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Spoilers ahead forCaptain Marvel # 20 !
headwaiter Marvelis no stranger to taking life , as an ex - military officer who became an Avenger with a soldier ’s approach to cosmic struggle . But one of her most ostensibly harmless villains , one so sympatheticshe joined sides with him , just took a turn that kill hundreds of yard of innocent people .
In 2019’sMarvel squad - Up , in an discharge written by Clint McElroy with fine art by Ig Guara , coloring by Felipe Sobreiro , and letter by Clayton Cowles , Carol joined up with Ms. Marvel to fight a mysterious foeman who was reverse - engineering Kree automaton in a revenge game against the alien backwash . The part - Kree hero tracked down the culprit : Dr. Walter S. Lawson , the manwhose aliveness was stolenby the original Captain Marvel when he infiltrate Earth . Walter , calling himself " Wastrel " , think of a scheme to steal Kree tech , use it to lure a Kree juridical military unit to Earth , and then test a machine he build to depower them .
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Wastrel deny to smart or bolt down anyone ; his ultimate weapon was plan to take away the Kree ’s power in the promise that they ’d stop conquering the galaxy . His cause was so reasonable that Carol defend him against the Kree ; even after he tried to depower her , the cosmic Avenger recommended leniency to the Kree jurist . She agreed and doom him to community service .
In the late issueCaptain Marvel # 19 , the main character investigated a catastrophe on a Kree world . An entire city was destroyed by a monumental explosion , kill every indweller except one . The Kree want to send the survivor with the crime , but when Carol learn the survivor was her pacifistic half - sister , she disobey her orders and hold on investigating to find the real perpetrator . WhenWastrel showed up at the crime sceneto clean it up , Carol grew suspicious and discovered he ’d get away duty to go back to his technical school - scavenging ways . In the young upshot 20 , she face him and he confessed to the criminal offense with no disinclination : he ’d kill everyone in the urban center because he had a score with the Kree .
But this represent a monumental inversion of how the character consider and acts . In his original appearance , he turn away to assault anyone because he detest violence . His entire motivation was based on disarming the empire to save up unacquainted people . But he babble out about pass over out the Kree equivalent of Chicago like Carol should have known he was live on to do it , like she ’s at break for letting him go without killing or imprisoning him . What find to the graphic symbol that modify his personality whole ? Is there something more sinister at study , or did the author ofCaptain Marveldecide to reinvent a philanthropic troublemaker as a earthly concern - ending monster , likeDC flipping Max Lord ? For that matter , how did he get access to city - destroying bomb materials work glass cleanup ? How did any detonation kill every single individual in a city , leave it waste ? mayhap this will turn out to be some kind ofSkrull trick triggered by the Empressframing him . Or maybe comic just do n’t make sentience sometimes .
Captain Marvel # 20 , written by Kelly Thompson , with penciler Cory Smith , inker Adriano de Benedetto , and colorist Tamra Bonvillain , is available now .
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