9 Female Marvel Heroes Who Desperately Deserve An MCU Movie

4. Ms. Marvel

While we won't have to wait long to see Alison Brie's Captain Marvel on the big screen, the matter of Ms. Marvel getting an MCU appearance is still yet to be addressed.

In the comics, Kamala Kahn grows up surrounded by superheroes. In fact, she absolutely adores them, and when the Terrigen Mists engulfed New Jersey (a power-giving gas Inhuman in origin), Kamala took after her favourite hero of all, Carol Danvers herself, the original Ms. Marvel. Given the power to change shape on a whim (and with that size, strength and mass), Kamala set about being a superhero while, much like her Marvel forebears, having to deal with a tumultuous time at high school.

G. Willow Wilson's comic has been a standout book from Marvel's latter years, having adopted a salience few other comics in this day and age have managed to capture. Kamala's a really important character and one that should, ideally, be poised to take a position in the MCU in the near future, especially if Captain Marvel turns out to be the success we all surely hope it will be.

Ewan Paterson

WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well. In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.

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