Although Lee Pace’s Ronan the Accuser met his demise in 2014’s Guardians of the Galaxy when the title characters used the Power Stone to destroy him, this wouldn’t be the last time we’d see the antagonist in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. 2019’s Captain Marvel showed him in 1995 briefly visiting Earth on behalf of the Kree Empire and nearly bombing our planet to eliminate the Skrulls until Brie Larson’s Carol Danvers intervened. While there are no plans to resurrect Ronan, The Marvels director Nic DaCosta has addressed the connection the main villain in her upcoming Marvel movie shares with the Kree renegade.
Back in early 2021, Zawe Ashton was reported to be joining what was then known as Captain Marvel 2, and we’ve since learned that her character is Dar-Benn, a fellow Kree. As seen in The Marvels’ first trailer, Dar-Benn is wielding the same kind of warhammer Ronan used in both Guardians of the Galaxy and Captain Marvel, and when Total Film brought this up to DaCosta, she said the following:
