While she has no shortage of incredible adventures throughout Marvel Comics, Captain Marvel’s most brutal storyline involved her betraying the Avengers–a storyline that was similar to one of Thor’s earlier arcs, but with an added twist that proves Captain Marvel is even deadlier.

In Captain Marvel’s “The Last Avengers” story arc by Kelly Thompson and Lee Garbett, Carol Danvers aka Captain Marvel is forced to attack her fellow Avengers after the villainous Vox Supreme holds thousands of Kree refugees hostage, threatening to kill them all unless Carol does what he says. Not only does Vox Supreme want Captain Marvel to fight the Avengers, but he orders her to kill them and bring him their corpses so he can drain them of their power for his own villainous purposes. The first issue of this storyline kicks off with a bang, showing Captain Marvel going toe-to-toe with Thor. Just when things couldn’t get more shocking, the issue ends with Captain Marvel presenting Thor’s severed head to her evil handler, indicating that she succeeded in her dark deed. As the storyline continued, it became clear that Captain Marvel wasn’t actually killing the other Avengers, but this arc also makes it clear that she could if she really wanted to.

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In the story, Thor has been brainwashed by the Collector through a mystical potion the cosmic villain used against him. With the God of Thunder under his control, the Collector ordered Thor to bring him the rest of the Avengers in order to complete his precious collection. Thor followed his orders, leading to an epic battle between Thor and Iron Man which resulted in the near death of Tony Stark. However, Thor was able to break free of the Collector’s curse and assist in the villain’s defeat before being forced to bring harm upon any of his other fellow heroes.

The similarities between these two story arcs is immediately apparent as one powerful Avengers is forced to attack the others by a cosmically powerful villain. However, the difference between the two is that Captain Marvel’s version of events is way more hardcore. While Thor does have to fight the Avengers against his will, he is completely under the control of the Collector, so there is no internal struggle for him. In Captain Marvel’s case, she has to battle the heroes while being fully cognizant of her actions, knowing full well the pain and confusion her friends are going through upon the realization that they’re being attacked by a close ally. Not only that, but Captain Marvel’s mission is a step above Thor’s in terms of brutality as she was forced to kill the Avengers, not just capture them.

While Vox Supreme used Captain Marvel to “kill” the other Avengers because he had leverage over her, he also chose Carol because she was really the only person for the job. Ironically, the only other Avenger who would have been perfect for attacking the other members is Thor, but Captain Marvel proves in this arc that she can beat him one-on-one (even if she didn’t actually kill him), so it seems Vox Supreme still made the right choice. Essentially, from the fact that Captain Marvel won in a fight against Thor in “The Last Avenger” storyline to carrying out a way more hardcore version of one of the God of Thunder’s past Avengers missions, Captain Marvel proves she’s deadlier than Thor.