The Magnificent Ms. Marvel is a comic title published by Marvel Comics, following the events of Ms. Marvel (2016), which ran from 2019 to 2021.
A new chapter in Ms. Marvel's heroic career opens when she's transported to an alien world whose people believe her their long-prophesied savior. On returning to Earth, she finds herself pitted against literal corporate zombies and out-of-control alien technology, but none of this may be as terrifying as the specter of mortality.
The Magnificent Ms. Marvel is the first arc featuring Kamala Khan's Ms. Marvel to not be written by G. Willow Wilson, and is instead written by Saladin Ahmed.
The Magnificent Ms. Marvel provides examples of:
- Alien Sky: The sky of the alien planet Saffa is yellow during the daytime and purple at night.
- The Apocalypse Brings Out the Best in People: Maliq Zeer, the king of Saffa, is a cruel and despotic tyrant who rules through brute force and intimidation. Once the Beast Legions arrive and overrun the planet, however, he realizes how pointless his tyranny was and gives his life to buy the heroes enough time to save Saffa.
- Arm Cannon: Stormranger, a living nanotech super-suit, can transform her hands into energy cannons.
- Big Damn Kiss: After more than their fair share of "will they or won't they?" moments throughout the various series, Kamala and Bruno finally share one in Magnificent #9.
- Bystander Syndrome: In issue #8, Kamala muses on why this bystander syndrome is so tempting in the first place: there are some problems in the world that just seem unstoppable, and it's tempting to just let them grow when chances are you'll just keep getting defeated.
- Cast from Hit Points: The Stormranger suit powers itself by converting portions of its own mass into energy. It does so extremely efficiently, meaning that it only needs to consume tiny bits of itself at once, but using a lot of energy — such as to fuel powerful attacks — will eventually corrode and consume its body. Kamala uses this to give the being an existential crisis during their second confrontation.
- Covers Always Lie: The cover for issue #6 show both Kamala and Tony Stark mid transformation for their respective superhero getups, implying they'd fight together. In the actual issue, Tony arrives after Kamala defeats Deathbringer and all he does is giver her a pep-talk regarding her father being terminally ill.
- Decapitated Army: The Beast Legions have little willpower of their own. and immediately run away once the computer forcing them to fight is destroyed.
- Distant Prologue: The first issue begins hundreds of years in the future, with a Saffan father telling his child about the legend of the Destined One — that is, the events of the story.
- Dramatic Irony: In the prologue, the storyteller's descriptions of the Destined One and her deeds are juxtaposed by the opposite of each description happening — he describes her boldness as she panics while a villain shoots at her, her noble and solemn bearing as she gags over the smell of a spilled dumpster, and the respect she commanded among her people as a store owner chews her out for thrashing his shop.
- Everybody Knew Already: In issue 1 (Legacy #58), Muneeba finally tells Yusuf that Kamala is Ms. Marvel. He's the first person who doesn't figure it out on his own, and Kamala had a reason why she didn't tell him — as she expected, he's angry that she's risking her life!
- Fantasy Counterpart Culture: Saffan culture is visually based on the Arabic caliphates.
- Fish out of Water: In her first two volumes, Kamala mainly sticks to Jersey City, with the more outré adventures occurring when she's part of a team. In Volume 3, she spends a good deal of time out of J.C., first on the distant planet of Saffa when they mistake her for their "Destined One" and then in central New Jersey when a road trip with Nakia and Zoe causes her to cross paths with Lockdown, Discord, and the sinister start-up Rubicon.
- Green-Skinned Space Babe: A gender-inverted example. Kamala works with a purple-skinned (and shirtless) space hunk. Her mother, who's along on this occasion, is less than happy about this.
- Heroic Sacrifice: The Saffan magicians need to give up their lives to power their interplanetary teleportation — one of them allows himself to be consumed this way to get them to Saffa in the first place, and the sole surviving one does so again to get the Khans back to Earth.
- Katanas Are Just Better: Parodied when Kamala taunts Deathbringer during their second fight.Ms. Marvel: Smother? Gross. Also, don't you need your Uzi and your cool-guy katana or whatever?
- Large and in Charge: King Maliq Zeer towers above every other member of his species and rules them with an iron fist.
- Our Zombies Are Different: In the second story arc, the people taken over by Monopoly are reduced to a shambling, zombie-like state where they can only follow his orders while mindlessly droning "Report! Report!"
- Planetary Romance: The first plot arc drops our heroine into a classic Flash Gordon-style planetary romance story, complete with a Raygun Gothic visual aesthetic, alien hunks with colorful skin and minimal clothing, and a whole load of Schizo Tech.
- Redemption Equals Death: King Maliq Zeer realizes the error of his petty tyranny when the Beast Legions, inhumanly evil monsters from ancient legend, arrive, and dies shortly afterwards to hold the line against them and give Ms. Marvel and his son time to save Saffa.
- Reed Richards Is Useless: Parodied in the annual, where Kamala complains about how, despite living in a world of superscience, flying palaces and fantastic vehicles, nobody seems to have come up with a good way to deal with global warming or to at least temperature-control cities.
- Slave Mooks: The Beast Legions are bred in laboratories and directed remotely by an advanced computer — once the control ship is taken down, they panic, scatter, and flee.
- Soap Opera Disease: Kamala learns that her father has a mysterious disease and doesn't have much longer to live. Tony Stark later reveals to her that it's an Inhuman-related disease accidentally reactivated by the Terrigen Mists' release and recruits Dr. Strange (who had regained use of his hands again) to help excise it.
- Super Registration Act: The law that's the crux of Outlawed, which several issues of this run overlap with, is ironically named after her due to an accident where Kamala nearly dies during a superhero battle. As a result, a law is passed calling for the apprehension of all teenage vigilantes, who are seen as dangers to both society and themselves.
- Wham Episode: In Issue 5, Kamala and her parents return to Earth after saving the planet Saffa, with a new nanotech Ms. Marvel costume. However, when Kamala talks to her parents, she realizes that the Saffan magicians have removed their memories about her double life, followed by her father announcing to her that he is dying of some incurable illness.
