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Why Can’t this First Arc Be about This Subplot Instead?
Discord last popped up in fall 2017, working with Kamala’s other enemies Lockdown and Chuck Worthy in their scheme to bring 21st-century fascism to Jersey City. He turned out to be Kamala’s classmate Josh Richardson, a jock who felt left behind when his cheerleader girlfriend Zoe “came out” alongside all the monster attacks making football seem trivial. Seeing one of her associates become a tool for fascists who nearly arrested her brother and ousted the mayor shook Kamala to her core, leading her to quit being Ms. Marvel shortly thereafter. Naturally, it didn’t last forever.
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Discord babbles about working with new allies, and merely being on the job and not involved in the latest crisis. In the writing business, that’s called “foreshadowing,” although this example is fairly blunt. Having shared their secret identities to each other, Josh pauses when Kamala accuses him of kidnapping her parents. He may be a technologically enhanced minion of fascists and other villains, who is willing to electrocute an old classmate, but even he insists he wouldn’t stoop so low!
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