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** He ''does'' literally come back from Death's realm in the AlternateContinuity of ''Comicbook/Earth's.''

'''Captain Marvel & Ms. Marvel''' ([[Characters/MarvelComicsCarolDanvers Carol Danvers]])\\

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[[caption-width-right:350:Kamala Khan as herself and Ms. Marvel]]

!!Kamala Khan has appeared in the following works:

[[AC:Notable Comics]]
* ''ComicBook/MsMarvel'' (various runs):
** [[ComicBook/MsMarvel2014 vol. 3]] (2014 -- 2015)
** [[ComicBook/MsMarvel2016 vol. 4]] (2016 -- 2019)
** ''ComicBook/TheMagnificentMsMarvel'' (2019)
** ''ComicBook/MsMarvelBeyondTheLimit'' (2021 -- 2022)
* ''ComicBook/AllNewAllDifferentAvengers'' (2015 -- 2016)
* ''ComicBook/{{Champions|MarvelComics}}'' (various runs):
** [[ComicBook/Champions2016 vol. 2]] (2016 -- 2018)
** [[ComicBook/Champions2019 vol. 3]] (2019)
** [[ComicBook/Champions2020 vol. 4]] (2020 -- 2021)
* ''ComicBook/SecretWarriors'' vol. 2 (2017 -- 2018)
* ''ComicBook/AvengersBackToBasics'' (2018)
* ''ComicBook/MarvelRising'' (2018 -- 2019)
* ''ComicBook/{{Exiles}}'' vol. 3 (2018 -- 2019)
* ''Marvel Team-Up'' vol. 4 (2019)

[[AC:Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse]]
* Portrayed by Iman Vellani;
** ''[[Series/MsMarvel2022 Ms. Marvel]]'' (2022)
** ''The Marvels'' (2023)

[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/AvengersAssemble'' (2016 -- 2019), voiced by Creator/KathreenKhavari
* ''WesternAnimation/MarvelsSpiderMan'' (2017 -- present), voiced by Kathreen Khavari
* ''Franchise/MarvelRising'', voiced by Kathreen Khavari:
** ''[[WesternAnimation/MarvelRisingInitiation Initiation]]'' (2018)
** ''[[WesternAnimation/MarvelRisingSecretWarriors Secret Warriors]]'' (2018)
** ''[[WesternAnimation/MarvelRisingChasingGhosts Chasing Ghosts]]'' (2019)
** ''[[WebAnimation/MarvelRisingUltimateComics Ultimate Comics]]'' (2019)
** ''[[WesternAnimation/MarvelRisingHeartOfIron Heart of Iron]]'' (2019)
** ''[[WesternAnimation/MarvelRisingBattleOfTheBands Battle of the Bands]]'' (2019)
** ''[[WesternAnimation/MarvelRisingOperationShuri Operation Shuri]]'' (2019)
** ''[[WesternAnimation/MarvelRisingPlayingWithFire Playing with Fire]]'' (2019)

[[AC:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/MarvelContestOfChampions'' (added in 2016)
* ''VideoGame/MarvelPuzzleQuest'' (added in 2015)
* ''VideoGame/MarvelAvengersAlliance'' (added in 2015)
* ''VideoGame/LEGOMarvelsAvengers'' (2016)
* ''VideoGame/AvengersAcademy'' (2016)
* ''VideoGame/MarvelFutureFight'' (added in 2016)
* ''VideoGame/MarvelHeroes'' (2016) as a team-up hero.
* ''VideoGame/LEGOMarvelSuperHeroes2'' (2017)
* ''VideoGame/MarvelUltimateAlliance3TheBlackOrder'' (2019)
* ''VideoGame/MarvelsAvengers'' (2020)

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!!Kamala Khan provides examples of the following tropes:

* AchillesHeel: A couple, in fact.
** Her powers, particularly her HealingFactor, burn out her body's energy reserves very quickly, as she finds out the hard way in #9 when [[spoiler:she's almost killed in a giant robot attack that wrecks her school; her healing factor is using up so much energy that she's basically only able to "''embiggen''" her hands, and she hits empty right after the robot goes down]].
** In addition, electrical shocks reduce the flexibility of her body's cells; see KryptoniteFactor, below.
* AffectionateNickname: The citizens of Jersey City call her Big M, and Miles Morales occasionally calls her "Marv".
* AffirmativeActionLegacy: Kamala Khan is a Muslim Pakistani-American taking over the name from the white, blonde Carol Danvers. Unlike some cases where the replacement is sudden, the Marvel continuity had the "Ms. Marvel" name unattached for some time since Danvers had become Captain Marvel.
* AgainstMyReligion: She's not as devout as her brother but she still won't drink alcohol (although she's too young to drink legally anyway) or eat pork (although she finds the smell of bacon [[ForbiddenFruit frustratingly tempting]]).
* AlliterativeName: '''K'''amala '''K'''han, in true Marvel fashion.
* AscendedFangirl: Less than seven issues and she's already teaming up with some of her favorite supers. Then it goes through the roof when she becomes a member of The Avengers. Beyond that, she went from a fan of Carol Danvers to being her LegacyCharacter!
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: While her power set is quite impressive, Kamala pretty much specializes in using the laws of physics to her advantage.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Kamala is generally a very nice, caring person, who subscribes to the "appropriate amount of force" doctrine when fighting her enemies. However, if they willfully threaten innocents or people she cares about, her attitude does such a 180 that's it's like flipping a switch, and she stops holding back.
* BigEater: Kamala's powers burn a lot of calories, and she tends to be ravenously hungry after fights or other situations where she makes extensive use of them.
* BreakoutCharacter: Kamala herself in the greater Marvel Universe. The sales of the comic far exceeded original expectations, even easily outselling the former Ms. Marvel's new series, and by the end of 2014 she was already showing up in major guest spots in other comics, such as ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' and ''S.H.I.E.L.D.'' With her cross-cultural appeal credited with drawing female Muslim readers into buying comics, many critics started calling her the new Spider-Man.
** For comics as a whole. There are reports from store owners of first-time customers (especially Muslim women and girls) who only come in to buy ''Ms. Marvel'', and nothing else.
** Kamala also gained considerable popularity within the ''Marvel'' franchise itself, and after her debut went on to cameo in several other titles and star in a number of adaptations.
* BrokenPedestal: During ''ComicBook/CivilWarII'', not only does Kamala suffer this due to backing a detention cell approved by Carol Danvers, but she ends up getting one towards Carol when [[spoiler:she witnesses the death of [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Bruce Banner]] and she can only ask in a traumatized manner why she let it happen. Then Carol arrests ComicBook/MilesMorales for a vision]]. This trope is finally hit when [[spoiler: she's forced to show Carol how flawed using Ulysses is using Hijinx as proof and all the heroine can see is that Kamala is working with a criminal. This, along with the fact that her best friend Bruno has effectively dumped her for her actions, leads her to walk off and dump the special pendant Carol gave her]].
* CallingYourAttacks: When she was still [[HowDoIShotWeb trying to understand how her powers worked]], Kamala shouted commands when using them. The commands themselves are not actually necessary, but she continues to use them out of habit -- in particular, she tends to shout "Embiggen!" when she uses her powers to grow in size.
* TheCameo: She appears in ''Marvel [=75th=] Anniversary Celebration'' #1, which shows her as a toddler as of the day that the ComicBook/FantasticFour went to space.
* CastFromHitPoints: Kamala's got a HealingFactor that runs on her metabolism. She compares it to taking its energy from her life force.
-->'''Kamala:''' I'm hungry in a way I've never been hungry before. Ravenous. Starving. Seriously, I need a '''thesaurus'''. It's the '''healing''' I think, it feels like I skipped a night of sleep -- like the healing power comes straight out of my life force.
* CharacterShilling: In a rare example of Administrivia/TropesAreNotBad for this trope, everyone loves Kamala in-universe, for good reason. She makes quite the impression on Wolverine, Carol Danvers quickly decides that Kamala is exactly the right person to carry on the Ms. Marvel name, Queen Medusa of the Inhumans takes a special interest in the young woman, Spider-Man states that she reminds him of himself as a teen and he thinks she's doing fine as a superhero and person, Tony Stark likes her enough to add her to the new Avengers roster ''and help her with her physics homework''. Everyone says there's "something special" about Kamala Khan, and they're certainly right. She may not be the most powerful superhero around, but her high moral standards, amazing attitude, and pure heart make her someone easy to love, in-universe and out. The point is proven big-time in ''All-New Wolverine'' -- in a story set thirty years in the future, it's revealed that Kamala was elected as President of the United States.
* CharacterTic: When she's mad, Kamala has a habit of grimacing and cutting her eyes to the side.
* ClarkKenting: Her mask doesn't really cover that much. Lampshaded once [[spoiler:Josh]] finds out and points that it should be obvious in hindsight, but the idea that a shy, nerdy girl who doesn't like sports could be a superhero never crossed his mind.
* CluelessDudeMagnet: Kamala herself is a fairly chaste hero and not the best at recognizing when other people are romantically interest in her, but a number of coetaneous male characters (her own age, thankfully) have expressed interest in her. These include her own crushes like Bruno, Kamran, and Laal/Red Dagger, but also a few fellow heroes in various team-up books such as ComicBook/{{Nova}}, Miles Morales, and Inferno.
* CulturallyReligious: The Khans are Muslim, but, aside from Kamala's brother, are not shown to be particularly religious, although Kamala attends lectures given by her imam several times early in the series and she regularly goes to him with questions of morality. True to the trope, Kamala clearly takes the moral teachings of her faith as being of greater importance than the theology.
* DependingOnTheArtist:
** Kamala's mask varies a lot depending on who's drawing her. Sometimes it'll be seemingly adhered to her face or it'll be clearly tied on, sometimes it'll have lenses or cloth that obscure the eyes or it won't, and sometimes the eye holes will be just big enough to see out through or will be two to three times wider than her actual eyes.
** The precise form and color of her hair also tend to vary. The original run of the comics has it as a solid brown with a slight wave, but depending on the specific comic and artist it ranges in color from hazel to black and from curly to wavy to straight. The only consistent traits are that it's some shade of brown and a little over shoulder-length.
* DominoMask: Kamala's facial concealment is a simple figure-eight blue cloth mask. In Issue #22 of the second run, after Kamala [[spoiler:reveals her identity to Josh/Discord]], the latter comments that in hindsight a part of them had always known, since a domino mask isn't exactly heavy-duty concealment.
-->"That mask doesn't exactly cover a whole lot, you know?"
* EarlyBirdCameo: Kamala Khan was retroactively identified as a foreground character in ''Captain Marvel'' #14 before the official announcement that she was the new Ms. Marvel. ''Captain Marvel'' #17, which was published after the announcement, concludes with an unnamed appearance as she uses her transformation powers.
* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: In Kamala's first appearance in ''Captain Marvel'' #14, she looked markedly different, appearing older, having a different hairstyle and fashion sense, and even wearing lipstick. According to Wilson, the ''Captain Marvel'' artists were working off of a generic description of the character and didn't yet know what her finalized design would look like.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In her cameo in ''Captain Marvel'' #17, Kamala's powers are depicted as a form of HulkingOut rather than shapeshifting or stretching. This is because the ''Captain Marvel'' artists thought her becoming more muscular would be a more serious and realistic approach, while the more cartoonish and surreal nature of her powers wouldn't be nailed down until Adrian Alphona came aboard.
