While Ms. Marvel is one of the MCU’s biggest busts, apparently there are still plans for Kamala Khan and Iman Vellani in the MCU.
The Ms. Marvel series on Disney+ is the least-watched weekly released live-action Marvel show. Recently also saw The Marvels starring Iman Vellani completely bomb at the box office. The film lost Disney $200 million. Marvel’s female audience refused to show up. The Avengers video game starring Kamala Khan also failed, and the comics have been canceled and relaunched over and over at least a dozen times. It’s also thought the Young Avengers movie is either flat out canceled or relegated to a re-named Disney+ series because all the actors involved are too old.
Is Ms. Marvel a fan-favorite character?
In an odd article put out by THR, the sites says Ms. Marvel is a “fan-favorite character,” that Marvel “struck gold” with Ms. Marvel, and even says X-Men ’97 and Agatha are “resounding wins,” even though, similar to Ms. Marvel, they both achieved some of the worst ratings for Marvel on Disney+.
What’s also odd is the article makes mention of the Marvel Zombies animated series, yet doesn’t even mention Ms. Marvel or Iman Vellani while discussing the series. It’s known Marvel Zombies is supposed to focus on Ms. Marvel with the character the lead of the show. Iman Vellani has said Kamala is the “Frodo of the story” (I’ve guessed Ms. Marvel is immune to the zombie virus to go along with every other power she has been given in the MCU).
Marvel exec on the the future of Ms. Marvel in the MCU
Regarding what the Marvel exec has to say, Brad Winderbaum, head of Marvel’s Television, Streaming, and Animation, said the following when asked by the writer what he can say about her future:
I love Iman. She’s incredible. I love that character. I will tell you that she’s certainly a big part of the MCU to me. ‘Ms. Marvel’ is a really important show to us, and without going into great detail, because I don’t want to spoil anything, she is top of mind. So it’s going to be exciting to see where she pops up next.
What is also interesting, at the same time, Winderbaum says the new Marvel direction is about Marvel putting out good stories that fans want:
The most important thing we can do as a studio is tell stories that resonate with people. I don’t know that every show has to try to be a giant Endgame-scale event that’s a four-quadrant series, that every single person shows up for in a big emotional way. What’s important is that anybody shows up in an emotional way, that we can tell stories that speak to any portion of our fan base and bring them the elation they experienced in the theater when they saw Endgame. If we can do that for anybody, for one fan, then we’ve done our job. That will allow these shows to be discovered and for the word of mouth to grow, so that more people can discover them.
It’s also nice to hear Winderbaum is a big fan of the comics. Recently saw the news that a woke MCU producer is exiting the Marvel who wouldn’t hire writers that read comics:
I remember walking into the comic store as a kid. I was a Marvel fan and I collected Marvel comics, and there was a huge array of books available to me. There was heightened fantasy with Thor. There was soap opera with social commentary in X-Men. There were adventure stories in The Avengers and Iron Man. And Marvel has always meant many things. Marvel is not one thing. There are many stories to tell that are in different genres and have different tones and speak to different segments of the fandom. So that’s something we’re trying to create in our television slate, certainly, but in our slate overall.
