Is this the endgame for the age of heroes?

Superhero movies used to be super. The heroes are still as strong as before. They just need the movies to match.

Maya Phillips

Jan 8, 2024 – 5.00am

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At the centre of 2023’s The Marvels is Carol Danvers, aka Captain Marvel, who, if you’ll recall from the 2019 film Captain Marvel, destroyed the all-powerful artificial intelligence leading the Kree empire.

Joining Danvers is Monica Rambeau, aka Photon aka Pulsar aka Spectrum, who was introduced in Captain Marvel, then later featured in the Disney+ series WandaVision, where she was granted superpowers after an encounter with reality-altering witches. And joining these two is the teenage New Jersey native Kamala Khan, aka the titular character of the Disney+ series Ms. Marvel.