ANI-MOVIE, *Marvel Rising: Secret Warriors

Following up to DC's Super Hero Girl, Marvel decided to instead focusing on their more recently introduced teenage superheroines shown in the comics. Marvel Rising first started out as an online mirco-series that was collected into a single special titled Marvel Rising: Initiation, mostly highlighting the character of Spider-Gwen(here called "Ghost Spider"), and Secret Warriors is a follow-up to that with only a brief offhanded remark to Gwen, possibly since she's already getting plenty of airtime in Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse. This one focuses more on the current Ms. Marvel and the other Inhumans popping up in the Marvel Universe. This is a leftover plan Marvel had to replace Inhumans as their standard for the X-Men after their constant head-butting with Fox for the movie rights to the characters, but since Disney bought out Fox the Inhumans are being swept under the rug. Marvel did though take advantage of the "rise" of new super-powered teenagers that were created during this storyline, and reserve some of them to be part of this "toyetic" line-up.

In Secret Warriors, Kamala Khan is a girl turned into an Inhuman by a special mist that covered the Earth due to a story arc involving Thanos, and because of this she gains the ability to stretch and mold her body, allowing her to occasionally change her appearance like Mystique, or make parts of her body large like huge hands. Kamala then takes up the moniker of Ms. Marvel, which was previously used by the current Marvel Comics version of Captain Marvel(not "Shazam"!). She teams up regularly with plucky unbeatable mutant, Squirrel Girl, and they become involved in a plot where young Inhumans are being kidnapped by the alien Kree race to use as super-soldiers. With some help from other heroes like Patriot, Quake, America Chavez, and Inferno, they mount a rescue with Captain Marvel to stop the space invaders.

There was a few differences between the story in the movie and what goes on in the comics, like America Chavez being an Inhuman when her powers are magic-based, and bad guy Exile really gets his powers from one of the Mandarin's rings instead of himself being an Inhuman. The animation used in the movie was a little below quality, even compared to some of Marvel's Disney shows like Ultimate Spider-Man, even though it works considering it was created as being a free online promotion for their Marvel Rising toyline. There's supposed to be two follow-up specials to this showcasing Spider-Gwen and Iron-Heart, possibly with the same tone of animation. It would be nice if this new incarnation of the Secret Warriors succeeds in creating a new young superhero series that aren't either mutants or Avengers.