If yall aren’t aware there was a recent interview Chuck Dixon did where they were talking about comics and the guy mentioned pandering to a female audience has been one of the things that have ruined comics. Third wave feminism to be exact. Dixon talked about his girls used to read comics like Archie, Little Lulu, romance comics, etc. He then mentioned that his sisters read Green Lantern because they thought Hal Jordan was cute (I can’t judge because I had every cd and now every album of Fiona Apple downloaded because I thought she was beautiful).
Some people took that to mean “see girls read comics” when he was essentially saying that if you make comics that cater to what girls/women like you can sell to them. Manga has proved this along with countless YA novels. For whatever reason Superhero comics and Sci-Fi don’t appeal to women in large numbers but that doesn’t seem to stop the IPs from sunken costs.
They should have made a movie about Nova instead of Captain Marvel in the first place.
Swap a few details such as;
Dick Rider getting his powers from the Power Stone while it was on Xandar instead of Carol getting hers from the Space Stone while it was on Earth
Have him survive the attack by Thanos mentioned at the start of Infinity War to serve as motivation for actually being there and doing stupid shit fueled by emotions
Not only does this provide an almost identical character to fit the same role, but it also makes the point of not simply finishing the fight and getting his ass handed to him by Thanos near the end of Endgame all the more reasonable - fighting for revenge instead of fighting smart.
Instead Carol shows up, easily takes out a space ship, and then throws pretty lights at Thanos and draws the fight out long enough for Thanos to literally punch her out of the rest of the movie.