Ms. Marvel was killed off in Amazing Spider-Man Volume 6 #26 by Zeb Wells and John Romita Jr.
Shortly after that, she was resurrected and connected to the X-Men comics (and presumably adaptations) with the reveal that she is a mutant. That was the plan when she was killed off, but plenty of readers were upset at the time.
In an interview with the Amazing Spider-Talk podcast, Cody Ziglar (currently writing the Miles Morales monthly as well as some spider-adjacent comics like the Spider-Punk mini-series, as well as other material like episodes of Futurama) said this was pushed by Kevin Feige.
Marvel was quick to say otherwise, suggesting Kevin Feige was not involved in the decision to make Ms Marvel a mutant.Ostensibly there to promote Miles Morales: Spider-Man and Spider-Punk: Arms Race, Ziglar gets into his career on both sides of the fence, writing for the She-Hulk TV show and how that got him gigs co-writing the Beyond era of Amazing Spider-Man and eventually Miles and Hobie.
A lot of that involved working closely with Zeb Wells, the current writer of Amazing Spider-Man and the writer of the issue where Ms. Marvel dies. As Ziglar tells it, the request to kill Kamala and resurrect her as a mutant came from Feige, the president of Marvel Studios.
“It was funny watching when the whole Kamala stuff was going down,” Ziglar says in the interview. “He (Wells) had told me months before the plan, which was, Feige was like, ‘Hey, I don’t do this very often but, can you please do this to make things in line with Marvel because we have some stuff we want to do with Kamala,’ so he (Wells) was like, ‘F***, I’m the guy that drew the short straw? People are going to be very mad that I have to kill Ms. Marvel.”
The insiders don't disprove the idea that Kevin Feige had a discussion with Zeb Wells about Ms. Marvel, but there are so many ways the story could be misinterpreted in a weird game of telephone.A Marvel Comics spokesperson familiar with the situation flatly denied that this was the case, describing the decision to make Kamala a mutant character—a focus she’ll continue as part of the X-Men line’s 2024 relaunch, From the Ashes—as an explicitly editorial decision, one in the making well before the events of Amazing Spider-Man #26. Marvel Studios also denied that Feige was involved in the decision in a comment provided to io9 over email.
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