The Marvels is a 2023 American superhero film based on Marvel Comics featuring the characters Carol Danvers / Captain Marvel, Monica Rambeau, and Kamala Khan / Ms. Marvel. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the sequel to the film Captain Marvel (2019), a continuation of the television miniseries Ms. Marvel (2022), and the 33rd film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film is directed by Nia DaCosta, who co-wrote the screenplay with Megan McDonnell and Elissa Karasik. It stars Brie Larson as Carol Danvers, Teyonah Parris as Monica Rambeau, and Iman Vellani as Kamala Khan, alongside Zawe Ashton, Gary Lewis, Park Seo-joon, Zenobia Shroff, Mohan Kapur, Saagar Shaikh, and Samuel L. Jackson. In the film, Danvers, Rambeau, and Khan team up after they begin swapping places with each other every time they use their powers.
Plot[]
The collapse of the Supreme Intelligence leads to a civil war among the Kree species in their home world of Hala. The conflict renders the planet barren as it loses its air, water, and sunlight.
Dar-Benn, the new leader of the Kree, retrieves one half of the Quantum Bands, of which Kamala Khan has the other half. Dar-Benn harnesses the power of the Band, pairs it with her staff, named the Universal Weapon, and uses it to tear apart a jump point in space. The resulting anomaly is discovered by S.W.O.R.D.
Meanwhile, Nick Fury, now residing at the S.A.B.E.R. space station, hosts peace talks between the Kree and the Skrull empire. Fury calls in Carol Danvers and Monica Rambeau to investigate a jump point anomaly near S.A.B.E.R. When Rambeau touches it, she, Danvers, and Khan switch places through teleportation. The switching causes the three to fight each others' Kree enemies, leaving the Khans' house destroyed in their wake.
As the three women return to their original places, Fury and Rambeau visit Khan on Earth. As Khan eagerly demonstrates her powers, she switches places with Danvers. When Danvers flies away, she switches places with Khan in mid-air. The group surmises that the light-based powers of Danvers, Rambeau, and Khan are linked through quantum entanglement, and that they switch places when any of them use their powers.
The three join up at a Skrull refugee colony on the planet Tarnax, where talks of resettlement have dissolved. Dar-Benn rips open another jump point, which siphons the atmosphere of Tarnax into Hala to try and restore its air. After a hasty effort to evacuate the colony, Danvers, Rambeau, and Khan form a team informally referred to by Khan as "the Marvels". Danvers informs the others of the legend that the Quantum Bands had been used to create the jump point transportation network; the three became entangled due to their mutual contact with its energy when Dar-Benn disrupted it, with Dar-Benn's repeated rupturing of jump points causing instability to the network and endangering the universe.
Dar-Benn reaches the planet Aladna, where she tears open a jump point to draw the ocean water into Hala. Her final plan is to usurp Earth's sun to restore that of Hala. The Marvels fight and subdue Dar-Benn, but she steals Khan's Band and uses both bracelets in conjunction to tear open another hole in space. The effort in doing so destroys Dar-Benn and leaves behind an opening into the multiverse. After Khan reclaims the Bands, she and Danvers use their combined powers to energize Rambeau, allowing her to close the hole from the other side, but leaving her stranded in the process. Danvers flies into Hala's sun and uses her power to restore it.
The short-lived team-up with Danvers and Rambeau inspires Khan to seek out other heroes and form a new group, starting with Kate Bishop. In a mid-credits scene, Rambeau awakes in a parallel universe where she is greeted by an alternate version of her mother Maria and the mutant Hank McCoy.
Cast[]
- Brie Larson as Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel
- Teyonah Parris as Monica Rambeau
- Kenedy McCallam-Martin as Little Monica Rambeau
- Iman Vellani as Kamala Khan/Ms. Marvel
- Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury
- Zawe Ashton as Dar-Benn
- Gary Lewis as Emperor Dro'ge
- Park Seo-Joon as Prince Yan
- Zenobia Shroff as Muneeba Khan
- Mohan Kapur as Yusuf Khan
- Saagar Shaikh as Aamir Khan
- Leila Farzad as Talia
- Abraham Popoola as Dag
- Daniel Ings as Ty-Rone
- Alex Hughes as Kree Announcer
- Colin Stoneley as Papp-Tonn
- Nemo and Tango as Goose
- Ffion Jolly as Skrull Woman
- Tessa Thompson as Brunnhilde/Valkyrie
- Shamier Anderson as a S.A.B.E.R. scientist
- Lashana Lynch as Maria Rambeau / Maria Rambeau/Binary (mid-credits scene)
- Hailee Steinfeld as Kate Bishop
- Kelsey Grammer as Hank McCoy/Beast (mid-credits scene)
- To-be-confirmed actor as Lucky the Pizza Dog
- Annette Bening as Supreme Intelligence / Mar-Vell (archive footage; uncredited)
- Jude Law as Yon-Rogg (archive footage; uncredited)
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Trivia[]
- This is the thirty third film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
| Captain Marvel |
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| Captain Marvel (2019), The Marvels (2022) |
| Phase Four |
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| Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023), Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023), The Marvels (2023), Captain America: New World Order (2024), Thunderbolts (2024), Blade (2024) |