Originally Posted by
Endus
I just think Feige was talking out his ass, there. If Captain Marvel is stronger than Thanos, then where the fuck has she been? The hint at the end of Infinity War was that Fury sent an SOS via pager, which only makes sense if A> Danvers is ready and able to respond to said page, and B> can close the distance ASAP (days, not months, kind of thing, not instant).
And if she's stronger than Thanos, and able to travel that quickly, and not tied up in the middle of something else, why wasn't she stopping Thanos already? He was a universe-level threat. That threat focused on Earth only because several Infinity Stones were there, but it started out in the same cosmic arena she's been running about in. It's a gap they'd need to answer.
It's a much easier explanation if one of two things are true;
1> Feige was talking out his ass and not actually communicating the writer's intent (he's an executive, not the writer), or
2> Danvers is stronger than Vanilla Thanos, without any Stones. The moment he picked up a stone, that power scale shifted, and even if she was aware of his threat, she could have been playing catchup this whole time and may have lost him until the page came in. This is a lot more reasonable; Thanos as just himself is still crazy strong, but not "beat all the Avengers at full strength" strong; if Hulk and Thor are a 9 and Thanos is a 9.5, Danvers might be a 10, if we make up a scale. And each Infinity Stone might be a +10.
My expectations are that Danvers is going to "matter" in Endgame mostly as "replacement muscle". But I also reject the idea that they're going to fix any of this through punching or blasting Thanos. Frankly, they tried that in Infinity War, and lost. Combined with Strange's "I saw a million futures and only one led to victory" speech and subsequently giving up the Time Stone, I think it's clear that Thanos had to win, which suggests to me that Thanos himself is the key to Endgame. It isn't about punching him really hard. It's about convincing him he was wrong.
That's what the narrative thus far suggests to me, at least. Danvers may be key in getting the gang to that point, but I doubt she'll be the tipping point in the narrative in any appreciable sense.
All that said, the "coming out of nowhere" is a bit off as a denigration; she's coming out of her own origin story film. Black Panther has a guest spot in CA: Civil War, and then his own film, and nobody questioned his presence in Infinity War; that's not a lot more than Danvers will have by the time of Endgame.
As an aside; it's really important that Marvel Studios figure out how to hand off the reins from the Original Gang to the New Gang, at least in part. Iron Man, at least, is probably gonna be donezo. If the MCU can't survive without a particular character, then it isn't really the MCU, it's that character's extended entourage.