Marvel Theory Explains Exactly How Mutants Exist In The MCU Now
This article contains spoilers for Ms. Marvel episode 6.
Ms. Marvel has introduced mutants into the MCU, but it remains to be seen whether the Noor Dimension is the key to unlocking them en masse. Marvel regained the film and television rights to the X-Men and their associated characters when Disney acquired the bulk of 20th Century Fox's media empire. It didn't take long for Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige to begin teasing that they had already figured out how to incorporate mutants into their shared cinematic universe, and the first clues to those mysterious plans were offered in the Ms. Marvel finale.
One key scene in Ms. Marvel episode 6, «No Normal,» saw Bruno (Matt Lintz) tell Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani) that he had checked her DNA to figure out whether any other members of her family would gain superpowers if they wore her bangle. He revealed there was something unique about her DNA, something none of her family shared: a "mutation" of some sort. Marvel added a riff on the classic X-Men: The Animated Series theme song in the background in case viewers somehow didn't pick up on the comment. Ms. Marvel is the MCU's first official mutant.
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It's a surprising twist, given Kamala is actually an Inhuman in the comics — someone whose powers originate from a very different strand of DNA, activated by exposure to a substance called Terrigen and a process called Terrigenesis. Still, Ms. Marvel's co-creator Sana Amanat, who is heavily involved with the show, revealed Kamala was originally envisioned as a mutant in the first place but the creative team was overruled by Marvel bosses. Oddly enough, then, this particular twist means the MCU's Ms. Marvel
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