Originally Posted by
Ezyo1000
What you guys seem to be ignoring is that, again, T'Challa has been King for a long time. It's not like he has never dealt with a coup before. Plus, knowing what we know about T'Challa, and how he cares about humanity, why would he EVER deal with despots? Plus continuity has shown all throughout his publication that he seeks the advice of his council and there there is a council on place that can run the day to day when he is away, so why would he go to despots, outsiders who don't know anything about Wakanda and people T'Challa would clearly see as evil men, for advice? what the frak do you think they would say? "Oh yeah just throw a banquet for the people and tell them everything thing will be sunshine and rainbows"
The whole despot thing was completely out of character, and given what Coates did with it. Was solely meant to tarnish T'Challa and make him look bad, simply because Coates story demanded to shade throw as much as possible. And yeah Coates tries to say it's hodaris idea, but a couple things. 1 T'Challa straight up would of said no. Wakanda has never Asked for help from outsiders and you think the first aid they will reach out for will be to despots for stopping a rebellion? Come-on.
Second, Coates turns around and has T'Challa show the truth about what happened.. and nothing changes, he still looks bad, changamire blame him for that still, and T'Challa just writes it off like "lol oops my bad".
Again Coates story would work for a new character with no history who's whole deal is that he was thrust into kingship, after his family members who proceeded him and had claim to the thrown were gone and he never had aspirations, or bothered, to learn how to rule, and his country was one that barely held itself together under a monarch. That's how out of touch with BP and Wakanda Coates is.
Simply put, Coates is pessimistic and doesn't like what Wakanda stands for and is supposed to represent and how took that view and showed an extremely contrived story into the BP mythos