The Ms. Marvel Twist Is Good And I Don't Know What You're Complaining About
The MCU just took another baby step towards introducing the X-Men by revealing that Kamala Khan is a mutant, and some fans are throwing a hissy fit over it. There seem to be two arguments against this decision, and I don’t think either one has any merit. By my estimation, this is either a meaningless wink to the audience that won’t go anywhere, or an opportunity for the MCU to be bold and original with its storytelling. Either way, there’s nothing here to be upset about.
There’s a group of Inhumans fans (supposedly) that are taking this news as an insult. They see it as a twist of the knife for the mistreatment of their beloved Inhumans. It’s one thing that this Kamala isn’t an Inhuman, but making her a mutant is the MCU saying that the Inhumans were always just a cheap replacement. No disrespect to the Inhumans, but there is some truth to that. If the Fox deal had happened sooner, I doubt the Inhumans would have even been part of the MCU, at least not for a long while. There is too much similarity between Inhumans and mutants for both of them to coexist in the MCU, and the X-Men are an infinitely more popular group of characters. Even if the Inhumans had never been introduced in Agents of Shield or had their own failed spin-off, there’s a good chance that Kamala still would have been a mutant.
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On the other hand, had Marvel made the Inhumans film as it originally intended to, then yes, Kamala may still have been an Inhuman in the MCU. I just don’t see the point in playing ‘What If(...?)’ when the reality is that the MCU tried the Inhumans and it bombed. What do you expect it to do now? There’s no reason to try to resurrect them when it
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