The world of comics continues to get more and more confusing lately. It seems when Disney took over Marvel and LucasFilm everything went to crazy and this latest bit of news is no different.

They’re genus swapping Ms. Marvel.

When Disney bought Marvel due to the success of Marvel Studios and wanting to have content for their Disney+ streaming service, they ran into a problem. Back when Marvel was desperate for cash they sold movie rights to a number of different studios. One of them was the X-Men, who went to Twentieth Century Fox, with mixed results. Some movies were good, some were bad, and that included two failed attempts to adapt the “Phoenix Saga” rather close together. That meant Disney couldn’t make X-Films and not wanting to promote something that benefited a rival (they would make a deal with Sony) someone had a “brilliant” idea. By “brilliant” I actually mean “rock stupid”. “I know, let’s use those Inhumans and make them the mutants and what they stand for thematically and tone down the mutants. This was not well received for what would be obvious reasons if you cared about the property you own, and Disney doesn’t because comics are only good for making TV and movie fodder without having to create something new and actually put effort and trust into something.

Now that Disney owns Fox and the rights to the mutant side of the Marvel universe in movie form are back with them, the fans are itching to see mutants in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, despite what the MCU has become as new creators seem to care even less about the comics or continuity or shared universes or good content. And since only two Inhumans made it out of the comics past a certain movie, one of them is about to become a mutant. Yes, they’re changing Kamala Khan, aka Ms. Marvel, into a mutant. Let’s track this stupidity.

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