Aysha Akhter grew up watching the Marvel Cinematic Universe and was particularly obsessed with Thor, the god of thunder, and Captain America. To this day, her mother still hasn’t taken down the life-sized poster of Chris Evans in her childhood bedroom.
Despite her fandom though, something irked her. All of her favourite superheroes looked nothing like her, a brown-skinned girl from Pennsylvania with large brown eyes.
None of their families resembled Akhter’s family; a mother who wore a dupatta loosely around her head, a father who held her hand and took her to the masjid every Friday, and a grandpa who taught her to say "bismillah" before starting anything.
Until Ms Marvel.
Ms Marvel follows a 16-year-old Pakistani Muslim girl from New Jersey named Kamala Khan as she tries to figure out the new superpowers she gains after putting on an old bangle that belonged to her great grandmother.
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