The Wakanda/Atlantis War Part 1.2: Namor Meets T'challa

[This is Part 1 of a multiple post series going over the details of one of the most important moments in the Black Panther mythos: The Wakanda/Atlantis War.

In Part 1, we are specifically looking at the the various meetings between the Black Panther and Namor prior to the War. In 1.2, we see the first in canon meeting between T'challa and Namor.]

Evan Narcisse went and retconned the first meeting between T'challa and Namor, adding in a meeting before the Kiber Island Incident. While T'challa was looking for clues into the missing Wakandans, he runs into Namor. And Namor acts how Namor acts... with violence and aggression. 

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Like all super hero fights, the two then team up to find the missing Atlanteans and Wakandans and take down the villain...

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Despite ending on good terms, in true T'challa fashion, he realizes that Namor could become a threat in the future, and ends up downloading the information from the computer to make future contingency plans.

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Black Panther vs Punisher, Elektra, and Daredevil (Marvel Knights: 20th #5-6)

Story: Marvel Knights: 20th Anniversary #5-6

Background: Due to mind erasing comic book stuff, T'challa ends up in the same room as Punisher, Daredevil, and Elektra (and Bruce). The trio come in peace, saving T'challa from villains. However, T'challa remembers something in his past and attacks, resulting in a brawl.

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Superhero brawl ends after the misunderstanding is over and T'challa stops beating their ass long enough to go find the real bad guy(s).

Black Panther vs Daredevil, Elektra, Punisher (Marvel Knights: 20th #5)

Story: Marvel Knights: 20th Anniversary

Background: Due to mind erasing comic book stuff, T'challa ends up in the same room as Punisher, Daredevil, and Elektra (and Bruce). The trio come in peace, saving T'challa from villains. However, T'challa remembers something in his past and attacks. 

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Black Panther vs Jakarra (Black Panther vol 1, #10 and Rise of the Black Panther #5)

Story: Black Panther, vol 1, #10

Background: Jakarra, T'challa's half brother, made himself into vibranium monster and is rampaging throughout Wakanda. The Black Muskateers, members of T'challa's extended family, fight the monster in T'challa's absence. They have some success but Jakarra is heading to the vibranium mound to essentially detonate the world. Joshua created a anti-sonic toxin as a way to stop him and were on the way to do it when T'challa arrived to save the day. 

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Story: Rise of the Black Panther #5

Background: The Hyena Clan lead by T'challa's recently revealed half-brother Jakarra, were responsible for aiding Doom to teleport into the Wakandan palace. T'challa was on his way to confront Jakarra when he bumped into Storm. After a brief skirmish with Hyena clan red-shirts, BP and Storm go straight to their base of operations. And Jakarra turns himself into a monster.

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M'baku vs Captain America

Story: Avengers, vol 1, #78

Background:  Not much of one. M'baku ambushes Captain America in some dumb villain scheme involving the Lethal Legion after he was banished from Wakanda for his failed coup attempt. 

The Challenger: Captain America is well... Captain America. We all know that... comic book peak human, shield, ect. M'baku is powered by the blood of the White Gorilla. He is typically just past comic book peak human strength. This is only his second appearance in the comics. In his first appearance, he beat up Black Panther pretty good before succumbing to being an idiot. You can see that fight here: http://blackpanthermarvel.blogspot.com/2016/10/tchalla-vs-mbaku-round-2.html 

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No fear Captain America fans... Quicksilver and the Vision saved Mr. America. The other Avengers attacked M'baku, who had to make a quick getaway. 

Ahhh... the days M'baku wasn't a complete joke. His first two appearances, he beat up T'challa (and then accidentally smashed himself lol) and then beat up Captain America. His next thing was beating T'challa again via the infamous Monica mannequin. 

Black Panther vs The Winter Soldier (Rise of the Black Panther #3)

Story: Rise of the Black Panther #3

Background: T'challa is opening up Wakanda to the world for the first time by inviting representatives from various countries to Wakanda. During this meeting, a mysterious energy signature is detected in the city as the Winter Soldier has been sent to assassinate the king.  

The Challenger: A Mind Controlled Winter Soldier. This is Bucky pre the Winter Soldier story line, so he is in pure assassin mode. Here, as told in the story, he is actually physically enhanced to peak human levels. In addition, he has teleportation tech, is scentless, silent, and has cloaking tech the beginning of the fight. He also ambushes T'challa to start the fight. 

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Evan did a lot of great things with this. First off, he enhanced Bucky to the point where he was a credible threat to T'challa. The enhanced abilities, cloaking, soundless, scentless... Evan upped the villain instead of downgrading the hero. 

At the same time, he added in some new tech for T'challa as well. And a sick looking new suit. 

Oh, and the whole time it seemed like T'challa was non challant about the whole thing and not even stressed. Like he was testing new equipment, new tech, and new theories. 

Black Panther vs Hydro-Man

Story: Black Panther, vol 3, #14 (Priest)

Background: Hydro-Man hijacks a plane. Due to the passenger on board that has a connection to T'challa, T'challa believes the assassin is truly after T'challa. So, he goes to figure out who hijacked the plane and stop them. He takes Justice from the Avengers along with him. 

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Hydro-Man disperses and BP goes to find him. He finds the dudes escorting the bad guy and asks for their guns so Hydro-Man can't use them. 

BP lands the plane with help from Justice. Hydro-Man then attacks one more time after giving up who hired him...

Fatality. 

This is an underrated issue. Shows off T'challa in numerous ways and also shows off what happens when he runs into a D-list villain *coughCOATEScough*. It was also cool to see T'challa working with another minor hero in Justice and how they complimented each other (and how Justice reacted to T'challa, who is a very different "super hero.")