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In the books, Kamala develops her polymorphic ability to alter her body’s mass after being exposed to a gas that causes people with dormant Inhuman (think X-Men but weirder and usually lurking on the Moon) genes to undergo sudden evolutionary transformations. It’s felt reasonable to assume that the Inhumans’ time in the MCU was over Marvel sidestep some of the budgetary and narrative complications that would come with directly adapting the powers and Inhuman origins Kamala typically has in Marvel’s comic books. Both of those plot points have worked as interesting ways of making Kamala’s MCU story one about a young person figuring out how she fits into her family’s legacy. Marvel’s first episode, she never would have discovered her power to make hard light constructs or how her family’s history intertwined with that of a group of djinn-like beings called Clan Destines from another plane of existence. Were it not for Kamala coming across her grandmother’s mysterious bangle in Ms. Marvel #1 is part of how the show’s able to sell its wild new spin on who and what she is. But recreating some of the most memorable moments from Kamala’s first solo outing in 2014’s Ms.
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Marvel’s Kamala doesn’t suddenly discover that she can shape-shift the way her counterpart in the comics sometimes can. Marvel’s way of reminding everyone that live action comic book adaptations don’t have to stick to the source material to be interesting. “No Normal” checks off all of the boxes we’ve come to expect from Marvel’s overstuffed, VFX-heavy final acts. Marvel brought her back to the present just in time to come clean to her mother about her powers after using them to narrowly prevent a massive disaster. After sending Kamala to Pakistan - and the distant past - to learn more about her family and their roots in another dimension, Ms. Marvel started out with its feet planted firmly on the ground, the show quickly started taking steps up above street level once it began teasing out that Kamala might actually be magical. This review contains spoilers for the first season of Ms. Marvel’s season 1 finale, “No Normal,” single-handedly turned Kamala into one of the MCU’s most important characters by featuring a very particular word and instantly recognizable musical cue. Marvel had already provided plenty of clues about how Kamala might end up joining the big leagues and working alongside her idol in The Marvels.
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Marvel series needed to shift gears drastically if it wanted to complete Kamala Khan’s transformation into a bona fide superhero and wrap up all of its different subplots within the span of its season 1 finale.