Author: Graeme McMillan / Source: The Hollywood Reporter
In next year’s Captain Marvel, Brie Larson’s neophyte superhero will debut as part of her own superteam, but it’s not the Avengers, or even the Guardians of the Galaxy. In the 1990s of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, order was maintained by Starforce — but there might be something rotten at the core, if comic book mythology has anything to do with it.
As revealed by Entertainment Weekly, Larson’s Carol Danvers will already be part of Starforce when she appears onscreen; it’s an elite military unit of the Kree Empire, the alien race that’s responsible for Carol’s powers. In terms of profile, this is a massive shift for Starforce, which debuted in 1992’s Avengers No. 346 and has made only a handful of appearances since then, the majority of which were in the same period (and as part of the same storyline).
The comic book Starforce is, as in the movies, an arm of the Kree military. It’s made up of a group of disperate Kree soldiers — with names like “Shatterax” and “Dr. Minerva” (slightly renamed Minn-Erva for the movie) — who are dedicated, dangerously so, to the whims of the Kree ruler, the so-called Supreme Intelligence. They’re joined, almost immediately, by Ronan the Accuser, who has previously appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe in Guardians of the Galaxy, played by Lee Pace; he, tellingly, returns to the role for Captain Marvel.
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