It is a very diferent and unique take in the classic superhero story. First of all, 'cause she's a nerd. She wrote superhero fanfics on a forum and shit, she's the type of girl who probably will wrote comments here if she actually existed, and that's (as far as I know) new. I have never seen a Superhero who was a fan.
Secondly, she has a family. She has a father, a mother and a big brother, and apparently they are happy together. There's no drama in his life, she's just a regular girl. There's no dead or missing parents, no ex-superhero people in her family (at least that we know of)... nothing. As far as we know Kamala is your regular everyday nerd, someone any of us can relate to (except maybe for the fact that she's muslim, but that's not even that important for her, I mean, it will be the same if her family was christian or jewish). And, again, as far as I know, that's new.
Also, she's a pacifist, or at least she doesn't want to hurt people. In the last issue she told Wolverine she doesn't like to hurt other people or animals, which, btw, makes total sense because as a normal everyday nerd my guess is that she hasn't been involved in a fight before, so I get that she has second thoughts after actually hurting something or someone. Normal people feel bad about those things, even if they were defending themselves. Again, as far as I know, that's new. No new superhero (and I might be wrong, I haven't read every comic ever published) has ever had any kind of struggle about getting in a fight, Spider-Man went from being bullied around to beat the shit out of supervillains without a problem. So, at least for me, this is new.
So yeah, this is the classic superhero story, but at the same time is new, diferent, refreshing and unique.
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