History YMMV / MsMarvel2014

* AndYouThoughtItWouldFail: At the time when the book first came out Marvel and DC really struggled with launching titles about brand new or B and C-List characters and making them survive and even G. Willow Wilson and Sana Amanat admitted they thought the book would be canceled at the sixth issue, twelfth at best. Instead, Ms. Marvel had a successful run, sold half a million trade paperbacks in four years and become one of the most successful characters of the decade.
* AntiClimaxBoss: The giant alligator in her team up with Wolverine is ultimately killed when Logan pokes it on the chin with his claws. The resulting wound doesn't look like nearly enough to kill it.

** In issue 13 of Vol. 1, Kamala fights another Inhuman and tells her that any time members of a group decide they can terrorize anyone they disagree with, it just hurts anyone who looks like them. As she's a Muslim Pakistani-American whose dealt with racism in the comic, the parallel to real life racism during UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror couldn't be more obvious

* AudienceAlienatingEra: The ''Civil War II'' storyarc, which effectively upended Kamala's entire status quo for the sake of drama, to the point where sales of the title plummeted ''terribly''.

** Kamala's reaction to Bruno in the last issue of the first run. She claims her life as Ms Marvel fills her heart more right now at this point than any relationship could and would not want to be anything else to anyone else -- nevermind that just before she was more than happy to consider a relationship with Kamran before it was revealed he was evil, and that many other heroes do have loved ones and are happily in a relationship, including Peter Parker in the heyday with Gwen Stacy, of whom she's an {{expy}} for. Of course, others think this is a healthy approach given that they're both in High School, and she comes from a conservative background, and given that, as noted above, her previous attempt at a relationship ended rather badly, it would make sense she'd be unwilling to try romance again. Interestingly, the first issue of the ''ComicBook/AllNewAllDifferentMarvel'' reboot actually explores this as Bruno [[spoiler:ends up falling in love with another girl]], which completely blindsides the easily overworked Kamala, to which Bruno points out that Kamala herself told him to be happy, even if it meant to be happy with someone else during her "ItsNotYouItsMe".

** There's a divide on whether or not Kamala falls in to the UnintentionallyUnsympathetic category in the "Anti-Supers" storyline. Some see her as ignoring the cries of the public in order to justify superheroing and is just writing off a number of legitimate concerns as "The Evil of the Many". Others see her as just trying her best and she should ignore the citizens who, like their New York City counterparts, are stupid and ungrateful towards the superheroes who save their lives on a regular basis.

** To say nothing of Kamala and ''Loki'' in their ComicBook/LokiAgentOfAsgard incarnation, on the basis of them both having written and published fanfic on the Internet. And liking (in the case of Kamala the smell of) bacon, both having GuileHero tendencies, and a ship of two shapeshifters being very flexible (pun intended). Also they actually met in ''[[https://33.media.tumblr.com/471a6bea4e2e514e5aff0f067f2793fa/tumblr_nf8w36wmId1rxqzeco1_1280.jpg Ms. Marvel #12]]'', which sunk a ship, but not this one.

* EpilepticTrees: Kamala’s new costume in her 2019 ongoing has shapeshifting abilities, is slightly implied to be sentient (because it does stuff without Kamala ordering it to do so) and it was found by Kamala on another world. [[ComicBook/SecretWars1984 Sounds]] [[TheSymbiote familiar?]] Of course, if you think so, you’re not the only one, because those similarities, plus the fact that it was established in Venom’s 2016 series that [[spoiler: the Kree have used symbiote-bonded agents in the past (like Tel-Kar)]], have convinced many people that the new costume isn’t kree nanotech, but actually a symbiote. This later got {{Jossed}} in the story, when [[Comicbook/IronMan Tony Stark]] confirms by analyzing the suit that it’s purely Kree nanotech, not a symbiote.

*** One is made to run an obstacle course and ends up mangled in a barb wire fence.

** [[spoiler: The Stormranger suit after she turns against Kamala and goes rogue. She has all of Kamala’s powers and then some, so we get to see what an evil Ms. Marvel would be like. She has none of Kamala’s kindness, compassion or heroism, and the way she fights is also [[CombatPragmatist brutally]] [[NoNonsenseNemesis efficent]]. It’s like what would happen if the [[Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay T-1000]] and the [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos Slender Man]] had a baby]].
*** [[spoiler: She gets even worse when she returns later on during the 75th issue celebration. Not only is Stormranger stronger than before (to the point that Kamala can’t defeat her by herself anymore and needed Amulet’s help to take her on), but her personality has evolved. ''Not only is she now capable of expressing [[{{Sadist}} sadism]], but she also [[SlasherSmile smiles]] at the prospect of hurting Kamala]]''.

