365 Days with Namor
Day 107
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365 Days with Namor
Day 107
Namor and Hulk!
Best Buddies Since 1963!

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Amazing how The Defenders are made up of a Pansexual Sea Prince, a Bisexual Valkyrie, a Queer Wizard, a Shiny Space Twink and Hulk. (Bruce Banner is the only token straight.)
My Black Panther 2 Review
So I saw Black Panther 2 last night and here's some thoughts on it. Spoilers ahead:

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it’s been three years to the day since this absolute banger

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I'm gonna talk about the Ms Marvel show but I'm not gonna spoil any of it.
I made a Youtube video about Defenders #22-25, first retelling the story and then digging into its historical context, so please check it out if you get the chance! I’m hoping to do more and make that a proper Youtube channel eventually. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj7ILjLVm3w
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I've been thinking about that Ms. Marvel trailer a lot since it dropped, and how disappointing it is that they changed her powers, especially in the way that they changed them. I've seen a lot of folks saying that the change doesn't matter as long as they get the character's personality right, and while I certainly don't begrudge anyone this completely fine opinion, or rain on anyone's parade, I do...feel this need to talk about what we lose through this change, thematically.
Ms. Marvel's origin story is a lot more low-key than...say...a Spider-Man origin. She goes to a party she wasn't supposed to, gets rejected by her white peers, gets exposed to terrigen mist, and gets powers. The moment from that story that matters, really, is the vision she gets while in the cocoon. She's spent the whole comic up until this point feeling at conflict with her family's values and customs. She loves the smell of bacon but can't eat it, she willing to put up with the barbs of the crappy cool kids because it makes her feel more "normal," she writes fanfics about superheroes and Nakia and her family don't understand why she cares about them. But then, while Kamala develops her powers, she sees a vision of Captain Marvel reciting a poem in Urdu. The superheroes in her vision discuss her reasons and repercussions for going to the party. She wanted to be accepted by her peers, even at the cost of denying her family, her culture, and her history. In the end, even that wasn't enough for her to be accepted. When Kamala breaks out of the cocoon, with her shapeshifting powers, she is wearing Carol Danvers's old costume and, tellingly, she has blonde hair.
Here, G Willow Wilson states outright the central theme of her run on her character: Kamala thinks who she is and who she wants to be are fundamentally opposed. Kamala wants to be a superhero and she wants to be accepted by the people around her, but she doesn't believe she can be a superhero as herself. The second she gets powers, she subconsciously uses those powers to imitate whiteness, because that's how she pictures superheroes. The story points out directly that this is the problem Kamala Khan's existence as a character might help redress; we fight for better representation in fiction because otherwise readers internalize who can and cannot be the protagonists of certain stories. Media as it exists is limiting. We can see, directly, how it has limited this protagonist. Now this protagonist will learn to overcome those limits and in doing so teach us the same lesson. We can't get this moment without this power. But it goes further than that.
I know MCU Kamala can't be an inhuman because reasons, but her being an inhuman sure does do a lot for this theme. Kamala's powers are core to her - written in her DNA and literally inherited from the family she feels are so limiting. She didn't have the powers bestowed on her through a wishing machine or a spider-bite. She's always been special; she's always had the ability to become a superhero. Her powers are internal to her, and, necessarily, they are LITERALLY her. She fights entirely by using her body. She cannot separate herself from her powers, which are the thing she has always wanted. A lot of folks have talked about how the stretchy powers are representative of puberty and like yeah, for sure that's part of it. But we know those powers don't go away when she grows up. Everything Kamala felt conscious about before gaining powers has become a literal source of strength. She wouldn't be able to fight for Jersey if she had different parents.
In the show trailer, I think it's....a grave oversight that her powers work in exactly the opposite way. MCU Kamala gets her powers from what I assume are the quantum bands. These powers are EXTERNAL to her. Maybe it'll be different in the show, but in the comics, if someone else wears the quantum bands, they get all the same powers. This isn't something she inherited, it's something she found. And she fights, again, externally. She shoots energy from the bands outward, not relying on herself, the part of her that the trailer suggests she is still very self-conscious about.
I think the show can still be good, obviously, but that they changed her powers - and the WAY they chose to change her powers - implies to me that much of what is core to the essence of Ms. Marvel has been misread or ignored, here. So while I'll withhold judgement until I've seen the show, I think it's fair - and maybe even necessary - that we ask why they made these changes, and how the character might need to change to accommodate them.

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That you only meant well? Well of course you did