Shadowkat

Kamala Khan — the hero known as Ms. Marvel — embraces her identity as a mutant and takes on the codename Shadowkat, stepping into the X-Men's world after the discovery of her latent X-gene places her squarely within Marvel's mutant community.

Bursting onto the scene in 2023, Shadowkat is one of Marvel's freshest Modern Age creations, debuting in Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant #1 and immediately planting a flag in the X-Men corner of the Marvel Universe. In just a handful of years this character has already racked up appearances across some of Marvel's biggest recent events, including the sweeping Fall of the House of X / Rise of the Powers of X saga — not bad for a newcomer. The company Shadowkat keeps speaks volumes: sharing pages with legends like Wolverine, Kitty Pryde, Cyclops, and Ms. Marvel herself signals that Marvel has been positioning this character right at the heart of mutantkind's most consequential modern stories. With 19 catalog appearances and a trajectory that's already touched major X-Men titles, Shadowkat is exactly the kind of emerging figure worth getting in on early.