For years now, Marvel has been teasing that combined mutant/Inhuman DNA. While her stretching abilities come from her Inhuman genetics, that same DNA blocks her mutant ability from manifesting... or at least it did until now.
This isn't the superpower fans expected (and feared) Ms. Marvel would get...
In today's Giant-Size X-Men #1 - from Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly, Adam Kubert, Laura Martin and Clayton Cowles - Kamala Khan is hurled through time, encountering the X-Men during the events of 1975's pivotal Giant-Size X-Men from Gil Kane and Dave Cockrum. g up with Cyclops' team, Kamala gets her own official X-Men costume. Then, in a battle against a corrupted version of Xavier's son Legion, she manifests an unexpected power.
Fighting Legion, Kamala's fists take on a glowing, diamond-patterned appearance, emitting a shimmering trail of light as she punches out the godlike Omega mutant. While there's a lot still to be revealed about what Kamala's mutation can do, it's clear that the energy infusing her fists vastly increases her strength, allowing her to hurt arguably X-Men's most powerful mutant. Crucially, this isn't the superpower fans expected Ms. Marvel to get.
Legion is an Omega-level power generator, able to grant himself any superpower - including other Omega-level mutant powers.
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As revealed in X-Men: Hellfire Gala 2023 #1 (by Gerry Duggan and a range of artists, including Kubert), Kamala is Marvel's only known Inhuman/mutant hybrid. This previously impossible combination was seemingly made to bring Marvel's comic lore in line with the MCU, where the Inhumans have an incredibly minor presence, while the X-Men debuted in 2023's The Marvels, with the Ms. Marvel TV show confirming Iman Vellani's Ms. Marvel is the MCU's first mutant.
In the show and movies, Ms. Marvel has energy projection powers, allowing her to create constructs out of hard light. This was likely to avoid the difficulty of replicating stretching powers in CGI (or to delineate her from Reed Richards, who debuts in this year's Fantastic Four: First Steps.) For years, fans have been expecting Marvel to make the same change in the comics, replacing Kamala's stretching with her MCU powers. However, it's now clear that isn't the case - at least, not exactly.
Punching out Legion, Ms. Marvel combines her Inhuman stretching with some kind of mutant energy generation that makes her far, far stronger. While the glowing light is present, it's aesthetically very different from the MCU's purple energy. What's more, it's clear that Ms. Marvel's mutant power will enhance her Inhuman abilities, rather than replacing them. Fans had worried that introducing Kamala's MCU powers would essentially allow her to do the same thing as her Inhuman powers, but with a slightly different appearance.
Ms. Marvel's journey through X-Men history will continue in Giant-Size Dark Phoenix Saga, Giant-Size Age of Apocalypse, Giant-Size House of M and Giant-Size X-Men #2, giving Marvel plenty of time to further develop Kamala's new powers and reveal everything she can do. For now, however, fans know that Ms. Marvel's new mutant power makes her far stronger, imbuing her stretchy form with shimmering golden energy, and making her powerful enough to injure Legion - and while this does align the comic Kamala Khan more with the movies, it's not the exact recreation fans feared, but something that enhances her existing abilities.
Giant-Size X-Men #1 is available now from Marvel Comics, followed by Giant-Size Dark Phoenix Saga #1 on June 11.
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Ms. Marvel
7/10- Release Date
- 2022 - 2021
- Network
- Disney Channel
- Showrunner
- Bisha K. Ali
Cast
Laith Naki
WHERE TO WATCH
StreamingMs. Marvel is an action-superhero TV series set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The show follows Iman Vellani, a 16-year-old high school student in New Jersey who is a huge fan of superheroes and has difficulty fitting in at school. When Iman is gifted a mysterious bangle from her grandfather, she discovers it allows her to utilize cosmic energy and construct what she can imagine. Now an accidental superhero, Iman will try to rise to the challenge and make a name for herself as Ms. Marvel.
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