** Kamala Khan as Ms. Marvel is not the first Muslim superhero, or first female Muslim superhero for that matter (Notable examples from Marvel alone include Dust from the [[ComicBook/NewMutants New X-Men]], M from ''ComicBook/GenerationX'', Faiza Hussain from ''ComicBook/CaptainBritainAndMI13'', and Isaiah Bradley from ''Truth: Red White And Black'' (and, by connection, his grandson Eli/Patriot of the ''ComicBook/YoungAvengers'')). She's however the first one to have her own solo title, and a really successful comic at that.

* OneSceneWonder: The henchman in her crossover with Spider-Man who [[EvenEvilHasStandards betrays the other mooks because they threatened a baby]]. He turns out to be a former Spider-Man villain who was deliberately avoiding confronting Spider-Man. Spidey decides to give him a second chance at a legitimate job since work has been scarce for a super villain ex-con.

* SeasonalRot: The second volume onward is considered this, due to a clear lack of direction on Wilson's part, several plots and characters being wasted, and the removal several story elements (Kamala's conflicting nature as a Muslim and American teen, her interest in science, her exploring her powers.)

*** Carol proved that the racial profiling angle breaks down further when you consider that the people being profiled weren't being judged based on their looks or race. They were being judged based on strong, mostly-infallible (albeit precognitive) evidence. Kamala tries to prove this wrong by faking a bomb threat, but the situation backfires when the villain she's working with activates the bomb anyway, thus proving the visions were right about him.
** Chuck Worthy is right about things going crazy in Jersey City since Supers showed up. Kamala alone is responsible for a CloneArmy showing up and wrecking the place, (even if the giant ''T. rex'' that came with them was Bruno's idea) and then there's more ''horrifying'' stuff like the Inventor taking advantage of guilt ridden teenagers and using them as {{Living Batter|y}}ies, even if he was already around but he only became noticeable when Kamala punched him.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: At Kamala's defeat of the Inventor, a cop warns Kamala to be careful because there's things lurking on Jersey City's street worse than a half bird man. However, we never see any of these home grown threats, and instead, Kamala is always fighting external villains, who are often times connected to some greater event happening in the Marvel universe.

** The book has teased a romance between Kamala and Bruno several times. This would be interesting, given Kamala's complete lack of romantic experience and the possibly conflicts between Bruno and her family. They even established [[RomanticFalseLead Romantic False Leads]] for the both of them, and they still chose each other in the end. But even when there's nothing standing in the way of their romance, and after learning multiple lessons about how they can't just expect the other to wait for them, they don't get together or even tease the idea.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Bruno hits this during the Civil War 2 storyline. In that story Bruno gets injured setting off a bomb he made to break into a prison to free his friend Josh. While what happened to him is tragic, many fans do not see his reaction to it as fair and it makes him come off as a rather big ass since he blames Kamala for what happened to him, even though he went off on his own to try and rescue Josh, despite the fact Josh was safely detained and was going to be released the next day which means even if Bruno was successful he would've caused unnecessary trouble. The fact he caused all of the other inmates (including the actual criminals like Hijinx) to escape and left Mike behind too, which Issue 13 shows greatly hurt her, doesn't help.
* WatchedItForTheRepresentation: Kamala being a teenage, Pakistani-American Muslim female superheroine certainly drew a lot of minorities towards her book. In fact, Iman Vellani, who would later [[Series/MsMarvel2022 play Kamala in the MCU]], said she decided to pick up ''Ms. Marvel'' "because I had never seen a brown person in the cover of a comic before".

** Kamala Khan as Ms. Marvel is not the first Muslim superhero, or first female Muslim superhero for that matter (Notable examples from Marvel alone include Dust from the [[ComicBook/NewMutants New X-Men]], Faiza Hussain from ''ComicBook/CaptainBritainAndMI13'', and Isaiah Bradley from ''Truth: Red White And Black'' (and, by connection, his grandson Eli/Patriot of the ''ComicBook/YoungAvengers'')). She's however the first one to have her own solo title, and a really successful comic at that.

