Author: Graeme McMillan / Source: The Hollywood Reporter
The first images released for Captain Marvel don’t just introduce Brie Larson’s Carol Danvers — they also offer the first look at Lashana Lynch’s character from the movie, who might turn out to be far more important to the Marvel Cinematic Universe than first appears.
Lynch will play Maria Rambeau, described as “one of Carol’s oldest friends.” More importantly for those who know their Marvel comic book lore, Rambeau is also “a top-notch Air Force pilot with the call sign ‘Photon’” and a single mother to a young daughter. This is particularly interesting — especially when taken in conjunction with the movie’s 1990s setting — because Maria Rambeau’s daughter in comic book lore is Monica Rambeau, a superhero and former Avenger who has gone by a number of names since her 1982 debut in Amazing Spider-Man Annual No. 16… including, for a brief period, “Photon.”
This is more than just an Easter egg teasing a connection to an existing Marvel character, a la 2015’s Avengers: Age of Ultron, however — that movie also featured the mother of a superhero, with Claudia Kim appearing as Helen Cho, who in comic…
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