Monica Rambeau
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Modern, Comics: Captain Marvel became Avengers chairwoman after the Wasp stepped away.
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Born in 1983 in Louisiana, Monica grew up adoring her mother's friend Carol Danvers. She became a S.W.O.R.D. agent, died in the Snap and returned in 2023. Crossing Wanda Maximoff's Hex rewrote her cells and gave her light-based powers. Recruited by S.A.B.E.R., she became entangled with Danvers and Kamala Khan as the Marvels, fought Dar-Benn, and was stranded in another universe after sealing a rift.
Comics
Monica Rambeau is a New Orleans harbor patrol officer from Earth who gained the power to turn her body into electromagnetic energy in 1982 and became the second Captain Marvel and later chairwoman of the Avengers. She went on to use the names Photon and Spectrum, served in Nextwave, the Mighty Avengers, the Ultimates, Strikeforce and the Thunderbolts, and made trips off Earth including to Titan, Svartalfheim and Knowhere.
Timeline 26 events
- Bronze · Comics: Monica Rambeau's powers manifested on a Roxxon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, and she became Captain Marvel and left the harbor patrol.
- Bronze · Comics: Captain Marvel joined the Avengers after an invitation from the Wasp and quickly won full membership.
- Modern · Comics: Lured by a false signal to Sanctuary II, Captain Marvel was teleported to the Andromeda Galaxy and pressed into Nebula's plot against a Skrull base before the Avengers rescued her.
- Modern · Comics: Doctor Doom killed Captain Marvel with the Beyonder's power during the Battleworld conflict, and she was revived in the medical chambers there.
- Modern · Comics: Captain Marvel became Avengers chairwoman after the Wasp stepped away.
- Modern · Comics: Wounded after boosting an attack by Thor over the ocean, she lost her powers and left the Avengers roster.
- Modern · Comics: After a long recovery her powers returned in a different form while she captained a cargo ship, and she became a reserve Avenger.
- Modern · Comics: Captain Marvel led an Avengers team to the Shi'ar Galaxy during the Kree-Shi'ar war and the Nega-Bomb crisis.
- Modern · Comics: Brainwashed by the Controller, she was forced to attack Starfox and Genis-Vell on Titan, was freed, and took the name Photon.
- Modern · Comics: Hired as field leader of Nextwave, she turned the team against the Beyond Corporation.
- Modern · Comics: As Spectrum she helped found the Mighty Avengers in New York during Thanos' invasion, and her powers were greatly augmented.
- Fresh Start · Comics: Spectrum helped the Avengers fight the goddess Nyx and burned out her extra power, becoming human again.
- Fresh Start · Comics: Strikeforce followed the Vridai to their former home on Svartalfheim and defeated their mastermind Birgit.
- Fresh Start · Comics: Captain Marvel followed Mister E to Knowhere with Spider-Man, Kang and Rocket Raccoon, where the Ebony Blade was used against it.
- 1989 · Cinematic: Monica is told that Carol Danvers vanished in a plane crash, and she refuses to believe it.
- 1995 · Cinematic: Monica recognizes the returned Danvers, helps her recover memories, and chooses the colors of her new uniform.
- 2018 · Cinematic: Monica dies in the Snap while sitting at her mother's hospital bedside.
- 2023 · Cinematic: Monica is resurrected in the Blip and learns her mother died of cancer in 2020.
- 2023 · Cinematic: Monica is sent to Westview, is absorbed into Wanda Maximoff's Hex under the identity Geraldine, and is ejected after exposing a flaw in Wanda's reality.
- 2023 · Cinematic: Monica pushes through the Hex barrier a third time, gains light-based powers, and helps stop Tyler Hayward and Agatha Harkness.
- 2023 · Cinematic: A Skrull sent by Nick Fury recruits Monica into S.A.B.E.R.
- 2026 · Cinematic: While surveying a jump point from the S.A.B.E.R. Space Station, Monica is pulled to MB-418 and back, beginning her powers' entanglement with Danvers and Kamala Khan.
- 2026 · Cinematic: Monica and Danvers pursue Dar-Benn to Tarnax IV, where a jump point opens and many Skrulls are evacuated on the Hoopty.
- 2026 · Cinematic: Monica fights Dar-Benn during the Kree attack on Aladna, which loses its water to Hala.
- 2026 · Cinematic: Monica helps defeat Dar-Benn at the Accuser warship near Earth's sun and the Quantum Bands overload.
- 2026 · Cinematic: Monica absorbs energy from Danvers and Khan and flies into a rift to close it from the other side, stranding herself in a different universe.
allied with
Nick Fury, Wanda Maximoff (Scarlet Witch), Captain Marvel, Darcy Lewis, Maria Rambeau, Luke Cage, Blade, T'Challa, Beast (Dr. Henry 'Hank' McCoy), Kamala Khan, Billy Maximoff, Tommy Maximoff
enemy of
Erik Killmonger, Agatha Harkness, Thanos, Nebula, Doctor Doom, Kang the Conqueror
travels to
Tarnax IV, Titan, Svartalfheim, Knowhere
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