Everything You Need to Know About This Adorable Captain Marvel’s Cat Goose
Wow, here’s a new beloved character in Marvel Universe and it’s a little red kitty. Nexter.org has prepared everything you’ll want to know about Goose ahead of Captain Marvel.
Marvel changed cat’s comics name for the movie
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In the original Captain Marvel comics, Carol Danvers has a cat named Chewie (yes, like in Star Wars). For the Captain Marvel movie, our heroine has a cat named Goose.
Goose is named after the Top Gun character, as the late 1980s Tom Cruise film served as a major inspiration for not just the film’s fighter pilot action, but also Carol’s own role as fighter pilot.
Not just a kitty but an alien
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Goose is more than likely a member of an alien race that resembles cats — and as always with the MCU, if he is a Flerken, that’s going to be important for not just Captain Marvel, but all other films going forward into Phase Four of the MCU. Might we see Goose pop up in Avengers: End Game? We’ll find out soon enough.
Nick Fury is a cat person
the MCU is full of #relatable superheroes but most relatable of them all, as of today, is Nick Fury whispering "I'll be back" at the cat he's been petting #CaptainMarvel pic.twitter.com/aSXsnY8i8U
— Angie J. Han (@ajhan) December 4, 2018
Jackson’s Nick Fury may be guarded around people, but as viewers will learn in Captain Marvel, he’s a big ol’ softie around kitties. That’s part of what’s so fun about Goose’s role in the movie, Boden told me in an interview last month: “Who would have thought that Nick Fury was a cat person?”
Goose is a girl cat
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Not that it’s relevant to the plot of Captain Marvel, but directors Boden and Ryan Fleck confirmed to Mashable they took pains to clarify that Goose is definitely a female cat.
Goose is played by four cats
Although Goose is just one cat, she’s played by four different cats: Reggie, Rizzo, Gonzo, and Archie.
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The face you’re most familiar with will be Reggie’s, as he’s the “hero” cat used for most of the close-ups and reaction shots. He was also the model for the prop and CG cats.
As for how one even goes about teaching a cat to act, the key, according to star Samuel L. Jackson, is food.
“He’s snack-oriented. He shows off,” he said of Reggie in a press conference. “You give him something to eat, you talk softly and nice to him, give him something to eat again.”
You can enjoy a whole hour of Goose in action right now
As part of their big press day in Los Angeles, Marvel Studios set up a livestream where fans could watch Goose just hanging around being Goose for a full hour.
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