* ExtradimensionalPowerSource: This is revealed in issue #34 to be how Kamala gains and loses mass as she shapeshifts. All Kamalas through time and space are connected to each other at a molecular level, essentially allowing all of them to borrow mass from each other as needed.
* {{Fangirl}}: Into the Avengers, Carol Danvers, ComicBook/SpiderMan, 616-''My Little Pony'', video games, writing fanfic...
* FluffyTamer: Not that [[AmplifiedAnimalAptitude Lockjaw]] needs much taming, but her reaction to a dog the size of a car that has everybody else freaking out and running away is to {{Squee}} and call him the cutest thing ever.
* FutureBadass: Several AlternateUniverse versions of her:
** [[https://rael-rider.tumblr.com/post/173978009973/older-kamala-khan-with-cosmic-awareness-rocking Herself as a cosmically-empowered older woman]] whom even Kang the Conqueror dreads.
** [[http://boundingintocomics.com/2018/03/15/kamala-khan-is-the-new-leader-of-the-inhumans/ Khan of the Exiles]], a ComicBook/{{Cable}}-esque leader of an Inhuman resistance.
** U.S. President Kamala Khan from the [[ComicBook/AllNewWolverine Old Woman Laura]] timeline.
** Agent Khan from [[ComicBook/SecretWars2015 Battleworld]], seen in the ''Attilan Rising'' mini-series.
** Kamala Kang, a fusion of Kamala and Kang the Conqueror who exists in the ''[[ComicBook/InfinityWarps Infinity Warps]]'' universe.
* GamerChick: In her words, she's been playing video games since she was a kid and has the thumbs to prove it. The experience proves handy when Kamala first fights The Inventor's robotic minions. Also referenced when she describes the reveal of her powers' limitations as "''like when you get a really good build going, then the devs decide to nerf your class''."
* GreenEyedMonster: Gets this way when she finds out Bruno is dating someone new while she was too busy to notice.
* TheGrinch: In the 2015 Gwenpool Christmas special, she ''cannot stand'' Christmas. This is because her family doesn't celebrate it but she's practically forced by the school to engage in Yuletide activities.
-->"What're ''you'' looking at?" ''(punches a snowman in the face)''
* HealingFactor: Her wounds (like those from gunfire) heal very quickly when she's in her normal form... but it's shapeshifting ''or'' healing[[note]]as she found out when she tried shapeshifting into Carol Danvers one last time -- promptly halting the healing and pain alleviation until she reverted[[/note]]. It also leaves her [[CastFromHitpoints very tired and hungry afterwards]], and in extreme cases greatly weakens her ability to shapeshift.
* HeroInsurance: Kamala takes a lot of steps to try and avoid collateral damage, a trait more noticeable during her period on the Post Secret Wars Avengers team.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: In the first story arc of her comic's second run, Ms. Marvel's image is used by the Hope Yards project without her permission while she's too busy getting used to her role as an Avenger to notice. Even after exposing Hope Yard's sinister agenda and putting a stop to it, she's considered a sell-out who had only opposed Hope Yards once it was revealed to be headed by an actual supervillain. This got worse during Civil War 2, though her reputation began to recover afterwards.
* HeroWorshipper: Kamala is a massive fan of the Avengers, particularly Captain Marvel. She thinks that being more like Carol Danvers, the blonde, beautiful superhero, would make her life so much better. But she quickly finds out that its better to be herself.
* HowDoIShotWeb:
** Kamala has a lot of difficulty in first understanding her powers. They start off tied to her emotional state (shrinking when she feels small, turning into Carol Danvers when she thinks of Captain Marvel) and she is unable to control them willingly at first.
--->'''Kamala:''' I wonder if I can do it again, this time on purpose. '''[[ByThePowerOfGreySkull TRANSFORM!]]'''\\
''[{{beat panel}}]''\\
'''Kamala:''' Nope.
** She also goes through a literal version of this trope in ''Marvel Team-up'', when a FreakyFridayFlip puts her mind in Peter Parker's body. Learning his spider-powers takes her most of an issue.
* {{Hypocrite}}:
** An odd variation -- she's oh-so-cool with knowing the identities of her Avengers teammates, but trying to get her to open up about hers is like trying to pull teeth. Miles Morales calls her out on this when she drops in on his home while he's under trouble.
** She's a great fan of reading and writing what -- in-universe -- is RealPersonFic of superheroes. When such fanfics start popping up about ''her'', she's much less appreciative.
* IdenticalAncestor: In the flashback sequence in #36, her thirteenth-century ancestor, Kamilah of Samarkand, looks identical to her outside of her clothing.
* IKnowMortalKombat: She claims that her hours playing video games have given her superior reflexes.
* ImmuneToMindControl: She's somehow naturally resistant to MindManipulation and possession. Maximus the Mad has so far proven to be the only person powerful to be forcibly control her mind.
* {{Invocation}}: Kamala tends to shout "Embiggen!" when she uses her powers to grow in size. She doesn't tend to do it for shrinking or other shapeshifting stunts.
* InvoluntaryShapeshifter: When she first emerges from her Terrigenesis cocoon, she ends up looking like her idol Carol Danvers.
* ItsNotYouItsMe: Kamala's reason for turning down Bruno after his AnguishedDeclarationOfLove. She acknowledges that she loves him in return, but feels that her being a superhero is more important than her personal happiness.
* JumpedAtTheCall: The girl agreed to being part of the ComicBook/AllNewAllDifferentAvengers before [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]] even asked the question.
* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: Her reaction to meeting heroes like Wolverine, Spider-Man, and her hero Captain Marvel for the first time is usually a stream of excited gushing. She almost faints from excitement when Spider-Man ashes to do a combo attack with her.
* KryptoniteFactor: Electric shocks reduce the elasticity of her cells, nullifying her many of her shape-shifting powers for a few moments. The Inventor predicts and exploits this, and Kaboom's attacks trigger it at least once (though oddly, not every time).
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: As a longstanding fan of superheroes, Kamala frequently comments on the situations she is in, in terms that are quite logical in context but sound exactly like a comics fan.
-->'''Kamala:''' Oh! My! Gosh! I'm in a Spider-Man team-up!
* LegacyCharacter: Kamala decides to become Ms. Marvel, having idolized Carol Danvers, who left the identity to become '''Captain''' Marvel. They finally meet during ''Secret Wars''.
* MeaningfulName: The name Kamala's name is based on "''kamal''", an Arabic word for "perfection" though in Urdu-Hindustani (which is the language in Pakistan, ''not Arabic'') it usually means, colloquially, "awesome". Orthographically, the word Kamala makes as much sense as Marvel's usual word choices (which runs on RuleOfCool[[note]]For instance a poor Roma boy getting the aristocratic surname of Von Doom, or a [[WhiteAngloSaxonProtestant WASP]] being named Charles Francis Xavier, which sounds Catholic[[/note]]) since Kamala is a separate Sanskrit word that refers to the Lotus flower, and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala#Deities_called_Kamala_as_a_praise-name is usually the name]] of a girl born to a Hindu background, which implies that Ms. Marvel's mother is quite a good deal more syncretic than she lets on. The name Kamal does exist among Muslim communities but it doesn't have a feminine form in that context.
* MistakenForTerrorist: Kamala fears that this will happen to her and her mosque if her powers become public.
* MistakenIdentity: Kamala's first shapeshifting in public wound up looking like Carol Danvers herself, so when she immediately leapt into heroism a lot of bystanders thought she was Captain Marvel, although they were confused as to why she had seemingly gone back to wearing her old costume... much less had a giant hand. As she continues to look like Carol Danvers in later issues, the people she encounters do not seem sure how to address her, backtracking over calling her "''Ms.''" and "''Captain''".
* MostCommonSuperpower: Averted in the comics themselves, as she's a sixteen year old girl whose costume is a modified burkini. [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/13f03d37ff16a6ff3f0dc4912e3d2914.jpg Not all the cover artists got the memo, though.]]
* MostFanficWritersAreGirls: Kamala is an avid fanfic writer and reader. The trope is subverted in ''All-New All-Different Avengers Annual'', however; not only is the author of a fanfic shipping Ms. Marvel with her friends, Miles Morales Spider-Man and Sam Alexander Nova, actually [[spoiler:Miles himself]] but the admin Kamala contacts about it is [[spoiler:Phil Coulson]].
