Ms. Marvel co-creator Sana Amanat admitted in an interview with Empire that Kamala Khan wasn’t originally conceived as an Inhuman: “Here’s a really important thing that people do not know – when we were thinking about the character of Kamala back, back, back in the day in 2012, 2013, when [fellow co-creator G.] Willow [Wilson] and myself were ideating, we originally wanted to make her a mutant.” However, it seems that Marvel’s push to promote Inhumans in the comics while Fox owned the film rights to the X-Men made the creators land on a different origin.
Not helping matters in making Kamala an Inhuman in the MCU is the fact that Marvel’s “Inhumans” was such a flop. The 2017 ABC show brought the Inhuman Royal Family to life, with Black Bolt (Anson Mount), Medusa (Serinda Swan), and Lockjaw among the characters who finally jumped from the comics page more than 50 years after debuting. However, the show was heavily criticized for its writing and acting and was eventually canceled. Ultimately, “Inhumans” left a sour taste in audiences’ mouths, so changing Kamala’s origin to being a mutant rather than an Inhuman wasn’t a difficult sell.
