'Ms. Marvel' review: Charming, refreshing new superhero with 'Spider-Verse' energy

Iman Vellani as Ms. Marvel/Kamala Khan in 'Ms Marvel' – Photos: Disney Hotstar

It's wild to realize while watching Ms. Marvel that the studio's newest heroine would have been about 2 years old in 2008, the year Iron Man kick-started Marvel's sprawling cinematic universe as we know it.

Like the comic books that inspired it, the on-screen MCU has officially become old enough to spawn a literal new generation of superheroes who grew up watching the Avengers shoot through time and space and back again to stop the bad guys. Now, some 15 years later, they're getting their own shows to do the same.