Black Panther
Warning : SPOILERS for Captain America and the Winter Soldier Special # 1
Fans of Marvel Comics know thatBlack Panther’snation ofWakandais the most technologically innovative body politic on the planet , but their advancements go far beyond what readers could perhaps think . The African res publica is famed for a long - endure monarchy and a warm desire to defend the secret oftheir applied science and their valued vibranium . But inCaptain America and the Winter Soldier Special # 1 , the nation debuts a arresting young engineering in the aftermath of World War I - proving they could have changed account whenever they wanted .
The body politic of Wakanda owes their sensational technological development to a meteorite of vestal vibranium that impact their land millennium ago . know as the Great Mound , the alone place of Vibraniumallowed Wakanda to outgo all other nations of the world , and they remain the only African nation never invaded or conquered by Western or European powers in the Marvel Universe . But Wakandans face their sightly portion of critique for stomach by while the humans face atrocity during period of war , dearth and disease ; while the Black Panther often adjudicate to open up his area to a select few temporarily in both the strip and the MCU , it for the most part remains shut off from outsiders .
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InCaptain America and the Winter Soldier Special # 1 , written by Jackson Lanzing & Collin Kelly with artistry by Kev Walker , the members of what will later become do it as the Outer Circle meet four years after the conclusion of World War I. The grouping decides a grand plan between them is call for for control the world and prevent it from sink into chaosand uses Captain America ’s legendary shieldas a symbol . One of those members , Ika Agboje , hails from Wakanda as the former head of the Wakanda Engineering Vanguard , and she arrive using a convenience confiscate to her limbs that appear to hold up gravity .
Wakanda Is The Most Dangerous Nation On The Planet
This coming together get hold of property in 1922 , at a fourth dimension when airplanes were relatively new engineering and the computer was still decades away . While flock were still developing tankful , Wakanda mastered anti - gravity technologyand even an apparent grade of human - machine interconnectivity . Advanced engineering was seen in the comic before : in 2006’sBlack Pantherrelaunch , American settler in the 1800s come across forward-looking Wakandan electrical arm that surround the border - but this is the first sign that Black Panther ’s Carry Amelia Moore Nation defied gravity itself ; their Wakandan ships would soon use this technology as well .
This maturation , regrettably , means Wakanda could have done far more than simply give weapons to one side or another during war over the centuries . If they really wanted to , the Wakandans could have reigned from the skies in a way that would terrify all combatant on the field of battle . Wakandais currently an friend of the United States and Captain America in Marvel Comics , and perhaps that is for the upright - iftheBlack Pantherever resolve to lead his countryto conquer the others , Wakanda would bring home the bacon a war against the world .
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