Black Panther is n’t just one of the Marvel macrocosm ’s smartest and most powerful heroes , he ’s often the one with the most tricks up his sleeve . If Batman is DC Comics ’ king of out - of - nowhere moments of surprisal , T’Challa handily ask the crown for Marvel . Here ’s a few time he grandly let us have a go at it he ’s always a few tone ahead of Marvel ’s mightiest .
The Time He Absolutely Clowned the Fantastic Four
Black Panther is a man who ’s all about plans , and he ’s literally been doing it since his first show , all the way back in 1966 ’s Fantastic Four # 52 . T’Challa invites the Fantastic Four to his detached nation by present them a fancy ground-effect machine , only to use the opportunity to test their skills as a scrap unit . It does … not go well for the FF gang .
Donning his Black Panther attire , T’Challa systematically hunts down each member of the team , strategizing how to best keep apart them all and counteract their superpowers . He does it easily , too , and only relents — to flat out inform them it was merely a examination of their skills and little more than an experimentation to him — when they get a prospect to gang up on him . But it was a nether region of an entrance to make , nonetheless .
The Time He Exposed His Identity to the World
By the metre the ‘ 60 were over , T’Challa ’s adventure were branching out beyond the borders of Wakanda . He was a card - carrying Avenger and started on a regular basis operate in the US alongside the respite of Earth ’s mighty hero . But T’Challa also found himself and his fellow Avengers catch up in bubbling racial tautness in the nation , stoked by hateful argument on a pop talk show … and the fact that there had been sightings of the Black Panther running around committing niggling crimes , too .
It turns out the whole thing was a program stoke by the Sons of the Serpents to try and kick off a raw civil war , with the unmasking of their “ criminal ” Black Panther pretender as a bleak , anti - snowy activist on internal television as a catalyst . T’Challa himself spends most of the history on the rill from the allegations against him , and is finally captured by the Serpents — but he saves the day in the climax by smashing his way onto TV to unmask the Serpent ’s faux - Panther , who it turns out was actually a ashen bozo fall apart an elaborate mask . In the cognitive operation , he reveals his own identity element to the watch existence , but T’Challa does n’t care in the slightest .
The Time He Stopped Iron Man’s Heart
Okay , this does n’t technically materialize to “ our ” Tony Stark — it happens to a sinister time paradox interlingual rendition of him during the twisty - turny , time traveling shenanigans of the “ Enemy of the State II ” storyline in Christopher Priest and Sal Velluto ’s Black Panther back in 2002 . But our Tony watches T’Challa go up against the prison term - twisted version of himself , clad in exceptional armour to weaken Black Panther ’s vibranium - raise suit , and is absolutely horrified to see what T’Challa is more than willing to do to fight down him , if the penury ever originate ( which , fall in that superheroes love to fight each other all the time , is a logical possible future ) .
It ’s not just that T’Challa crush the prison term paradox Iron Man , though , it ’s the way he does it . He overwhelms the functions of Iron Man ’s cause , not just disabling it , but literally stopping evil Tony ’s inwardness in the process . That alone frighten the bejesus out of steady Tony , but when he confronts T’Challa about it subsequently , it ’s the fact thatBlack Panther casually admits he ’s fine having a back - up architectural plan like thatagainst one of his secretive acquaintance that really surprise Iron Man .
The Time He Dumped Storm
Not everyone is a fan of Storm and Black Panther ’s marriage , but T’Challa finish it as ruthlessly as he would any fight with a supervillain during the Avengers vs. X - Men event in the crude , harshest of way .
Admittedly at the time , T’Challa was kick the bucket through a snake pit of a lot , as Wakanda had been through catastrophic destruction at the hands of a Phoenix Force - inculcate Namor . But while the fatal aftermath pained T’Challa , what exasperate him even more was that Storm chose to stay with the X - Men instead of come to Wakanda to offer her godlike power in assistance . So when she does finally show up to offer assist , T’Challa brusquely refuses it . And then promptly recite her — border by their fellow heroes — that as Chief of the Panther tribe , he had already invalidate their marriage , and that she is no longer welcome in Wakanda .
after on in the serial publication when the Avengers and XTC - Men start duking out , as the title implies , he fret salt in the wound by fighting Storm and uncover he ’s always cognize how to disenable her weather - controlling powers , then beat her easily in hand - to - hand combat . Ouch .
