Ms. Marvel: Mutant Menace (later collected and retitled as Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant Vol. 2) is a 2024 comic book limited series from Marvel Comics. It's written by Iman Vellani and Sabir Pirzada, with art by Carlos Gomes and Adam Gorham, and color art by Erick Arciniega. It is a direct sequel to Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant.
In the wake of officially coming out as a mutant, Ms. Marvel (A.K.A. Kamala Khan) had hoped that she'd still be accepted as the hometown hero for New Jersey. Instead, she discovers that much of the public has turned against her, convinced by Orchis' anti-mutant propaganda that she's a menace. When Orchis manages to buy a popular new app that tracks mutants, Kamala and her best friend Bruno must figure out how to outmaneuver them while also trying to figure out why Kamala's powers keep acting up. Meanwhile, Nitika Gaiha, a rogue Orchis scientist, has stolen a sample of Kamala's DNA and has commissioned the creation of a replica of her old costume, for reasons as yet unrevealed.
Ms. Marvel: Mutant Menace contains examples of the following tropes:
- Affectionate Gesture to the Head: In the first issue, Deadpool gives Kamala a soothing pat on the head as she expresses her frustrations about being tracked everywhere.
- Bittersweet Ending: Kamala’s powers are fixed and she’s on her way to being a stable Inhuman/mutant mix, but Sheikh Abdullah is in a coma and her popularity has collapsed heavily due to Gaiha’s actions, with the only one even willing to support her is Bruno as her friends and family have turned their backs on Ms. Marvel while the X-Men are unsympathetic to her problems.
- The Bus Came Back: The Inhumans were benched in 2019 after the failure of Inhumans, but Medusa, Lockjaw and Karnak appear in issue 4 to help Kamala deal with her Power Incontinence.
- Call-Back: The wannabe Purifier that Kamala fights in the opening scene mentions that Ms. Marvel once saved his nephew from the Inventor. Presumably, this was back in the "Generation Why" arc of Ms. Marvel (2014).
- Calling Out for Not Calling: In the fourth issue, Medusa gently chides Kamala for not contacting the Inhumans sooner about her problems, as even after everything that's happened, they still consider her one of them and will always have her back.
- Discard and Draw: Was widely speculated by the fandom, but turned out to be an Averted Trope. Gaiha's zombie version of Kamala manifests her mutant power, which ends up being the light based constructs as seen with her Marvel Cinematic Universe counterpart, which she combines with her Inhuman embiggening powers. It turns out the living Kamala will eventually be able to manifest those powers along with her existing Inhuman abilities, confirming that her original powers won't be replaced.
- Fake Period Excuse: Kamala gives this as this as the reason why Lila is taking so long in the washroom (she is actually searching for her kidnapped fan club) in Issue #2.Major Domo: Lady troubles, sir.
Mojo: Women have troubles? Well, then, send one to find her! - A Form You Are Comfortable With: As Kamala undergoes Terregenesis for the second time and communes with the Terrigen Mists, they take the form of her beloved mother, whereas previously the mists had taken the form of the Avengers, reflecting that Kamala now sees her powers as a part of her identity and not just a way to become a superhero.
- Funetik Aksent: Rogue still has her famous accent, sugah.
- Green Thumb: Newcomer Planter has the ability to take on the properties of any plant he touches.
- Hero with Bad Publicity: Kamala hoped that by tying Ms. Marvel to the X-Men, she would convince her fans not to be prejudiced against mutants. Instead, it's had the opposite effect - her popularity is in the toilet because everyone hates mutants.
- Irony: Back when Kamala first became Ms. Marvel, she was sometimes mentored by Carol Danvers, the original holder of that title. Now that she's hated and feared, one of her new mentors is Rogue, who started out as one of Carol's nemeses.
- No Sympathy: Because the X-Men have been hardened by the constant prejudice they face, they don't offer Kamala any kind of comfort now that she is facing her own fear and hate because she is a mutant.
- Power Incontinence: Since her resurrection, Kamala's powers keep fizzing out. She doesn't know why. Turns out she's been using them from muscle memory and had no Terrigen in her body, which the Inhumans fix.
- Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: Despite being killed offscreen in Uncanny Spider-Man, Lila Cheney shows up alive and well and clarifies it was just misinformation.
- Ungrateful Bastard: Despite all that Ms. Marvel has done for New Jersey, it's taken no time at all for them to turn on her just because of Orchis' propaganda. The comic opens with her being attacked by an anti-mutant bigot who actually admits that she saved his nephew from the Inventor way back in Ms. Marvel (2014), but he's still coming after her because she's a mutant.
- You Are Number Six: The Spiral that Lila fights explains that she is actually Spiral 42 and that she and all of the other Spiral clones are "named in multiples of 6."