Captain Marvel is undoubtedly the most powerful superhero in the MCU – so much so, in fact, that she was presented as the potential saviour thanks to that emergency pager during the dire ending of Avengers: Infinity War . So some fans were left asking themselves why didn't she have a bigger part to play in Endgame , as she spent most of the movie in another part of the universe. In a recent interview with Empire , the directors behind the last two Avengers movies sat down and explained their thinking when it came to Carol Danvers' role. "It was a story about the original six," Joe Russo said. "That was the focus of the film, to conclude a 10-year saga about those characters. And Carol's a fairly new character. "[Captain Marvel] had no depth of relationship with those other characters, which on one side is an opportunity, but also – when you have a story that's this size – you have to work with an economy of storytelling in order to maximi...