Ms. Marvel is so enjoyable, it's made MCU movies seem formulaic

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Ms. Marvel has arrived on Disney+ and, like her comic book counterpart, is set to shake things up. Introduced in 2014, Kamala Khan is a Pakistani-American teenager living in Jersey who is a major fan of superheroes and particularly Captain Marvel. One eventful night, she unlocks superpowers of her own and decides to take on the mantle of a superhero named Ms. Marvel.

Created when Marvel Comics was pushing the Inhumans very hard as a replacement for X-Men, as Disney and Marvel Studios did not have the film rights to the X-Men and wanted Inhumans to be their super-powered replacement, Ms. Marvel became an immediate sensation upon her comic book debut. While the Inhuman push was eventually abandoned and much of the big changes to the Marvel Comics lore was dropped, Ms. Marvel was the one popular character from the initiative to break out with audiences.

It seemed like she was primed to join the ever-growing Marvel Cinematic Universe despite being both a new character that has not been around a full decade but was created six years into the creation of the MCU. Audiences and fans were clamoring for her and on June 8, 2022, the first episode of Ms. Marvel dropped on Disney+. The series is set to run six episodes and will conclude on July 13, 2022. The series received positive reviews and the character is already set to appear in The Marvel's next summer.

While the MCU still remains as popular as ever, some of the more recent releases like Eternals, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and Moon Knight left some audiences cold. While the franchise is not slowing down, the sheer amount of stories in the shared universe could be overwhelming. Luckily, Ms. Marvel has come along as a summer treat and one that feels like a breath of fresh air for the overarching franchise, one that hints at an exciting future.