Episode 4 is continuing to be the cliffhanger episode of all the series.

This week we followed Kamala to Pakistan where we learned more about her roots and hopefully got a few clues as to where her power is really coming from (other than the Noor dimension). The parts of the episode that did give us information gave us some pretty heavy stuff that we have to delve into, but before I start breaking anything down for you all, make sure you listen to all our thoughts in full in our latest podcast episode. You can listen on the platform of your choice by clicking the button below or following the link right here in live time to listen now.

I have to first say that in a real-world scenario there is not a single way possible that Kamala would’ve gotten her mom to take her all the way to Pakistan. I mean, the girl just crashed her brother’s wedding then fled from it and refused to talk to her mom when she tried to be there for her. Granted, I know why obviously but still it doesn’t exactly warrant her mother to want to just drop everything (including the rift she has with her mother) to take her daughter halfway across the world. For practicality points, I’m sorry Marvel, but you took a fat zero on this one. But for the sake of the show I got where it needed to go so I’m just going to go on my merry way and pretend this isn’t the largest issue with this whole series so far.

What’s actually really important about the fact that Kamala traveled her way to Pakistan is that it was almost like a series reset button was pushed. Personally, I don’t love this, as I now feel the series is getting a little muddled with too much happening in it and I have concern for how this all will hit a meeting point in the last two episodes. But nonetheless, the series sorta restarted, with new characters, new locations, and new stories. I believe for the sake of the series that Kamala will need to finish in Jersey City, especially since we still have the pesky DODC over there and it doesn’t appear that they have jurisdiction outside of the U.S. I also think it would really screw with the series for Kamala to not finish with all the characters we were first introduced to and what actually is true to who she is. As I said before, this is my prime concern on the whole restart button part because I’m worried the show doesn’t have the time to finish itself properly, but of course we will have to see.

Let’s get into this Red Dagger stuff. So putting aside the comic book relation and just looking from the show perspective, I immediately felt stressed about this. This is mainly because the whole going to Pakistan thing already had me thrown off with the show and then we had this new random organization that shows up. For the sake of the show, it felt like we were getting too busy and that too much was starting to happen. However, relating to the comics, our buddy Kareem is actually a singular vigilante who goes by the name Red Dagger, but obviously we see them as an organization in this series. I’m curious what else we are genuinely going to see of them, considering Kamala is sorta…well not present anymore and I firmly believe the series is going to end in Jersey City. I don’t see Kareem being a one off, as it would be a waste, but it will be interesting to see if they continue to use his character moving forward.

It’s pretty funny that the Department of Damage Control is a topic in this episode’s post because they weren’t exactly in it, yet we somehow got some big pieces of information about them. They clearly are a big enough government organization to have a mega prison and so it makes you think still who the heck these people are. We’ve seen many corrupt organizations before and this one actually was part of SHIELD for awhile, so with this information I really wouldn’t be surprised if they’re up to something much worse than we think, since we all knew what grew within SHIELD. I’m not going to let go of the possibility that they are some sort of Kree or Skrulls because I truly don’t feel that it can be as simple as a corrupt organization since Marvel is now bigger than that in my opinion, but I will keep my options open as they definitely aren’t any good one way or another. That prison of theirs is meant to hold a lot more than just regular criminals, that has been proven to us now.

Before I get into the juiciest part of this episode, I want to also bring up that I believe we may have just gotten a Sharon Carter villian origin story on our hands. Kamran went to prison trying to save Kamala, who sorta up and left him to go to Pakistan, not thinking twice. The Clandestines (and literally his mother) then chose to leave him in prison to find his own way out due to his betrayal to them. He risked that to help Kamala but so far she doesn’t seem to care much at all. With this, I hardcore believe we are getting a villian origin story, since in the comics he kinda already has that going for him.

And now this is why I brought up how every episode four so far has left us with quite the cliffhangers because what the heck does that ending mean now? We have gotten some amazing theories thrown our way for this one, along with some thoughts we have picked up on the way. For one, the imagery for when the bangle is pierced with the weapon looks very similar to what our universe looked like when Clea cut her way into it. This of course raises the thought process of figuring out if this might have universal/multiversal implications, but I want to get to that in a second since the ending has to be talked about. We have to assume one of three things has happened, Kamala is back in time, she is in a memory, or she is in a different universe. I don’t want to make anyone’s head hurt too much so I’m not sure I need to go to into it, but regardless she is likely either going to witness Aisha use the bangle to save her grandmother or she is going to interact with Aisha who will tell her the full story of her past. All the needed information rests with Aisha, which could be why the bangle reads that what you are seeking is seeking you. Or, as a listener pointed out, we might be talking about Kree but I’m waiting on episode 5 before we get into that.

I credit this one entirely to Taylor for bringing it up, but we are now going to address the possibility of Ms. Marvel opening the Multiverse. You might be sitting here thinking why the heck am I even saying this, and quite frankly I am too. As I mentioned about 5 seconds ago, it is possibe Kamala and her battle with the Clandestines are what may cause an Incursion. As this episode explained, the Clandestines home essentially runs parallel to our universe and so if you take it that their home is another universe…well then we might have two universes colliding. We don’t have much that we can go off with this other than the knowledge that it is possible and would make sense as to why we (in the MCU) were introduced to Incursions right before this show came out. What would be intersting is figuring out Kamala’s powers would exist if our world and the Noor dimension were to collide, as she manages to essentially straddle both sides right now.

We are one day away from the next episode, so I hope these theories get you thinking for it! Make sure you guys are tweeting us your theories on Twitter or commenting on the blog posts (you might get a shoutout in an episode if we end up talking about your theory!). Remember we have a big week, as Thor: Love and Thunder premieres this Friday as well, so keep up with Marvel content along with ours, as Marvel just blew your mind, so let’s talk about it.

Image: “Ms. Marvel Episode 4”, Michelle Jaworski, Daily Dot