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*MS MARVEL FINALE SPOILERS*
They called Kamala's genetic makeup a "mutation" in one scene at the end while the xmen 97 theme played in the background. The mcu mutants are happening for realzies 😬
this…….is not the news I wanted to hear
bushy I'm so happy for you rn
ME TOO AND LIKE
It's not just about the South Asian Rep or even about the Pakistani immigrant Muslim family rep or even about the Jersey City rep ITS ABOUT ALL THREE AT ONCE
In 2016, around the time this show formally started production, a presidential candidate accused Jersey City Muslims of "dancing on the rooftops during 9/11" and i was so upset. Because I LIVED IT. And to have someone say that and people think he was true was just as bad as growing up and living through the decades of Islamophobia THATS STILL GOING ON even when we suffered too and it felt like all the hard work the community had been doing for YEARS was undone in an instant.
And I thought this was it. We're going backwards and I'll never feel seen.
And when I was a kid I was so much like Kamala.
I stared out the window at the NYC skyline dreaming of a world I thought I'd never join.
I felt othered and different from all my classmates, because yes Jersey City is very diverse but if you don't fit the mold it so lonely. I wasn't "Desi enough" to be part of the Indian cliques and i wasnt white. I was still Pakistani and an immigrant and I had curfews and friends who were annoyed I couldn't go places at night. I felt so alone and shy and nervous and even changed my clothes in gym class the way she did
I had parents who were trying but didn't get it, I had that weird feeling of being both proud of my heritage and frustrated by the limitations.
I had that love of fandoms and fantasy and creating and enjoying and being told my head was stuck there but how could I avoid it when reality felt awful?
And I had that exact same feeling of wishing and wanting to be someone somewhere and do something with all my might and that feeling that I couldn't because I didn't fit "the mold"
But the show is absolutely right that the brown girls from Jersey City CAN save the world and to think that there's a little girl like me somewhere in my hometown who gets to see this show and feel empowered instead of stifled and gets to say "its me!!!!" means the absolute world to me.
Spider-Man has canonically experienced period cramps when him and Kamala Khan swapped bodies.
MARVEL TEAM-UP #2
we’re really getting a show with this precious hero *chef’s kiss* excellence
Just when you thought it couldn't possibly get any worse
The fact that they changed Kamala’s powers in the mcu because she’s “too similiar to Reed Richards (a character that doesn’t even exist in mcu) is absolutely ridiculous and stupid. Her powers aren’t even that similiar to each other, Kamala can change her literal size and shape, meanwhile Reed’s main power is his genius. We also have so many characters in mcu with similiar/the same powers (captain america/super soldier, black widow, spider-men, speedsters, hawkeye, ant-man and wasp) that this argument really loses it’s powers. Not only they are erasing what is an important part of her comics, where she’s accepting herself as a pakistani american hero and where she’s finally realizing that she doesn’t have to be just like Carol Danvers (who she views as a standard for beauty and a great hero), but they are also making her powers sparkly and ‘more feminine’ so it doesn’t look as ‘off-putting’ as it would if her powers stayed the same in the mcu.
Given the leaks turned confirmation of the power change for Kamala Khan in the upcoming Disney+ show, I figured I'd gift this to my Kamala Khan fam upset with the changes being done to Kamala's origins.
Been watching the discussion from the side and I can't help but notice how quick people are dismiss legitimate concerns with all these changes and frankly it's annoying.
I am afraid to ask but what they change about her powers?
It's been confirmed that rather than the elasticity powers she has in the comics, the show is going to change it to Kamala being able to making Energy Constructs:
This coincides with an earlier leak/rumor which revealed that not only would Kamala's powers be changed, but the actual source of the powers would also be completely changed. Rather than being turned into an Inhuman through the terrigen mist, Kamala would instead find a family amulet that gives her "Djinn" powers.
…that’s racist
There is so many things wrong with this because like there is this lack of awareness. Correct me if I am wrong, but aren’t Jinn considered demons in the Koran? And the idea that they mix and matched Kamala with her actual fucking sidekick Amulet is baffling.
What’s described is literally his power and it comes from a family heirloom. And before you say, “how come that’s not racist but when Kamala does it, it is?” Because what Fadi aka Amulet does is explicitly noted that his power is considered taboo in his culture.
But that’s not Kamala’s story.
This is like absurd.
There's also the fact that Kamala having a power change means that she cannot morph into Carol in her origin story. Which means her entire arc about realizing that she does not need to be some white, blonde haired, blue-eyed woman to be a hero. Her entire story of self-acceptance and overcoming internalized racism is gone.
Kamala is having a power change and it's likely being done so that she can match and/or better compliment Carol, because Kamala's very specially not pretty looking polymorph powers don't vibe with the white woman aesthetics. It's not just a change in her power set, it's a fundamental change in her origin and who she is as a character. And this change to the Pakistani-Muslim's character is being done to better center a white woman who is the current poster child for USAF in cinema.
Fuck, and I mean this with all my heart, the MCU.
wasnt a big part of kamala’s arc learning to not be disgusted by her own powers because they were weird and it was a metaphor for teenagers learning to accept their bodies????? is that just gonna be ignored??????? are we not gonna do that???????? THE WHOLE POINT WAS THAT THE POWERS WERE WEIRD BUT ALSO GOOD AND ACCEPTING THEM WAS NECESSARY?????? HELLO?????????
IT ALSO HAD A LOT TO DO WITH HER THINKING THAT TO BE A SUPERHERO SHE HAD TO BE THE IDEALIZED WHITE PERFECT WOMAN THAT CAROL WAS BUT THEN REALIZING HER OWN WORTH AS A BROWN MUSLIM INDEPENDENT SUPERHERO BUT NOW SHE UH *checks phone* thinks that the us airforce has girl power
Carol stans: The title being changed to "The Marvels" is misogynistic, they're diminishing Carol's importance and sidelining her! She's Captain Marvel, she deserves her own solo trilogy without other characters interfering!
Me: *stares in Monica Rambeau*
Captain Marvel 2 is renamed to “The Marvels”
heres the whole drawing from [this pic] :)
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