Eight weeks ago, Ms. Marvel died. This week, her family was over it. That’s thanks to Emma Frost, who is on the run with the rest of the surviving X-Men after Orchis, the human supremacist mad science cabal, depopulated Krakoa and murdered many mutants. Lot going on in the world.
Why is Emma looking out for an Inhuman like Kamala? Well, in case you hadn’t heard, Kamala’s an Inhuman and a mutant now, as revealed in 2023’s X-Men: Hellfire Gala. And Emma, above all, protects mutant children. The only people who know that Kamala is a mutant are a scant handful of X-Men heavyweights, and with things so dire for mutants right now, Emma is determined to keep it that way for as long as possible.
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So, Emma kicks off Kamala’s entry into the world of the X-Men in classic Professor Xavier fashion: by just wiping the memory of a traumatic event from her family’s minds without asking. Plus, she arranges to have all physical evidence of Kamala’s death in Amazing Spider-Man #26 destroyed. And I get it: Kamala’s got an upcoming four-issue miniseries and if she had to come out to her family as alive, an Inhuman, and a mutant all at the same time, there would barely be any more room for a story in there.
But Marvel also published a whole “Funeral for a Friend” tribute issue about her death! It had a beautiful
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