Ms. Marvel (film)/Tropes


 * Abusive Parents: Knox was, to put it simply, a shitty father to The Inventor.
 * Actor Allusion:
 * The Inventor is voiced by Will Forte, who isn't a stranger to voicing clones of historical figures.
 * Robert Patrick again plays an Abusive Father in a comic-book adaptation.
 * Adaptation Backstory Change: The Inventor. In the comics, he's an okd bird-looking clonebof Edison with a hatred of teenagers. Im the film, he's a teen clone with a human form whose lack of acceptance from both sides and repeated mistreatment drove him to villany.
 * Adaptational Badass: The Inventor in the film is given the abiloty to change his appearance into a human form.
 * Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: In the comics, Knox was the Inventor's assistant while secretly trying to be The Man Behind the Man. In the film, he is the Inventor's Abusive Father whom he implicitly murders.
 * Adaptational Nice Guy: Captain Marvel is far less arrogant and abbrasive than most potrayals, even commeting how she feels she wouldn't have accomplished her latest mission without the Avengers. Producer/write Sana Amanat said this was because "they wanted Kamala to have a reason to like her".
 * Asshole Victim: As violent as it was, the Inventor murderimg his father is definetly karmic.
 * Casting Gag: Kathreen Khavari voices Kamaka's mother, after voicing Kamaka herself in other projects.
 * Company Cross-Referenves:
 * Fitting for a Marvel/Disney film, a Baymax toy can be seen in Kamala's room.
 * Mrs. Potts and Chip can be seen in a pawn shop.
 * Kamala's first clothes in the film have the same colors as Luz Noceda's main outfit.
 * Creator's Oddball: This is both the first animated film from Marvel Studios Animation, and Marvel Studios' first theatrical film outside the MCU.
 * The Cameo: The Avengers make a cameo in a news report near the beginning of the film.
 * Death by Adaptation: Knox is implicity murdered by the Inventor in the film.
 * Dumb Jock: Averted. Bruno is a jock, but also very smart.
 * Evil Counterpart: The Inventor is this to Kamala. Both are superhuman teens who struggled with a balance between theur louves and origins. But whereas Kamala bad friends to help her go througth each day, the Inventor had none, resulting in him snapping and becoming a criminal mastermind.
 * Fridge Brilliance: Kamaka's outfit at the start of the film shares colors with Luz Noceda's. Both are seeing as weirdos and outcasts simply for being who they are.
 * Mythology Gag:
 * The Terrigenesis process is depicted similarly to the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. TV series. The film also adapts the series' plotline of Terrigen Mist contaminating sealife.
 * The film begins with Kamala listening to "Creep" by Radiohead, in homage to Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.
 * Kamala at one envelops herself against the Inventor, much like Mr. Fantastic did against Dr. Doom in the 2005 Fantastic Four film.
 * During his rant to Kamala, the Inventor says "I'm not a bird!", his first line to Kamala in the comics.
 * The order of the people Kamala first shapshifts into is the same as in Marvel Rising: Secret Warriors: First Captain Marvel, then her own mother, abd kastly Captain America.
 * One of Kamala's helmets resembles Moon Girl's helmet from her TV show.
 * At the climax, Kamala recreates the "embiggen" scene from her show's final episode.
 * At the end, Kamala recreates the "selfie mode" from Marvel's Spider-Man (2018).
 * Lovable Jock: Again, Bruno may be a jock, but still is Kamala's friend.
 * Nightmare Fuel: In his backstory, the Inventor was a mismatched clone of Thomas Edison with bird DNA. He tried to have friends, but they mocked him for being too much like the real Edison, while his creator repriminded him for not being enough like Edison. One day, he snapped and grabbed his creator in the head as he screamed in agony. While we don't see the results, it is implied he killed him.
 * More unnerving is how he changes to his natural form before attacking his dipshit of a father, given the impresion of him falling into a feral state.
 * Pragmatic Adaptation: To cut off the years of Carol Danvers becoming Ms. Marvel and then Captain Marvel, the film (much like the MCU) establishes Danvers as simply being Captain Marvel and Kamala originating the Ms. Marvel mantle.
 * Role Reprise:
 * Sandra Saad returns to voice Kamala Khan.
 * Brian Bloom and Jennifer Hale return as Captain America and Carol Danvers from The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes.
 * Mick Wingert reprises his role as Iron Man.
 * Shout-Out:
 * Kamala finds out about her powers when she looks at herself in a mirror to see herself as Captain Marvel, much like Mei Lee and Scott Howard did.
 * Kamala at one point recreates the Gum Gum Pistol attack.
 * Tearjerker: The gilm gives a surprisingly sobbering backstory to Kamala's love of superheroes: They are the odd ones out and people love them, whereas when she is the odd one out she is bullied.
 * Truer to Text: Not only is Kamala a polymorphic Inhuman instead of a mutant with hard light powers like her MCU potrayal, but the storyline as a whole is much closer to the comics than the Ms. Marvel series.
 * Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: The film is for the most part a breezy, lighthearted coming-of-age story. Making the murderous Inventor stabd-out even more from it.