A teenager from Jersey City who writes fan fiction about Captain Marvel, and then finds out that her great-grandmother's bangle does something.
Kamala Khan is the only person in this catalogue who was a fan of the others first. She has posters, she has opinions, she has written the fiction, and when she meets Carol Danvers the scene plays the way it would actually play, which is badly and at speed.
The series she comes from is the warmest thing here and its real subject is inheritance: the bangle leads backwards through her family to the Partition of India, and the story treats that as the thing worth understanding rather than the powers.
Show detailsThe word the films avoid
The reference article describes the version of Kamala in these films as a Pakistani-American mutant. That word carried a contractual history in this material for two decades, and its use here is the point at which the two halves of the catalogue formally stopped being separate.