Kamala Khan

"Embiggen!"

- Ms. Marvel's battlecry and catchphrase "Fabulous. Now I'm in trouble, too. This has to have happened for a reason. I saved one life, does it stop there or do I go on? Maybe this is what I've been waiting for. Maybe I'm finally part of something... bigger."

- Kamala Khan / Ms. Marvel "Good isn’t a thing you are... it’s a thing you do."

- Kamala Khan / Ms. Marvel Kamala Khan is a superheroine who appears in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by editors Sana Amanat and Stephen Wacker, writer G. Willow Wilson, and artists Adrian Alphona and Jamie McKelvie, Kamala is Marvel's first Muslim protagonist character and Pakistani personality with her own comic book. In the Marvel Universe, Kamala is a teenage Pakistani-American from Jersey City, New Jersey with body-morphing abilities who discovers that she has Inhuman genes in the aftermath of the "Inhumanity" storyline. She assumes the mantle of Ms. Marvel from her idol, Carol Danvers, after Danvers becomes Captain Marvel.

Kamala made her first appearance in a background cameo in Captain Marvel #14 (August 2013), before starring in the solo series Ms. Marvel from February 2014 to March 2019, in a second solo series, The Magnificent Ms. Marvel, from October 2019 to May 2021, and in three Ms. Marvel limited series from November 2019 to January 2023. From 2016 to 2021, the character played a supporting role in the team series Champions and Secret Warriors; Kamala was also the focus of the 2020 event series "Outlawed" after being rendered comatose and made the face of "Kamala's Law", a vigilante minimum age law. An alternate future widowed version of the character named Kamala Carrelli, known by the vigilante name Khan, appears as a main character in the team series Exiles, published from April 2018 to March 2019. Following her solo series' conclusion, Kamala became a reoccurring character in The Amazing Spider-Man (2022), culminating with her death in issue #26 of that series in May 2023. Kamala was then resurrected in the July 2023 X-Men Hellfire Gala storyline where it was revealed that she was an Inhuman/mutant hybrid.

Marvel's announcement that a Muslim character would headline a comic book attracted widespread attention, with The New York Times Best Seller Ms. Marvel: No Normal winning the 2015 Hugo Award for best graphic story. The character and her solo series have received an overwhelmingly positive critical reception, with strong sales for her solo series. However, her 2019 and 2023 deaths in Champions and The Amazing Spider-Man, respectively, have been criticized as fridging.

Iman Vellani plays the character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) miniseries Ms. Marvel and attraction Avengers: Quantum Encounter (both 2022), and is scheduled to reprise the role in the film The Marvels (2023); unlike the comic books, Kamala is reimagined as a latent mutant who uses a magical bangle to create glowing constructs out of hard light. From 2016 to 2019, the character was voiced by Kathreen Khavari in animated series such as Avengers Assemble, Marvel Rising, and Spider-Man. She was voiced by Sandra Saad in the video game Marvel's Avengers (2020) and the animated series Spidey and His Amazing Friends (2021).

Earth-616 powers

 * Morphogenetics
 * Superhuman elasticity, plasticity and malleability
 * Appearance/size alteration
 * Regenerative healing factor
 * Bioluminescence
 * Shapeshifting

Earth-19999 Powers

 * Constructs Creation
 * Light Generation
 * Hard Light Elongation
 * Hard Light Size Enhancement
 * Platform Creation
 * Force-Field Generation
 * Hard Light Exoskeleton

Game Ideas Appaearances

 * Kamala Khan / Ms. Marvel is a playable character in the kart racing video game Marvel Superhero Adventures: Intergalactic Grand Prix, voiced by Kathreen Khavari.