The Time He Wiped Out the Wakanda’s Entire Vibranium Supply to Screw Over Doctor Doom
The 2010 plot line “ Doomwar ” is a tough one for Black Panther ; it ’s a moment when he finds himself not just defeated , but overturn by none other than Doctor Doom himself . Doom does n’t just covertly take over Wakanda , either , but even offers himself up to the panther god Bast , allowing him access to Wakanda ’s vibranium reserves after he demeaningly slip them from under T’Challa ’s nose .
Eventually , after infiltrating Latveria in return and almost starting an all - out war , Black Panther finally face Doom in a one - on - one battle . Doom mock T’Challa for his and Wakanda ’s overreliance on vibranium , only for T’Challa to tally … and then send a signal boosted through Doom ’s suit that render every piece of Wakandan vibranium in the world inert . It plume Doom of his advantage in a moment of total shock , but it also leave T’Challa and Wakanda in a suddenly intriguing new land .
The Time He Was Daredevil
The year 2010 was a hectic time for Black Panther . Remember when , err , Daredevil became head of the Hand Ninja Clan and then kinda sorta got possessed by a demon and went malign / mad ? “ Shadowland ” was a whole thing that get not just the street - story heroes of New York to get involved , but a good chunk of Marvel ’s mightiest too , include T’Challa . At the remainder of the plot line Matt Murdock sacrifices himself to get the better of the demon within , leaving Hell ’s Kitchen without its usual protector for a period .
That is , until T’Challa — who at the time was n’t Wakanda ’s king , having lapse on the mantle of Black Panther and of the land ’s prescript to his sis , Shuri — decides to stick to around and become Hell ’s Kitchen ’s premier superhero . It led to the great series Black Panther : The Most Dangerous military personnel Alive by David Liss and Jefte Palo , but it ’s really just the surprise of T’Challa looking around in the wake of “ Shadowland ” and essentially going “ This is my turf now ” that ’s the fun part .
The Time He Smacked Dr. Doom Around With the Infinity Gauntlet
The climactic moments of 2015 ’s Secret Wars see the gathered Italian sandwich of ( what ’s allow for of ) the Marvel universe take the fight to “ God Doom , ” a wildly powerful Victor Von Doom who forge the Battleworld out of the shattered remnant of the Marvel multiverse in the wake of the creation - mashing “ convergence . ” Few mass can go up against Doom in such a god - like State Department … and those few include T’Challa .
But it ’s not just T’Challa as he normally he is . He ’s wielding an Infinity Gauntlet from one of the ten thousand destroyed universe , something that would ruin most masses in an instant , or drive them sick . But through sheer strength of will , and much to Doom ’s surprise , T’Challa does n’t just have the capacity to habituate it , but is very felicitous to use it to beat the the pits out of God Doom — at least foresightful enough to distract him fromReed Richard ’s architectural plan .
The Time He Got Into a War of Words With Galactus… and Won
If you want another series that highlights what a wildly overbold ( and exhaustively inclined ) Black Panther can look like , the recent Ultimates book from Al Ewing and Kenneth Rocafort is a with child selection . Because not only do you get to see Black Panther on a cosmic - level superteam , you get to see him do the closely unsufferable : Stand toe - to - toe with the devourer of humans himself and get out on top .
The Ultimates ’ first delegation date them attempt to solve “ the Galactus job , ” which is to say they need to hold back the gargantuan all-powerful cosmic being who run through planets from continually generate to Earth for a collation . Naturally , the team will the volume of this program down to T’Challa , so he casually enrapture himself to Galactus ’ realm ( an act that , like wielding an Infinity Gauntlet , would drive most hoi polloi sick ) and … just talks to Galactus . in reality , he does n’t just talk to Galactus , but debate him , running cerebral circles around the world - devourer long enough that the sleep of the Ultimates have the time to ordain their program to blast Galactus into the bedroom that created him in the first place , turning him into theheroic Life - Bringer instead . Not spoilt , Black Panther , not bad at all .
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