The MCU Just Made Its Alternate Dimensions Even More Confusing
This article contains spoilers for Ms. Marvel episode 4.
Ms. Marvel episode 4 just added another confusing layer to the MCU's multiverse and its alternate dimensions. The multiverse lies at the heart of the MCU's Phase 4 slate, and it has been surprising to see the Ms. Marvel Disney+ TV show explore it as well. Kamala Khan's MCU origin story involved a scene in which Ms. Marvel appeared to travel the multiverse, while episode 4 ended with an apparent time travel scene.
This is because the MCU has tied Kamala Khan in to the "Noor Dimension." According to the Red Daggers, this is another plane of existence that sits atop our own, unperceived and normally inaccessible. It is separated from our dimension by a field of energy known as Noor, which Kamala Khan taps into when she uses her powers. The villains of Ms. Marvel — the Clandestines — are exiles from the Noor Dimension, and they are seeking to unite them in an interdimensional collision that would destroy the Earth. The action has moved to a completely different scale.
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Unfortunately, the Ms. Marvelepisode 4 explanations about the Noor Dimension shine a light on the MCU's biggest and most confusing multiversal problem — a lack of precision when discussing alternate dimensions and what this exactly means. Each MCU TV film and TV series appears to use key terms in a totally different way. In Loki, Marvel's What If...?, Spider-Man: No Way Home, and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, the word "dimensions" refers to alternate timelines. In the first Doctor Strange, and now in Ms. Marvel, it instead refers to different planes of existence. The same is likely true in Shang-Chi & the Legends of the Ten
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