Just one week away from its finale, Ms. Marvel seems to have forgotten the one thing that really made it stand out from the MCU’s vast but repetitive catalog: those gorgeous comic book-inspired graphics that fit Kamala Khan’s teenage life so well. With that in mind, what’s left is perhaps Marvel's most niche production, one that has consistently struggled to expand beyond its target audience since the very start.
Let’s face it, Ms. Marvel has always had a tough hill to climb. It focuses on a relatively unknown Marvel superhero, possibly the most obscure in Phase Four, all without the added star power that Oscar Isaac brought to Moon Knight. It's also constrained to a high school setting, which makes its themes harder to relate for those above the Gen Z age demographic. With the stellar visual style that almost made up for every one of the series' shortcomings all but gone, what’s left is a Ms. Marvel that’s far from the best MCU content Disney has to offer.
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It goes without saying that Kamala’s two-episode trip to Karachi, Pakistan abruptly changed the series. Although it certainly wasn’t for the worse, the time-travel shenanigans that Ms. Marvel has to take part in and the more serious tones that her family’s history requires don’t go hand in hand with the previous artistic flair. The first few episodes are all about diving into Kamala the daydreamer, a massive Marvel fangirl who even has her own YouTube channel, a world then torn down by the complications her superpowers bring to her life.
After all, another great thing about Ms. Marvel is having the rare opportunity to see an MCU hero clumsily fail to save the day so many times, as Kamala’s
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