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The Marvel Universe mourned Kamala in the one-shot Fallen Friend: The Death of Ms. Marvel #1, which hit stands in July. Just two weeks later, in X-Men: Hellfire Gala 2023 #1, Charles Xavier and Krakoa’s The Five resurrected Kamala using mutant technology, and the issue revealed she’s both mutant and Inhuman. She then joined the X-Men and headlined her own comic, Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant, co-written by Iman Vellani, who played Kamala in Marvel Studios’ Ms. Marvel and The Marvels.
Miles Morales: Spider-Man writer Cody Ziglar — who has featured new mutant Kamala in recent arcs— recounted on the Amazing Spider Talk podcast (via ComicsXF) how The Marvels co-writer and current Amazing Spider-Man scribe Zeb Wells was tasked with killing Kamala, purportedly at Feige’s request.
“[Wells] had told me months before the plan,which was, Feige was like, ‘Hey, I don’t do this very often but,can you please do this to make things in line with Marvel because wehave some stuff we want to do with Kamala,’” Ziglar said. “So [Wells]was like, ‘F—, I’m the guy that drew the short straw? People are goingto be very mad that I have to kill Ms. Marvel.‘”
Gizmodo reports that a Marvel Comics spokesperson “flatly denied” the rumor and added that Kamala’s death and resurrection as a mutant was an “explicitly editorial decision,” one planned long before Amazing Spider-Man #26. (Following Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant, Kamala will headline upcoming X-Men spinoff comic NYX, part of July’s X-book relaunch From the Ashes.) A separate statement from Marvel Studios also denied Feige’s involvement in the decision.
Disney+ series Ms. Marvel ended with the revelation that MCU Kamala is a mutant, rather than a NuHuman like the comics. However, Sana Amanat — Kamala’s co-creator and Ms. Marvel‘s executive producer — revealed in 2022 that original plans for comic Kamala envisioned her as a mutant in 2013. Because she was created at a time Marvel was downplaying the X-Men and other (at the time) Fox-controlled characters in favor of pushing the Inhumans, it would take another decade before Marvel Comics could overhaul Ms. Marvel as a mutant.
