I'm not saying keep the status quo. In the post you're responding to and posts I've made in the past I've been a huge advocate of exploring Wakandan history and culture with respect to the plot. But I maintain that should be secondary to the themes of T'Challa himself, the complexity of his villains, and the depth of his supporting cast. Lore is great but characters should always come first. The easiest example to point to is Coates. His run has put a heavy emphasis on Wakandan pre-history and cultural practices, but because of how atrocious his T'Challa is most hard core fans have been turned off and sales are garbage.
I 100% agree it's not either-or, but I'm much more concerned about a writer capturing T'Challa's voice than I am learning about Wakanda's education system. One of them is supplemental to the plot and atmosphere of the mythos, the other is essential. Even in the excellent video you're referencing, a major point of the speaker is how Coogler's worldbuilding informs our understanding of T'Challa and Killmonger, with his supporting cast being key players. Lore is supplemental to the journey and actions of characters, very important but not the end all be all. This varies from medium to medium but in comics that's especially the case. Though stuff like the properties of vibranium and the nature of the gods should be fixtures of the mythos.
Wakanda doesn't need to be a DnD location. It's a tool to prop T'Challa up. It should be explored insofar as it furthers T'Challa, his supporting characters, and his rogues. Want to learn about a previous BP? Great, find a way within the confines of the story to have him make an appearance and provide relevant backstory to the current arc. Want to learn about national holidays? Cool, show how T'Challa exploits them to further his political goals domestically, as Priest did with the Dora. We're never getting a slice of life "World of Wakanda' book, so writers are forced to utilize worldbuilding in ways that illuminate our understanding of the BP mythology while also furthering the plot/characterization.
In a video game context (and I've said this before), the rules change because of the nature of the medium. Plenty of the stuff in the Arkham series was created specifically for the game or extrapolated from lightly explored locations in the comics and I'd want something similar for Wakanda. Plenty is already there to work with, it takes a team willing to take the extra step to add deeper lore, names, etc. The comics can't provide everything and at a certain point developers need to do some worldbuilding themselves. They did it for Arkham's Gotham, they did for Elder Scrolls, and when Disney gets serious they can do it for Black Panther.
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I don't disagree. I think McGregor, Priest, Hudlin, Marberry, Liss, Hickmsm, and Coates actually have all done a fair amount of world building. At least as far as the present goes. The previous BP and their mythology is arguably a bit underdeveloped, but Wakanda in the here and now gets a fair amount of world building across the board.
I'm not sure any fictional place is better established than Wakanda. Maybe Asgard. BP fans in that regard are more fortunate than most.
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Stop saying Tchalla is peak human that is annoying Tchalla is between enhanced or low end superhuman
A good writer would pick up the baton Hickman had in kotd and explore both T'Challa and Wakanda. Exploring the history of Wakanda through his ancestors looking for clues to a current predicament.
Example. For whatever reason the side wakandans butter their bread on is disrupting the bread and butter continuum. T'Challa meditates and connects with whomever the BP was at the time and they explore why be it was established that the bread be buttered so. T'Challa comes back to the present with what he believes is the solution only to find that he has to commune with another BP to explain the special secret vibranium yeast salt ratio that was administered because of some other important historical wakandan event. He comes back again to the present, kicks the bad guys ass and ushers in a new age of bread resistant to mold that can be buttered on either side.....but about those vibranium mutated cows he now has another problem on his hands and has to, yet again explore wakandan history through one of his anscesters to keep the present narrative going while still exploring wakandan history and world building at the same time .
Insert any set of problems for bread, butter, yeast, and butter spreading for something less silly
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thats... that is the same thing lol. Not regular human but not spider-man. Comic book peak human.
Most likely yes. I guess. It just looks like regular senses though with a cool name. It is kinda like the magic spear thing... never really outright stated but makes sense.
Avengers vs X-men #8 aka Namor attacks was published July 17 2012
Fantastic Four 608 aka T'challa is king of the dead was published August 2012
Namor didn't murder tchalal with the phoenix blast because the writers didn't want him too lol. The p5 didn't kill ANY avengers.
Namor didn't kill T'challa or any other avengers due to plot induced stupidity. It has diddly to do with KOTD
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Hawkeye types is what I consider peak human.
Officially writers were told to keep it vague on the number of planets in the Federation. That what I meant. The distance is known but the number of planets is not.
There is an Enterprise in the Starfleet museum confirmed by Next Generation in Relics. However we don't know if that is A or Archer's Enterprise now. And in the wreckage of Wolf 359 from Best of Both Worlds there is a Constitution class wreckage.