monica explains it like this: Reality is a sheet of paper, and the machine Genis has built is a knife slashing at the sheet. Each slash is creating a bigger hole in the paper but destroying the knife alone won’t undo the damage. The holes remain. If they want to fix this they need tape! 

“So where do we get tape?” Kamala asks in response to the analogy, dodging punches while doing so.

“I’m the tape.” Monica responds. “I can absorb the energy that’s being put out by the portal and redirect it, hopefully shutting this thing down. For Good!”

“Taping up the hole.” 

“Exactly – but I need that thing to stop drawing power from Adam so that I can actually revert what it’s putting out and I don’t know how to do that without the portal becoming unstable.”

Kamala grows excited, she knows the answer to this: “It’s like my science class! When I overloaded the battery it exploded – instead I needed to do it gradually right? That’s what we do! Slowly lower the energy intake so you can match it with your output and we keep control of the giant tear in the space-time-continuum!”

“And how are you going to do that?” 

“You just watch and learn, Captain!” Kamala says cockily before storming off and shrinking down to the size of a bug… and then coming back apologetically: “I’m sorry, that sounded really cool in my head but maybe it was too much.”

“No, kiddo, that was badass” Carol responds as the two fist-bump and Kamala runs back – joyous as all her dreams are coming true. 

“What do you need me to do?” Carol asks Monica as she gets ready to save the universe.

“How about you start by kicking this guy’s ass!” She yells as Genis goes in for another punch. 

Carol cracks her knuckles, lights up entire body and goes for it: Binary mode.

Energy explodes through the room with each blow the two enemies strike on one-another: equally matched, a cosmic kinship through their connection to Mar-Vell and their connection to the space-stone, the same power flows through their veins, a yin and yang – a brother and sister.

As the battle continues on in the background Kamala has seemingly jumped into the machinery that’s keeping Adam imprisoned, rummaging around the internal circuitry. We recreate one of my favorite Kamala panels as she squeezes herself through the machinery like a rubberband – a Chaplin-esque visual gag as she contorts through spinning cogs and gears. She manages to slow the machinery down and the portal begins to stabilize. 

“KAMALA! KEEP IT UP! Whatever you’re doing, it’s working! I’m gonna start trying to revert the energy back, don’t stop!”

A glowing beam of energy is sucked into Monica’s hands as she commandeers the immense power, molding it to her will as the portal begins to move. “I”M DOING IT!” she yells with excitement and surprise. The immense power of it all begins to lift her off the ground… she starts to fly.

Genis sees this as well and begins to grow even angrier. He continues to tussle for a bit before managing to kick Carol out of his way and freeing himself from battle long enough to pull Monica away from the beam, grabbing her by the ankle and janking her entire body into the floor, breaking her control of the portal. Luckily, the portal is stable due to Kamala’s interference with the battery, as Adam’s strength slowly returns to him – a mistake Genis will quickly have to make up for. He starts smashing into the machine like a madman, tearing it apart as he looks for Kamala. She yells as she’s tossed around, breaking her control off the machinery and sending Adam’s power back to the, now broken, portal.

Carol tries to get Genis off the portal but he swats her away and grabs tiny Kamala with his other hand, squeezing her tighter and tighter. She screams in agony, the others try to stop it but to no avail. They pull and push on Genis, who just stands there like an immovable statue with an evil toothy grin as he squeezes the life out of Kamala. The commotion is so grand that even reaches Adam, deep in his woozy state. He awakens confused; Now that the energy flow has been corrupted, his strengths are slowly getting back to him. He watches on, growing more and more angry with every fleeting moment, growing stronger at twice the rate. His eyes light up, blue overtaking his irises, and a hard concussive beam of light penetrates Genis through the arm; “STOP!”. Genis drops Kamala in pain, who slowly falls to the ground like a little feather, gently gliding down. 

When Adam snaps back to reality he’s unchained and realizes what just happened: “No!… oh no…”. He vowed to never use his powers again, especially not for violence against others and yet here he is. The bodies around him remind him of that day, the last time he used his powers, the day he lost his wife and he begins to break down as Carol runs up to him and looks him in the eye. 

“Adam! Are you okay?? Adam”

He sobs, regret pouring out of him in the form of salty tears down his cheeks. “It happened again. Why is this happening again?”

“It’s not Adam, It’s not. You saved her, look. She’s okay, we are okay… I’m here now, Adam, I’m here. I’m sorry I wasn’t there last time but I am now. Things are different.”

