Danvers, Carol

Carol Danvers is a Human/Kree hybrid. With no support from her authoritarian father, a young Danvers joined the Air Force by herself as a promising cadet, quickly escalating to rank of Major as an intelligence agent. Eventually, she was tasked to be a head of security at NASA, when it was infiltrated by a Kree soldier named Captain Mar-Vell. Accidentally subjected to the Psyche-Magnitron machine, Danvers was imprinted with energy from Mar-Vell's Kree Nega-Bands, being transformed on a genetic level and acquiring mighty abilities.

Initially adopting the name **Ms. Marvel**, she established herself as a vigilante and joined the Avengers. As an Avenger, her very life has been extirpated from her control after she was attacked by the villain Marcus, and the mutant terrorist Rogue, who permanently absorbed her powers, her memories and even her personality. In a very lengthy process, Danvers recovered her abilities, and forged a prominent superhero career on Earth and in outer space, having the X-Men, Starjammers, Avengers, and the Guardians of the Galaxy, as her allies.

## Carol Susan Jane Danvers (Car-Ell)

### Aliases

Binary (code name), Ms. Marvel (code name), Warbird (code name), Ms. M

### Relatives

Joe Danvers, Sr. (father, deceased);Mari-Ell (mother, deceased)Siblings:Joe Danvers, Jr. (paternal half-brother);[1]Stevie Danvers (paternal half-brother, deceased);[1]Lauri-Ell (maternal half-sister)[15]Carol (paternal great-aunt);Richie Danvers (paternal uncle);Benny & Richie (paternal uncles)

### Occupation

Adventurer, US Air Force Special Operations intelligence agent and captain,[35] pilot, NASA chief of security; Woman Magazine chief editor, author, freelance writer, DHS chief of tactical operations, instructor in "Training Day" program, salesgirl (Note: Carol's intelligence work required her to claim to be working for several agencies, including the C.I.A., the Department of Defense, and the Defense Intelligence Agency. Though she did work with many of these agencies, she was a USAF employee

## Biographical information

### Place of birth

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Sol System, Milky Way, Sector 2815

## History

### Early Years

Carol Danvers was born to Joe Danvers Sr., a former U.S. Navy officer and construction worker, and Mari-Ell, a captain in the Kree Army. Mari-Ell had been sent to Earth on a mission to assimilate with humans and give birth to a hybrid child but had decided to abandon her former life and cut contact with the Kree. Carol's name comes from Car-Ell, which means "Champion" in Kree.

Carol was raised in a Beverly suburban community to the north of Boston, Massachusetts, completely unaware that she was not a normal human. She also lived with Stevie and Joe Jr., two sons Joe had had with his previous, late wife. Over the years, Carol's father became increasingly apprehensive for potential retaliation from the Kree for Mari-Ell's desertion, causing him to drink and become abusive. In part due to her Kree heritage, Carol dreamed of becoming an astronaut and traveling to distant planets; as a teen she even hitchhiked to Cape Canaveral to view a launch there. Her father, however, could not accept women as men's equal, and when financial troubles meant he could only send one child to college, he chose Steve despite Carol's superior grades. He also dismissed her need for a college education and wanted her to find a good husband instead.

### Military Career

When Carol turned eighteen a few months later, she turned her back on her father and joined the Air Force, intending to be a pilot and to get a college degree via the military. Her brother Steve's death in military action would eventually draw Carol back to her family, but she still never felt truly accepted by her father. She quickly rose to the top of her Air Force class, taking the call sign "Cheeseburger." However, Carol's flying career was ended when she was shot down over Afghanistan while piloting one of Tony Stark's experimental jets. She was captured by a man named Ghazi Rashid, who tortured her for several days. Despite a broken leg and serious injuries, she managed to escape and discovered that Rashid was in contact with a CIA agent codenamed Vitamin. She made it to a safe house in Mazar-e-Sharif, where she was debriefed by USAF Colonel Michael Rossi. No longer cleared for flying due to her supposed amnesia, Carol was recruited by Rossi into Air Force Special Operations.

Carol and Rossi had their first mission together in Berlin (it was on this mission she began calling him "Ace"). They followed Vitamin's trail to a tower block, but the apartment was blown up by freelance agent named Rick Mason, who then escaped. Rossi went on to become Carol's teacher, friend, and then first love. Though they eventually drifted apart, Carol always remembered him fondly.

Carol first met Logan (later Wolverine) in Washington D.C., when she and Logan's old acquaintance Nick Fury rescued him from the combined attacks of Hydra, Sabretooth and the Black Widow. Carol and Logan were reunited when Fury sent them with pilot Ben Grimm on a doomed reconnaissance mission over Russia, encountering the deadly spy Black Widow. By the time they clashed with Logan's long-time foe Sabretooth in Canada some years later, Carol and Logan were old friends. They served on several missions together, and seemingly also had a romantic relationship at some point. When Carol was imprisoned in the Lubyanka Building in Moscow and, though the Air Force abandoned her, Wolverine and Rossi disobeyed orders to break her out of prison and smuggled her out of Russia. Soon afterwards, having served ten years as a top field agent for Air Force intelligence, she was appointed security chief at Cape Canaveral on the request of NASA.