Standing Wolf wrote:
There have been several different "looks" for Captain Marvel over the years and - I'm not totally sure, but I think - more than one female character has used the name. Hoping they use this one.Looking this up on Wikipedia, it appears that there is a difference between the "Captain" Marvel character and a "Ms." Marvel character in that the original Captain Marvel was male, with the "Ms." character being created during like the 1970s feminist wave as a counterweight to that or something. A previous Ms. Marvel in Carol Danvers has, Wikipedia tells me, graduated to Captain Marvel status in recent years in the comic books, leaving the one named Kamala Khan as the new Ms. Marvel. Apparently Khan is a Muslim superhero character and a little too young for the Captain title.Green Arrow wrote:
I love Carol Danvers, but I want them to use Kamala Khan.
In the view of this, I see what you're saying, Green Arrow. To make a Ms. Marvel movie would definitely be a bolder statement in today's political climate. Unfortunately though, for as boundary-pushing as Disney has been on inclusiveness lately, I suspect that there is a degree of poll-testing they do that they aren't willing to defy too much. They weathered some minor controversy surrounding the inclusion of a gay character in the live-action Beauty and the Beast remake just fine earlier this year (it's amazing what we choose to find controversial about films like that, considering that you'd think the more obvious issue would be its romantization of Stockholm Syndrome), but Islam seems to be much more controversial than homosexuality is in the Western world these days. That's precisely what could make a Ms. Marvel movie especially potent at this particular sort of moment in our history and worth seeing, but, y'know, Disney has a large, predominantly Christian audience to worry about maintaining the loyalty of and that might be "going too far" for them right now.
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