#6 MS. MARVEL
A Pakistani-American, Kamala Khan just joined the Marvel U a few months ago, but she did it in a big way. As the Inhuman city fell during the “Infinity” event, the Terrigen Mists were released, triggering the Inhuman DNA within many folks in New York City, or in Kamala’s case, Jersey City. Kamala entered her Terrigen caccoon and began hallucinating about her favorite heroes, Iron Man, Captain America, and Captain Marvel. She emerged wearing Carol Danver’s old costume, seemingly from sheer force of will. Throughout the first issues, Kamala comes to realize she has shapeshifing powers. Not only is she capable of stretching her limbs to great lengths and widths, but she can also grow or shrink to incredible sizes.
One of the things that really set the comics of Marvel apart from DC in their heyday is that the characters were presented as real people first and heroes second. This hasn’t been translated into the Marvel Cinematic Universe at all. Not only is this facet not present in the films, but where are the teen heroes? When Stan Lee and Jack Kirby were creating icons in the ’60s, a good percentage of their heroes were young. Spider-Man, the X-Men and Johnny Storm allowed young readers to have someone to connect to, but on film Marvel has mostly given us just 40-something white guys.
The Inhumans has said to be in development at Marvel for quite a while. Should that film ever get made, it perfectly sets the stage for Kamala Khan to take on the role of Ms. Marvel. Frankly, you don’t even have to make an Inhumans film to make Ms. Marvel, you can make Ms. Marvel to set up the Inhumans and then make her the center of that film as well where she learns about this ancient culture and meets other people just like her.
With our seventh pick we want someone that can crash down walls on the big screen, and we mean dimensional ones.