* MushroomSamba: Kamala thinks this is happening to her after her Inhuman transformation shows her a vision of ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, [[ComicBook/MsMarvel Captain Marvel]], and ComicBook/IronMan. She thinks it was caused by the small amount of vodka she was tricked into drinking at the party.
* {{Nanomachines}}: In ''Magnificent Ms. Marvel'', Kamala obtains a new Kree nanotech suit that allows her to interface with computer systems and can shapeshift into additional tools or weapons. It can also shapeshift into objects such as a bookbag for when she doesn't want it to be seen. However, it also has a tendency to use excessive force when not needed, [[spoiler:and it doesn't like it when Kamala doesn't let it finish off her foes, prompting it to become its own entity so she can't restrain it]].
* {{Nice G|uy}}irl: She is a very compassionate person that avoids unnecessary violence and seeks peaceful resolutions at any reasonable opportunity. Any strain on her relationships is usually due to conflicting responsibilities because she wants to be there for everyone.
* NiceHat: Kamala's ushanka (the correct name for a "Russian furry hat") is starting to become iconic. It can be seen cropping up other places in the comic, such as on a pigeon during her Inhuman transformation.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Post-''Secret Wars'', Kamala's life is in so much overdrive that not only does she not notice that [[spoiler:Bruno is dating another girl]], but that [[spoiler:a real estate agency has co-opted her image to promote destroying buildings]].
* RealWomenHaveCurves: Kamala originally fantasized about being like Carol Danvers, who fits conventional beauty standards, including weight. After using her powers to look as close to Danvers as possible, she realizes how uncomfortable the uniform is and how her natural body shape is incompatible with that ideal.
* RebuiltPedestal: In issue #28, [[spoiler:Kamala and Carol reunite for the first time since that incident with Kamala admitting she was afraid Carol truly hated her (and even worse, she was afraid she hated Carol), but Carol reassured her that she'd never hate Kamala, but she just gave her her space because she felt she was growing up and she didn't need to be around her all the time]].
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Kamala can shift her clothes along with herself when she changes shape or size. However, this is stated to take more effort, to justify giving her a costume and domino mask.
* RubberMan: She can stretch her limbs, increase the size of her limbs or entire body, and flatten herself to almost paper-like dimensions. Vol. 4, issue 19 shows that she's improved her stretching skills to bend and elongate her body, allowing her to easily dodge attacks.
* ScarfOfAsskicking: Kamala's costume incorporates a long red scarf. Her nanosuit adds blades to the tips of the scarf, which can also turn into grabbing claws and computer scanners.
* SecretIdentity: Kamala is fiercely protective of her identity, but knows the identities of certain people. This has lead to instances where she hangs around other heroes in costume while they're not.
** When in-costume, she only identifies herself as Kamala when talking to an adult superhero she trusts, such as ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, Medusa, Carol Danvers, and ComicBook/IronMan.
** Early in her solo comic, she freaks out that, if anyone besides Bruno learns her true identity, they'll "sell [her] to science".
** As a member of the ComicBook/AllNewAllDifferentAvengers, she takes great pride in teasing both Miles and [[ComicBook/{{Nova}} Sam]], the two other members of the team her own age, because they both revealed their real names to her while she has kept hers secret from them. When Miles (in his own book) suggests that, since he trusted her with his identity, she should do the same, Kamala tells him that that just means that she's smarter than him. Nowadays, all three of them know each others' secret identities (Miles worldlessly figures it out in ''Ms. Marvel'' #7, and Kamala reveals herself to Sam as part of a IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight when he falls under Blackheart's HatePlague spell in ''Champions Vol. 2'' #9).
* SecretKeeper: She knows Comicbook/MilesMorales is the new Spider-Man, but keeps it to herself. Miles is peeved that he doesn't actually know who Kamala is under the mask.
* SexilyModest: Kamala Khan's costume as Ms. Marvel is based on a burkini, a modest swimwear outfit designed for Muslim women. Some artists draw the suit to be formfitting akin to SensualSpandex, which has been criticized as Kamala is a teenager and faithful to her religion.
* ShapeShifting: Her main ability, which gives her several other abilities as well.
* ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing: Averted; notably her clothes are shifted when she emerges from Terrigenesis. She notes she can shift her clothes as well but it takes concentration that would be distracting during heroics so she wears specially treated stretchy fabric to ease the effort.
* ShipperOnDeck:
** During her first team-up with Franchise/SpiderMan, she has no hesitation in gleefully telling him she ships him with Carol Danvers and pestering him for details on a date they went on together.
** When Tyesha, Amir's not girlfriend, makes a reference to ''Literature/{{Dune}}'', Kamala's response is "please marry my brother".
* SizeShifter: She can grow her entire body or just parts of it, such as her fists. She can also shrink to insect-size.
* TenMinuteRetirement: Following a string of bad moments since ''Civil War II'', Red Dagger accidentally stealing the spotlight has caused her to up and run off. The only one who knows where she is is her brother and she made him promise not to tell ''anyone'' where she is. Issue #28 revealed that [[spoiler:she ended up in a private school, determined to leave her entire old life behind and just blend into the crowd. She's convinced otherwise]].
* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: Kamala is beside herself with glee when she first meets Wolverine (much to his annoyance), and when she gets saved by Spider-Man. And when she met Carol Danvers... oh gosh. Reached its peak when she was asked to join the Avengers, although she did have a minor moment afterwards when she met the original Nova shortly after his resurrection (although she notes that [[FandomNod some of his online fans put even her to shame in this department]]).
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: She loves some halal gyros. It's even (part of) how she bonded with Tony Stark.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Kamala's primary superpower. She has been shown to be able to change [[{{Sizeshifter}} the size]] and shape of her body, the color of her skin and hair, and even the clothing she's wearing. By [[http://allnewmsmarvel.tumblr.com/post/77183012333/dont-worry-kamala-misses-you-too issue #2]], her shapeshifting can even have different parts of her upper body showing different outfits simultaneously[[note]]though as that was during her initial panic at finding herself a shapeshifter, it has yet to be seen whether she can do that consciously[[/note]], and she's revealed in #2 and #3 to have SuperStrength when she's "''[[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever embiggened]]''" herself or even [[PartialTransformation just her hand]][[note]]in #2 scooping out both Zoe ''and'' a noticeable portion of the mudbank from the river in her hand, then in #3 ripping out an entire locker room bench and its supports -- and cracking the bench itself in half[[/note]]. Issue #5 expands this even further by having Kamala transform into a store mannequin. By #6, she can transform into completely non-humanoid shapes such as a sofa, or flatten herself to be almost as thin as paper (seen in ''S.H.I.E.L.D.'' #2).
* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld: Kamala tries hard to balance her normal teenage life with her superheroing. The difficulties this causes her are brought up a number of times: she doesn't get enough sleep, her school performance starts to slip as a result of her constantly missing classes, and her relationships with her friends and family start to suffer due to her duties and actions as Jersey City's superhero interfering with her social and family life [[spoiler:to the point of completely destroying her friendship with her closest friend]].
* WeaksauceWeakness: Turns out Kamala's actually weak against electricity. And she never bothered to ask Tony Stark to insulate her costume.
* WrongGenreSavvy: She copied Carol Danvers's most well-known costume, the one with the leotard, thigh-high boots, and opera gloves. As she is not a FlyingBrick with energy absorption and projection powers and the ability to switch outfits instantaneously, running around (let alone actually attempting to fight) while dressed like that was beyond awkward and uncomfortable, to say the least.
* YouAreGrounded: Kamala's parents use grounding as their go-to disciplinary method, and use it liberally when her grades drop or her adventures as Ms. Marvel cause her to behave suspiciously or stay out late.

