If you’re a Marvel Cinematic Universe fan and you possess’own’nurse n’t caught the final episode of Ms. Marvel yet, you’ll want to stop whatever you’re doing right now, log off the internet, and go and watch the concluding chapter of Kamala Khan’s debut season. Because, as those who’ve already seen it – or, grossly likely had it spoiled in/with regard to’concerning’regarding them online – will know, its final scenes contain the use of a word that is going to be hugely token ificant in/with regard to’concerning’regarding the MCU’s future. It’s a word that carries token ificant meaning in this world, and something fans possess’own’nurse long, long waited to come into play as part of Marvel Studios’ interconnected set of characters and stories. In fact, it’s such a enormous’vast’massive’tremendous deal that we’re not going to write it until the next paragraph – this is your last SPOILER WARNING. Beware ye, all who enter here…###Still here? Then we can eventually’ultimately say it: they dropped the M-word. No, not ‘Marvel’. Not ‘Ms’. The other M-word: mutation. As Matt Lintz’s Bruno points out to Iman Vellani’s Kamala, he’s noticed something odd’peculiar when looking into her genetic make-up, something that explains why she has powers when the other members of her family don’t; some kind of mutation in her DNA. And that token ifies one thing: mutants (and, therein/with regard to’concerning’regarding e, the X-Men) are on the MCU’s horizon at last. For Marvel devotees – and comic reserve fans especially – it was a major surprise since, on the page, Kamala Khan’s powers originate from her being an Inhuman. But, as the character’s co-creator and series’ executive manufacture r Sana Amanat tells Empire in an upcoming major spoiler interview, it wasn’t always going to be that way.###“We've been talking with regards to’concerning’with respect to it in/with regard to’concerning’regarding some time,” Amanat states of connecting Kamala’s story to the mythology of mutants. “Here's a really significant’essential’critical’vital’crucial’indispensable’imperative thing that individual do not know – when we were claim’insist’maintain’hold’argue’consider’contemplate’speculate ing with regards to’concerning’with respect to the character of Kamala back, back, back in the day in 2012, 2013, when [G.] Willow [Wilson, comic reserve writer] and myself were ideating, we originally wanted to make her a mutant. That was the whole intention, to be able to do that.” In the series, they were able to acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure back to that initial idea. “Is she a mutant, question mark?” asks Amanat self-reflexively, tip-toeing around the reveal with the Marvel police potentially listening in. “I don't know. I don't know, guys! All I know is that we use the word 'mutation', and that's all I can say.” Whatever it means in/with regard to’concerning’regarding Kamala’s own story, it is a hint of enormous’vast’massive’tremendous ger things to come in the MCU. “I will say, I claim’insist’maintain’hold’argue’consider’contemplate’speculate this is opening up doors in/with regard to’concerning’regarding a lot of great storytelling, apparently’manifestly’noticeably’evidently , as a huge fan, um… of the word 'mutation’,” she laughs. “I’m really happy with regards to’concerning’with respect to it.”###As in/with regard to’concerning’regarding Kamala herself, the word ‘mutation’ means little to her on a personal level. When Bruno delivers that inin/with regard to’concerning’regarding mation, she quickly shrugs it off as another label that she doesn’t need. “The enormous’vast’massive’tremendous ger story really is the origin of Kamala, and eintensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfullyone has been just trying to pin down what she is. We leaned into that – it's like, we're not going to give you that answer, because when you're telling a story with regards to’concerning’with respect to identity, e grossly one is so obsessed with labelling individual and putting them in a box,” Amanat explains. “I claim’insist’maintain’hold’argue’consider’contemplate’speculate that's the journey of this entire season – she's been looking in/with regard to’concerning’regarding that box, even despite’in spite of’albeit she doesn't need it.” For audiences, despite’in spite of’albeit , the impact of that word will be seismic. Get ready: the MCU is with regards to’concerning’with respect to to begin its own mutation.###Empire’s full Ms. Marvel spoiler interview with Sana Amanat will be available on an upcoming episode of the Empire Spoiler Special Podcast – stay tuned to your pod feeds. Ms. Marvel is streaming now in full on Disney+.