Ms Marvel Offers The MCU Origin Story That Spider-Man Skipped
Warning! SPOILERS for Ms. Marvel episode 2 ahead.
Marvel Studio's newest Disney+ show Ms. Marvel is telling the origin story that the MCU's Spider-Man movies missed out on. Adapted from the comic book series created by Sana Amanat, G. Willow Wilson, and Adrian Alphona, Ms. Marvel tells the story of superhero superfan Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani) who discovers that she too has superpowers. As Kamala comes to terms with her new abilities, she also has to juggle her high school education and responsibilities to both her family and her mosque, alongside the standard teenage problems like smitten best friend Bruno (Matthew Lintz) and teen crush Kamran (Rish Shah.)
It's a superhero coming-of-age story that recalls the most famous teenage superhero in the Marvel canon, Peter Parker's Spider-Man. Created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko in 1962, Peter Parker became a relatable character for young comics readers who had previously seen teenagers relegated to wise-cracking sidekicks in other comic books. Like many kids in the complex world of America in the 60s and 70s, he was struggling to make his own way in a hostile world. Ms. Marvel similarly broke ground in creating Marvel's first Pakistani-American superhero, making great strides for diversity and visibility in comic books. Like Peter Parker before her, Kamala Khan is also learning that "with great power comes great responsibility" through juggling her superhero secret identity with her high school years.
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The MCU Spider-Man movies missed an opportunity to tell Parker's great power/great responsibility story with Tom Holland's Peter, pairing him up with various senior MCU mentors like Robert Downey Jr's Tony Stark.
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