Kamala Khan is a [[JustForFun/OneOfUs nerdy]] teenage girl from a UsefulNotes/{{Pakistan}}i-American family of [[UsefulNotes/{{Islam}} Muslim]] faith living in [[{{UsefulNotes/NewJersey}} Jersey City]] -- [[AliensInCardiff not]] [[BigApplesauce New York City]], unlike most of the heroes who populate the MarvelUniverse.

After being [[SuperEmpowering exposed to Terrigen Mist]], Kamala discovers she has [[Comicbook/TheInhumans Inhuman]] DNA and her latent {{shapeshifting}} power become apparent. Inspired by her heroine [[Characters/MarvelComicsCarolDanvers Carol Danvers]], who had recently abandoned the Ms. Marvel title to become Captain Marvel, Kamala decides to use her newfound abilities to protect her home and those in need.

Kamala is notable for being one of the most prominent (and heroic) Muslim characters in popular culture; she was co-created by Wilson (a Muslim convert herself) and Marvel editor Sana Amanat -- a Pakistani-American Muslim woman not unlike Kamala -- who currently serves as their Director of Content & Character Development.

** vol. 4 (2015 -- 2019)
** ''The Magnificent Ms. Marvel'' (2019)
** ''Ms. Marvel: Beyond the Limit'' (2021 -- 2022)

** ''Magnificent Ms. Marvel'' (2019)

* ''Champions'' (various runs):

[[Characters/MarvelComicsCaptainMarvelSupportingCharacters Supporting Characters]] ([[Characters/MsMarvelKamalaKhanSupportingCharacters Kamala Khan's Supporting Cast]]) | [[Characters/MarvelComicsCaptainMarvelSupportingCharacters Rogues Gallery]] ([[Characters/MsMarvelKamalaKhanRoguesGallery Kamala Khan's Rogues Gallery]])-]]]]]

!![[center:[-'''Captain Marvel & Ms. Marvel''' ([[Characters/MarvelComicsCarolDanvers Carol Danvers]])]]-] [[center:[-[[Characters/MarvelComicsCaptainMarvelSupportingCharacters Supporting Characters]] ([[Characters/MsMarvelKamalaKhanSupportingCharacters Kamala Khan's Supporting Cast]], [[Characters/MsMarvelKamalaKhanRoguesGallery Kamala Khan's Rogues Gallery]])]]-]

[[#MarVell]]

The betrayal from his own people (and the eventual death of Una) leads Mar-Vell to adopt Earth (and the name Captain Marvel) as his own. He had a brief relationship with ComicBook/CarolDanvers, a NASA security agent, who later becomes a superhero herself (and eventually takes on the mantle of [[LegacyCharacter Captain Marvel]]). He gains new powers from an Earth scientist, and later, from The Supreme Intelligence, a supercomputer who is the Kree's true ruler. He also gained his more famous, red-and-blue costume from it.

!! Captain Mar-Vell provides examples of the following tropes:

[[#MonicaRambeau]]

Shortly after gaining her powers, Monica adopted the vacant Captain Marvel name for herself, meaning she's the ''first'' woman --and a woman of color, at that!-- to do so, even though Phyla-Vell (daughter of Mar-Vell) and ComicBook/CarolDanvers (formerly Ms. Marvel) have been more associated with that distinction.

