LOS ANGELES — Carol Danvers — a.k.a. Captain Marvel — won't just be Marvel Studios' first woman to carry a superhero film. She can also kick all the boys' asses.

That's right: Neither Iron Man, nor Captain America, nor Thor, not even the Hulk — pretty much no one in the Marvel Cinematic Universe — would stand a chance going toe-to-toe with Danvers, a former Air Force pilot whose classic powers are more like DC Comics' alpha male (Superman) than anyone else's.

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The version of Danvers we're likely to see onscreen on July 6, 2018, swiftly rose in the Air Force as a combat pilot, but her superior intellect and acumen for espionage found her in the C.I.A. and later working alongside Nick Fury. Later, during her time as security director for NASA, she meets Mar-Vell, the first Captain Marvel, who's a visiting member of the Kree alien race (to which Ronan the Accuser, the bad guy in Guardians of the Galaxy, belongs).

The two are caught in an explosion of a Psyche-Magneton device (don't ask) and the energy bombardment creates within Danvers a perfect meld of human and Kree DNA. Though she appears human, she suddenly possesses the superlative powers of the finest that the superior Kree race has to offer — and Ms. Marvel is born.

Her powers include:

Flight, including through the vacuum of space without a suit;

Superhuman strength, endurance, stamina and durability;

Precognition; a "sixth sense" that's so advanced it's called a "seventh sense";

Energy absorption and redirection; this allows for the powerful photonic blasts from her fists;

Superior hand-to-hand combat, marksmanship, espionage and piloting skills (from her Air Force days, of course.

And that's just for starters. In 2012, Captain America asks Ms. Marvel to take on the "Captain Marvel" mantle and stand shoulder-to-shoulder with him in leading the Avengers. So not only is she an Avenger ... she's also the boss.

Yeah, she's a total badass.

To anyone disappointed about no BLACK WIDOW movie, I beg you: Get to know Carol Danvers. You are going to love her: pic.twitter.com/X69CxoS9rH — Josh Lincoln Dickey (@NotoriousJLD) October 28, 2014

Comic book writer Kelly Sue DeConnick has been penning the Captain Marvel comics ever since, creating a tough, focused, feisty, sometimes grouchy and cynical, sometimes sentimental and sweet character who contorts her face for comedic effect, talks to herself a lot, has a 6-year-old "sidekick" in New York, loves her cat (which may actually be an evil Flerken, as her new pal Rocket Raccoon recently discovered) and is trying to hold together a hush-hush romance with James Rhodes, Tony Stark's military sidekick back on Earth.

Much like Captain America, Captain Marvel is a natural leader and tactician, but she's not the Boy Scout that he is — she's complex, funny, mischievous and always game for a fight. Entire armada of enemy warships at hand? Captain Marvel can probably handle them; or at least hold them off for as long as need be. We'd like to see Tony Stark build a suit that can do that.

Put simply, Captain Marvel is quite possibly Marvel's mightiest Avenger, a fact that Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige himself noted in announcing on Tuesday morning that she — along with Black Panther, Doctor Strange and the Inhumans — would be getting her own movie in Marvel's Phase Three.

With one foot on Earth and another in space, she's also the perfect bridge between the Avengers and the Guardians of the Galaxy, and in fact has spent a better portion of the last year or so gallivanting around with Star Lord (she saves his bacon more than once), Gamora, Drax, Groot and Rocket in the "Guardians of the Galaxy" comics.

The only question left for Danvers is who will play her. Battlestar Galactica star Katee Sackhoff has been a fan favorite front-runner for a long time, but she'll be 38 by the time Captain Marvel comes out — and if the studio wants its No. 1 heroine to be around for six movies or more, here's betting they're looking much younger.

Yeah, we know ... shocking.

The cover of Marvel Comics' "Captain Marvel" No. 7.

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