One of the greatest strengths of Ms. Marvel season 1 is how it balances all the bubbly vibrancy of a teen movie with the action-packed MCU that Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani) dreams of joining. After the six-episode season, she’s officially in: a hero with possibly a weightier origin story than the show initially let on after reinventing her powers. But true to the adolescent movies the show takes some of its stylistic cues from, she isn’t immune to everyday things like curfews and crushes.
Kamala’s connections to the world are bigger than just the boys around her. She has a much-needed everyday life, with family and friends who deeply care for her well-being (and will gently rib her at a moment’s notice). This article should not be taken as any sort of insistence that Kamala needs a boy in her life — season 1 of Ms. Marvel was mostly resistant to the idea that boys were Kamala’s priority in any way. Though she was pulled into the orbit of Kamran, and later the Red Dagger, her focus is rightfully on her superheroics.
So this is more an intellectual exercise: While Kamala and Ms. Marvel are more interested in her family history and the powers she’s adapting to, we’re just thinking about how fun her boy options are.
Look, I’m going to be upfront about this: I think Bruno is the best boy because I’ve read the comics, and I’m attached to that version of the character.
Writer G. Willow Wilson makes Bruno’s socioeconomic niche much more present in the comics. He works at the Circle Q for subsistence, not pocket change; he lives with his grandmother because his mother’s drug addiction became so severe that she lost the capacity to care for him. Artist Adrian Alphona gave the same nuance to his character design, giving Bruno
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