Marvel Is Already On The Right Track With Introducing The X-Men
This article contains spoilers for Ms. Marvel episode 6.
Ms. Marvel episode 6 officially confirmed Kamala Khan's status as a mutant, so it seems Marvel might be following a tried-and-tested tradition in introducing the X-Men, mirroring past stories involving Rogue and Jubilee. Since the finalization of Disney's acquisition of Fox in 2019, Marvel viewers have been waiting patiently for mutants and the X-Men team to show their faces in the MCU. Wishes were slightly granted with the cameo appearance of Professor X in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which was soon followed by the revelation of Kamala being Earth-616's first official mutant, creating a clear opportunity for the eventual debut of the X-Men.
Throughout Ms. Marvel, the show teased that there was something different about Kamala's genes. Initially, it was believed that her hard light powers came solely from her great-grandmother's bangle, which was then revealed to be linked to her heritage as a Djinn from the Noor Dimension. However, a small interaction between Kamala and Bruno at the end of Ms. Marvel episode 6, «No Normal,» revealed a "mutation" in her genes, with the theme song from the 1990s X-Men: The Animated Seriesplaying in the background, which also played during Professor X's first moments in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, confirming Kamala's status as the MCU's first mutant.
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This exciting revelation is not only a relief for avid X-Men fans, but it also creates huge opportunities for the future of mutants in the MCU. Past TV and film adaptations of theX-Men comics have always had the task of introducing a large number of mutants to audiences in one go,
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