Well, Captain Marvel is finally upon us. Be warned that full spoilers follow for the movie as we discuss everything it left ambiguous or downright inconsistent about the rest of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Any Marvel movie is going to have a couple of inconsistencies or plot holes, since this is a huge, interconnected universe in a medium unfamiliar with such a concept. Marvel would have to employ someone full-time to vet every single script to see if each scene, conversation, and throwaway line is consistent with every other scene, conversation, and throwaway line in every other MCU movie. For example, Nick Fury saying, “The last time I trusted someone, I lost an eye,” in an earlier movie seemed to set up a knife fight where his only friend cut out his eye. However, as we’ve seen from Captain Marvel, it was scratched by an alien disguised as a tabby cat.

Naturally, with it being a prequel to twenty different movies, Captain Marvel was going to have a number of unanswered questions and plot holes. Considering how much it had to fit in with, it turned out pretty much airtight. Still, there are some inconsistencies and mistakes. So, here are 25 Unresolved Mysteries And Plot Holes Captain Marvel Leaves Hanging.

Why Does Nick Fury Trust Carol Immediately?

In the bar scene, Carol asks Fury a bunch of questions to determine whether or not he’s a shapeshifting Skrull. When Fury flips the script and asks her the same question, she just blows a jukebox to smithereens with her hands and says Skrulls can’t do that.

But Fury knows nothing of the Skrulls or their powers at this point. He does call the feds on her later, but he left her with plenty of chances to eliminate or emulate him if she was a Skrull, even letting her into a secure government location, and he did very little to make sure she really wasn’t one.

The Skrulls Aren’t Restricted By The DNA They Emulate

One of the things that makes the Skrulls so difficult to detect is that they can shape-shift and become anyone they look at. At one point in the film, it’s explained that they do this by copying their entire body, complete with their DNA.

But if this is true, then the Skrull posing as Ben Mendelsohn would need his glasses – and not just to “complete the look,” as he claims – because his bad eyesight is a part of his DNA. The old lady on the bus couldn’t suddenly do back-flips and drop-kicks, because her arthritis is in her DNA.

Nick Fury Doesn’t Really Lose His Eye At All

Losing an eye is a big deal. It’s something you might tend to notice if it happens to you. But Nick Fury gets his eye scratched so badly that it’s later completely gone and he says it’s fine. Later, during the final dinner scene, he claims his eye is getting better every second, heading towards a full recovery.

But then we cut to his office as he talks to Coulson about the possibility of other intergalactic threats and super-powered individuals (foreshadowing a bunch of stuff we’ve already seen,) and he’s wearing an eyepatch.

How Does Ronan Become A Radical?

In the months leading up to the release of Captain Marvel, Lee Pace said that back in the ‘90s when this movie is set, his character Ronan the Acc wasn’t yet the “radical zealot” we saw in Guardians of the Galaxy. But apart from his dedication to wiping out his enemies, we didn’t see him become that radical zealot by the end of the movie.

We saw how Nick Fury lost his eye, where the pager came from, and why Captain Marvel has been absent for so long (sort of), so why not fill in a gap in Ronan’s character development while you’re at it?

Why Wasn’t Yon-Rogg In Guardians Of The Galaxy?

One of the biggest mysteries in Captain Marvel is why we ever thought the Kree Starforce were the good guys, because they have Korath the Pursuer on their side and we literally saw him doing the evil bidding of Ronan the Acc in the first Guardians of the Galaxy movie.

But there’s someone else we saw doing Ronan’s bidding in Captain Marvel: Jude Law’s character, who we thought would turn out to be Mar-Vell, the sinister Yon-Rogg. He devoted himself to Ronan, and Carol let him live, so why wasn’t he one of Ronan’s minions in Guardians of the Galaxy?

Where Is Goose Now?

At the end of Captain Marvel, it seems as though the title character’s pet cat/Flerken Goose has moved its loyalties away from her and onto Nick Fury, who’s been petting it the whole movie and weaponized it for the climactic battle against the Kree soldiers. But what happened after that?

Did Fury take Goose home and keep it as a pet? Did it go into S.H.I.E.L.D. custody? We saw it in Fury’s office after the credits, but it wasn’t being restrained or anything. It seemed to be roaming free. What happened to Goose when Fury was pronounced legally deceased and went off the grid?

Why Has Captain Marvel Never Returned To Earth?

What if Nick Fury was reaching for the Captain Marvel pager and then got terminated by a villain who was taking over the planet? Did Carol Danvers never get curious about how things were going on Earth? Didn’t she head back to see how her best friend Maria Rambeau and her daughter Lieutenant Trouble were doing?

If she’d headed back to Louisiana to ask how things were going, Maria could’ve told her about the cyborg who destroyed Sokovia and the superhero team that was getting demolished by the year and the Norse gods who brought their beef to Earth.

Is Stan Lee The Watcher Also Stan Lee The Guy?

Captain Marvel opens with a wonderful tribute to Stan Lee, the founding father of Marvel Comics, and Mallrats, as himself.

But wait, if Stan Lee exists in the MCU, who have all the doormen and bus drivers and FedEx guys been all these years? , Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 confirmed the fan theory that Stan Lee was a Watcher, essentially playing the same guy in all of his cameos. So, is that Watcher also the real Stan Lee?

Does Marvel Comics Exist In The MCU?

In Stan Lee’s cameo, we see him reading the script for Kevin Smith’s Mallrats and rehearsing his lines. Lee Clerks.

But this is the world of the MCU, in which Spider-Man and Iron Man and Thor and the Hulk and all of the characters Lee created that made him famous actually exist. Which would mean there’s no such thing as Marvel Comics in that world. If there’s no such thing as Marvel Comics, why would Kevin Smith want Stan Lee to appear in his movie?

Why Is Nick Fury So Cynical Now?

In Captain Marvel, we see a Nick Fury who is young, ambitious, and naive as he sets up the Avengers Initiative. In Iron Man onwards, we see a jaded Nick Fury who has become cynical towards bureaucracy. This is the same bureaucracy that allowed him to chase superheroes for over a decade after he went on an adventure with a glowing part-alien.

He was so grumpy when every Avenger fell into his lap over a three-year period, even though he’d dedicated his life to chasing them. What made him so cynical?