Black Panther's Wakanda Civil War Will Expose His Biggest Weakness
Warning! Spoilers ahead for Black Panther #6
In the latest issue of Black Panther, Wakanda's imminent civil war is exposing a major weakness belonging to King T'Challa. Believed to be a traitor, Black Panther is being hunted as a fugitive while a full-on military coup is underway by the nation's secret police. While T'Challa does have his allies to help him for the battle that's to come, even they aren't too pleased by his recent flaws and exposed secrets.
Following the previous Black Panther run from Ta-Nehisi Coates where T'Challa was in space, the nation of Wakanda transitioned into a parliamentary democracy. While this was reluctantly accepted by T'Challa, it did mean that he lost quite of bit of the unilateral power he's long been accustomed to. However, one of his secret sleeper agents (named Jhai) was killed. Being part of a questionable network of assassins embedded in nations all across the world, only Black Panther supposedly knew about this team (a highly unethical decision). As such, Black Panther went so far as to leave the Avengers to find the killer while also working to keep a lid on one of his biggest secrets. Looping in his sister Shuri (but lying to his ex-wife and mutant leader Storm), Black Panther has slowly been spiraling out of control now that he's believed to be the killer by the leader of the Hatut Zeraze, T'Challa's own secret police.
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As seen in the new Black Panther #6 from John Ridley and Stefano Landini, Shuri's theory is that the Hatut Zeraze's leader Akili stands the most to gain from destabilizing Wakanda, though Akili believes that T'Challa himself is responsible for the same reason. While untrue, the Black
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