Ms. Marvel Trivia | 60 facts about the new MCU series

“Ms. Marvel” is the seventh television series in the MCU. The series introduces a new superhero.

So let’s dive into some trivia and facts about the new tv series.

1. Ms. Marvel is an American television miniseries
2. It is created by Bisha K. Ali for the streaming service Disney+
3. The new series is based on the Marvel Comics
4. It features the character Kamala Khan / Ms. Marvel
5. It is intended to be the seventh television series in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU)
6. It is produced by Marvel Studios
7. The series is sharing continuity with the films of the franchise
8. Ali serves as head writer
9. Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah are leading the directing team
10. Iman Vellani stars as Kamala Khan / Ms. Marvel, with Matt Lintz, Yasmeen Fletcher, Zenobia Shroff, Mohan Kapur, Saagar Shaikh, Laurel Marsden, and Azhar Usman also starring
11. The series was announced with Ali’s involvement in August 2019
12. Vellani was cast in September 2020
13. With El Arbi and Fallah, Meera Menon, and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy hired as the series’ directors
14. Filming began in early November 2020
15. Shooting took place in Atlanta, Georgia, and New Jersey
16. Filming concluded in Thailand in May 2021
17. Ms. Marvel premiered on June 8, 2022
18. The series will consist of six episodes
19. Concluding on July 13
20. It will be part of Phase Four of the MCU
21. The series will serve as set-up for the film The Marvels (2023)
22. In the 2023 film, Vellani will reprise her role as Khan along with additional cast members from the series
23. The series recieved positive reviews
24. With particular praise for Vellani’s performance
25. Kamala Khan, a fangirl of the Avengers, particularly Carol Danvers / Captain Marvel, struggles to fit in until she gains her own powers
26. Marvel Entertainment’s Creative Consultant Joe Quesada said in September 2016 that there were plans to explore the character of Kamala Khan / Ms. Marvel in other media following her unusually rapid success and popularity among comic book readers
27. Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige said in May 2018 that a Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) project based on Kamala Khan was “in the works”
28. The project would follow the release of the film Captain Marvel (2019) as Khan is inspired by that film’s title character Carol Danvers
29. By August 2019, Marvel Studios had begun development on a Ms. Marvel television series for the streaming service Disney+, with Bisha K. Ali hired to serve as the head writer after working as a writer on the series Loki
30. Ms. Marvel was officially announced at the 2019 D23 conference
31. In September 2020, Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah were hired to direct two episodes of the series, with Meera Menon hired to direct one episode, and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy hired to direct three episodes
32. Menon and Obaid-Chinoy ultimately directed two episodes each
33. Ali, El Arbi, and Fallah serve as executive producers on the series and worked closely with Marvel Studios to develop it
34. With Kamala Khan co-creator Sana Amanat also serving as a co-executive producer
35. Marvel Studios’ Feige, Louis D’Esposito, Victoria Alonso, and Brad Winderbaum also serve as executive producers
36. In addition to Ali, writers for the series include Kate Gritmon, Freddy Syborn, A. C. Bradley, Matthew Chauncey, Sabir Pirzada, Fatimah Asghar, and Will Dunn
37. Bradley and Chauncey were respectively the head writer, and story editor and writer for What If…?
38. With Bradley also serving as a consulting producer on Ms. Marvel
39. While Pirzada was a writer for Moon Knight
40. In Ms. Marvel, Khan gains the ability to harness cosmic energy and create constructs from a magical bangle
41. These differs from the shapeshifting abilities that she has in the comics
42. Feige explained that the Inhuman source of her abilities in the comics did not “match” with the timeline and events of the MCU
43. So her powers were adjusted to be related to her Pakistani heritage
44. They were also brought closer to the cosmic powers of the other heroes in the film The Marvels (2023), in which Vellani co-stars
45. Feige added that the character’s “giant hands and arms” would still appear in the series “in spirit”
46. Amanat and another of the character’s co-creators, G. Willow Wilson, both were consulted on and supported the change
47. Ms. Marvel is a coming-of-age story, with Amanat noting the series took inspiration from the character’s comics
48. She also described Khan’s life and world as “naturally colorful” given Jersey City is “a pretty crazy and vibrant and multicultural place”
49. Carol Danvers is Khan’s inspiration to become a hero, having seen her almost defeat Thanos during the events of Avengers: Endgame (2019)
50. Amanat believed it was important to tell a story about who your heroes are for a young person of color, and exploring what that does “to your sense of self”
51. Ali wanted to mix the “whimsical and magical” qualities from Ms. Marvel’s comics with American high school films
52. Being inspired by John Hughes’s films and the films 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), Lady Bird (2017), Eighth Grade (2018), and Booksmart (2019)
53. In May 2022, Laura Karpman was revealed to have composed the score for the series, after previously composing for What If…? and being hired to score The Marvels
54. Karpman said she immersed herself in Khan’s “rich musical heritage”
55. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported an 97% approval rating
56. With an average rating of 8.05/10
57. Based on 98 reviews
58. The website’s critics consensus reads, “Ms. Marvel is a genuinely fresh addition to the MCU—both stylistically and substantively—with Iman Vellani ably powering proceedings with her super-sized charisma”
59. On Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, the film holds a score of 76 out of 100
60. Based on 15 critics, indicating “generally favorable reviews”