The historical perspective in 'Ms. Marvel' gives the show something Marvel programming on Disney+ hasn’t had in a while, if ever: a sense of realism.
) touched on world-historic atrocities, Kamala Khan’s narrative brings that connection to the past down to the ground level. Her grandmother lives in Karachi and, asshowed in episodes 4 and 5, was a young girl when her family fled to Pakistan. Kamala's superpowers turn out to be rooted, in a way, in her family's Partition story. The historical perspective gives the show something Marvel programming on Disney+ hasn’t had in a while, if ever: a sense of realism.
The show’s depiction of the Partition also puts something onscreen that Hollywood has rarely visualized, says Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, an Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker who directed the season’s penultimate episodes. Those took Kamala to Karachi, and back in time, to discover her family’s story.
As the Marvel Cinematic Universe gets bigger and more galactic and multiversal, it strays from humanity in both the literal and figurative senses. Duringa mutant . But thanks in large part to Iman Vellani, the 19-year-old actor who plays Kamala, the character is fully three-dimensional in a way that many on-screen superheroes aren’t. The greatest strength of Kamala’s backstory is that it’s woven into the series, not grafted on for gravitas.comic, created by G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona, came out in 2014 it was hailed as the first of its kind, specifically the first monthly Marvel series to star a Muslim woman as its hero.
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