Adam continues his loathing as Carol pleads to him: “We need you Adam. I can’t do this without you. Right now all that pain you’re feeling, all that anguish you’ve kept bottled up, is about to be unleashed ten-folds over this whole universe. Please don’t let that happen, Adam, please. You know she wanted you to keep fighting, keep helping people who need it… need you.”

“Adam there is so much grief in this life, so much pain. And it’s so tempting to let it cripple you, have it take you over completely and control you. I know it’s happened to me, all the pain and angst just kept bubbling up until I was bitter and angry and alone and I let it push people away… but I can’t do that anymore. I can’t let my pain dictate my life anymore. Don’t let it dictate yours anymore either.”

Obviously this whole speech would need to be more subtle for it to hit the way I intend it to but I’m getting my point across fairly well: Adam, if only for a moment, puts his grief aside and powers up. The Blue Marvel Returns and Carol’s arc wraps up.

While the two heroes occupy Genis, Monica and Kamala realize that things have gone completely wrong. The Portal is unstable now, jagged and skittering as everything in the room starts to get sucked into it. Real breaks and tears begin to appear in the space around them, The atoms around them are being torn apart and mangled up as this new reality begins to bleed into the old one: this will destroy everything. 

While Carol and Adam continue to give him a beat down, Genis starts to smile as he looks in the portal. He cackles about his prophecy once more; Mar-Vell will come back and this universe will be less broken than it is now! A silhouette even begins to appear by the portal… and then another one, and another, and another – until the entire room is filled with silhouetted characters similar to the ones we see at the end of “No Way Home” when Strange casts his spell. But none of the silhouettes look like Mar-Vell, some might recognize the silhouettes: a man made of stone, a woman with claws and a man made of fire among them, but they’re all barely visible, outlines really of people from distant worlds. Genis is surprised – no, baffled even, he screams angrily before his rage turns to a sort of hopelessness. He’s distracted, defeated in his ideals, giving Carol the upperhand to finally knock him out. 

Together with Adam she joins Kamala and Monica as they desperately try to put a stop to the rampaging Portal. Adam, having made the portal and being by far the smartest in the room, is their last hope of stopping this rampaging hole in space and time – but even he doesn’t see a safe way out of this. Monica is the only one that knows what needs to be done, she could theoretically still commit to her plan from earlier: redirect the portal’s energies and close it up. Except, now that the portal is unstable on this side, she’ll need to jump to the other side to close it – where the matter is more stable. But, doing so would trap her in a completely unknown reality, with no real plan on getting back – leading to a lot of protesting from Carol and Kamala. All of which falls on deaf ears. She’s made up her mind, this is what needs to be done. Monica blocks off Carol and Kamala from getting to her with a light shield and goes through the portal – surrounded by bright cosmic purples and stars shining faintly in the distance. It’s beautiful, only made more stunning by Monica’s light powers as she reflects pure beams of light into the portal. Carol furiously tries to destroy the shield to no avail as the portal begins to shrink. She screams for Monica, finally she has her back, she’s finally let someone in again and this is what happens – it’s not fair. “It needs to be done!” Monica yells at her aunt, her best friend in the whole world. Carol knows that it’s true, that this is what needs to happen if the universe is to survive, and still the feelings inside her scream to let it all die if it means she’ll keep Monica safe a little longer. She yells at Monica – a promise that she’ll fulfill even if it costs her her life: “I’ll find you! I promise you I will get you and I will bring you home safely!”. The two say their goodbyes as the portal slowly closes, a tear running down Monica’s cheek is the last thing we see before it does so for good, leaving Carol, Kamala and Adam alone in the dark and evil kree lair.

Genis’ cosmic eyes die out as the portal closes, he mutters to himself with insanity: “This is all wrong, it cannot be.”. He is rendered a shell of his former self, bumbling and pathetic. It would be a truly sad sight to behold had he not tried to kill everyone in the room moments prior. 

We see the RV make its way through the cosmos again, though it’s not the lively little vehicle it once was: Monica’s absence clouds the atmosphere. Kamala is quiet as she tries and fails to write more stuff down in her Handbook, tears welling in her eyes every time she puts pen to paper, which is noticed by Carol. “You doing okay, kiddo?” she asks to which Kamala explains how differently she imagined this whole thing going. “Look Kamala, what Monica did for us, that’s what being a hero is always going to be about. Sticking out your neck for others even if it hurts like hell. She did that for us, and now we are going to do so for her. I promise you, we will get her back. Me and you kid. The Marvels.” She smiles and says to Kamala, inspiring her to her core and giving this admittedly bleak ending a nicer, more hopeful tone. 

