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The series is created by female screenwriter Bisha K. Ali, who's British Pakistani. Kamala is a Muslim Pakistani American teenager. Signs of her heritage are frequent: Her brother prays in Urdu and Arabic before eating, her family receives heirlooms from Grandma in a box repurposed from a venerable candy maker from Pakistan, and Kamala and her mom shop at a Pakistani market. An important story arc takes place during the 1947 Partition of India and Pakistan and shows how its traumatic effects of displacement and family separation can be passed down through the generations.

Expected for a superhero drama are stunts (like Kamala and Bruno bicycling off a bridge and onto the top of a bus) and fantasy weapons (like photon gloves that shoot electromagnetic beams). Violent set pieces are frequent: A beam of energy makes a massive prop swing back and forth while a character clings to it; eventually it hits a wall, pinning the character and then dropping her, after which she's totally unharmed.

Romance vibe between Kamala and her BFF Bruno; expect it to flame into kissing and talk about dating, boyfriends, and girlfriends. Kamala's mom points out that many women in the cosplay scene wear skimpy costumes; we see some of them at a superhero party: costumes that appear to be bikinis, women in very short skirts posing.

Cursing is infrequent but expect "badass," "sucks," and occasional mild cultural insults, like when a friend of Kamala's mom calls her daughter's boyfriend "gora" -- i.e., White or not Pakistani. But generally exclamations are quite mild: "Oh my gosh!"

Jokes sometimes mention drugs, as when Kamala sarcastically says she isn't asking permission to go to a party and do cocaine.