Ms. Marvel a.k.a. Kamala Khan, is known for her rather big time powers. Using her Inhuman abilities to “embiggen” herself, the young heroine can become a giant or make her fists into massive weapons. This ties into another power of hers, one that’s typically forgotten.
Ms. Marvel can not only manipulate her limbs, but also shape-shift into another person. This ability has been largely ignored, but it’s also crucial to her character development. Now, with the big changes happening to the character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, this development might be ignored.
Though not used that much, Ms. Marvel’s power to shape-shift is actually the first ability that she uses once she undergoes Inhuman Terrigenesis. Coming out of an Inhuman cocoon, she hallucinates about some of her favorite heroes, including Carol Danvers as Ms. Marvel. Inspired by her heroism the most, Kamala actually turns into the blonde Avenger! She would also use the power later on down the road to turn into such things as furniture.
There are a few big reasons why Kamala stopped using the ability as frequently. For one, shape-shifting can interfere with her healing factor and other powers, as it adds an extra strain to her other gifts. Likewise, in initially shape-shifting into Carol Danvers, it showed how much she wanted to be like her. As she grew into her own as a hero, however, this diminished, with Kamala eventually having a sort of falling out with Danvers. Her confidence with her own improvements as a superhero proved that she was no one’s sidekick, nor did she need Carol’s approval. This illustrated how she had evolved from a wide-eyed fan girl into a heroine in her own right, and that she also felt comfortable in her own skin. It made for great and subtle character development, but it sadly might not be used in the MCU.
Ms. Marvel’s powers are quite different in the upcoming TV show on Disney+, and this stems from her changed origin story. Instead of being a descendant of the Inhumans, Kamala instead gets her powers from some sort of bracelet that has been in her family for generations. Her powers now involve being surrounded by a purple aura that acts as both a force field and can be manipulated into giant fists like her powers in the comics. This makes shape-shifting a little outside of her scope.
A lack of shape-shifting means that the subtly pivotal element of Kamala turning into Carol Danvers will now be absent. The Ms. Marvel show still seems to be doing something similar, however, with Kamala initially dressing up as Danvers’ Captain Marvel. She’ll likely drop this costume once she comes into her own, but it probably won’t have the same impact as her no longer needing to turn into Carol to validate herself. This also might be due to the upcoming Secret Invasion show, which will feature the invading shape-shifting alien Skrulls as villains. Likely to make room for this, Ms. Marvel has lost a power that’s largely forgotten anyway, but it’s also one that had a deep impact on her.
Ms. Marvel will premiere June 8, 2022 on Disney+.
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