So who is Captain Marvel, the first female Marvel Comics superhero to headline her own movie?

Captain Marvel is Carol Danvers, an Air Force pilot who got superpowers when she was caught in the explosion of an alien machine. She's also the character credited with helping to bring an increasing number of female readers to comic books in recent years - diversifying the mostly male readership of a medium that's had a history of often treating its female characters as sex objects or appendages to men.

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