Black Panther Has Become Batman, And Marvel Needs To Make It Stop
Warning! Spoilers ahead for Black Panther #4
Marvel Comics' new Black Panther series has turned King T'Challa into DC's Batman (which is not a good thing). The levels of paranoia Black Panther has been displaying are on par with the Dark Knight at his worst, seeing as how T'Challa's hidden secrets and dark contingency plans are in danger of being exposed. Furthermore, King T'Challa has seemingly become blind to reason by not trusting his allies as seen in this latest issue.
In previous issues of Black Panther from John Ridley, Juann Cabal, and Ibrahim Moustafa, Wakanda has gained a new form of democracy with a parliamentary government. While the Black Panther is still king, he doesn't have the same kind of unilateral authority he once did. While his nation and its people now have a greater voice, T'Challa feels as though his ability to protect Wakanda has been limited. Likewise, T'Challa has been urgently trying to cover up his most secret and morally questionable program which has been discovered by a new sinister organization. Following the death of one of his agents, Black Panther has confessed to Shuri that he's had sleeper assassins positioned all over the globe, ready to be activated in case a nation decided to turn on Wakanda. Naturally, if this secret were to be publically exposed it would have multiple consequences on levels both political and personal for Wakanda and its Black Panther.
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Not only has Black Panther been keeping the truth from the majority of his allies and loved ones (such as the X-Men's Storm), it's also caused him to become irrational. While the first of his assassins to be killed was one of his best friends named Jhai, he was
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