[[#GenisVell]]

[[#Khnnr]]

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[[#NohVarr]]

[[#CarolDanvers]]

-> See ComicBook/CarolDanvers

[[#SharonVentura]]
[[folder:Sharon Ventura -- Ms. Marvel / She-Thing]]
!!Ms. Marvel / She-Thing

[[#KarlaSofen]]
[[folder:Karla Sofen -- '''Moonstone''' / Meteorite / Ms. Marvel]]
!!Meteorite / Moonstone / Ms. Marvel

[[#KamalKhan]]
[[folder:Kamala Khan -- '''Ms. Marvel''']]

!!Kamala Khan / Ms. Marvel

After being [[SuperEmpowering exposed to Terrigen Mist]], Kamala discovers she has [[Comicbook/TheInhumans Inhuman]] DNA and her latent {{shapeshifting}} power becomes apparent. Inspired by her heroine [[Characters/MarvelComicsCarolDanvers Carol Danvers]], who had recently abandoned the Ms. Marvel title to become Captain Marvel, Kamala decides to use her newfound abilities to protect her home and those in need.

!! Kamala Khan has appeared in the following works:

[[AC: Notable Comics]]

[[AC: Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse]]

[[AC: WesternAnimation]]

[[AC: Video Games]]

!! Kamala Khan provides examples of the following tropes:

* AffirmativeActionLegacy: A Muslim Pakistani girl who took the Comicbook/MsMarvel name from a white, blond woman.

* AscendedFangirl: Less than seven issues and she's already teaming up with some of her favorite supers. Then it goes through the roof when she becomes a member of The Avengers. Beyond that, she went from a fan of ComicBook/CarolDanvers to being her LegacyCharacter!

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Kamala is a genuinely sweet, bookish NiceGirl. She's also determined to protect Jersey City and her loved ones, no matter what.

* BreakoutCharacter:

* BrokenPedestal: During ''ComicBook/CivilWarII'', not only does Kamala suffer this due to backing a detention cell approved by ComicBook/CarolDanvers, but she ends up getting one towards Carol when [[spoiler:she witnesses the death of [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk Bruce Banner]] and she can only ask in a traumatized manner why she let it happen. Then Carol arrests ComicBook/MilesMorales for a vision]]. This trope is finally hit when [[spoiler: she's forced to show Carol how flawed using Ulysses is using Hijinx as proof and all the heroine can see is that Kamala is working with a criminal. This, along with the fact that her best friend Bruno has effectively dumped her for her actions, leads her to walk off and dump the special pendant Carol gave her]].

* CastFromHitPoints: Her HealingFactor runs on her metabolism; Kamala compares it to taking its energy from her life force.

* CluelessDudeMagnet: Kamala herself is a fairly chaste hero and not the best at recognizing when other people are romantically interest in her, but a number of coetaneous male characters have expressed interest in her. These include her own crushes like Bruno, Kamran, and Laal/Red Dagger, but also a few fellow heroes in various team-up books such as Nova, Miles Morales, and Inferno.

** The precise form and color of her hair also tend to vary. The original run of the comics has it as a solid brown with a slight wave, but depending on the specific comic and artist it ranges in color from hazel to black and from curly to wavy to straight. The only consistent traits are that that it's some shade of brown and a little over shoulder-length.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In her cameo in ''Captain Marvel'' #17, Kamala's powers are depicted as a form of HulkingOut rather than shapeshifting or stretching. This is because the ''Captain Marvel'' artists thought her becoming more muscular would be a more serious and realistic approach, while the more cartoonish and surreal nature of her powers wouldn't be nailed down until Adrian Alphono came aboard.

* {{Fangirl}}: Into the Avengers, ComicBook/CarolDanvers, Franchise/SpiderMan, 616-''My Little Pony'', video games, writing fanfic...

* InvoluntaryShapeshifter: When she first emerges from her Terrigenesis cocoon, she ends up looking like her idol ComicBook/CarolDanvers.

* LegacyCharacter: To the Comicbook/MsMarvel name.
* MeaningfulName: The name Kamala's name is based on "''kamal''", an Arabic word for "perfection", although in Urdu-Hindustani (the primary language in Pakistan) it usually means, colloquially, "awesome". Orthographically, the word Kamala makes as much sense as Marvel's usual word choices (which runs on RuleOfCool[[note]]For instance a poor Roma boy getting the aristocratic surname of Von Doom, or a [[WhiteAngloSaxonProtestant WASP]] being named Charles Francis Xavier, which sounds Catholic[[/note]]) since Kamala is a separate Sanskrit word that refers to the lotus flower, and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala#Deities_called_Kamala_as_a_praise-name is usually the name]] of a girl born to a Hindu background, which implies that Ms. Marvel's mother is quite a good deal more syncretic than she lets on. The name Kamal does exist among Muslim communities but it doesn't have a feminine form in that context.

After being [[SuperEmpowering exposed to Terrigen Mist]], Kamala discovers she has [[Comicbook/TheInhumans Inhuman]] DNA and her latent {{shapeshifting}} power becomes apparent. Inspired by her heroine [[Characters/MarvelComicsCarol Danvers Carol Danvers]], who had recently abandoned the Ms. Marvel title to become Captain Marvel, Kamala decides to use her newfound abilities to protect her home and those in need.

After being [[SuperEmpowering exposed to Terrigen Mist]], Kamala discovers she has [[Comicbook/TheInhumans Inhuman]] DNA and her latent {{shapeshifting}} power becomes apparent. Inspired by her heroine Carol Danvers, [[Comicbook/MsMarvel who had recently abandoned the Ms. Marvel title to become Captain Marvel]], Kamala decides to use her newfound abilities to protect her home and those in need.

** vol. 3 (2014 -- 2015)

** ''Ms. Marvel'' (2021)
** ''The Marvels'' (2022)

* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: Her reaction to meeting [[spoiler:Wolverine and Spider-Man]] for the first time. She almost fainted from excitement when the latter asked to do a combo attack with her

* ScarfOfAsskicking: A very long one, judging by Issue #6. Her nanosuit adds blades to the tips of the scarf, which can also turn into grabbing claws and computer scanners.

