Ms. Marvel Earns Her Graduated X-Costume by Saving an Omega-Level Mutant

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Iman Vellani as Ms. Marvel-Kamala Khan, 'Crushed', Season 1, ep. 102, aired June 15, 2022

Marvel Cinematic Universe fans are still waiting for a Ms. Marvel follow-up; not just Season 2, but a continuation of the Season 1 finale's promise that Kamala Khan was a mutant.

But as folks wait to see if and how the X-Men might fit into Ms. Marvel's live-action iteration's future, her comic book counterpart has officially joined the beloved superhero team. In the most recent issue of Giant Size X-Men (2025), Kamala beat her MCU variant to the enlarged punch and joined the X-Men, donning her very own X-Men costume. Classically, however, Kamala didn't just join the current team—she's been retroactively inserted into X-Men history's greatest hits.

Ms. Marvel Beat Her MCU Variant to the X-Men Punch

Written by Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly with art by Adam Kubert, the 50th anniversary celebration double-issue, Giant Size X-Men #1 and #2, sends Ms. Marvel back through X-Men history, retroactively inserted into iconic moments like the Dark Phoenix Saga and the Age of Apocalypse. It's a metatextual victory lap through Marvel's mutant history, but its action conveniently couples Kamala with the X-Men. Ms. Marvel stops an evil Legion variant, reuniting his fractured personalities and ending the temporal chaos. Legion undoes all the damage caused but leaves the memories shared between Ms. Marvel and the X-Men intact—both the mutants and Kamala remember their adventures together.

Ms. Marvel's comic book origins came about during a very different era for Marvel. When Kamala debuted in 2013, Marvel was aggressively pushing Inhumans across comics and television while downplaying X-Men properties; a symptom of Marvel's lack of X-Men movie rights at the time. The landscape completely shifted after Disney acquired Fox in 2019. Marvel Studios now controls X-Men film rights. If the Ms. Marvel Season 1 finale, which revealed Kamala as a mutant, is to be believed, then there are clear intentions to integrate her into the MCU's eventual Mutant Saga. The Giant Size X-Men retcon allows Marvel to honor both versions of the character while moving forward with her as a mutant.

Marvel has not announced immediate plans for ongoing Ms. Marvel/X-Men stories to follow this storyline, though the shared memories between characters provide a built-in shared history for future crossovers. The storyline marks Marvel's most significant integration of Ms. Marvel into X-Men continuity to date.

Giant-Size X-Men (2025) #2 is available now at comic shops and digital platforms.