And what's funnier is that the way future interactions are set up, it's mostly if not entirely T'Challa's fault if things go sour lol. He chose to let Storm steal Skybreaker, meaning he likely has another revolt coming his way. If he screws up, which we all know he will, there's gonna be ramifications on mutantkind because there has to a justification for Krakoa to get involved.
Mutants in the protectorates start getting killed, someone temporarily overthrows him and attacks the X-Men, pick your poison. When Krakoa gets involved and there's some big conflict it falls at T'Challa's feet for being a weak king who let a threat to Krakoa fester in his own kingdom.
Then it goes as you said. The next 2-3 arcs of BP are moral handwringing about T'Challa's ineptitude and Storm waltz in for some make-up sex only to repeat the cycle in 2-3 years. T'Challa is subjected to this because Storm has virtually no lore of her own and BP is the perfect vehicle from which to draw material. How much you wanna bet the reason they're pushing back his solo is partly because the X-office plans on exploiting him to Storm's benefit? She's got a big story coming in 2021 and I find it hard to believe he won't be involved in a major way.
Writers also don't have an growth mindset when it comes to the BP mythos, which is why in 2018 we were still getting references to Namor and we got a revolt that lasted 12 issues over **** that happened back in 2011. Marvel doesn't have any top-level creators interested in writing a solo to build upon T'Challa and his world, only writers partially interested in him who are always looking backwards and trying to push pet characters.
Last edited by chief12d; 10-11-2020 at 06:48 PM.
Since TRO (Time Runs Out) was brought up as one of the numerous recent slights committed against Wakanda by Marvel Comics (editorially speaking), I'd just like to throw in that my interpretation of the in-universe international community willfully throwing Wakanda to the wolves, i.e. Thanos's Cabal, in exchange for protection against the Incursions was frankly, they saw what they thought was an opportunity to finally knock Wakanda down more than a few pegs out of longstanding spite, envy, and resentment for Wakanda's technological superiority and gladly took it.
The spider is always on the hunt.
I'm simply not opposed to the good guys occassionally getting their butt kicked by the bad guys. And I'll say that for not only BP but comic heroes in general. If the bad guys can't beat the goog guys, especially in an event story, then it's probably not a story worth telling.
Since good guys at the end of the story are guaranteed to win 99.99% of the time anyways, you might as well give the bad guys a few actual wins building up to that so the story isn't a complete waste of time.
In Secret Empire Hydra was beating pretty much everybody ... and they needed to do that for the story to actually progress. Wakanda included. That's just how stories work.
Regardless of how many times he did it, controlling armies (dead or alive) is such a lame power for T'Challa to have.
He needs to be less Spiritual African Necromancer Guy and more Black Panther.
So I want to ask you guys you're opinion, I have been thinking of drawing the HZ, The DM, and the standard Wakandan military personnel and want to give them each customized gear this is what I have so far:
Hatut Zeraze
- Tactical medium vibranium plating with cloaking tech
- Full arms (Hickmans boxing gloves) power "gun" gauntlets (can switch from long range firing mode to CQC seemlessly)
- Energy grenades (Hickman's grenades)
- kimoyo goggles (does everything kimoyo beads do)
Dora Milaje
- Dual vibranium transforming blades (changes from short spears to any bladed weapon with a simple thought) with "shooting" energy blade attachment for close to medium range combat
- Energy dampening boots
- Light vibranium plating with light shield attachment (Hickmans) for close and medium range protection (of Royal family/allies)
- Kimoyo beads
Wakandan soldier
- Adjustable vibranium sonic spear (MCU)
- Heavy Vibranium plating
- Adjustable transforming vibranium shield (from wrist mounted to full body shield) with spare sonic spears attached
- Kimoyo beads
This is the rough idea each one would have a few more details added/fleshed out but this is the basic standard tech for each of them.
Thoughts?