Captain Marvel 2 could give Carol Danvers a new superpower - thanks to a Space Stone retcon. Captain Marvel is undeniably one of the MCU's most powerful heroes; in fact Marvel briefly insisted she packed more of a punch than anyone else, although Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige now says Scarlet Witch is even more powerful than Captain Marvel.

The MCU has rewritten Captain Marvel's origin story. In the movies, her power is bound to the Tesseract, the MCU's ultimate MacGaffin. The revised origin means she'll stuck to her classic powerset; she's a physical powerhouse who can manipulate energy at an incredible scale, and she can even transform into a Binary form where she rather seems to enjoy crashing head-first through spaceships.

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There is, however, one comic book power Carol Danvers hasn't demonstrated. In the comics, Captain Marvel originally possessed a mysterious power referred to as her "seventh sense." It took writers some time to figure out how this operated; early versions involved it taking over her body when she was asleep, and on other occasions it functioned like a more efficient version of Spider-Man's spider-sense. It took legendary X-Men scribe Chris Claremont to figure it out, and he transformed it into a precognitive sense that gave Carol Danvers flashes of impending doom. These usually manifested when she was asleep, and they served to guide her to intervene in potential catastrophes and prevent them going wrong; on one occasion a vision was so detailed that she knew an Avenger's death had been faked, because she appeared in the vision and that later moment hadn't happened yet.

Captain Marvel Seventh Sense Vision

The power has generally been forgotten in modern comics, lost since Carol Danvers had her powers drained by Rogue in 1981's Avengers Annual #10. Curiously, though, it could indeed appear in the MCU courtesy of an impending retcon that appears to be in the works. The Tesseract's precise powers have been retconned time and again, and there are reports Disney+'s Loki series will retcon it once again, with Loki using the Space Stone to travel through time. It does actually make a sort of sense; according to Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, space and time are closely bound together. The Space Stone can open wormholes through space, which in theory can affect time as well.

Given Captain Marvel's powers are tied to the Space Stone in the MCU, it would make sense for her to have some sort of innate connection to spacetime. That could easily have been dormant until she was stood at Ground Zero near one of the snaps in Avengers: Endgame, and a flare of cosmic power that would have swept across the entire universe. One of the advantages of this approach would be to see Carol Danvers struggling to master this seventh sense, initially weirded out by her precognitive flashes but gradually coming to understand them. The Multiverse appears to be one of the central themes in the MCU's Phase 4, and such a power would allow Carol to become part of that in Captain Marvel 2.

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