How the most iconic “Ms. Marvel” scene confirmed the show’s “enormity”

When Mehwish Hayat visited the U.S. from her native hometown of Karachi, Pakistan back in 2014, she brought home a Ms. Marvel comic.

“I really hoped Marvel would make a film or series of it even then,” Hayat tells Inverse. “I was thrilled when the series was announced and tweeted how much I looked forward to it. I tweeted again when they cast Iman, applauding Marvel’s decision to cast a Pakistani girl. It never even crossed my mind that a year later I’d be a part of the series. God really does move in mysterious ways.”

“Somebody described the series as a love letter to Karachi and to Pakistan. That is exactly how I feel.”

Starring Iman Vellani as the Muslim superhero in the MCU, Ms. Marvel fuses Pakistani-American culture and history with your typical comic book shenanigans — elevated further with a pop of color rarely seen in Marvel’s dreary cinematic universe….