As you might expect, the events are coming to a head. Kamran has received powers similar to hers from his dead mother, but he doesn't know it. Will Kamran be able to drive these government agents out of Jersey City when she helps him?
Kamran and Bruno are on the run from Damage Control after Deever decided to bring Kamran in alive. It makes sense to let the rest of her family know that Ammi is Night Light, but she already told them. Brown families have no secrets. "I don't think you raised me to sit by and do nothing when I can help people." In a very sweet moment, Muneeba says she trusts her.
After Nakia called to let her know that Bruno was missing in the wake of the Circle Q explosion, Kamala headed out in her famous Ms.Marvel costume. In the daytime, we can see that she is using her powers in her costume to move around the city. Damage Control entered after Bruno and Kamran found sanctuary at the mosque and said they were looking for someone from Pakistan or Arab. She invaded the mosque's sanctity. Thankfully, Kamran and Bruno are able to escape, but not before Kamran learns that he doesn't have the right to treat them like his own. Thanks for the lesson in respectability politics as this kid is running for his life.
She found the boys in her new costume and they recognized it as her. Suddenly, energy pulsates from Kamran's body. He said that he felt crushed from the inside out. During the night, Kamran was helped into the school by Kamala and Bruno, and Red Dagger was asked for help. She was told to get him to the harbor by midnight.
The two of them can finally talk after they meet at the school. She is hurt that she has been kept in the dark, but she admits she messed up and apologized to her best friend. Bruno told them that Damage Control is outdoors. While Kamala tells her friends to leave for their safety, they will stay with her, as well as the other person who was just hanging out in the theater department filming her TikToks, who wants to stay with her. The episode is packed in a big way.
The team springs their plan into action when Kamala makes one of her trademark chalkboard plans, as their parents send him as a chaperone. Deever calls the agent who ordered her to leave to avoid bad press, but instead calls in more units because she didn't understand. The cops are not good.
After we see Nakia realize that there's more to her than she thought, Bruno asks her to not tell Kamran anything until they're all out of there. This will definitely not backfire at all. The implication that Kamran would turn on them when they are trying to save his life is not good. As the team tries to distract the soldiers, they send out a TikTok imploring the community for help. As Kamala and Kamran hold hands as they hide from agents, they almost kiss, but Bruno interrupted them and caught them. The love triangle is still going on. The rest of the team were captured by the guards.
The Red Daggers are as much a threat to Kamran as the cops are. My family has been fighting them for a long time. Kamran asked what happened to his mother but not before an agent interrupted them. The truth was finally told by the woman. Kamran attacks guards who are trying to stop him and before he hurts them more, Kamala stops him and he escapes. That's really bad!
We went to the school to see Kamran face the agents before a huge crowd gathered to decry Damage Control. Deever orders the agents to shoot at him, but he is saved by a force field. The sonic weapon shoots a force field. It almost takes out Kamran, but she resolves her determination, saying "embiggen" to take more control of her powers, and making the hard light form around her body, which resembles her comics form when she actually embiggens. The effect is cool. Kamran almost threw one of the guards' cars into the crowd, before Kamala caught it.
Kamran faces Deever as she pulls a gun on him and lets out jagged force fields around him that threaten everyone in sight. He says thatKamala looks around. They won't accept me and they won't accept you either, how can I be normal? He was reminded that his mother sacrificed things for him. What we do with what we have is up to us. Kamran was able to escape through a hole that was punched by Kamala. The show played with the idea of Kamran being a radical and her being a reasonable one in order to make him the final villain.
As Deever calls for the guards to take in Kamala, the crowd of people surround her and give her time to flee. It's clear that Deever was relieved of duty. Damage control was defeated. There is a bunch of TikToks from the community expressing their joy at their new hero in town. When we watched the videos, we saw that she was more confident in the mirror than she was before.
As she sits on the roof, Abbu joins her to talk about her newfound heroism and the people in her life as well. He told her that he and Ammi named her "Kamala" because they had tried for years to have a second child, but she came along, she was "Perfect" in Arabic. "Kamal" is more similar to "Marvel" in the way that she is their "own little Ms. One of her most famous comic covers was created by Adrian Alphona and she recreated it on a lamppost.
Bruno decided to take Kamran's car as Kamala and Bruno met up with him. Bruno said that he was looking at more of Kamala's powers and that there was something different in her genes. The animated series theme plays in the background. That is correct. The first Mutant is not an Inhuman. All my inhuman theories are over. It looks like the bangle activated her X-gene, rather than acting as a conduit for the disease. She shrugs it off as she says it will be another label. It's ironic, in a roundabout way, that the MCU may have distanced her background even more from Monica Rambeau when she's going to star with her. Will the school for gifted youngsters be in the second season of Ms. Marvel? Stay on top of it.
In the mid-credits scene, we see Kamala observing her bangle react to something, and out of nowhere, she disappears, with Captain Marvel in her place. Carol has a lot of pictures of herself. She said in worry. There is a black screen that says Ms. Marvel will come back in the movie. Thejinks have been finished.
The episode title is a reference to Wilson's "No Normal" comicsarc, in which the pivotal moment of self-realization was shown. She realized that she couldn't be the blonde and blue haired white woman that Carol is, and that she could only be her own version of her favorite character. It was one of the most powerful moments in her run, and perhaps all of comics history, and to see it used here as only an apparent nod is a huge let down. She needs to realize that she needs to be her own hero and not copy Carol.
The first season of Ms.Marvel is over. While a decent finale for a good series, the issue of the show overall is summed up in the episode. In a mere six-episode season, we had many introductions and establishments of the various aspects of Kamala's life, family, friends, and powers, but lost in this was the depth of story of self- discovery and acceptance that we all know and love. We had a lovely family drama in which Kamala learned the importance of her family and what they do for each other, which inspired her to be a hero.
We didn't get a lot of vocalization on what her reasoning is for heroism in the six episodes of the series In addition, the will to protect her community from those exploiting and exploiting off it, the inspiration from Islam, and, of course, standing against racism. The metaphors used for the Clandestines and Damage Control hunting Kamran felt like a cop-out rather than addressing the real issues. Thankfully, we were able to see Nakia deal with Islamophobia, but she was not the only one.
I hope that if Ms. Marvel gets a second season, we will see her continue her journey of gaining community-inspired resolve to be a hero and to be the friendly neighborhood that Jersey City deserves. She will realize that trying to be like Carol Danvers isn't all she thought it to be, and will resolve to be her own hero if the show returns for another season.
I encourage you all to read the first run by G. Willow Wilson. The story of self-identity and determination in the face of a world that would rather you be invisible is beautiful. The person will never be seen. I would like to see more stories about the amazing themes of the comic book run. I hope that more stories with her take more direct inspiration from her run of comics than the show's first season did.
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