As Kamala Khan is poised to make her Marvel Cinematic Universe debut, her comic book counterpart’s origin was linked directly to Thanos himself.
Marvel Studios is unveiling new details about its upcoming television series Ms. Marvel, formally introducing Kamala Khan to the Marvel Cinematic Universe as she develops powers and decides to use them to defend her hometown of Jersey City. Interestingly, the MCU’s Ms. Marvel appears to possess different powers than her comic book counterpart while also deriving them from a differing source. Comparatively, the comic Kamala’s powers were linked to a brazen attack on Earth from Thanos, involving a forgotten MCU property, the Inhumans.
During the 2013 crossover event Infinity written by Jonathan Hickman, the Avengers were off-world handling a cosmic menace known as the Builders that threatened the entire Marvel Universe. In the wake of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes being absent from their home planet, Thanos led an attack on Earth while searching for his long-lost son Thane with the intent to murder his offspring. As Thane’s mother was an Inhuman, this placed him under Black Bolt’s protection, resulting in a showdown between the Inhuman King and the Mad Titan. The confrontation ended with Black Bolt destroying the Inhuman capital of Attilan in Earth’s atmosphere, unleashing the Terrigen Mists stored inside upon the human population.
The Inhumans and humans were revealed to have intermingled and procreated together millennia in the past, with anyone who inherited a dormant Inhuman gene from their ancestors undergoing the process of Terrigenesis. As part of their culture’s coming-of-age ritual, the Inhumans subjected each of their individuals to the Terrigen Mists so they could each develop their unique superpowers after remaining in stasis for several days in a crystallized cocoon following their exposure to the extraterrestrial chemical. Among the humans who were revealed to possess Inhuman ancestry and underwent Terrigenesis following the destruction of Attilan was Kamala.
Kamala was created by Sana Amanat, Stephen Wacker, G. Willow Wilson, Adrian Alphona, and Jamie McKelvie, making her debut in 2013’s Captain Marvel #14 vol. 7 (by Kelly Sue DeConnick, Scott Hepburn, and Gerardo Sandoval) through an unnamed cameo as a bystander witnessing Carol Danvers in action. After being exposed to the Terrigen Mists, Kamala underwent Terrigenesis due to her secret, extraterrestrial lineage. She developed powers that allowed her to become elastic, gave her superhuman strength and endurance, and accelerated healing. While a fan of much of the Marvel Universe’s superhero community, Kamala was particularly inspired by Captain Marvel after her pre-Terrigenesis brush with the hero and used her as the basis for her own superhero identity.
Given the poor reaction to the Inhuman’s brief tenure in the MCU through their short-lived television series, Ms. Marvel appears to have gone with a considerably less convoluted route by changing up how Kamala gets her powers and making them distinctly different from her comic book counterpart. It doesn’t appear Thanos has a direct role in the Ms. Marvel television series though influence from other MCU properties and a cosmic scale are evident in the first trailer for the show. Rather than making Kamala an Inhuman, Kamala is provided with a more streamlined origin not beholden to a crossover storyline and putting the focus on the character.
Kamala Khan is about to become the MCU’s latest superhero and, if her upcoming show’s first trailer is any indicator, she is set to make a big splash. Rather than connecting her to the biggest threat the MCU has seen so far, Ms. Marvel is set to feature a much lower-key origin to her powers rather than having Thanos responsible for an entire alien city being destroyed above New York. And in the MCU, Kamala has emerged from the shadow of the Mad Titan to become her own superhero and defend her hometown her way.
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