- Carol Danver: is the character we know in the UCM as “Captain Marvel”. She first appeared in Marvel Super-Heroes #13 (March 1968) and was created by Roy Thomas and Gene Colan.
- Sharon Ventura: First appeared in The Thing #27 (September 1985) and its creation was in charge of Mike Carlin and Ron Wilson. A few issues later, Ventura would join an experiment where she gained her superpowers and gained the name of Ms. Marvel. A year later, the character would join the Fantastic Four with powers very similar to those of The Thing, and receiving the nickname ‘She-Thing’.
- Karla Sofen: This character is quite related to Carol Danvers. She first appeared in Captain America #192 (December 1975) as the supervillain Moonstone. She was a psychologist who had gained powers from a gravity stone that originally belonged to the Kree race. For a time, she was part of The Dark Avengers, where she replaced Carol Danvers as Ms. Marvel.
- kamala khan: Created by Sana Amanat, G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona, Khan is the fourth character in all of Marvel history to obtain this title. He is also the most recent of all, since the first appearance of him dates back to August 2013 in Captain Marvel #14. A year later, Khan would receive his own comic book series for which he won a Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story. Thanks to this support, Disney decided that this had to be the character that carried the banner of Ms. Marvel to his cinematic universe.
Who is Ms Marvel?
Now that we have defined that Ms. Marvel is more of a temporary title, we will focus more specifically on kamala khan, which is the character that Disney and Marvel Studios are going to integrate into their cinematic universe over the next few years under this name. We will focus on his biography as told in the comics. However, it is possible that the television series Ms Marvelwhich will be released on Disney + next June, make some changes to the character, but they should be insignificant in terms of biography, considering that it is a completely recent and contemporary creation.
character creation
Sana Amanat
Kamala Khan was originally created to reflect the captain marvel legacy, but with a different identity. The character integrates many anecdotes from the life of its own creator, Sana Amanat, whose family is of Pakistani origin. It all came about in a conversation with Stephen Wacker in which she told him how difficult her childhood was carrying a double life halfway between muslim traditions of his family and american culture in which she was integrated into her school, with her friends and classmates.
Almost without realizing it, Amanat discovered a unique opportunity to explain the Muslim diaspora in the United States from a perspective that only she could tell. Subsequently, she made up the character so that she would be a second row superheroine. This is specified in details such as Kamala was born in New Jersey (just like her creator) and is not from New York, like most Marvel superheroes.
The foundation on which this new Ms Marvel is to create a superheroine about a person who already has a double life. There were many aspects that were taken into account so that the race of the girl was as ambiguous as possible, as well as the design of the character. Its creators wanted Kamala to have a muslim origin, but moving it away from any symbol that generates rejection among Western Muslim women and with a design and development that is deep enough to emulsify audiences with opposing cultures in the figure of a fictional character. Without a doubt, a very ambitious vision that has earned her adaptation to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
kamala khan biography
kamala khan is a girl Pakistani-American teenager who lives in New Jersey. Her family has many Muslim roots, while she tries to integrate properly into the American culture, albeit with difficulties. Often, Kamala feels that she does not belong to one group or another, so he ends up taking refuge in superheroes. Khan is a fan of Carol Danvers and The Avengers. During her free time, the young woman writes fan fictions from Marvel and uploads them to the Internet.
Kamala will end up fighting alongside her favorite superheroes when one day, she gains her own powers. In the comics, this is due to an “accident”, while in the Marvel Cinematic Universe everything points to cosmic energy coming from a bracelet. However, we will discuss this detail in more detail in the next section.
heroin powers
There is some discrepancy between the powers of Kamala Khan in the comics and what has been seen in the trailers of Ms Marvel. Khan’s main ability in the comics is the elongation. This means you can extend their limbs as much as you need, as well as twist, enlarge and shrink, getting more force the bigger you get or even compressing enough to measure the thickness of a sheet of paper.
On the other hand, Kamala Khan can heal fairly quickly of wounds, even from firearms. However, he has a limit, and he feels tired if he has to heal many parts of his body at the same time. On the other hand, Khan can also transform into other people and even objects in the comics, though he uses these abilities very rarely.
Where do Ms. Marvel’s powers come from?
In the trailers we’ve seen of the series, this new Ms. Marvel has powers that are not in the comics. In fact, Kamala wears a bracelet which seems to be the origin of his special abilities. In the comics, the bracelet exists and is a family heirloom that belonged to her great-grandmother, but it is not specified that her powers come from there.
Also in the trailers it can be seen that Kamala, played by Iman Vellani, uses powers that do not exist in the comics like throwing cosmic energy or even make energy shields. This differs from what was told on paper. Kamala’s powers in the comics come from a Terrigen bomb explosion. Kamala comes into contact with ‘The Terrigen Mists early in the morning, when he leaves a party of his high school classmates to which his parents had forbidden him to go. The girl begins to hallucinate with her favorite superheroes and wakes up the next day in her bed with her polymorph powers, her explanation is that the mist has awakened the inhuman genes of his bodygenetic material that is scattered throughout humanity and that can be activated in these circumstances.
