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1990s · 1995

Captain Marvel

Carol and the start of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Runtime2h03Where to watchDisney+In your marathonnot seen yet
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Do you need to watch it before Doomsday?

Yes. It's in the Main story, the list of only what moves the plot forward to Avengers: Doomsday.

Where it falls in the order

  • Main story2 of 44
  • Chronological3 of 88
  • Everything5 of 130

Post-credits scenes

2 scenes: mid-credits, after the credits. worth the wait

Spoilers for this title

Quick recap

In 1995, Vers is an amnesiac Kree warrior trained by Yon-Rogg to fight the Skrulls, shape-shifting aliens. Captured by the Skrull Talos, she escapes and crash-lands in Los Angeles, where she meets a rookie Nick Fury, still with both eyes, and agent Phil Coulson. With Fury and her friend Maria Rambeau, she learns she is Carol Danvers, a pilot presumed dead in 1989. Scientist Wendy Lawson was really Mar-Vell, a Kree helping Skrull refugees, and Yon-Rogg killed her. The Kree lied to Carol. She rips out the implant limiting her power, beats Yon-Rogg and leaves to help the Skrulls. Goose the cat turns out to be a Flerken, swallows the Tesseract and scratches Fury's eye. Carol leaves him a pager.

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What happens

Post-credits scenes

  • Mid-credits After Thanos's snap, the remaining Avengers study Fury's pager as it stops transmitting. Suddenly Carol appears and asks where Fury is.
  • After the credits Goose the 'cat' coughs up the Tesseract onto Fury's desk.
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5 easter eggs

Hidden details

  1. CameoThe Marvel logo became a tribute

    Before the movie starts, the Marvel Studios intro swaps the usual heroes for Stan Lee's cameos and ends with "Thank You Stan." He had died a few months before the release.

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  2. CameoStan Lee rehearsing another cameo

    On the train, Stan Lee is going over his lines for Kevin Smith's Mallrats, a 1995 movie where he had a cameo. It lines up exactly with the year the story takes place.

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  3. ReferenceHeadless Schwarzenegger at the video store

    Carol crashes from the sky into a Blockbuster and blows the head off a True Lies standee of Schwarzenegger. The store was built in a storefront in North Hollywood, California.

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  4. Behind the scenesYoung Fury the whole movie

    Samuel L. Jackson was de-aged about 25 years with CGI for the entire movie, something Marvel had never done before. Lola, the effects company, pulled it off for the first time without a body double. Clark Gregg got the same treatment.

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  5. Behind the scenesFour cats and a puppet

    Goose was played by four cats: Reggie, Archie, Rizzo and Gonzo. Brie Larson is allergic to cats, so in some scenes she's holding a puppet.

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