** Kamala being an Inhuman was meant to tie into Marvel's push to use Inhumans instead of Mutants and discontinue various X-Men related books, as they didn't have the ability to use them in the MCU. Fast forward to 2022, after Series/{{Inhumans}} tanked and Marvel bought up the film rights to the X-Men... the ''Series/MsMarvel'' TV series drops the bombshell that Kamala in the MCU ''is a mutant''.

** Issue 10 really tries to emphasize how harmful negative criticism of younger generations can be. The writer tries hard to get a message across when ''the main villain'' is voicing the same opinions as the protagonist, with the mocking note that against any other group, they would be "''understandably considered hate speech''." {{Averted}} with the secondary message about how dangerous internalizing stereotypes can get -- and the villain's deliberate exploitation thereof.

* GirlShowGhetto: Pretty strongly {{averted}}. [[http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/10/15/ms-marvel-1-goes-to-seventh-printing-batgirl-35-gets-a-second/ Ms. Marvel #1 received a rare seventh printing]], and her title has actually been selling more stably than the prior Ms. Marvel's and quite a few male solo titles and ensemble titles.

** To say nothing of Kamala and ''Loki'' in their ComicBook/LokiAgentOfAsgard incarnation, on the basis of them both having written and published fanfic on the Internet. And liking (in the case of Kamala the smell of) bacon, both having GuileHero tendencies, and a ship of two shapeshifters being very flexible (pun intended). Also they actually met in ''[[https://33.media.tumblr.com/471a6bea4e2e514e5aff0f067f2793fa/tumblr_nf8w36wmId1rxqzeco1_1280.jpg Ms. Marvel #12]]'', which [[ShipSinking sunk a ship]], but not this one.

** A 2016 issue of Ms. Marvel had Kamala encourage people to go vote in a Mayoral election. A story set in the future in ComicBook/AllNewWolverine cast Kamala as the President of the United States. In 2020, the newly-elected Vice President was... Senator [[NamesTheSame Kamala]] [[UsefulNotes/KamalaHarris Harris]].

* AuthorsSavingThrow: Probably one of the more base-breaking moments of the ''Civil War II'' tie-in was Kamala's spat with Carol at the end. Issue #28 confirms that Kamala was actually truly scared Carol hated her (and even worse, she was afraid ''she'' hated Carol), but Carol had none of those issues, but saw the spat as Kamala growing up. The two end up making up after that.

* DorkAge: The ''Civil War II'' storyarc, which effectively upended Kamala's entire status quo for the sake of drama, to the point where sales of the title plummeted ''terribly''.
** The second volume onward is considered this, due to a clear lack of direction on Wilson's part, several plots and characters being wasted, and the removal several story elements (Kamala's conflicting nature as a Muslim and American teen, her interest in science, her exploring her powers.)

* WhatAnIdiot:
** When Aamir is arrested at the end of Issue 19 for suspicion of having superpowers, which has recently been made illegal and at the start of Issue 20, is in an interrogation room:
*** '''You'd Expect:''' He would calmly ask for a lawyer and then listen to what his interrogator has to say before respectfully explaining that he doesn't currently posses any powers.
*** '''Instead:''' He asks if he's going to get a lawyer... then talks about terrorism and how Western Society contributes to it, even interrupting his interrogator. This despite the fact that he was told his arrest was about suspicion of him possessing powers.

** [[spoiler: The Stormranger suit after she turns against Kamala and goes rogue. She has all of Kamala’s powers and then some, so we get to see what an evil Ms. Marvel would be like. She has none of Kamala’s kindness, compassion or heroism, and the way she fights is also [[CombatPragmatist brutally]] [[NoNonsenseNemesis efficent]]. It’s like what would happen if the [[Film/Terminator2JudgementDay T-1000]] and the [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos Slender Man]] had a baby]].

* {{Narm}}: Ms. Marvel revealing her identity to Discord. It's hard to take a DramaticUnmask seriously when the mask is a [[DominoMask domino]] one that usually isn't even an IrislessEyeMaskOfMystery.

* HilariousInHindsight: A 2016 issue of Ms. Marvel had Kamala encourage people to go vote in a Mayoral election. A story set in the future in ComicBook/AllNewWolverine cast Kamala as the President of the United States. In 2020, the newly-elected Vice President was... Senator [[NamesTheSame Kamala]] [[UsefulNotes/KamalaHarris Harris]].