Ms. Marvel will be the first project in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to receive a TV-PG rating.
Based on information for Ms. Marvel provided by Disney+, the series will be rated TV-PG, the first Marvel Studios project -- including movies and series -- to receive a rating other than PG-13 or TV-14. So far, every MCU movie has been rated PG-13, while each of the Disney+ shows has received a rating of TV-14.
Ms. Marvel's "Parental Guidance Suggested" rating marks a first for the MCU and comes shortly after Disney+ updated its parental controls due to the addition of Netflix's Marvel Television shows, which include Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, The Defenders and The Punisher. By comparison, each of these shows bears the TV-MA rating and features graphic violence, sexual content and strong language not usually depicted not other Marvel productions. Every other MCU series made for Disney+ -- Loki, Hawkeye, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, What If...? and WandaVision -- are all rated TV-14.
Ms. Marvel is the next Marvel Studios show to premiere on Disney+ after Moon Knight, which was intended to push the boundaries for Marvel Studios in terms of violence and horror. However, head writer Jeremy Slater has stated that the Moon Knight team tried to get the series "as PG-13 as we possibly can." He said, "Like, let's give people some goosebumps, let's have some violence in there that you may have never seen before in an MCU thing.' And Marvel was so supportive of that, they were so cool about it."
Created by editors Sana Amanat and Stephen Wacker, writer G. Willow Wilson and artists Adrian Alphona and Jamie McKelvie, Ms. Marvel/Kamala Khan made her Marvel Comics debut in 2012. Starring Iman Vellani, the Disney+ (Click here to watch) series will, like the comics, follow the Pakistani-American teen as the titular hero, who was Marvel's first Muslim character to star in her own series and will be the MCU's first onscreen Muslim hero.
"The fact that the show is being made and they’re including this character in the MCU is [what's important]," Vellani said in August 2021 on being the MCU's first Muslim hero. "I don't really have to go out of my way and talk about being a Muslim and being Pakistani -- it all comes out in the show. People seeing a person like me involved in a project as big as this is, I think, inspiring enough."
Source: Disney+, via The Direct