Text from the dccomicsciclejerk sub (full thing there)
Meet Bilal. A character introduced in 2024 as part of a family of Muslim Pakistani immigrants. He exists solely to challenge Ms. Marvel, who is learning about oppression for the first time in Lanzing and Kelly’s NYX (2024)*. She just found out she’s a mutant, of course, and only mutants know what it’s like to face prejudice, scrutiny, and systemic violence.
To drive that point home, they’ve created Cousin Bilal. Cutting edge bigotry. A first or second gen Pakistani immigrant prejudiced against Americans who moved away for five years then came back.
As of issue 5, he’s a terrorist. Or at least, an aspiring one. It’s a really bold new direction for marvel because instead of being a religious extremist type terrorist like about 20% of their Muslim characters, he’s a Proud Boys white-supremacist style terrorist. Note the tacit endorsement of the guy famous for blowing up school busses full of children (Stryker).
the character design and mention of white supremacist proud boy stuff makes me think he's a pakistani version of that cracker stepdad guy in The Boys