Ms. Marvel's Superpower Retcon Is More Bad News For Agents Of SHIELD
Ms. Marvel appears to be retconning the titular character’s powers, and the specific way it’s doing so is even more bad news for Agents of SHIELD. Despite being the first show in the MCU, there has been less and less connectivity between Agents of SHIELD and the MCU over the years to the point where many people have declared the show to no longer be canon. Ms. Marvel doesn’t appear to be helping in that regard, as the way that Kamala Khan’s powers have been changed clashes with a major story element of Agents of SHIELD.
In the comics, Kamala Khan was an Inhuman, a subset of humanity created through the experiments of the Kree, and after going through Terrigenesis, she gained the ability to stretch her limbs and change her size at will. However, the first trailer for the upcoming Ms. Marvel series has revealed that instead of her iconic stretching powers, Kamala has energy-like abilities that she obtains from wearing a pair of bangles that are likely based on the Nega-Bands of the original Captain Marvel in the comics. Assuming that there isn’t any sort of twist later down the line, it’s likely that Kamala won’t be an Inhuman in Marvel's Ms. Marvel and will instead be a human with powers derived from some form of technology.
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Kamala’s powers being changed in such a way can have a lot of consequences going forward, and one of them is making it even more difficult for Agents of SHIELD to be canon. The Inhumans were initially introduced to the MCU in Agents of SHIELD and were a vital part of the series for the majority of its run. As such, there was an easy chance for the MCU to reference the show in some way with Kamala Khan, but if Ms. Marvel is
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