"I have nothing to prove to you" has inspired me, let alone my young sister who had never been into Marvel, begrudgingly watched the film, and ended up really liking it and loving Carol and Brie.

I enjoyed the movie a lot, and I will readily acknowledge that it had a lot of issues but I don’t think that Brie Larson’s acting was one of them - for most of the movie she was barely even playing Carol Danvers, but instead an amnesiac woman who believed that she was a stoic member of the Kree empire. It’s a tough job to portray the introduction of a character who doesn’t even know who she is, and she did the best she could with that.

Also, saying that there's no altruism? The second she learns the Kree are the bad guys, she abandons them, the only people she had ever known, in order to do the right thing. How is that not altruistic? She blasts Yon-Rogg to hell, even though she kind-of-sort-of had a thing with him, because he wanted to enslave the Skrulls. She does this without second thought. When she thinks the Skrulls are the bad guys, she chases them down on Earth, trying not only to stop them, but to protect humans as well (think about the chase scene between her, the Skrulls, and SHIELD).

"I have nothing to prove to you" is definitely very inspiring as well.

What exactly does Carol do that's selfish? She destroys a jukebox and steals a motorcycle, and those are like the only two slightly not-good things she does. And as I explained, she's not one-dimensional. She was just trained not to show her emotions, and that's the whole point of her character arc in the movie. We see in Endgame she's a lot better with her emotions, able to channel her anger in the fight against Thanos (which we now know was very personal).

Eh, true tha

tbh from what I've seen, the people who hate her irrationally are usually misogynistic and don't like that a woman is getting not just a powerful arc, but an unemotional one that doesn't revolve around having a male love interest. some people say she's overpowered, but there are clearly a few characters with a higher power level.

Ummmm, ok

She is a boring and overpowers character. I mean her personality is boring, her jokes are sh*t and her first movie already gives her Binary with no character development.

^We're talking about reasons why Captain Marvel is good.

Good De-aging Nick Fury.

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