Kamala is instantly lovable in an underdog sort of way she's a goofy kid who loves what she loves, but she clearly hasn't figured out how to outwardly own those innate qualities as part of herself.Ī big piece of that, we quickly learn, is a product of the family dynamic at home. Vellani plays it perfectly, bringing visible discomfort and uncertainty to her physical performance. In Kamala, the scripts introduce us to an awkward teen geek with few friends and a social rapsheet filled with public embarrassments. Kamala's effervescent personality and independent spirit frequently clashes with her more conservative family, and her mother Muneeba in particular. Kamala Khan, a ride-or-die Captain Marvel fan and effervescently committed cosplay enthusiast, gets to live the dream. So when she ventures up onto a rooftop with her high school bestie Bruno Carelli (Matt Lintz) to test out her newfound powers during the second episode, we see a young fellow geek fulfilling a fandom fantasy. We see it right up front in the first episode as a colorful introduction narrated by Kamala features her doodles of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's major heroes and villains in an animated reenactment of the story so far. Star Iman Vellani's geeky high schooler may have grown up in a world where the Avengers and their powers are very real, but she's recognizably a fangirl through and through. But with Kamala Khan, Pakistani-American alter-ego of the series' eponymous Marvel superhero, the origin formula hits different. We've seen it play out on screen countless times, and more than once in the case of perennial faves like Spider-Man and Batman. The tricky family dynamic, the low-rent costume, the deserted rooftop, the inevitable pop music-inflected training montage - it's all there. Marvel doesn't even try to disguise the formulaic origin story anchoring its opening episodes on Disney+.
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