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* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]: Sivana. He regularly describes himself as evil.

* [[Clark Kenting]]: Freddy Freeman/Captain Marvel, Jr/Captain Marvel III. The only difference between his real appearance and his alter ego is that the former is crippled and the latter isn't. Mary did this in her early apperances, but now changes into an adult, like her brother.

* [[Coattail Riding ~~Relatve~~]]: Uncle Marvel and Freckles Marvel.

* [[Coattail-Riding Relative]]: Uncle Marvel and Freckles Marvel.

* [[Daddy's Little Villain]]: Two of Sivana's children.

* [[Death by Origin Story]]: Freddy's grandfather was murdered by Captain Nazi in the middle of a battle with Captain Marvel.

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** And a much higher hemline!

* [[Evil Laugh]]: A lot of Captain Marvel's recurring enemies do this.

* Expy: In ''[[Love and Capes]]'', Captain Marvel's analogue is Major Might. Mark gets grouchy around him because he thinks he's a "copycat", until the Major's child self reveals that he chose powers like the Crusader's out of admiration. Awww.

* [[Expy]]: In ''[[Love and Capes]]'', Captain Marvel's analogue is Major Might. Mark gets grouchy around him because he thinks he's a "copycat", until the Major's child self reveals that he chose powers like the Crusader's out of admiration. Awww.

* [[For the Evulz]]: As Merlyn once put it, "Joker and Sivana do it for kicks."

* [[Flying Brick]]: One of the earliest.

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** Which then began to run backwards when Superman himself started copying elements from Captain Marvel, such as a female counterpart, the power of flight, and a bald [[Mad Scientist]] arch nemesis. And then DC sued Fawcett for making The Captain too similar.

* [[Gendered Outfit]]: Mary Marvel's outfit has a skirt, unlike the rest of the Marvel Family.

* [[Half-Identical Twins]]: Georgia and Thaddeus, Jr. Sivana -- even moreso in the Golden Age than today, when Thaddeus was a dead ringer for his father, and Georgia was basically Thaddeus in a dress and wig.

* [[Henshin Hero]]: Billy has to switch between his normal form and superhero form by using a magic word.

* [[Homage]]: The Post-Crisis reboot had several to ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'', including Mr. Tawky Tawny being a stuffed tiger brought to life and Billy having a teacher modeled after Mrs. Wormwood.

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** In ''Superman/Shazam: First Thunder'', Billy (still a homeless child) explicitly tells his friend he buys his clothes by the dozen because it's cheaper.

* [[Mad Scientist]]: Sivana and his family.

* [[Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter]]: Beautia Sivana. Her brother Magnificus ain't nothin' to sneer at either, if you're into guys.

** Averted by her sister Georgia.

* [[Mini-Dress of Power]]: Mary.

* [[Older Alter Ego]]: Captain Marvel to Billy, and nowadays Mary Marvel to, well, Mary. Averted with Captain Marvel Jr/CM3 who looks exactly the same age in and out of uniform.