In many fan-made audio dramas and webcomics, a "Wicked Captain Marvel" is one who has lost her humanity after decades of war in space. She returns to Earth not as a savior but as a detached, condescending overlord who sees humans as fragile liabilities. This trope is heavily explored in the popular Marvel’s What If...? episode "What If... Captain Marvel Were Brainwashed?" (Season 2), where a mind-controlled Carol becomes a weapon of mass destruction for the villainous Arnim Zola.
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This directly challenges classical Hollywood tropes and the "male gaze" theorized by scholars like Laura Mulvey. In many fan-made audio dramas and webcomics, a