Ms. Marvel trailer: Teen crushes, superheroics hit Disney Plus in June

Marvel’s next Disney Plus series, Moon Knight, arrives later this month, but the MCU isn’t slowing down. Marvel unveiled Tuesday the trailer to its next series. Ms. MarvelNews of an important summer release date.

This website was created by Bisha K. Al, who has previously been on Loki and Netflix’s The Sex Education, the show stars Iman Vellani as Kamala Khan, the Pakistani-American teenager-turned-elastic superheroine named Ms. Marvel.

Marvel Comics’ Kamala appeared on the pages of Marvel Comics in 2013. She was introduced by G. Willow Wilson, a Marvel writer and Adrian Alphona, an artist (with a instantly famous costume created by Jamie McKelvie). As Wilson put it to Polygon when Disney and Marvel first announced the series, Kamala is “a comic book fan within a comic book,” and it shows in the trailer. The first real look at the series vibes to The Weeknd’s “Blinding Light” as it introduces the many sides of Kamala, who deals with high school, crushes, her heritage, and, by the end, her budding powers.

“I think there’re some characters who are very much set up for the big screen; they’re very naturally sort of cinematic. But with Ms. Marvel, we really weren’t interested in creating something that had very obvious film potential,” Wilson told us in 2019. “I was really leaning — and I know Adrian [Alphona]Takeshi [Miyazawa] and all of the artists as well — were really leaning into the comic book-ness of this character. She’s got very comic-booky powers. God bless them trying to bring that to live action.”

Ms. MarvelDisney Plus will be available on June 8th. And that won’t be the last we’ll see of Kamala, who will turn up in next February’s Marvels.