A Ms. Disney + Marvel, which premiered its first episode on Wednesday, Kamala Khan is the biggest fan of Captain Marvel. The teenager runs a superhero-themed YouTube series, makes his own cosplay costumes, and aspires to be his favorite avenger.
Kamala’s fangirling is familiar territory for lead writer and executive producer Bisha K. Ali, who admits that she fell in love when she was younger and therefore approached the culture of fans through a celebration lens.
“She was a nerd when she wasn’t acceptable and great … so I understand the passion and love of the fans,” she tells TVLine. “That was very important to us in building this show, that Kamala Khan herself is a fan. This is a show for fans and for a fan’s fantasy of being part of Marvel.”
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For Ali, the Disney + series needed to “talk to this generation of viewers who have the MCU in their bones. It was very exciting to be able to tell a story from that perspective. Kamala will represent the audience a lot in the story from of the future “.
In episode 1, Kamala runs away from home to attend AvengerCon (an Avengers-themed convention) and take part in the Captain Marvel cosplay contest. The scene featured many Easter eggs, such as Captain America’s cosplayers, a Groot T-shirt that referred to him as Mr. Tree (because no one knows his name) and that giant Ant-Man boss who falls for the event space when Kamala first shows up. (and the most unexpected) shows his powers.
According to Ali, the original scene contained even more Avengers settlements that shrank before coming out on screen.
“At one point, there was a guy dressed in a Korg cosplay (like Thor: Ragnarok) and he couldn’t get through the security barriers,” he explains. “This was in a very early draft that no longer exists.”
Ali also suggested a “winged horse” as in the valkyrie type “so we can represent everyone on the show,” but that didn’t come to the final cut either. “The first draft of the AvengerCon bananas, which will never see the light of day, had everyone,” he notes.
And while AvengerCon is still a fictional event in the series, Ms. Marvel hopes that one day it will be a real thing.
“I have written an email to [Marvel Studios boss] Kevin Feige, with our presentation on how we can make AvengerCon real in the real world, “he shares.” I haven’t sent it yet, but I’m like,
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