Marvel Comics Bringing Ms. Marvel Back as a Teenage Muslim Girl Named Kamala Khan

Ms. Marvel

Marvel Comics is bringing Ms. Marvel back to the Marvel universe, but not as Carol Danvers. According to The New York Times, the new Ms. Marvel will be a teenage Muslim Jersey girl named Kamala Khan.

Kamala, whose family is from Pakistan, has devotedly followed the career of the blond, blue-eyed Carol Danvers, who now goes by Captain Marvel, a name she inherited from a male hero. When Kamala discovers her powers, including the ability to change shape, she takes on the code name Ms. Marvel — what Carol called herself when she began her superhero career.

“Captain Marvel represents an ideal that Kamala pines for,” Ms. Wilson said. “She’s strong, beautiful and doesn’t have any of the baggage of being Pakistani and ‘different.’”

Ms. Marvel

Ms. Marvel

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via The New York Times

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