Talk:Captain Marvel (Modern)/@comment-202.89.173.203-20141016060335/@comment-74.174.56.6-20170608194531

You can say they're trying to appease female fans, or you can say they're catching up with the times. I was in the Air Force, like Carol Danvers, and there are plenty of female Captains out there.

And even "Ms." Marvel was meant to be subversive in the beginning. At the time when she first appeared (the '70s) women were referred to as "Miss" for single, and "Missus" for married. "Ms." was invented as an equivalent to "Mr," so as not to define a woman by her marital status. Naming their female hero "Ms." Marvel was intentional, so it only makes sense that she'd take on the gender neutral title of "Captain" nearly 40 years later.

And if I remember correctly, she actually left the Air Force as a Colonel, meaning she outranks "Captain" America... :P