Ms. Marvel’s real origin story was too embarrassing for the Marvel Cinematic Universe
polygon.comIt was clear from the trailers that Disney Plus’ Ms. Marvel would be making some departures from the comics, primarily in her superpowers. But it’s Kamala Khan’s origin story where the Marvel Cinematic Universe is likely to be making the biggest changes.
On paper, the story of how Ms. Marvel got her powers is merely weird. And when you zoom out to the level of corporations battling over the rights to Marvel Comics intellectual property, things get even weirder. So here’s why we’re definitely not going to see Kamala’s original backstory in her TV show — and why nobody is really surprised.
[Ed. note: This piece contains mild spoilers for the first two episodes of Ms. Marvel on Disney Plus.]
In its second episode, Ms. Marvel makes it clear that the origin of Kamala’s bangle — a family heirloom from her great-grandmother — will be a central mystery in the show. It may be a few episodes before we find out more about her mysterious ancestor and the nature of this piece of jewelry that awards power over hard light constructs.
That mystery might lead a person to go look at how Kamala got her powers in the comics.
In her 2014 comic book debut, Kamala discovered that she was the descendant of an Inhuman when her superpowers were awakened by exposure to a cloud of Terrigen Mist created by the Terrigen Bomb. That sentence might lead a person to ask: “What in the heck does that mean? And… why? Why is it… like, like that.”
Hop in this time machine with me, reader, back to the year 2011. That was the first time that Marvel Studios appeared to be developing an Inhumans project for the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Who the hell are the Inhumans? They’re a group of Marvel Comics characters originally introduced in The Fantastic Four by
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