With the upcoming launch of Disney’s streaming service Disney+ comes new Marvel series. In addition to comic book characters like Moon Knight, Hawkeye, and Loki getting their own shows, She-Hulk and Ms. Marvel will also have shows on the streaming site.
Ms. Marvel is Kamala Khan, a teenager who became a superhero after discovering she had Inhuman genes. A Terrigen cloud caused many people in her town to cocoon and transform. Her superpowers include being able to grow and shrink various parts of her body. Kamala named herself, and modeled her costume after her favorite superhero - the Carol Danvers incarnation of Captain Marvel. As Kamala joins the Marvel Cinematic Universe, there are plenty of characters that fans would like to see make an appearance in her new series.
Bruno Carrelli
When Kamala first began her superhero activities, she did her best to keep it from everyone around her. The one person she couldn’t keep a secret from was her best friend Bruno.
Kamala not only tells Bruno about her frequent nighttime outings to save people, but she also drafts him to help her cover them up. He helps her hide her secret identity from her parents. Bruno also has genius level intelligence, making him a valuable asset to his best friend.
Kaboom
Kaboom has only appeared in a handful of comics since she debuted in 2015. She doesn’t have a lot of backstory - or really any backstory. That’s why she’s a good addition to Ms. Marvel’s television series as a potential villain.
Because Kamala’s version of the character is so new, she doesn’t truly have a rogue’s gallery of her own yet. Kaboom appeared in the comics as the recruit of a more powerful NuHuman. A newly formed Inhuman herself, Kaboom’s abilities involve controlling electricity, which is always fun to watch on screen. The show would be a great opportunity for writers to flesh out a new character like her.
Lineage
Lineage is the NuHuman who recruits Kaboom, which is why he’d make for a great (eventual) big bad for Kamala to face. He was once a crime boss whose family was at the bottom of the organized crime barrel. Thanks to the Terrigen cloud that rolled through comics, he discovered his Inhuman lineage and gave himself a new name.
His power actually involves his Inhuman ancestry. In addition to superstrength, the visages of dead Inhuman relatives appear on his skin as their consciousnesses become a part of him. He can speak to them and get advice, which is pretty handy as he tries to double cross nearly everyone he meets.
Jemma Simmons
Though Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. will come to an end next year, characters from the series might be able to appear in other MCU properties. Jemma Simmons has actually met Kamala Khan in the comics, so there is precedent for a story involving the two.
Agent Simmons went undercover for a S.H.I.E.L.D. assignment at Kamala’s high school. While her classmates were distracted by the actions of another student, Kamala changed into her Ms. Marvel attire, helping her substitute teacher in the middle of a fight. That was the extent of their meeting, but the series could easily flesh out a S.H.I.E.L.D. plot for the duo, allowing the teenage hero to interact with the wider MCU.
Zoe Zimmer
Zoe’s comic book story is much like the story of any mean girl in young adult literature. She and Kamala used to be friends, but somewhere along the way, Zoe became more popular and more of a bully. The comics, however, allow Zoe to correct her course.
Zoe is the very first person Kamala saves when she develops her superhero persona. As a result, Zoe begins to change her life around again. She reconnects with her old friends, stops bullying other students, and admits that she has a crush on Kamala’s friend Nakia. Zoe’s storyline would give the series a little more high school and a little less superhero to play with.
Nakia Bahadir
Like Zoe, Nakia is one of Kamala’s high school classmates. She and Kamala, however, have a lot more in common than just high school. Nakia’s family is also Muslim. They even attend the same mosque as Kamala’s family.
Nakia would be an important addition to the series because Kamala and her family shouldn’t be the only Muslim characters. Kamala Khan becoming Ms. Marvel was a huge step for Marvel Comics, but it’s important for everyday aspects of Muslim-American life to appear in the show as well, not just Kamala saving people. Bringing Nakia into the series would provide Kamala with a grounding force at school in addition to her family at home.
Daisy Johnson
As the first Inhuman character explored in the MCU, Daisy Johnson became something of an unofficial welcome wagon for Inhumans introduced on Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. With the flagship MCU series ending, it would be a nice nod to the fans to see Daisy give Kamala a crash course in Inhuman history.
Part of Kamala’s charm is that she takes on bad guys that effect her friends and school, not the entire world, in the comics. She’s very much a street level hero. Having a touchstone in Daisy, but not someone fighting her battles for her, would be the way to go.
Red Dagger
Kamala’s high school participates in a student exchange program in the comics. One of the students who comes to New Jersey in the program is a teenage boy named Kareem. Kareem happens to have a connection to Kamala’s family - and is a superhero in his own right.
His mother and Kamala’s aunt are friends, and he even stays with Kamala’s grandmother in Pakistan for a while. While there, he creates the Red Dagger persona to save people on the streets of Pakistan. When he stays with the Khans as part of the exchange program, the hero also comes to the States. Ms. Marvel and the Red Dagger work together several times without learning one another’s real names, which would be an interesting dynamic to watch unfold.
Monica Rambeau
Before Kamala joins the MCU, there is another little girl who loves that her Auntie Carol became a superhero. Monica Rambeau appeared as a young girl in the Captain Marvel movie. She’s set to appear as an adult in the present day in the Disney+ series WandaVision, though it’s not clear in what capacity she’ll appear.
With Ms. Marvel set in the modern day as well, Monica Rambeau could serve as a way for Kamala to learn more about the woman she idolizes. After all, Monica knows the real Carol, not the idealized version a teenager dreams up.
Carol Danvers
Kamala only chooses the moniker of Ms. Marvel because Carol Danvers is one of her heroes. In Marvel Comics, Carol went through a lot of superhero names. At one time, she used the name Ms. Marvel, only becoming Captain Marvel to honor Mar-Vell, who used the name before her. Marvel Comics has a long list of heroes being inspired by other heroes.
Even if Carol doesn’t stop by for a chat, she’s got to appear in some form. It could be video footage of her in a fight or images saved to Kamala’s phone. The audience needs to see just why Kamala is inspired to choose the heroic name Ms. Marvel.
