It's our second Captain Marvel episode about the second Captain Marvel, Monica Rambeau! Is Monica the Harold Miner of the Marvel Universe? How many Monica songs does Anthony reference? All this, plus a special guest appearance from Jeanne as Monica Rambeau - listen now!
SHOW NOTES:
Introduction
Shoutout to Lolita Gentry Project – (5:24)
Background (8:29)
Monica Rambeau created by Roger Stern & John Romita, Jr. in The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #16 (October 1982)
A lieutenant in the New Orleans police department, she tried helping an old friend of her grandfather's prevent the creation of a dangerous weapon, but in the process of destroying it, she was exposed to extra-dimensional energy, which gave her the power to convert her body to any form of energy – one of the men who witnessed the explosion said "the captain is a marvel", so the media dubbed her Captain Marvel – kept the name to honor Mar-Vell, the original Captain Marvel, who had recently died – first costume created from old Mardi Gras costumes, then her grandfather's friend created a costume for her out of unstable molecules
Joined the Avengers to gain control over her powers
Became leader of the team in 1987 - lost her powers after over-exerting herself battling Marrina, wife of Namor
Retired briefly from superhero duties until she regained her strength and powers
When Genis, son of Mar-Vell, became a superhero, he called himself Captain Marvel – after a brief argument with Monica, she changed her name to Photon
Rejoined the Avengers and was involved in mostly inter-galactic adventures
Genis-Vell wanted to get away from his father's identity and began calling himself Photon – Monica once again had to change her name, this time to Pulsar
Led the Nextwave team against HATE
Changed her name to Spectrum, and led a Mighty Avengers team after Infinity
Tried to destroy the Ultimate Universe to prevent it from destroying Earth 616, but Ultimate Reed Richards was able to stop her
Issues (13:34)
Starts off as legacy character even though she has no connection to the original
After recovery of powers, has some phobias about using her powers, especially underwater (20:17)
In Nextwave, constantly brags about her leadership of the Avengers (25:53)
Treatment (31:27)
In-universe
Out of universe (35:34)
Skit (46:21)
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