Have you spotted these nods and easter eggs to the Marvel universe in episode 4 of the “Miss Marvel” series, available now on Disney+?
Still bubbly and determined to be the superhero she dreamed of being, Miss Marvel continues his adventures on Disney+. Young Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani), torn between her family duties and her new missions resulting from her powers, tries to do the best she can and find out who she really is during the six episodes of the series before finding Captain Marvel (Brie Larson) in the movie The Marvels (in July 2023 at the cinema).
As with the first three chapters of Miss Marvel, the fourth episode, which brings the young woman to the lands of her origins, is dotted with new winks and easter eggs linked to the extended universe of the Avengers and the MCU. Have you spotted them?
The Partition of India
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In this episode, Kamala joined her grandmother in Pakistan to learn more about her powers and the bracelet, but also her origins. His grandmother tells him a real historical fact that affected their family: The partition of India, which came into force on August 15, 1947 with the Indian Independence Act, which caused one of the largest population displacements in the story.
This resulted from a division of the British colonial empire of India into two independent states according to religious demography with on one side the Dominion of Pakistan, with a Muslim majority (today the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the People’s Republic of Bangladesh) and on the other the Dominion of India, with a Hindu majority (today the Republic of India).
Ant-Man this hero
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Definitely, Ant-Man is often quoted in Miss Marvel. In the first episode, we learn that Kamala listens carefully to Scott Lang’s podcast (Paul Rudd) and in the following episode, she says that she would have liked to share the same powers as the superhero (which is the case in the comics, since she can increase or shrink her size). In this fourth episode, we understand that Ant-Man is a popular superhero in Pakistan, if we refer to this mural of the hero in the Karachi train station.
The designer of Ms Marvel
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When we take a closer look at the mural in the station, we can see a quote from a fictional comic book drawn by a real-life artist: Adrian Alphona. It’s a nice nod to the one to whom we owe the numbers of “Runaways” and of course “Ms Marvel”, of which he is the co-creator with the screenwriter G.Willow Wilson and editors Sana Amanat and Stephen Wacker.
A nod to Iman Vellani
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When the Red Dagger asks Kamala if all Americans have powers, she replies that she could very well be Canadian. This replica is a nod to the nationality of Iman Vellani, the interpreter of Kamala, who is Canadian.
Red Dagger
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In this episode, we meet a Red Dagger (Aramis Knight), warrior with a red scarf who wields the dagger like no other and whose mission is to protect humans from the Invisibles, Djinn and other Clandestines, who are in pursuit of Kamala. In the comics, Kareem aka Red Dagger is a student who lives with Kamala’s grandmother by day and is a superhero who protects the people of Pakistan by night.
The Veil of Noor
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This episode teaches us that the Clandestines live in a parallel world close to the human world. These two universes are separated by the Veil of Noor, a portal that can be opened using Kamala’s bracelet. This is why the Clandestines seek to seize it. But if the portal opens, the Clandestine world will swallow up the human world.
Kamala time travel
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As she fights against the Clandestines, Kamala travels through time thanks to the bracelet which takes her to 1947 at the time of the Partition of India that her grandmother mentioned at the start of the episode. The fifth episode should therefore teach us more about Kamala’s family and how the Partition has impacted it.
