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    1 year ago

    Yeah the cultural exploration was probably the most interesting aspect of it, otherwise she just seems like a palette swapped Jubilee. They leaned pretty heavily into that. Honestly, I wish they’d just created a different Pakistani superhero to explore this, it might have been more interesting. Other countries should have superheroes too, right?

    If I recall correctly, her original shape-shifting powers led to some interesting character development in the comics, which fit in with her thematically wrestling with her identity. That all got discarded when she got the power to summon purple glowing rock things instead, leaving behind the most interesting part of the character to me.

    Also I recall there were a lot of “hello fellow kids!” cringeworthy attempts at appealing to zoomers in the miniseries.