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Marvel Studios has unveiled its next big Disney+ series Ms. Marvel, with a new trailer and release date.
Marvel Studios has released a reveal trailer for Ms. Marvel, the next big superhero series to hit Disney+ after Moon Knight. The series will start streaming in June, following a young Avengers super fan as she discovers strange new powers of her own.
Watch the trailer below:
Ms. Marvel is a coming-of-age story with superpowers, following a Muslim American teen in Jersey City named Kamala Khan, who is played by newcomer Iman Vellani. Kamala is big into gaming and fan fiction and often focuses her overactive imagination on her love for the Avengers. One Avenger stands above the rest in her mind, however: Captain Marvel. In real life, Kamala struggles with feeling invisible to her family at home and peers at school.
All this changes when she discovers wristbands (which look a lot like Nega-Bands, Kree relics that give people powers in the comics) that give her new and powerful cosmic powers. With all her knowledge of superheroes, Kamala decides to set out and do good with her new abilities, even if she doesn’t fully know how to control them yet. The show is created by Bisha K. Ali, based on the comic book character first introduced in 2013 by the writer-artist team of G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona.
Don’t be fooled by how grounded this series seems compared to more fantastical MCU entries like Loki and WandaVision, however. Ms. Marvel will be very important to the Marvel universe going forward. Kamala will appear next in 2023’s The Marvels alongside Captain Marvel herself in theatres. Ms. Marvel hits Disney+ on June 8, 2022.
Comic fans might also notice one big difference between Kamala in the comics and the MCU: her powers. In the comics, Kamala received her powers after an outbreak of Terrigen Mist that caused people all over the world with Inhuman genes to manifest strange new abilities. In the show, she seems to get her powers from mysterious new wristbands. She also seems to have energy-based abilities in the MCU, as opposed to her Mr. Fantastic-like shapeshifting abilities in the comics.
Marvel Studios already tried to introduce the Inhumans to the MCU via a TV series back in 2017 to disastrous results. That’s probably why Kamala has lost her Inhuman origins in this series, and her change in powers could be to better separate the character from the Fantastic Four’s eventual introduction to the MCU. If you’d like to see a more comic-accurate Kamala, you could always play as her in Marvel’s Avengers.
We also have a new poster for the show, which is a nod to Marvel Comics’ Ms. Marvel issue #5:
