Carol Danvers is SO MUCH MORE famous than Mar-Vell, especially for X-Men fans - she's a whole big part of Rogue's backstory
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Seriously, the Death of Captain Marvel is like 82 and he hadn't had a regular ongoing since the mid 70s
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you know when they do a captain marvel series for more than a couple years its popular. they only do a captain marvel series every now and then to keep the copyright
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And if they do know about him it’s from the story where he died of cancer.
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Not only that, Marvel had a whole string of other Captains Marvel, and most of them are even more obscure; of Marvel's, Carol Danvers is easily the most popular (in part because she was a long-running character before she was Captain Marvel).
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(Though one of the others did appear in the movie as a little girl, and they cast Annette Bening as Mar-Vell, which I saw as a great fuck-you to the haters, just wish the lesbianism hadn't been so subtextual)
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Mar-Vell was the second most popular character to hold mantle. And nobody remembers him beyond "Yeah marvel is just trying hold onto the rights for the name Captain Marvel"
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