19 Things To Get You Up To Speed Before You Watch Ms. Marvel
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Ms. Marvel is the nineteenth television series in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the twelfth installment of Phase Four.
1.So just exactly who is Ms. Marvel?
2.Okay, first, the origin story.
3.What are her powers?
4.What are terrigen crystals? What's terrigenesis?
5.Why do her powers seem different in the trailer?
6.What can we expect her on-screen powers to be?
Another idea floating around online is that her powers come from the Power Stone. Yes, yes, I know — the Power Stone got obliterated, but their energy stays in the universe because matter cannot be created or destroyed. Take Wanda recreating Vision from the residual energy of the Mind Stone, and Captain Marvel keeping her powers from the Space Stone even after both stones were gone.
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Kevin Feige, President of Marvel Studios, told Empire: "We adapt the comics; it’s not an exact translation. [Kamala] came about in a very specific time within the comic-book continuity. She is now coming into a very specific time within the MCU continuity. And those two things didn’t match.
What we will learn about where those powers come from, and how they come about, is specific to the MCU. You will see great comic splash panels in some of our action sequences. If you want big, giant hands and arms, well they’re here in spirit, if not in stretchy, plastic-type ways."
It could also be that Marvel is trying to differentiate Kamala's powers more obviously from those of Reed Richards aka Mr. Fantastic, who will be entering the MCU in the coming years.
So where does Kamala fit in?
Okay, so there's a few possibilities.
7.Possibility one: something akin to the Infinity storyline in the 2013 comics
8.Possibility two: she's going to be in the Young Avengers
Remember how Marvel gradually introduced the Infinity Stones throughout the movies, and before we knew it, there was a whole bunch of these world-ending rocks in imminent danger of getting (very literally) into the wrong hands?
Well, there's a theory that Ms. Marvel is going to be in the Young Avengers, as many characters have been introduced on-screen who are in this team in the comics, and there have been fan theories circulating about this team's introduction to the MCU for years. Kamala herself founds a young hero group in the comics, but we'll get to that later on.
So far, we've seen the following Young Avengers in the MCU: