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I mean, if we're just talking strong, badass female who everyone knows as The Superheroine for the company... Carol's probably got the potential to be Marvel's answer to Diana. She can headline her own ongoing so long as the writer stays interested, she can lead a team so long as she's not written by Bendis and she can basically fit into 30984523 niches in the Marvel U if they would let her. It would take a lot of time to build her up to that, since recently she's fallen into the background and I'm lucky if I get one line of dialogue out of her a month in a New Avengers issue, but it's possible.
I don't think she would be the right choice for it, though? Because Carol's a lot different than the typical superhero community in that she's a soldier and a spy first and she still sees herself as a soldier and a spy. She's very aware that she hasn't always fit into the no-kill hero thing and, to be completely honest, sometimes she enjoys killing someone who deserves it. She's someone who said, with all confidence, she was going to destroy and kill Norman Osborn and she meant it. She wiped out an entire race of aliens and technically committed genocide. (They deserved it, but. Still.) So while it doesn't often come up, because she does try to bring people to justice instead of exacting justice, as she puts it, I don't think she would necessarily be the right choice for a headline heroine unless Marvel was okay with some... idk. Moral ambiguity?
I would really love it if Marvel would use her more often, though. Because she's an engaging character and there's lots of ways to play around in the universe with her and, like I said, she's got this crazy past which means she can fit into a bunch of random and wacky places in the U. The sky is really the limit when it comes to stories that could be told with her and I think limiting her to New Avengers is a mistake. And not just because I have lots of issues with Bendis' writing of her.
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but only if they're written well
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yes, that's what i want. alas that it will not happen.