Captain Marvel

No notable race/gender swaps; Carol Danvers is faithfully a woman as in the comics.

Carol is portrayed as exceptionally powerful with limited visible flaws, and the male mentor figure is revealed as a manipulative villain.

• (spoiler) Yon-Rogg, her male Kree mentor, is exposed as a liar and easily defeated when Carol stops holding back
• Carol rises to be among the universe's most powerful heroes
• She destroys missiles and ships with ease in the climax

No explicit LGBTQ+ characters or storylines in the film itself.

Diverse supporting cast including a Black co-lead (Nick Fury) and Maria Rambeau, but consistent with MCU setting and not lore-breaking.

• Maria Rambeau as a Black fighter pilot and best friend
• Nick Fury as a central supporting character

Themes of women overcoming being told to control their emotions are foregrounded, with a montage emphasizing Carol getting back up.

• Repeated 'you're too emotional' framing from male figures
• Montage of Carol rising after every fall set to empowerment beats
• 'I have nothing to prove to you' confrontation with Yon-Rogg

Male figures who doubt or restrain Carol are framed as antagonistic, with a recurring motif of men telling her to suppress herself.

• A man tells her to smile in a street scene
• Yon-Rogg insists she fight 'his way' on his terms
• Men repeatedly dismiss her capabilities

Adapts and consolidates comic elements (Kree, Mar-Vell) into a new origin, with some gender/identity reworkings but broadly faithful to Carol Danvers.

• (spoiler) Mar-Vell reimagined as a woman scientist
• Origin tied to Kree experimentation and the Tesseract