Sana Amanat has been with Ms. Marvel from the start. Back in 2014, she was the Marvel comics editor who collaborated with author G. Willow Wilson, artist Adrian Alphona, and fellow editor Steve Wacker to be able to assist carry the teenaged superhero from Jersey City to life. When the trailer for the upcoming Disney+ collection dropped, the color and style of the manufacturing actually stood out among the many often-grim superhero exhibits that Marvel has beforehand produced.

“The comic was very much a guiding light for us. We needed to make sure that it worked in the MCU, of course, but we wanted to make sure that we had that quirkiness and the stylistic distinction that the comics did so well,” stated Amanat in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. “We wanted to find our own MCU version of it.”

One of the massive variations between the comics and what we see of Kamala Khan within the trailer is her powers. In the comics her powers are elastic and stretchy—she will be able to make elements of herself larger, increasing and “embiggening” herself to punch a baddie with a fist the dimensions of a rubbish truck. In the trailer, nevertheless, they appear to be far more “cosmic,” to make use of Khan’s personal phrases.

Amanat addressed the backlash with EW, stating that the powers Khan wields look completely different as a result of they’re completely different. She additionally says that she and Willow mentioned the change beforehand, and to them, “this made sense.” Changing Khan’s powers was “the right move because there are bigger stories to tell.” Part of this goes into the truth that that is an adaptation, and altering Khan’s powers is about introducing her to the MCU itself, which suggests giving her completely different powers that “feel big in scope and cinematic in a different way.” Especially since Khan is slated to seem within the Nia DeCosta-directed Marvel movie, The Marvels, at present scheduled to launch July 28, 2023.

Amanat reassures readers that regardless of the cosmic adjustments, Khan’s powers are nonetheless “ fun and bouncy… the essence of what the powers are in the comics is there, both from a metaphorical standpoint and from a visual standpoint.” In response to the basic Kamala Khan beat ‘em down move, Amanat says not to worry: “We’re doing the embiggened fist.”

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