Ms. Marvel Is A Huge Step Forward For The MCU's Next Avengers Team
The upcoming Ms. Marvel series is a major step towards an eventual MCU version of Young Avengers. At the moment, there isn’t any explicit confirmation that Young Avengers will be part of the MCU, even with the various things that have been done to set it up. However, the very nature of Ms. Marvel makes the idea of it happening even more likely.
Multiple movies and TV shows in Phase 4 have introduced characters who make up the Young Avengers, a team of young superheroes in the comics who can be seen as Marvel’s equivalent to DC’s Young Justice or the Teen Titans. WandaVision introduced Wanda’s children Billy and Tommy, who are child versions of Wiccan and Speed, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier introduced Eli Bradley a.k.a. Patriot, Loki introduced Kid Loki, Hawkeye introduced Kate Bishop, and most recently, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness introduced America Chavez. Going back even further than Phase 4, Ant-Man introduced Cassie Lang a.k.a. Stature, and Avengers: Endgame aged her up into a teenager, so it’s easy enough to conclude that a Young Avengers project is in the works.
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The idea of a Young Avengers project happening makes even more sense with the upcoming Ms. Marvel series. All of the previous characters mentioned usually only had minor roles in the MCU stories they appeared in; in the case of Kate Bishop and America Chavez, while they were main characters in Hawkeye and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, the actual protagonists were Hawkeye and Doctor Strange, respectively. Ms. Marvel, however, is the first time that an MCU show is making a teenage character the central protagonist, and with Kamala Khan already
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