The following article contains spoilers for Ms. Marvel Episode 4, “Karachi Blues,” now streaming on Disney+.
Ms. Marvel co-creator Sana Amanat revealed that an upcoming fifth episode of the Disney+ series is the one that she’s most worried about.
“The next episode is going to be an interesting one,” Amanat said in an interview with Entertainment Weekly about Episode 5, “Destined,” which will air on Disney+ on June 22. “Full disclosure, it’s the episode I’m most nervous about. I think it’s really great, but we took some risks with that episode. So, I’m curious to know how people are going to respond to it.”
Ms. Marvel Episode 4, “Karachi Blues,” saw Kamala Khan travel all the way to Pakistan in an effort to discover more about her lineage and the connection to her strange new abilities. However, the episode ended with a cliffhanger when, during a battle with the ClanDestines, Kamala is transported back in time to The Partition in 1947 which displaced millions of people, Kamala’s own family among them. In the same interview, Amanat explained how the themes of home — both losing it and creating a new one — are central to the Disney+ series.
What Makes a Home
“I think we intentionally tried to tell a story of what it means when you lose your home and how you try to create a new one,” she said. “I mean, it’s what Kamala’s parents did. They came to a new country, they created a home for themselves here. And yet, Kamala feels like she doesn’t understand what that means. So, there’s certainly a lot of parallels and very intentionally so.”
Co-created by editors Amanat and Stephen Wacker, writer G. Willow Wilson and artists Adrian Alphona and Jamie McKelvie, Ms. Marvel/Kamala Khan made her Marvel Comics debut in 2012. Starring Iman Vellani, the Disney+ series will, like the comics, follow the Pakistani-American teen as the titular hero, who was Marvel’s first Muslim character to star in her own series and will be the MCU’s first onscreen Muslim hero.
According to Amanat, Ms. Marvel was intended to be every bit as quirky and colorful as the original comics, intermixing animation and live-action as a way to give life to the fantasies of its protagonist, Kamala. “It was important to us that you come right into Kamala’s world and see it through her eyes,” said co-director Adil El Arbi. “It really shows that her head is in the clouds and she’s always fantasizing.”
New episodes of Ms. Marvel air on Disney+ every Wednesday.
Source: Entertainment Weekly