For comic book fans, superhero stories are often appealing because they upscale the experiences of their teenage readers to great meaning. Right up to saving the world, the universe or even multiverses – above all they do it avengers-No more Marvel branded heroes. This is sometimes exhausting, but it can also be very entertaining, as in the new series, for example Ms. Marvelwhich is now available on Disney+.
Kamala Kahn (Iman Vellani), the main character, is not only the first Muslim superheroine of the Marvel cosmos, but also a comic fan herself. She wants one avengers-Convention, and their parents, who immigrated from Pakistan, won’t let them. Mainly because they don’t want their daughter squeezing into one of the stretch suits worn for such occasions. The 16-year-old is also secretly in love with the nerd next door, who shares her enthusiasm for comic book heroes. She gets cut at school, she doesn’t look like everyone else, she thinks differently and feels left out. So she’s first and foremost going through puberty and feeling exactly like her beloved superheroes who need to hide their powers and adapt.
Kamala’s favorite character is Captain Marvelthe savior of avengers, the world and actually the multiverse. That’s how it is if you, as an older comic fan, have been very patient in the past few years, in the last two avengers-Can watch movies. In fact, comics often work better as series, perhaps because that has always been their nature and they allow greater freedom in production. wall vision, Loki or Hawk Eyethree more avengersspin-offs were a lot more entertaining to watch. But while these series are adult fantasy, it’s turning Ms. Marvel to a very young audience. Kamala Khan is so strikingly designed as a figure of identification for pubescent nerds that one is almost amazed at how naturally and merrily all of this is introduced.
Kamala lives in a world of disses, likes and short attention spans, which becomes a stylistic device in the series. She has problems at school, messes up the driving test, her parents are pestering her that she should make something of her life and not follow her dreams. It quickly becomes clear that creativity is her superpower, even before she actually transforms into Ms. Marvel and can shoot cosmic energy out of her arm. Kamala’s migration background is part of the series that already made the comic template pleasantly different from others.
Instead of “good luck” “Basmala” is wished, the mother occasionally drives her daughter on with the Urdu term “Chalo”, the soundtrack also contains songs that you don’t usually hear on format radio, including by Eva B, who as a Pakistani rapper is already an exception in itself. The credits read more diverse than anything else you get to see on TV. The fact that the series doesn’t have to explain anything, but primarily entertains, only raises the question of why it’s still so special. But this way it works Ms. Marvel something that was already inherent in the template – to be a meta-series not just about superheroes, but what they mean to their fans.
Six episodes on Disney+.
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