{"id":18408,"date":"2022-07-13T10:57:26","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T08:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1680365"},"modified":"2022-07-13T11:18:10","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T09:18:10","slug":"ms-marvel-finale-teases-x-men-arrival","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/ms-marvel-finale-teases-x-men-arrival\/","title":{"rendered":"Ms Marvel finale teases X-Men arrival"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Huw Fullerton\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Wednesday, 13 July 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Ever since Disney bought out 20th Century Fox and gained control of their various franchises and projects, Marvel fans have wanted to know one thing \u2013 when will the X-Men enter the Marvel Cinematic Universe?<\/p>\n

After years in a separate movie universe, the merry mutants have long been rumoured to have their MCU debut on the cards \u2013 and in the final episode of Marvel\u2019s latest Disney Plus series Ms Marvel<\/a>, we might have just got the strongest hint they\u2019re on their way.<\/p>\n

Look away now if you haven\u2019t seen the Ms Marvel season one finale, as we\u2019ll delve right in with some spoilers.<\/p>

Still here? Ok \u2013 time for some background. Over the course of the series, New Jersey teenager Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani) put on an old bracelet that activated a strange power within her, allowing her to create and control hard-light projections.<\/p>\n

It was explained to her that this came from her family genetics \u2013 she was descended from a group of beings from another dimension called the Clan Destines<\/a> (or the Djinn), and she was uniquely able to access the light \u2013 or Noor \u2013 of that dimension. It was theorised that this was because she had the genetics of a Djinn but was born in this dimension, unlike other Clan Destines living on Earth.<\/p>\n

In fake Marvel science\/magic terms, this made sense \u2013 but the finale reveals this wasn\u2019t the whole story. After Kamala has saved Kamran (Rish Shah) and realised her superhero potential, we jump forward a week to when she\u2019s hanging out with her friends and making plans for the future.<\/p>\n

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At this point, her genius friend Bruno (Matt Lintz) makes a confession \u2013 he\u2019s been studying her DNA to work out why she alone in her family had access to the Noor, and not her brother, mother or grandmother (who were all descended from Djinn and born in this dimension as well).<\/p>\n

Yes, her Djinn DNA gave her a connection to the Noor \u2013 but something else allowed her to use it (possibly also explaining why Clan Destine Kamran, who also developed similar powers, suffered great pain and lack of control when he tried to use them).<\/p>\n

\u201cKamala, there\u2019s something different in your genes. Like\u2026.like a mutation,\u201d he says, ominously, while music plays which appears to be a riff on the classic X-Men cartoon theme (based on the credits).<\/p>\n

Kamala shrugs this off \u2013 \u201cWhatever it is, it\u2019s just gonna be another label,\u201d she says \u2013 but plenty of fans are sure to pick up on this clue. It appears that Kamala has just been unveiled as the MCU\u2019s first mutant (excluding multiverse appearances), one of a group of naturally super-powered evolved humans who are traditionally hated and feared by normal humans and include characters like Wolverine, Magneto, Cyclops and Professor X among about a hundred others.<\/p>\n

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This is hugely important for the MCU, as it hints that the arrival of mutants could become a major storyline in upcoming Marvel projects, and where there are mutants the X-Men themselves are sure to follow. The use of the X-Men cartoon theme, also recently heard on-screen in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness<\/a> and confirmed by the episode\u2019s closing credits, is certainly suggestive.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also an interesting twist on Ms Marvel\u2019s comic-book origin story, where she was presented as an Inhuman activated by a release of magic mist (long story) along with plenty of others, at a time when Marvel Comics was trying to rely less heavily on mutant or X-Men characters (it\u2019s complicated, but at the time any mutant character created became the domain of then-rival movie studio Fox).<\/p>\n

With this short scene, the whole mutant-Inhuman-Ms Marvel story comes full circle. And who knows? With Marvel promising a full San Diego Comic-Con panel later this month with plenty of new projects unveiled, it could be that Ms Marvel\u2019s mutant tease is here to tee up the X-Men announcement fans have long been waiting for.<\/p>\n

But even if not, it\u2019s a sea change. Mutants are real, and they\u2019re in the MCU. Things are about to get a lot more complicated\u2026<\/p>\n

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