The Marvels(2023)

Plot Summary

• Carol Danvers (Brie Larson) destroys the Supreme Intelligence, the artificial intelligence that leads the Kree empire. This leads to a civil war and the desolation of the Kree home world, Hala, over the next 30 years. The conflict renders the planet barren as it loses its air, water, and sunlight.Dar-Benn (Zawe Ashton), the new leader of the Kree, discovers one of the two legendary Quantum Bands. She harnesses the power of the Band to tear open a jump point, a gateway that allows fast travel across space. The resulting anomaly impacts the entire jump point network, including a jump point near Earth's S.A.B.E.R. (Strategic Aerospace Bio-Physics and Exo-Linguistic Response) space station that is run by Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson). Nick analyzes the surge in network energy and traces it back to a planet which is close to where Danvers is located currently. Nick asks Danvers to investigate the surge at its source.Captain Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris) investigates the jump point near S.A.B.E.R. while Danvers investigates the new jump point that Dar-Benn opened. When they touch their respective jump points, Rambeau is transported to Danvers' location, Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani)-who has the other Quantum Band on Earth-is transported to Rambeau's location, and Danvers is transported to Kamala's house. Monica is an astronaut for S.A.B.E.R. who has the ability to manipulate all wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum. Kamala is a teenage mutant from Jersey City who idolizes Danvers and wears a Quantum Band (thinking of it as a piece of jewelry), a magical bangle that unlocked her ability to harness cosmic energy and create hard light constructs.The three use their different light-based powers to fight off Kree enemies at 3 locations where they keep switching places every time one of them uses their powers. The 3 locations are The Khan family home, the space station SABER above Earth and the Skrull refugee colony on planet Tarnax. This battle leave the Khan family home destroyed. Kamala's family including mother Muneeba (Zenobia Shroff), father Yusuf (Mohan Kapur) and brother Aamir (Saagar Shaikh) are forced to join the fight to defend themselves.After the three women return to their original places, Fury and Rambeau visit Kamala on Earth. Rambeau surmises that their light-based powers are linked through quantum entanglement, and that they switch places when any of the three use their powers simultaneously. The three join up at a Skrull refugee colony on the planet Tarnax, which Danvers helped found and where a peace treaty is being negotiated with the Kree. When talks break down, Dar-Benn rips open another jump point which siphons the atmosphere from Tarnax to restore breathable air to Hala.By the time the women figure out the entanglement and how it works, Monica and Kamala end up on Tarnax, while Danvers is on Earth. As Dar-Benn attempts to kill them, Danvers arrives in time and saves them. This is the first time that all 3 women are in the same location at the same time. As Dar-Benn opens the portal to duck the atmosphere, it destabilizes the planet which starts to crumble.After a hasty effort to evacuate the colony, Danvers, Rambeau, and Kamala form a team that Kamala names "the Marvels". Kamala reveals her Band to Danvers and Rambeau. Danvers explains that the Quantum Bands were used to create the jump point transportation network since ancient times. Rambeau says that since Dar-Benn has just one band, she is using the energy from the Kree Universal Weapon to create unstable jump points and overloading the network.Dar-Benn calls Danvers "The Annihilator" and hold her directly responsible for the current state of their home planet Hala. The destruction of the Supreme Intelligence destroyed the planet as well. She promises to restore air, water and sunlight to rejuvenate the planet. Dar-Benn is combining her Quantum Band with the Kree's Universal Weapon to jump start the planet Hala's sun, but it is not enough.Dar-Benn's repeated rupturing of jump points is causing instability to the network and endangering the entire universe. They deduce that Dar-Benn is targeting planets that are meaningful to Danvers, who Dar-Benn blames for the desolation of Hala.The Marvels reach the water planet Aladna before Dar-Benn does and prepare the local population for an attack. Turns out Danvers is married to Prince Yan (Park Seo-Joon) of the planet Aladna.Dar-Benn arrives, and tears open a jump point to draw the planet's water to Hala. As the Marvels attack, Dar-Been sees that Kamala has the 2nd Quantum Band. She almost steals Kamala's Quantum Band, forcing Kamala to flee with Danvers and Rambeau. Danvers wanted to stay and fight to close the unstable jump point sucking in the water, but Kamala activates a normal jump point for them to escape.Dar-Benn's final plan is to use the energy from Earth's sun to restore that of Hala. Dar-Benn's actions destabilize the space around Earth endangering the SABER space station. Danvers Flerken Goose has just given birth to other Flerkens. Now Fury has only pods for 80 people, and 300+ souls on board. So, he orders that the station personnel be swallowed by the newly born and hungry Flerkens, so they can be evacuated to Earth and regurgitated. The Marvels fight and subdue Dar-Benn, but she steals Kamala's Band and uses both bangles to tear open another hole in space.The act destroys Dar-Benn, ends the Marvels' entanglement, and leaves behind a rupture between realities. After Kamala reclaims the Bands, she and Danvers use their combined powers to energize Rambeau, allowing her to close the hole from the other side, stranding her on the other side of the rupture in the process. Kamala returns to Earth and Danvers flies into Hala's sun, using her power to restore it.The short-lived team-up inspires Kamala to seek out other young heroes and form a new group, starting with Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld). In a mid-credits scene, Rambeau awakes in a parallel universe where she is greeted by Binary (Lashana Lynch)-an alternate version of her mother Maria-and the mutant scientist Hank McCoy / Beast (Kelsey Grammer).

Storyline

• Carol Danvers AKA Captain Marvel has reclaimed her identity from the tyrannical Kree and taken revenge on the Supreme Intelligence. But unintended consequences see Carol shouldering the burden of a destabilized universe. When her duties send her to an anomalous wormhole linked to a Kree revolutionary, her powers become entangled with that of Jersey City super-fan Kamala Khan, aka Ms. Marvel, and Carol's estranged niece, now S.A.B.E.R. astronaut Captain Monica Rambeau. Some time after the events of Endgame, Carol Danvers and Nick Fury work together to safeguard the universe. But Carol is mysteriously switching places with her niece Monica Rambeau and newcomer heroine Kamala Khan. Now the three must figure out what's going on and come together to fight a Kree supremacist who intends to destroy the universe with a powerful source. — Blazer346