* ''[[ComicBook/Champions2016 Champions]]'' (various runs):
** vol. 2 (2016 -- 2018)

* ClarkKenting: Her mask doesn't really cover that much. Lampshaded once [[spoiler: Josh]] finds out and points it should be obvious in hindsight, but the idea that a shy, nerdy girl who doesn't like sports could be a superhero never crossed his mind.

* DependingOnTheArtist: Kamala's mask varies a lot depending on who's drawing her; sometimes it'll be seemingly adhered to her face or it'll be clearly tied on, sometimes it'll have lens or cloth that obscure the eyes or it won't, and sometimes the eye holes will be just big enough to see out through or will be two to three times wider than her actual eyes.

* AgainstMyReligion: She's not as devout as her brother but she still won't drink alcohol (though she's too young to drink legally anyway) or eat pork (though she finds the smell of bacon [[ForbiddenFruit frustratingly tempting]]).

* BreakoutCharacter: For comics as a whole. There are reports from store owners of first-time customers (especially Muslim women and girls) who only come in to buy ''Ms. Marvel'', and nothing else. Now, whether the industry can translate Kamala into a GatewaySeries is still up in the air...

* TheCameo: Appears in ''Marvel [=75th=] Anniversary Celebration'' #1, which shows her as a toddler as of the day that the ComicBook/FantasticFour went to space.
* ClarkKenting: Her mask doesn't really cover that much. Lampshaded once [[spoiler: Josh]] finds out and points it should be obvious in hindsight, but the idea a shy, nerdy girl who doesn't like sports could be a superhero never crossed his mind.

* ExtradimensionalPowerSource: Revealed in issue #34 to be how Kamala gains and loses mass as she shapeshifts. All Kamalas through time and space are connected to this source, essentially allowing all of them to borrow mass from each other as needed.

* {{Hypocrite}}: An odd variation -- she's oh-so-cool with knowing the identities of her Avengers teammates, but trying to get her to open up about hers is like trying to pull teeth. Miles Morales calls her out on this when she drops in on his home while he's under trouble.

* IKnowMortalKombat: Claims that her hours playing video games have given her superior reflexes.

* RubberMan: She can stretch her limbs or flatten herself to almost paper-like dimensions. Vol. 4, issue 19 shows that she's improved her stretching skills to bend and elongate her body, allowing her to easily dodge attacks.

* SizeShifter: Able to grow her entire body or just parts of it, such as her fists. She can also shrink to insect-size.

!![[center:[-'''Captain Marvel & Ms. Marvel''' ([[Characters/MarvelComicsCarolDanvers Carol Danvers]])]]-] [[center:[-[[Characters/MarvelComicsCaptainMarvelSupportingCharacters Supporting Characters]] ([[Characters/MsMarvelKamalaKhanSupportingCharacters Kamala Khan's Supporting Cast]], ([[Characters/MsMarvelKamalaKhanRoguesGallery Kamala Khan's Rogues Gallery]])]]-]

!![[center:[-'''Captain Marvel & Ms. Marvel''' ([[Characters/MarvelComicsCarolDanvers Carol Danvers]])]]-] [[center:[-[[Characters/MsMarvelAllies Allies]] ([[Characters/MsMarvelKamalaKhanSupportingCharacters Kamala Khan's Supporting Cast]]), [[Characters/MsMarvelEnemies Enemies]] ([[Characters/MsMarvelKamalaKhanRoguesGallery Kamala Khan's Rogues Gallery]])]]-]

* DependingOnTheArtist: Kamala's mask varies a lot depending on who's drawing her; sometimes it'll be seemingly adhered to her face or it'll be clearly tied on, sometimes it'll have lens or cloth that obscure the eyes or it won't and sometimes the eye holes will be just big enough to see out through or will be 2 to 3 times wider than her actual eyes.

Kamala's presence outside of comics has been steadily growing since her introduction. She appears in a variety of Marvel's mobile games, and serves as the de facto protagonist of ''VideoGame/MarvelsAvengers''. She also guest stars in the third season of Creator/DisneyXD's ''WesternAnimation/AvengersAssemble'' and joins the team in season 4, and also stars in ''WesternAnimation/MarvelRisingSecretWarriors''. And in the future, she will join the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse in her own Creator/DisneyPlus [[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/ms-marvel-series-works-disney-1234216 live-action series]], portrayed there by Iman Vellani in her very first acting role. Vellani is also set to appear in ''The Marvels'', opposite Creator/BrieLarson as Captain Marvel.

** [[http://wondygirl.tumblr.com/post/173978009973/older-kamala-khan-with-cosmic-awareness-rocking Herself as a cosmically-empowered older woman]] whom even Kang the Conqueror dreads.

* FutureBadass: We’ve seen several AlternateUniverse versions of her:

The ''ComicBook/UltimateGalactusTrilogy'', set in the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel universe, featured an adaptation of Mar-Vell and the Kree that look more like StarfishAliens than HumanAliens. The new design proved popular enough that it was also used in the animated series ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes''.

Mar-Vell appears in the 2019 film ''Film/{{Captain Marvel|2019}}'' -- which features Carol Danvers in the title role, not Mar-Vell -- albeit with some significant changes.

* AbledInTheAdaptation: The [[ComicBook/UltimateMarvel Ultimate]] version of Mar-Vell had all his run, including his death, without cancer being mentioned at all. Unsurprising, considering like many other characters in Ultimate Marvel, Ultimate Mar-Vell didn't live for very long.

* AdaptationNameChange: The character in the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel universe is called "Mahr Vehl", but the mispronuntiation as "Captain Marvel" stays the same.
* AffirmativeActionLegacy:
** Monica Rambeau and Phyla-Vell. Carol Danvers claimed the title for herself, as mentioned above. The "Captain Marvel" of the 2019 film is Carol Danvers.
** The openly-gay Teddy Altman is the new Captain Marvel in the BadFuture seen in ''[[ComicBook/YoungAvengers Children's Crusade]]''.

** The original Mar-Vell is often considered this to Thanos, and his Cancerverse version retains this animosity.

* DeadPersonImpersonation: For a time, Mar-Vell posed as a deceased scientist named Walter Lawson.

