What The Marvels’ Big Twists Mean for Ms. Marvel, WandaVision’s Monica and That Other MCU TV Hero

WARNING: The following contains full spoilers for the superhero team-up movie The Marvels, now in theaters.

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The Marvels began flying into theaters Thursday night, teaming up Carol Danvers aka Captain Marvel (played by MCU vet Brie Larson), Kamala Khan aka Ms. Marvel (Ms. Marvel‘s Iman Vellani) and Captain Monica Rambeau aka… well, we’re still working on that (WandaVision‘s Teyohah Parris).

As covered in my review from earlier this week, The Marvels was at the very least a fun time, what with Kamala kvelling over her becoming superfriends with her idol, and all the body-/power-swapping (jumprope practice included). Plus, the Captain Marvel sequel served up a veritable herd of Flerken, a sliiightly flirty visit from Valkyrie, and many funny observations that is the Khan family peanut gallery.

But the forgettable villain and the planet of singing people…? Meh.

To thwart the threat posed by the Kree revolutionary Dar-Benn (Zawe Ashton), one of the aforementioned light-powered heroes committed herself to a mysterious fate. In the aftermath, Kamala embarked on another team-up mission, while a mid-credits bonus scene un-X-pectedly linked Monica to a new corner of the vast Marvel universe.

Read on for how the film’s closing twists shook up the lives of Kamala and Monica — as well as TV hero [Spoiler] — and then grade The Marvels.

Kamala / Ms. Marvel

What is there to say, really? Other than the fact that, threats to the universe and Earth set aside, the events of The Marvels represented Kamala’s BEST. DAY. EVER.

The Captain Marvel superfan not only got to meet her idol, Carol Danvers, as well as Avengers overseer Nick Fury (who already had a file on the Jersey City teen!), but Kamala full-on teamed up with the former and Captain Monica Rambeau (who wields her own light-based powers) to battle Dar-Benn.

Along the way, sure, Kamala’s parents and big brother were ostensibly put in harm’s way, when some Kree assassins unwittingly landed in the Khans’ New Jersey home. But Muneeba, Yusuf and Aamir put up a damn good fight themselves, and even earned a family trip to the S.A.B.E.R. space station.

All told, the Khans came away with a far greater appreciation of Kamala’s powers and the role she can play in keeping Jersey City (and Earth/the universe) safe, while Kamala herself leaped exponentially closer to reaching her potential as a hero.

Forming a “team” with Carol and Monica also left Kamala feeling empowered enough to…

Kate Bishop / The new Hawkeye?

… hop over to New York City and pay a surprise, Nick Fury-like, emerge-from-the-shadows visit to one Kate Bishop (Hawkeye‘s Hailee Steinfeld).

Brandishing one of the clear “iPads” she had marveled at earlier in the film, displaying S.H.I.E.L.D.’s file on Clint Barton’s apprentice, Kamala proposed that she and Kate form a team — and maybe recruit Ant-Man’s daughter, as well!

Monica / (Code name still being workshopped)

During the movie’s final climactic action sequence, Monica made the ultimate sacrifice by flying into the fast-spreading, unstable wormhole created by Dar-Benn to unleash the light energy she had just absorbed from Captain Marvel and a double bangle-wearing Ms. Marvel. Carol raced to grab Monica before the wormhole closed behind her, but arrived just too late.

In the film’s lone mid-credits scene, we saw a “disoriented” Monica come to in some sort of med bay, seated next to what appeared to be her (alive?!) mother, Maria (Captain Marvel’s Lashana Lynch). This Maria, though, did not know who med bay’s “mysterious visitor” was.

It was then revealed to us that the doctor tending to Monica was Dr. Hank McCoy aka Beast, voiced again by X-Men: The Last Stand‘s Kelsey Grammer. And the Maria of this “parallel reality” is in fact wearing the supersuit of Binary, a sometime alter ego of Carol Danvers!

As Hank left to deliver “Charles” an update, Binary sternly asked the mysterious visitor, “Who are you?” To which Monica had to remark, “Oh, s–t.”

What did you think of The Marvels? And which twist and/or cameo was your favorite?

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