Ms. Marvel’s finale has a reveal that’s reverberating around the Marvel fandom
Disney Plus’ Ms. Marvel series has already spent its six-episode run completely reinventing her origin story and refreshing her powers for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. With its final episode it’s lobbed one more big twist into the mix. And according to the cast, it was a last-minute addition to the script that blew all of their minds.
[Ed. note: This piece contains spoilers for the final episode of Ms. Marvel.]
Just before the credits roll on the final episode of Ms. Marvel, Kamala has one more fateful chat with Bruno. He tells her that he took another look at her genetic makeup, because her brother Aamir wouldn’t stop pestering him with questions — if Kamala has superpowers because their great-grandmother was a visitor from another dimension, shouldn’t he have them too?
“When I compared you to the rest of your family, something still… seemed off.” He tells her that there’s “something different” in her genes. “Like… like a mutation.” When Bruno says the word, an electric guitar in the soundtrack flicks through the first seven notes of the infamous theme song from 1992’s X-Men: The Animated Series — which also underscored the appearance of Professor X in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
Matt Lintz, who plays Bruno, says that filming the scene came with some unique difficulties, namely that Iman Vellani, who plays Kamala, couldn’t stop laughing.
“It was hilarious,” he told Marvel.com, “because she just was like, ‘This is so cool.’ She couldn’t believe that I was saying this to her. Obviously, it’s so big for her character. We were going through the scene and she kept laughing. It was making me laugh. [...] I remember… you could just hear in the background [the crew] all screaming and the excitement and
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