The Life of Captain Marvel #5

[lordultimus]

Comments

[coldfury]

I'll say this:

Superheroes' backstories are littered with dead parents. So introducing Carol's Mom as alien only to kill her off doesn't really add anything novel, at least in my opinion.

That said, there's very little focus on dead Superhero moms in comics. That's a pretty sparse region. Lots of Dad focus. The only examples I can think of is (sometimes) Wonder Woman, and Supergirl (TV). So... I guess if we're going to go with an overdone trope at least we're doing it right?

[scorntx]

Well, there's also... Peter Quill (movies), Miles Morales (until they un-deaded Rio), and Barry Allen (bleeech).
Oh, and occasionally Bruce Wayne.

But I dunno... couldn't we have emotionally supportive, loving parents who, and this may sound like crazy talk but stay with me, ain't dead?

[bradygirl_12]

Yeah, and Carol's father was a good guy at first, then suddenly turned into an abusive drunk?

[scorntx]

Wasn't he a sexist jerkass who want Carol to Stay In T' Kitchen?

[lordultimus]

Still a bit of a jump to make him an abusive drunk. And we're still supposed to sympathize with him.

[super_fly]

We've still got the Khans.

[kore]

A friend of mine and I were trying to think of superhero mom-and-daughter teams. There are very few!

[lordultimus]

There are the Firebirds over at Image Comics.

[kore]

There were Jessica Jones and her mom working together for about ten minutes on S2 of the Netflix show. Maybe Mystique and Rogue count? Sort of? And there were Silk Spectre I and II in Watchmen, altho they weren't really a team. Janet and Nadia have a mother-daughter dynamic in the comics, and there was Jan and Hope in MCU AMATW. Who else....

[long_silence]

Janet legally adopted Nadia, and Nadia took Janet's last name.

Jean Grey and Rachel?