Ms. Marvel Critic Reactions Prove The Backlash Was Absurd
The first critic reactions to Ms. Marvel are overwhelmingly positive, proving the preemptive fan backlash over Kamala Khan's power changes was absurd. The next Marvel Studios series releases on Disney+ on June 8th, 2022. In the run-up to the show's release, there has been a lot of online discourse surrounding the decision to slightly alter Ms. Marvel's powers for the MCU, with fears that Kamala's character would be affected negatively because of the change.
In the Marvel comics, Kamala Khan is an Inhuman whose powers allow her to stretch parts of her body. While the powers can seem similar to the likes of Reed Richards of the Fantastic Four, Ms. Marvel's powers are usually referred to as "embiggening" powers, with Khan more often stretching her body parts to be bigger and more powerful, as opposed to longer and stretchier like Mister Fantastic. However, it was revealed shortly after Ms. Marvel was greenlit that her powers were being somewhat altered in the MCU.
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While the embiggening effects have still been visible in brief trailer shots, Kamala's powers have been shifted to suit the cosmic side of the MCU, given her confirmed appearance in The Marvels in 2023. Rather than Kamala's body simply stretching to become bigger, the MCU has given her the ability to produce cosmic, crystalline energy. From the Ms. Marveltrailer for the Disney+ show, these abilities enable her to do anything from embiggening her limbs like her comic book counterpart, to producing crystallized energy shields, to walking through the air using cosmic platforms. Now, critics' reactions to Ms. Marvel's first two episodes have proven that the preemptive backlash to this power change was
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