#MOOSE FARKLE MOVIE#

The bulk of the Flerken reveal in the comics is intended as a gag - who doesn’t worry their Mr. No one believes him at first - especially not Fury, who’s become quite enamored with what he thinks is an unarmed house pet - until Goose winds up shooting a bunch of nightmarish tentacles out of his mouth and casually eating some enemy soldiers. Also, in Captain Marvel, it’s Skrull commander Talos who clocks Carol and Fury’s feline friend as a Flerken. Goose isn’t actually Carol’s pet, but a random animal she finds wandering around the Project Pegasus base with Fury.

In the latest MCU movie, Chewie’s name is updated from a Star Wars nod to a Top Gun reference, but Goose’s character arc is basically the same, with a couple minor adjustments. Thankfully, Carol’s years of caring for Chewie back on Earth seem to have earned her some favor, because Flerken Chewie remains loyal to her as he gleefully wreaks havoc on everyone else. Is this what it looks like to be ugly on the inside?Ĭarol continues to assume Rocket has simply never seen a cat before (which, considering Rocket’s inability to recognize himself as a racoon, was a pretty fair assumption at the time) until Chewie betrays his true, monstrous colors by laying a whole clutch of eggs and generally taking a turn for the terrifying. Rocket’s advice is to either kill Chewie or sell him on the black market Flerken are actually pretty rare across the galaxy, so they fetch a high price.Ĭhewie in its true form, in Captain Marvel #7 (2014). In essence, the untamed Flerken is not the sort of creature you’d want wandering the halls of your domicile, spaceship or not. They even have “pocket dimensions” in their stomachs, meaning they can consume objects much, much larger than their bodies without issue. Rocket explains that the Flerken only looks harmless, but in fact his kind are eldritch beings capable of laying hundreds of eggs, shooting tentacles out of their mouths, consuming virtually anything, and teleporting through space. When she meets the Guardians of the Galaxy, Rocket Raccoon takes one look at Carol’s furry pal and reveals the horrifying truth - Chewie is a vicious alien monster. That’s how circumstances remained for almost a decade, until 2014’s Captain Marvel #1, in which Carol takes off into space and brings untrusty Chewie with her. She kept him around, gave him a name (after Chewbacca, because of his wild fur), and considered him to be her regular, nonlethal house cat. Marvel #5 in a brief appearance as an unnamed rescue cat back in 2006 (when our heroine, Carol Danvers, was still using the “Ms.” moniker instead of “Captain”). It begins with Chewie the cat (Goose’s comic-book counterpart), who was officially introduced in Ms. The comic-book history of the Flerken is spotty.

Goose is a Flerken, and maybe one of the deadliest aliens the MCU’s ever seen. Goose is actually, technically, none of those things, because he’s not, really, a cat at all. But the reality of just who - and more importantly, what - Goose is in the MCU is a bit more complicated than a winsome, soft, and lovable cat.

#MOOSE FARKLE MOVIE#

Seeing his collared body on a Captain Marvel movie poster right next to Oscar nominees Jude Law and Samuel L.

Part of Goose’s charm is that he appears to be a cat, and everyone (the internet, at least) is horny for cats. Note: A flerk ton of Captain Marvel spoilers ahead.īrie Larson may be the titular star of Captain Marvel, but the unlikely scene-stealer is a cat named Goose, who has captured the hearts and minds of Marvel Cinematic Universe fans everywhere with his deceptive little cat face.

Moose farkle