Ms Marvel's MCU Powers Change Can Avoid Marvel's Biggest Flop
Disney+'s upcoming Ms. Marvel series changes the powers of its eponymous superhero, Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani), as confirmed by the Ms.Marvel trailer. This could also be a move away from Marvel's biggest flop of recent years, Inhumans. Scheduled to be released in June 2022, Ms. Marvel will introduce Kamala Khan as the Marvel Cinematic Universe's newest young superhero. Kamala, a Pakistani-American Muslim teen, will protect Jersey City en route to Ms. Marvel joining her hero, Captain Marvel (Brie Larson), in 2023's The Marvels.
Released in 2017, Inhumans is infamous as a gigantic misfire for Marvel Television. Based upon the characters created in Fantastic Four by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, the Inhumans were part of a Marvel Comics initiative during the 2010s to scale back the X-Men because the mutants' film rights were then held by Fox. Marvel Comics emphasized the Inhumans in publishing and this led to Marvel Studios initially announcing an Inhumans film as part of Phase 3 before quickly removing it from the film slate. Instead, Inhumans was turned into a disastrous Marvel TV miniseries starring Anson Mount as the Inhumans' king, Black Bolt, Serinda Swan as Queen Medusa, and Iwan Rheon as the villainous Maximus. A subpar production compared to Marvel Studios' hit movies and the Netflix Marvel shows, Inhumans proved to be an epic failure for Marvel Television and it's unlikely considered canon by the mainline MCU.
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However, Ms. Marvel's powers and comic book origin are intrinsically tied to the Inhumans and this is something that has been intentionally changed for the MCU. In the comics, Kamala Khan is also an Inhuman who gained her abilities when
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