Full spoilers follow for Captain Marvel.
The MCU is certainly no stranger to major character revisions -- some superhero history just doesn't translate from page to screen all that well. It's usually fairly innocuous stuff, changing strangers to friends, tweaking superpowers, overhauling villains. But with Captain Marvel, one of the changes made to Carol Danvers' origin story is anything but minor. It may actually be one of the most important updates the MCU has made to a hero since the franchise debuted almost 11 years ago.
Annette Bening's Wendy Lawson both is and isn't someone from Carol's comic book history. She was a Kree scientist named Mar-Vell stationed on Earth in secret who played a direct hand in Carol's origin story. But in the comics, Wendy was Walter -- still secretly Mar-Vell, but a male soldier and scientist rather than a woman, and the original Captain Marvel. On the surface, it seems like a fairly simple pivot. Both Walter and Wendy were major figures in Carol's life before their real identities as Kree infiltrators were revealed, they both played a direct role in Carol's origin story, and they both inspired her to be a hero -- but for Walter, that meant casting Carol as Ms. Marvel, Captain Marvel's quintessential girl counterpart. For Wendy, it meant Carol evolving directly into Captain Marvel herself.
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