“Where do you want me to drop you off?” Carol asks Adam as she heads back to the RV’s controls, expecting him to want to go back to his Mars-Lab as soon as he can – yet he surprises her. He wants to go to Earth – catch up on what he missed, finding the beauty of it all once again. He says so with a smile, which is one of the first times we’ve actually seen him happy. Rounding out his arc as well. 

“Uhm! Marvel Man and Lady? How long is this trip going to last… this man is giving me the creeps…” – Professor Marv. L says from the back of the space ship. You didn’t think I’d forget about him did you? He’s sitting in a chair right next to Genis, who’s been rolled up in a thick layer of duct-tape, shell-shocked and unable to make any attempts to escape. It’s a humorous little moment to end this story on, as Earth comes into view from RV and our heroes sail off to fight another day.

At least these heroes do… 

Monica’s eyes slowly open up. Knocked out in space by the excessive might of the portal, she expects to open her eyes into the darkness of space and yet instead she awakes to a white room. Hooked up to wires that are then hooked up to monitors, she’s being cared for and observed. Two voices ring out from the distance, both oddly familiar yet most will not be able to place them until they walk into frame. Maria Rambeau, Monica’s mother, stands at the foot of her bed with an odd look in her eyes, one of total unfamiliarity. The other woman tells Maria that it’s good she contacted her, and promises to do everything she can to help Monica back on track… dressed in green and yellow, with gorgeous red hair flowing, Jean Grey stands next to Maria: Rounding out the title of our story with a final Marvel: Marvel Girl. 

The original version of this obviously featured Maria and Beast, instead of Jean, but I was much more interested in bringing in one more Marvel to the mix. Beast makes sense because they’re in a lab I suppose, but there is no reason why this couldn’t just be Jean. I also kept Maria because that twist is so much more interesting than anything else in the original post-credit-sequence. Yeah, cool, Beast is back I guess, but like what’re they going to do with Maria! Is Monica going to have to choose between her original world and spending time with her mother again? This is like a genuinely heartbreaking scenario they’ve set up and I’d hate to rip that away from this narrative.

And so my version of “The Marvels” ends – similar yet completely different to what came before and introducing a whole plethora of new and exciting characters into this world. What is Blue Marvel going to do next? And were the Kree right? Is there really something wrong with the Sacred Timeline? And are Carol and Kamala going to be able to find Monica again? So many questions. Wait… what happened to Noh-Varr.

Planet Baltodeon is cold and desolate, around Noh-Varr his cockroach-concubine sleeps soundly. He’s mad still, mad at people trespassing on his planet, mad at getting shot at and most of all… mad at how utterly bored he is. “Ladies, Gents, if you’ll excuse me”. He stands up and steps over the people at his feet. “It has been an honor for you to serve me, but I must go. There are planets to conquer and worlds to enslave! I will be off” he states, before flying off into the air in an instance. Off to new adventures!

And that is that. Every loose end wrapped up. I really wanna thank all of you for sticking with me on this. If you’ve read this whole thing you deserve a prize of some kind. I hope my ideas and words came across in the way I intended it too and it wasn’t too much of a jumbly mess. I’m actually very proud of what I’ve done here and as the story progresses I hope you all will begin to see the seeds I’m planting but for now I hope you just enjoy the story. Here’s an updated list of projects now canon to “Project Doomsday” and maybe a little tease as to what’s to come next as well. Thanks for reading and see you next time!

“I normally wouldn’t do this, I guess I still don’t really want to. I just don’t know what to do. She’s out there somewhere and I – I – I promised her mother that I would keep her safe and I just couldn’t. I failed her. I messed it up and I need your help. From all of you. Sam… I need the Avengers.” Carol pleads to an empathetic yet determined Sam Wilson. “Well, The Avengers could always use another Captain.” 

We end this entire thing on a shot of Carol and Sam, shaking hands and locking in a partnership that will determine the course of the next phase to come. As it fades out – a blurb of text appears like it has done so many times before in these stories, but with a slight addition:

The Avengers Will Return… As Time Runs Out

In exactly 331 days from now – 7944 hours – 476640 minutes –  Doomsday will arrive.