Of the 20 Marvel films released since 2008, not one has featured a female lead. There have been plenty of female characters, like Scarlet Johansson’s Black Widow and Zoe Saldana’s Gamora, but none were the lead heroes. It was all starting to look a bit out of date in the #MeToo era.
That is about to change: Walt Disney on Tuesday premiered the trailer for “Captain Marvel,” aka Carol Danvers, who in the 1970s comic books was a fighter pilot who had her DNA fused with that of an alien.
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