Film guide · 2022
The whole film, start to finish, told scene by scene in words. Read this and you'll know everything that happens.
Contains every spoiler, up to the ending.
Jersey City high schooler Kamala Khan is a daydreamer obsessed with Captain Marvel. She hangs out with her best friends Bruno and Nakia and makes Avengers fan videos.
Kamala wants to go to AvengerCon dressed as Captain Marvel, but her parents say no.
Kamala uses an old bangle her grandmother sent from Pakistan as part of her costume. She sneaks out to the convention, and when she puts it on, light bursts from her hands.
Kamala practices her powers with Bruno.
Kamala is drawn to new student Kamran, whose mother Najma knows about the bangle.
Najma's group, the ClanDestines, come from another dimension and are trapped on Earth. They want to use the bangle to open a door home.
The government agency Damage Control starts hunting Kamala too.
Kamala and her mother Muneeba visit her grandmother Sana in Karachi.
In Karachi, Kamala meets Kareem of the Red Daggers, a group that fights the ClanDestines.
Kamala is pulled into the past, to a train station during the 1947 partition, where she saves her young grandmother. The trail of light in the sky that day was Kamala herself.
Her great-grandmother Aisha was one of the ClanDestines and gave her life protecting her family.
Realizing the door home could swallow Earth, Najma sacrifices herself to close it.
Najma's son Kamran gains powers and is hunted by Damage Control.
Kamala and her friends defend Kamran from Damage Control at their school, with help from their neighbors.
Kamala's father tells her what 'marvel' means, and her mother makes her a costume. Kamala embraces being Ms. Marvel.
Bruno discovers something different in Kamala's genes.
The bangle glows and Kamala vanishes from her room. In her place appears Captain Marvel.