Also, palace guards a very important if you have a monarchy. The worst thing a nation could do is stretch its operations too thin.
Yes, and they should look cool. I think it would make sense for TChalla to have at least one mutant guard. Nothing too flashy or powerful necessarily, but someone who’s a threat. Preferably a new mutant; could even get this mutant a spin-off of their own and have them become a villain possibly.
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I guess that makes sense. But honestly Wakanda should also have a special forces unit dedicated to fighting superhuman threats. Yes, almost every arm of Wakanda's military would be using weaponry more advanced that other militaries of the world. However the best militaries are the ones that have a large number of well trained dedicated special operations units.
This unit should either be made of superpowered individuals, normal human beings with highly advanced and specialised technology, or both.
That is what that school was for that was mentioned for allof 5 issues lol
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That’s kind of why I think they should just condense it to one mutant with a interesting power set. Starts off as a menace to Wakanda and then gets brought in to help protect, possibly. Then you could use this character in a variety of ways. A storyline where this character is potentially being disloyal to TChalla and may turn on him, only to find it was that characters way of exposing the enemy. Then they trust the mutant more.
Most landlocked navies are small and wholly unfit for use on the open seas. They mostly consist of patrol boats for rivers and lakes. I could see Wakanda having those I guess but in a conventional war with the US or Russia I think it makes more sense for Wakanda to rely more on submersible air forces/warships than boats. More utility and makes more sense given their tech capabilities.
Palace guards are rendered irrelevant when you have dozens of royal bodyguards. In any given scene T’Challa is surrounded by what, 2-4 Dora lol? It’s not hard to rationalize that the rest of them are either protecting Shuri/Ramonda and handling palace security. I think the palace guards have a place, but it seems easier to just expand on the role of a far more interesting and popular group already occupies. As long as they got the black hoods and the big energy blades the palace guards don’t really matter imo.
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A writer should’ve introduced the idea of a Wakandan superteam/special division years ago. And I’ve been saying that all the worldbuilding being done with gamma mutates in Immortal Hulk could be done with vibranium mutates, just add in some BP twists. The groundwork was laid in T’Challa’s early publication history and stuff like the Wakandan School for Alternative Studies was just another piece that current writers (Coates and his co-writers) ignore.
Love the last description. Where is the Wakandan version of a super soldier program? Where is the mutant/genetics division of their fighting forces? Redjack did amazing rundown of the levels to the military forces, I think it should be canon. However he didn't go far enough.
We're talking about a nation that fought a war with sea dwelling beings. Even if it won't have a large number of human personnel, a navy is absolutely necessary to protect themselves and neighbouring countries (since there seem to be protectorate countries under Wakanda now, and T'Challa at least doesn't believe in isolationism). At least they need to have the advanced equipment for that kind of surveillance.
The Queen of England has her personal bodyguards AND the Queen's Guard which protects royal residencies. Protecting palaces and protecting the royals are not the same thing. Obviously protecting the king is more important but spreading operations thin is a bad thing.
Assuming there's a rebellion and the Dora betray their king. If they are solely responsible for protecting the palace then they'd let the insurgents in, leaving the royals vulnerable. Palace guards are the first line of defence in a situation like this and keeping them as a separate unit from the Dora Milaje ensures stuff like that doesn't happen. It goes both ways too if it's the palace guards that betray the king and it falls to the Dora Milaje to protect the royal family. Of course both could conspire against the king, but keeping them as individual units reduces the chances of it happening.
Additionally protecting palaces and royal residencies is of both strategic and symbolic importance. They're strongholds and people need to know that they're safe, even if they're just buildings. And specialisation doesn't render any unit irrelevant. That's why armed forces have branches and sub-branches. If the Dora along have to protect the king and the royal family (at home or overseas) as well as the palace, they'll be spread thin and can't be as effective at either job. Letting another unit handle it allows for specialisation to occur and them to be better at the job.
It's like saying the White House doesn't need on-ground security because the President has Secret Service-assigned bodyguards.
which is nonsense, of course.
as is the notion of a overly militarized Wakanda. they're not Sparta.
these are the only civilized humans on earth. they have galaxy level tech compared to been the greatest minds on the planet. they hav zero imperial, aggressive tendencies or they'd have conquered the world a long time ago.
folks are crazy.
they are isolationists, not racists. if mutants have existed for as long as marvel says they have it stands to reason Wakanda was the first civilization to know them for what they are and incorporate them into its society. you have to start thinking of wakanda as Krypton or Asgard. That's how much it has in common with the rest of the world.
Also, Vibraxis, as much as i hate that name, seemed to get along with everyone fine.