Ms Marvel’s Thor Reference Continues The Avengers’ Insult

Warning! This article contains spoilers for Ms. Marvel episode 4.

Ms. Marvel episode 4 featured a reference to Thor, a reference that continues an insult to the superheroes of the MCU set up way back in The Avengers. Ms. Marvel has established that Kamala and her family are actually Djinns, ancient beings of mythological status, with the term simply being a moniker for unknown beings of scary origins. The catch-all term of Djinn is where the reference to Thor is made, continuing The Avengers‘ insult from Phase 1.

In Ms. Marvel episode 4, Kamala travels to Karachi in order to figure out the origins of both her bangle and her great-grandmother. In doing so, Ms. Marvel comes across the Red Dagger, a member of a larger crimefighting organization based in Pakistan. The Red Daggers know of the Djinn offshoot, the ClanDestines, and their quest to break the Veil of Noor, the barrier separating the Noor Dimension from the human world. When Kamala asks Waleed, the leader of the Red Daggers, about her nature of being a Djinn, Waleed makes the reference to Thor.

Waleed states that the ClanDestines are not like the Djinn Kamala will have heard about in scary stories or ancient texts, as evident by their seemingly human appearances. He implies that the Djinn name was given to them as they were unknown beings who brought about supernatural occurrences to the people of Earth. It is in this conversation that Waleed states that, if Thor had crashed in the Himalayan mountains as opposed to New Mexico, he would have been labeled a Djinn also. This is where the insult to Thor from The Avengers and now Kamala in Ms. Marvel lies. After Thor crashes on Earth in the events of Thor, despite defeating the Destroyer and almost sacrificing himself to do so, Nick Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D set up the contingency plan should the Avengers’ formation fail and extra terrestrial threats invade Earth. This is all done in response to Thor’s crash landing, proving that he was scary enough as an unknown supernatural, potentially dangerous threat to spur S.H.I.E.L.D into action.

Ms Marvel’s Thor Reference Continues The Avengers’ Insult

This ties with what is said about the ClanDestines in Ms. Marvel. Despite the group living on Earth mostly peacefully for many years, they were labeled by the people of South Asia as Djinn–scary, uncontrollable beings of dangerous power. While that may turn out to be true in the ClanDestines’ case, Ms. Marvel is a hero and an unbelievably likable one at that. In Kamala’s case, and Thor’s, both the labeling of Djinn and S.H.I.E.L.D’s Phase 2 plan respectively is an insult to the good they have done and continue to do.

While Phase 2 never left the planning stage, and the Avengers obviously became a team that saved the world countless times after The Avengers, the concept of the need to defend from unknown beings based on Thor, while logical, is an insult to the peaceful alien beings of the vast universe. Sadly, it continues with Ms. Marvel episode 4 and the referencing of the ClanDestines, who could be helped by America Chavez, and in turn Kamala as Djinn. Despite the negative connotations of the term, hopefully, Kamala can prove the people of Earth wrong by the end of the series and her future in Phase 4 and beyond, proving they have no need to be scared of her and instead can view her as the future of superheroism in the MCU.

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