Endgame concept art of BP armor and mechs. I hope ideas like these get used in BP sequels or future Avengers movies.
Endgame concept art of BP armor and mechs. I hope ideas like these get used in BP sequels or future Avengers movies.
Fair point. Though let's be real, if the Wakandan soldiers or Royal guard looked like they did in that panel up above you know like me you would want to see then in action lol.
As for the Dora's and HZ. I don't mind them getting the most focus as well. It would have to be very defined though. The Dora's have standard gear and a specialty (such as close quarters combat and advanced weapons training) maybe some of Priests standard gear (like the boots, with energy spears rather then daggers
while the HZ focus soley marksmanship and using the latest tech the WDG has to offer both newly released and prototype. But you gotta put somewhere the big stuff. Prowler's, N'Yami motherships, any other cool vehicle tech. Which is where the Wakandan armed forces at least needs a face (maybe wkabi) to utilize it
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No one else brought that up except Coates. He ignored Hickman's ending to give us Third World Wakanda.
Notice that we haven't seen any of the technological aspects of Wakanda, a society built on tech advancements?
Yet "wives-in-training" was the first thing that came in his mind.
Apparently, Chadwick Boseman once auditioned for Drax the Destroyer long ago. They felt that the regalness, ferocity and dignity displayed in his audition was better suited for T'Challa instead.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1194334549573922816
Frankly, I'd rather have a real supporting cast with actual personalities, and not worry too much about which part of the Wakandan military/intelligence apparatus they report to.
I mean, compare what we know about Akili vs. some of the classic cast, like W'kabi or Taku. He's basically a cipher... so much so when he first appeared, I thought he was Kasper.
I dont need a full rundown, but I think having them have set skills and abilities would be a good thing.
Okoye - Reps the Dm
W'Kabi - reps the Wakandan army
Kasper/Akili - reps the HZ
Shuri, NuNakia as the main supporting cast. A few named Dora's could show up with Okoye every once and a while. Same for the HZ and Wakandan army.
Good luck with finding either one of those subjects given mileage in any mainstream comic book.
The utter hypocrisy inherent in griping over an aspect of a distinct cultural mechanism whose purpose has been clearly explained, illustrated and expanded upon within the BP mythos whilst viewing said cultural scenario through the jaundiced eye of Western ideology, is something that is somewhat expected in the absence of self awareness.
It's like some folks willingly choose to live in an arrogant bubble of perceived ideological superiority whilst remaining wilfully blind to the irony of assuming that the social thematic they've chosen to subscribe to is sacrosanct and universally applicable irrespective of culture.
As you and more than a few other posters have pointed out, some states within the USA, have the legal age of marriage as 16.
The legal age of sexual consent in the United Kingdom is also 16, so for some individuals to make a song and dance over 16 year old Brides in Training within a fictional milieu as if it's the worst thing ever, and go on, to make the utterly false equivalence with Coates introduction of Rape camps into Wakanda, is just mind boggling to say the very least.
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All this talk regarding the Dora reminds me of Walt simonson discussing Orion 25, way back when.
In the comic itself, he'd revealed that Mr. Miracle possessed the anti-life equation, that the New God embodiment of freedom had within him the means to control every living ting, yet had never used it (until this series). The why of it was excellently explained, and while I'm not a fan of Orion in general, I'm glad to have the issue in my collection.
But when discussing it online, Walt expressed some egret at what he'd done. He was certain that a later writer would have Scott throwing around the anti-life equation willy nilly. That they would ignore the nuance of the issue itself, missing the point of the issue itself.
And later came Jim Starlin, and guess what happened...?
Seems like some writers just refuse to 'get it'
That is sadly true.
Speaking of things some people just refuse to get, how about people dogging Wakanda for withholding the cure for cancer and justifying it by saying that if they did give it away, it would only be turned into a weapon by greedy and power-hungry bastards? Given that Norman Osborn, of all people, came up with his own cure for cancer during Dark Reign for the purpose of killing Deadpool by overloading his healing factor, that doesn't sound like Wakanda was that far off the mark, now does it?
The spider is always on the hunt.