Monica Rambeau
The pre-superhero life of Marvel Comics’ Monica is much different than her MCU counterpart. She was the daughter of a firefighter and a seamstress, rather than Air Force personnel. In fact, after she grew up in New Orleans, she stuck around to become part of the city’s Harbor Patrol. While trying to help retrieve a stolen device that could siphon energy from other universes and blast it into ours, Monica attempted to destroy it with her hands after it was activated. This resulted, in true comic book fashion, in Monica suddenly gaining the superpower to turn into or emit anything on the electronic spectrum, from light to x-rays to neutrinos, to… you get the idea. She used her newfound powers to destroy the device, after which the press dubbed her “Captain Marvel.”
