Ms. Marvel's season finale hints at a big comic book connection with the Nega-Bands or Quantum Bands
Ms. Marvel's mysterious b⭕angle might have just done something straight out of old-school Marvel comic books

The series finale of Ms. Marvel, now streaming on Disney Plus, puts some interesting new twists on Kamala Khan's MCU superhero origins - some of which point d🔥irectly at an interesting piece of Marvel Comics lore connected more directly to Carol Danvers in Marvel Comics.
In comic books, Kamala Khan's powers are derived from her latent Inhuman DNA, which, when activated, grants her the power to change her size and s🗹hape. In practical terms, this often means growing ꦐin size to increase her strength and "embiggening" her fists to launch powerful attacks.
And though she's shown making a giant energy fist in a stylistic nod to her comic book abilities, and she even "embiggens" in a sli𒁏ghtly different way, in the Ms. Marvel series, her powers manifest as purplish energy constructs which she refers to as 'Hard Light' in episode 2, borrowing a term used in Marvel Comics by characters such as Quasar.
Along with eschewing the Inhumans element from her backstory in favor of a different kind of special heritage (or two different kinds of special genetics, counting a 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:big reveal in the season finale) the Ms. Marvel show's adaptation of Kamala Khan's powers and the terminology used to explain them may hint at some different possible comic book roots that 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marvel Studios may be connecting to Kamala's MCU story - namely that of the Quantum Bands, the weapons used by the aforementioned Quasar, and the Kree weapons kn🔯own as the Nega-Banജds, the predecessors of the Quantum Bands in comics.
, when the Kree Supreme Intelligence awarded them to Marvel Comics' original Captain Marvel, the Kree warrior Mar-Vell, who was adapted in a somewhat different incarnation as portrayed by Annette Bening in 2019's Capt✱ain Marvel film. Despite functioning as mighty weapons that in🅰stantly increased Mar-Vell's power levels, he also found himself trapped in the Negative Zone by the Nega-Bands' connection to the strange dimension.Get the best comic news, insights, opinions🀅, analysis aౠnd more!
That is until another set of Nega-Bands was discovered on Earth by Marvel's unsung everyman, Rick Joneℱs.
(TL:DR, Rick Jones is kinda the Forrest Gump of the Ma🎀rvel Universe, always finding himself caught up in superhero business alongside everyone from the Hulk to Captain America to the Avengers, and many, many others).
When Rick touched his Nega-Bands together, Mar-Vell was freed from the Negative Zone with Rick taking his place, allowing Mar-Vell to use his powers and take on whatever threat may be at hand. This same relationship wꦫas later shared by Mar-Vell's 🎃son Genis-Vell, who used the name Captain Marvel for some time while being mentored by Jones.
Interestingly enough, this swapping of places could be the explanation for the Ms. Ma🍷rvel🦄 finale's stinger scene, in which Carol Danvers and Kamala Khan may have switched places.
There have been a few other sets of Nega-Bands in the Marvel Universe, notablyꦺ a pair found but not wielded by the Guardians of the Galaxy, and an artificial pair created by Hank Pym which were later destroyed. And, when Hulkling, current Emperor of the Kree/Skrull Alliance and another son of Mar-Vell, wed his Royal Consort Wiccan, they exchanged wedding bands made from the destroyed ore of a set of Nega-Bands
In terms of what the Nega-Bands can actually do, they have the power to manipulate numerous forms of energy, includinꦺg creating limited constructs such as force fields, they grant a level of super-strength, speed, and invulnerability, they allow the wearer to survive in space, and they can teleport across space and dimensions.
And there's one other thing they c🥃an do - though it's a bit hard to define.
For some, including Mar-Vell and Genis-Vell, wearing the Nega-Bands grants a sort of sixth sense called 'Cosmic Awareness' that endows the wearer 🌳with a gen🍒eral ability to detect and understand the nature of the cosmos, including when it is threatened or disrupted.
Kinda s💟ounds a little like the visions Kamala has had in the MCU streaming series, no?
What are the Quantum Bands?
The other set of cosmic bracelets in the Marvel Universe is the Quantum Bands, which, as the name implies, draw power from the Quantum Zone much like the Nega-Bands are connected to the Negativeﷺ Zone. However, it's important to note that in Marvel Comics, the Quantum Zone is a dimension of pure, unbridled cosmic energy, as opposed to the MCU where the well-known Quantum Realm is a layer of reality that exists at a subatomic level.
Comic book science, amirite? Don't wo♍🧸rry, there won't be a pop quiz.
