Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant is a 2023 comic book limited series from Marvel Comics. It's written by Iman Vellani and Sabir Pirzada, with art by Carlos Gomes and Adam Gorham, and color art by Erick Arciniega.
Set in the shared Marvel Universe, it stars teen hero Kamala Khan, the titular Ms. Marvel. Granted stretching, size-changing and shape-changing powers by the activation of her Inhuman genes, Kamala's been a hero for a while now. Recently she helped Spider-Man save the world. She died in the process.
Unexpectedly, the X-Men were able to bring her back - it turns out that Kamala's not just an Inhuman, she's also a mutant, a combination that wasn't considered possible. That allowed the mutant nation of Krakoa to swiftly revive her via their Resurrective Immortality system, and Krakoa's telepaths also inflicted Laser-Guided Amnesia on her friends and family, removing their memories of her death.
On the same day that Kamala was revived, the anti-mutant extremists Orchis devastated Krakoa. Most of Earth's mutants are dead or missing, and an Orchis propaganda campaign means that most normal humans believe that mutants are murderous villains. Ms. Marvel wants to help the X-Men do something about that. But she's used to being a superhero with some public support... and how much of that will last if she's now working with the X-Men?
A follow-up series, Ms. Marvel: Mutant Menace, also written by Vellani and Pirzada, has been announced for 2024.
Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant contains examples of the following tropes:
- Bad Boss: Omega Sentinel Karima Shapandar doesn't actually think Officer Kroll was responsible for the Chitauri escape, but she electrocutes him anyway. The mistake requires a scapegoat, and her other suspect, Dr. Nitika Gaiha, is more useful to her.
- Battle in the Center of the Mind : Between Kamala and Orchis' psychic bomb, which appears as her unawakened mutation within Kamala's dreamscape. Kamala defeats it with the help of her Fanfic characters.
- Continuity Nod: When Kamala runs into a Sewer Gator on her way to meet the X-Men, she apologises for punching its cousin and blames Wolverine. Wolverine and Ms. Marvel teamed up, and fought the gators, back in her very first series.
- Dream Intro: The first issue opens with a nightmare sequence in which the Carol Danvers, wearing her own Ms. Marvel costume, challenges Kamala to choose a superhero team and a direction for her life.
- Greater-Scope Villain: Dr. Gaiha is set up this way in the ending, as she betrays Orchis and escapes the destruction of their secret laboratory with a sample of Ms. Marvel's DNA, which she's analyzing for her own purposes.
- Hero with Bad Publicity: Due to charging out to fight a runaway Chitauri wearing her new X-Men uniform, Kamala’s popularity has tanked.
- Internal Reveal: Despite Emma Frost erasing it, Kamala tells Bruno about her death, resurrection and new status.
- Misplaced Retribution: Kamala has to stop some anti-mutant students from harassing another student with vitiligo under the belief that she is a mutant.
- Shaming the Mob: Bruno tries to rally the student body to work on a plan to help Ms. Marvel beat the Sentinel that tracked her down and is met with dismissal that it's her fault it's even there destroying the campus. He shoots back that all Ms. Marvel has ever done is use her powers to help people and the student body, who claims to be the smartest of their generation, is just parroting talking points rather than thinking independently. His speech convinces them to help.
- Ungrateful Bastard:
- After Ms. Marvel protects some students from the destruction caused by the escaped Chitauri, they instead blame her for the attack, due to her recent announcement as a mutant and member of the X-Men. Some of them go even further and start an anti-mutant watch group and harass another student for supporting Ms. Marvel.
- Omega Sentinel acts this way after Ms. Marvel rescues her, in spite of the atrocities Orchis committed at the Hellfire Gala.
- The Unfought: Kamala never encounters Nitika in person, even after dealing with the escaped Chitauri, drones, psychic bomb and Sentinel sent after her by Nitika.
- The Unreveal: Despite it being set up, when the opportunity to reveal what Kamala’s mutant power is, she chooses not to due to the potential danger.
