Code Name: Captain Marvel
See Also: Rick Jones
Real Name: Genis-Vell
Other Known Aliases: Legacy
Status: ACTIVE
Place of Birth: Titan, moon of Saturn
Origin: Extraterrestrial, Genetically Enhanced, Technologically
Enhanced Powers: Solar energy absorption, superhuman strength,
flight, and energy blasts; cosmic awareness
Skills: Equipment: The Nega-Bands' (flight,
faster-than-light travel, enhanced strength & durability, the ability
to survive unprotected in the vacuum of space, quick change, telepathic
bond to Rick Jones) power source is a link to the otherdimensional
antimatter realm known as the Negative Zone. Genis has used the bands to
create force screens and force bolts composed of intermingled matter and
anti-matter through the bands’ link to the Negative Zone. Genis has also
used the bands to analyze and track energy signatures, and, by following
an energy trail, he can teleport from its place of origin to its
destination. Genis has a "subdermal translator", an artificial
mechanical implant beneath his skin which enables him to analyze and
understand most languages in a relatively short span of time. |
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- History: The current Captain Marvel is the prodigal son of the late,
original Captain Marvel, the legendary alien hero Mar-Vell. After Mar-Vell
died of cancer, his lover Elysius used Mar-Vell’s genetic material to
conceive her son, Genis. To protect Genis from Mar-Vell’s many
enemies, the child was artificially aged to adulthood in a very short
span of time and imbued with false memories of growing up on Titan among
his late father’s friends and associates. Originally, Genis squandered
his life, roaming the universe as a hedonist and gambler. He was saved
from a bar brawl by the alien Silver Surfer, who set in motion the
events that led Genis to learn his true nature. Learning of his heroic
heritage and donning replicas of his father’s nega-bands, Genis,
calling himself Legacy, became an explorer and an adventurer like his
father, albeit a rather rash and unwise adventurer at first, one
regarded by many as a dissolute buffoon unworthy of his father’s
legacy. Regardless, Genis gradually became known as the new Captain
Marvel thanks to his father’s reputation, and despite his own
reluctance to assume that title.
Meanwhile, an Earth heroine (Monica Rambeau) had long since
established herself as a new Captain Marvel, but she conceded the title
to Genis out of respect for Mar-Vell’s legacy after Genis and Rambeau
teamed up to defeat the Controller with assistance from Rambeau’s hero
team, the Avengers. Shortly after his encounter with Rambeau, Genis
finally accepted the Captain Marvel title as his own after winning a
victory over homicidal madman Zey-Rogg, son of Mar-Vell’s late
arch-enemy Yon-Rogg.
Genis has been gradually maturing into his inherited role as a hero,
but is still living down a reputation as a shallow fool thanks to his
earlier, less impressive exploits. As a longtime friend and former
partner of Mar-Vell, adventurer Rick Jones resents Mar-Vell’s instant
heir Genis and has little respect for the junior Captain Marvel. Jones
and Genis quarreled bitterly in their first meeting, during which Jones
exploited Genis on his TV talk show and an angry Genis trashed Jones’s
studio.
When the Avengers became involved in the time-spanning cosmic
conflict known as "The Destiny War", the mystery man Libra
used Rick Jones’s latent psionic powers to assemble a band of Avengers
from various time periods, including the present-day Jones (a longtime
honorary Avenger) and a future incarnation of Captain Marvel, an older
and more mature Genis with more experience and greater powers.
Apparently, in at least one timeline, Genis was destined to become a
member of the Avengers as the new Captain Marvel, a prospect that Jones
found discouraging. The future-era Genis, for his part, seemed unusually
bitter and fatalistic, and his bad feelings seemed to focus on Jones.
Setting aside their various differences, Jones, Genis and the other
Avengers joined forces to win the Destiny War by thwarting the Time
Keepers’ attempted destruction of most of the timestream’s
humanity-populated timelines. During the climax of this conflict, Jones
suffered fatal injuries while destroying the Time-Keepers’ chrono-cannon.
To save Jones’s life, the future Genis reluctantly merged his form and
life force with that of Jones, just as the original Captain Marvel had
shared a symbiotic relationship with Jones years earlier.
When Jones returned from the Destiny War to the present day, the
present-day Genis was surprised to find himself automatically taking his
future self’s place in the symbiotic relationship with Jones. The
present-day Genis assumed the altered appearance and enhanced powers of
his future self in the process, but was still greatly distressed to be
trapped in a shared existence with a man he despised. Jones was no
happier about it, but the reluctant duo have since begun to adjust to
their situation. The experienced adventurer Jones serves as mentor to
the novice hero Genis, and together they battle evil as the new Captain
Marvel.
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