As superhero Ms. Marvel, teenager Kamala Khan valiantly protects the streets of Jersey City.

Now, the character is headed for Disney’s new streaming service and the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Khan is getting her own live-action TV series on Disney Plus and will appear in Marvel films.

Kevin Feige, president of Marvel Studios, made the announcement on Friday at the D23 Expo in Anaheim, California following a report about the TV series from The Hollywood Reporter.

In 2014, writer G. Willow Wilson and artist Adrian Alphona introduced Ms. Marvel as Marvel’s first Muslim character to lead a comic book. Khan’s parents are immigrants from Pakistan.

“You will meet her in our series, then see her in our films,” Feige said at the expo.

Just announced at #D23Expo: MS. MARVEL, an original series from Marvel Studios, only on Disney+. pic.twitter.com/4tuAOfVHKW — Marvel Entertainment (@Marvel) August 23, 2019

Bisha K. Ali (Hulu’s “Four Weddings and A Funeral”) will be the showrunner and writer of the Ms. Marvel series.

In the comic, Khan develops super powers after she’s exposed to an ancient alien mist. Her powers include the ability to change the size and shape of her body, what Marvel Comics calls her “embiggening power."

The Ms. Marvel character was first introduced in 1976. Carol Danvers used the name before she became Captain Marvel in 2012. (Brie Larsen starred in this year’s “Captain Marvel” film.)

Kamala Khan is something of a Marvel fan in her own right. She considers Captain Marvel to be a mentor and “has near encyclopedic knowledge of the Avengers.”

The series announcement came with the introduction of two other Marvel series on Disney Plus: “Moon Knight” and “She-Hulk.” The streaming service launches on Nov. 12 and costs $6.99 per month or $69 per year.

While this will be Marvel’s first live-action Ms. Marvel series, the character has been on TV before. Kathreen Khavari (“Big Little Lies") voiced Kamala Khan/Ms. Marvel in the animated TV movie “Marvel Rising Secret Warriors,” which aired on the Disney Channel and Disney XD in 2018.

Marvel's Kamala Khan will star in a live-action series for the new streaming service Disney Plus. In 2014, she became the first Muslim character to lead a Marvel comic.Adrian Alphona

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