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This review may contain spoilers.
My favorite scene in this movie has to be when Carol/Captain Marvel has her final encounter with Yon-Rogg.
First, they face off as if they are about to fight. Then the audiences sees Yon-Rogg changing his strategy, trying to use their close, teacher-student-humorous relationship to his advantage. Yon-Rogg did this because he knew he couldn't beat her, and as a warrior he knew he only stood a chance against her in hand-to-hand combat, so he challenged her to fight without her powers to "prove" to him she could finally beat him like he said she always would. Then Carol/CM declined with a smirk as she blasts him ass over tin-cup.
I was surprised she didn't take him up on his offer but I wouldn't have it any other way. Carol/CM knew, after all she went through to find herself she didn't need to prove herself to him. She didn't need to prove herself to anybody, because she had already proven to herself what she was capable of. She was already the best she could be by using her full potential and she knew that. Carol/CM wasn't going to let him trick her into feeling lesser, wrong, or weak ever again.
Another thing I liked, because I want to see more of him, was that she didn't kill Yon-Rogg. I admit I am holding out hope for a redemption arc for him. I knew Yon-Rogg would be bad right away--I mean, why would Jude Law go back from being evil after King Arthur: Legend of the Sword--so I wasn't surprised by the whole deception thing between him and Carol/CM. And I know she's a super hero and a lot of them don't kill, but I am still hoping we get to see their relationship again on screen since he didn't die. Also, here's to hoping he didn't die in The Snap™?
P.S-- Djmon Hounsou had the funniest line with "I laugh all the time...on the inside. I'm not laughing now."