ms marvel

Why we love Kamala Khan

, , 0 Comments

lollipopandroid:

image

Kamala is a different kind of feminism. She isn’t the traditional female superhero, and is nothing like Carol Danvers. Most female superheroes embody the ‘perfect woman’, and Kamala is more the speed of the average girl.

image

Kamala is a complex teenage girl, coming from a Muslim family, and has to deal with being ostracized by her classmates. Though she respects her faith and family, she still questions her traditions.

imageimageimageimage

She loves her family, and they’re a big part of who she is.

imageimageimage

She’s goofy.

imageimageimageimage

Kamala encompasses all that is geek teenage girl behavior. Basically, Tumblr, the girl.

imageimageimageimage

She wants to be a superhero. She wants to be part of the lives of her favorite heroes , wants team ups, and wants to be great. And she’s always learning how to be better.

imageimageimage

And so we love her, because Kamala is a different kind of superhero, trying to be someone special, but at the same time stay true to herself and her family.

, 0 Comments


blue-author:

stochasticjack:

bibulb:

yourtickettothemultiverse:

Kamala Khan + Positive experiences about her culture/religion

This is so important, in my opinion. Because it’d be very easy for Marvel to have a Muslim character rebelling against a traditionalist culture and just putting it as retrograde or closed off… but instead we see Kamala slowly learning the balance between who she wants to be and what she believes in… and we get to see how her believes have shaped her into the hero she now is.

I’d been sold on this series since Issue 1, but that last sequence there just blew me away. It’d have been so easy for Marvel to have made it “common authority figures BAD”, and instead gave everyone human voices.

This this this.

Not to distract from the above commentary, but I am really in love with “Good is not a thing you are. It’s a thing you do.”

It’s up there with ‘With great power comes great responsibility’ for me.

1 2 3