Marvel Rising is a Marvel Comics cross-platform franchise headed by writer Mairghread Scott (The Transformers: Windblade) that was launched in 2018.
Aimed at young girls, the franchise focuses on the diverse, younger heroes within Marvel's lineup and their adventures, both as a team known as the Secret Warriors (based loosely on the team of the same name) and as individuals. Beside sharing a similar art style to other Marvel animated properties airing at the same time, most of the franchise is set within its own separate continuity, with changes made to character origins and relationships. The exception to this is the comic books, which are set within the mainstream Marvel comics continuity.
The main team consists of Quake (Chloe Bennet), Ms. Marvel (Kathreen Khavari) and her teleporting bulldog Lockjaw (Dee Bradley Baker), Squirrel Girl (Milana Vayntrub) and her best friend Tippy-Toe (also Baker), Ghost-Spider (Dove Cameron), Inferno (Tyler Posey), America Chavez (Cierra Ramirez), and Patriot (Kamil McFadden).
Other characters include Captain Marvel (Kim Raver) and villainous Kree Accuser Hala (Ming-Na Wen).
It is essentially Marvel's answer to DC Comics' DC Super Hero Girls, albeit in a world more closely resembling the traditional Marvel universe than that of the aforementioned DC Super Hero Girls.
Following 2019, the franchise has ended/left defunct, with no new installments following the last animated special.
Works in Marvel Rising include:
Animation
- Marvel Rising: Initiation (2018) — A series of six four-minute shorts focusing on Ghost-Spider's attempts to elude S.H.I.E.L.D. after being falsely accused of murder.
- Marvel Rising: Secret Warriors (2018) — An animated movie about the formation of the titular super team as they uncover a villainous Kree kidnapping plot.
- Marvel Rising: Chasing Ghosts (2019) — A 22-minute special continuing the plot of Initiation, with Ghost-Spider working together with the Secret Warriors to clear her name.
- Marvel Rising: Heart of Iron (2019) — A 44-minute special that introduces and focuses on Ironheart.
- Marvel Rising: Battle of the Bands (2019) — A 22-minute special that focuses on Ghost-Spider and her band.
- Marvel Rising: Operation Shuri (2019) — A special that introduces and focuses on Shuri.
- Marvel Rising: Playing with Fire (2019) — A special that focuses on Inferno and America.
Comic Books
- Marvel Rising (2018) — A five-issue limited comic series set in the Earth-616 universe, showing how Ms. Marvel and Squirrel Girl first met.
- Marvel Rising (2019) — Another five-issue limited comic series.
Other
- Kamala Khanfidential
(2018) — A series of videos where Ms. Marvel and Squirrel Girl talk about themselves and the other heroes over clips from Initiation and Secret Warriors.note - Marvel Rising Ultimate Comics (2019) — Motion comics posted to the Marvel HQ Youtube.