During his tenure as a hero, before his death in 1980's graphic novel,𝓰 Mar-Vell was appointed as the so-called 'Protector of the Universe' by the timeless cosmic entity known as Eon.
When SHIELD scientist Wendell Vaughan learned how to wield the Quantum Bands while studying them, he took on tඣhe name Quasar, becoming a superhero. Partially thanks to his connection to the Quantum Bands, Eon selected Vaughan as Mar-Vell's replacement as Protector ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚof the Universe.
The Quantum bands include a suite of powers similar to those granted by the previously mentioned Nega-Bands, including super strength, space flight, teleportation, Cosmic Awareness, and energy manipulation - including 🦹the ability to channel the wearer's thoughts into objects, something Vaughan himself often used to create giant fists for punching. Not unlike DC's Green Lantern, but then again, also not unli🃏ke how Kamala is shown doing the same thing in Ms. Marvel.
But the Quantum Bands actually app🎉eared before being granted to Quasar by Eon, first showing up in 1975's by writer Roy Thomas and the late, great George Pérez, wielded by an Eternal named Thelius who hailed from an Eternal colony on the planet Uranus (similar to how Thanos is from an Eternal colony on Saturn's moon Titan). 🎐;
(Thelius was originally mistaken for Robert Grayson, the origi🉐nal Marvel Boy, thanks to the🍰ir close resemblance - but that's its own can of worms).
In ♒fact, it'💙s believed that the Quantum Bands were created by the Eternals, and were used by the Kree as the basis for the creation of the Nega-Bands.
After Wendell Vaughan, Mar-Vell's daughtಌer Phyla-Vell inherited the Quantum Bands, taking the name Quasar herself for a while - before dying and being resurrected years later, that is.
The current wielder of the Quantum Bands in Marvel Comics is Avril Kincaid, a former SHIELD agent who inherited both the Quantum Bands and the mantle of Quasar during the event. She and Wendell Vaughan were both recent members of the ওGuardians of the Galaxy, using their Quantum Bands to swap places in and out of the Quantum Zone as Mar-Vell and Rick Jones once did with the Nega-Bands.
Again, not unlike what ওmay have happened with Carol and Kamala in the stinger of Ms. Marvel episode 6.
The Nega-Bands and the Quantum Bands in the MCU
Though Kamala Khan doesn't openly shapeshift into Carol Danvers in her first superhero adventure, Kamala does wear her own cosplay version of Carol's Captain Marvel uniform - sorta reflecting some of the ideas pre🦄sent in the comi꧅cs.
And of course, the final episode pays homage to this scene - but with a twist that hints at the Nega-Bands or Quantum Bands being involved. In the scene, rather than Kamala shapeshifting into Carol Danvers, she and Carol actually swap places i🃏n Space (we're using Capital-S Space there for a reason - remember Carol's MCU powers derive partially from the Space Stone).
So if Carꦏol and Kamala swapped places, was that effect caused by somethi꧟ng similar to the way Nega-Bands and Quantum Bands swap their wearer's places?
Using the Quantum Bands or Nega-Bands could bring forward other possible MCU connections, including everyone from the recently introduced Eternals and Eros, to Thanos, to Mar-Vell's kids Hulkling, Genis-Vell, and Phyla-Vell, not to mention the kind of S🙈ix Degrees of Marvel Separation, Rick Jones.
Also, not for nothing, in The Eternals, Phastos creates a set of bracelets for all the Eternals to regulate and channel their own 'Cosmic Energy' (it's an actual thing in Marvel Cജomics) - meaning there could be some further connection between Kamala's bracelet and the Eternals in the MCU, whether it's a Quantum Band or not.
Speaking of the Eternals, Ms. Marveᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚl episode 2 namedrops Kingo as a Bollywood star, mentioning "Kingo Senior" as well, a reference to Kingo's ruse of being his own descendant to explain how he's been able to stay young appearing in movies for so long.
And if there's some connection to the Negative Zone thrown in there - possibly as the original dimensional home of the ClanDestine - that could also open the door to Annihilus and the Annihilation Wave. Meanwhi☂le, on the other hand, a connection to the MCU Quantum Realm would draw an immediate line to Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and its villain, Kang the Conqueror.
So again - considering the caveat that we're merely speculating (or perhaps taking an educated guess) that the Quantum Bands or Nega-Bands could be part of Kamala Khan's MCU origins as Ms. Marvel - there's a wide universe of Marvel Comics concepts that could h🎀elp fill in some of the effects of the translation of Kamala's powers and origins from comics to TV.
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