Ms. Marvel's Animation Captures Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse's Charm
Ms. Marvel has just landed on Disney Plus, and if there’s one key takeaway to draw from the series, it's that it’s like nothing the MCU has done before. Sure, that might be down to very self-apparent reasons, but only one seems to really jump out of the screen and that is none other than the show’s unique animation style.
In that regard, it’s Ms. Marvel and not What If…? that comes closer to achieving a tame MCU version of what Sony did with Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse in 2018, albeit in very different doses, considering Kamala Khan’s adventures are not animated but live-action instead. Nevertheless, that only makes what directing duo Adil & Bilall pull off in the pilot episode even more impressive. Ms. Marvel dares to imagine what it feels like for a teenager to live inside their own comic book world.
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Such a drastic change cannot be put in place so suddenly, which is perhaps why Ms. Marvel opens up with an imaginative montage made by Kamala for her own YouTube channel, Sloth Baby Productions. It's a creative recreation of the events that unfold in Avengers: Endgame, with the admitted bias of a Captain Marvel stan. More than anything, though, it's the best insight to Kamala's Marvel fangirl world, what really drives her, and a glimpse at how animation will be used in the show.
Into the Spider-Verse was such a hit because it is, after all, a very good movie, yet it's impossible to imagine it existing without that distinctive art style that makes viewers genuinely feel as if they've been thrown into a comic book. Ms. Marvel does this more casually. It's not the series' biggest selling point, but having entire sequences play out as
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