* DeadlyGas: Nitro's debut was him try to steal some only to be stopped by Mar-Vell -- but the canister sprung a leak in the battle and while Mar-Vell did reseal it, the gas was also carcinogenic and resulted in the cancer that would kill Mar-Vell.

* DistaffCounterpart: The more popular Ms. Marvel.
* EldritchAbomination: Eon from Jim Starlin's run is a rare benevolent example.

* TheGoodCaptain: Marv has always been unusually altruistic for a Kree military officer.

* IHaveManyNames: Multiple:
** Common trait among those that take 'Marvel' in their title, outside of the original Mar-Vell himself, is that they will eventually have to change their alias at some point.
** Monica Rambeau's been hit with this so many times it's a running gag. She lost the Captain Marvel moniker to Genis-Vell, and took the name Photon. Then Genis-Vell changed ''his'' name to Photon, having forgotten that Monica was using it; so she changed her name to Pulsar. In at least one storyline she just went by Monica, but has since adopted the name Spectrum.

** A later retcon shows that [[ComicBook/BlackPanther Black Panther]] had the cure all along... but he didn't want to [[Jerkass share with anyone]] [[MoralMyopia outside of his MarySueTopia Wakanda]].
* ReTool: The original series underwent a few as it struggled to find its identity.

* {{Sucksessor}}: Those who have attempted to take on the Captain Marvel name after the original have all met with immense hardship with some even outright dying as they tried to live up to his daunting legacy while others simply suffer through the misfortune the title seems to bring.
* SuperheroesInSpace: Essentially anyone who has the Marvel title ends up in space.

* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: The omniscience afforded by Cosmic Awareness has some serious downsides to those who possess it after Mar-Vell himself.

* WritingAroundTrademarks: The reason why Marvel Comics makes sure to publish a comic with a character named Captain Marvel in it at least [[http://www.oafe.net/blog/2006/12/captain-marvel-addendum-part-1/ once every few years]].

* HandBlast: After transformation and flight, her third most commonly used power is this. A randomly chosen discharge from her can strike with the force relative to three hundred tons of TNT. Applying knowledge of chemistry or radiology in the right situation can make her even more lethal. Then there was that time Dr. Brashear inadverdently pushed her into at least the [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt sextillion TNT ton range]]...

** When Thanos sent an invasion force to Earth, Spectrum lead a resistance group who came to be known as "The Mighty Avengers"(the official Avengers team were in space). She suffered a crippling blow in the skirmish however, and Luke Cage stepped up as leader by the time they had become an established team. Spectrum acted as TheLancer after recovering.

* MidSeasonUpgrade: An alien invader going by "Proxima Midnight" used anti photon particles to kill Spectrum, but her life was saved by Blue Marvel, who specializes in containing {{antimatter}}. Since photons are product of, rather than matter in of themselves, and "anti photons" are so exotic [[HowUnscientific they aren't even supposed to exist]] in reality 616, his efforts to reverse the process were less that perfect, but ended up making Rambeau much stronger than she had been before.

* SassyBlackWoman: "Sassy" isn't her ''only'' defining characteristic, but it was a characteristic shown early and often, as she quickly befriended Spider-man after matching his wit.

* ShadowArchetype: Sofen knows the preferences desires and aversions she Rambeau share, as well as their different values. Sofen tries to use this knowledge to convince Rambeau that Sofen the one in the right, to little success, but nonetheless managed to manipulate Rambeau into helping her complete Project Aaru. Nebula also shares a lot with Monica, but the nature and length of their conflict did not allow for as much to be explored on panel.

* SuperToughness: Her physical strength is far below that of Moonstone, who is roughly equal to Spider-man, or Nebula, who was already taller and bigger than her before becoming a {{cyborg}} roughly equal to Luke Cage. She has endured physical contact with them without instantly being reduced to mist and powder, leading to speculation that her powers are still providing a subconscious form of protection even when she isn't phase shifting. She herself wondered if her "human" form wasn't really a convincing HardLight construct that just felt human due to electromagnetic manipulations.

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: During ''Last Days'' (set during the opening issue of ''Secret Wars'') Monica is sent to crack open Earth-1610 on herself. She almost gets there, until she sees the point of impact is a playground of oblivious kids, and hesitates, long enough for The Maker to capture her.

** [[ComicBook/Champions2020 vol. 4]] (2020 -- present)

* ''ComicBook/MarvelRising'' (2018 --)

Monica Rambeau, otherwise known by her multitude of aliases ([[ComicBook/CaptainMarVell Captain Marvel]], Photon, Pulsar, and presently Spectrum) is a Creator/MarvelComics character created by Creator/RogerStern and John Romita, Jr., first appearing in ''The Amazing ComicBook/SpiderMan Annual'' #16 (dated 1982).

* GladToBeAliveSex: How the OneNightStand between Mar-Vell and Skrull crown princess Annelle (the result being the young hero Hulkling) came about.

Monica didn't actually operate under the Pulsar name for very long -- she gave it up sometime before appearing in Creator/WarrenEllis' ''ComicBook/{{Nextwave}}: Agents of H.A.T.E.'' Now simply using her birth name (while rocking [[DreadlockWarrior dreads]] and a new {{badass longcoat}}), Monica utilized her experience as former leader of The Avengers to head up this new {{ragtag bunch of misfits}}, which included ComicBook/ElsaBloodstone, [[ComicBook/XMen Boom Boom]], and Machine Man.

-> ''They said... They said the [[EvilInc Beyond Corporation]] never existed. They said [[ComicBook/{{Nextwave}} none of it]] really happened. We came back changed --Me, Aaron, [[ComicBook/ElsaBloodstone Elsa]], all of us. Harder and stranger. But nobody cared. Oh, everybody humored me ... But nobody thought it was real. I spent a year remembering things that couldn't exist. Trying not to kill and killing anyway --And then they said it didn't happen-- But they never let me forget, either. Oh, no. Change your look, change your life, you can never forget ... I bet it was funny. From the outside. I bet everybody had a real good laugh. Well.'' '''''Auntie Monica's not ☠☠☠☠ laughing.'''''