To me, Captain Marvel was a caped crusader with a lightning bolt on his chest and a cry of Shazaam!!!
To me, Captain Marvel was crippled young boy, and with the cry of “Shazaam” became a caped crusader with a lightning bolt on his chest.
Captain Marvel was a male not a female. Once again Hollywood ruins another iconic character showing its utter lack of creativity.
That was Fawcett. DC sued for property theft of their Superman and won.
The Marvel male was Kree Mar-Vell, in 1967. Carol Danvers dates from 1968, and became essentially a female Captain Marvel, Ms. Marvel, in 1977, after which Mar-Vell died - that was over 40 years ago. This was not a modern contrivance. (Stan Lee was always a leftist, and he and his pals named her after Ms. Magazine.)
The worst problem with the movie was turning the evil invading Skrulls into sympathetic illegal aliens just wanting a home but being persecuted by the nasty white male Kree.