Secret Wars' Biggest Unanswered Question Changes an MCU Icon Forever
He’s been the king of Wakanda and a member of the Avengers, but Black Panther may also have untapped potential from Marvel’s 2015 Secret Wars mega crossover. One event from the series still remains unaddressed, and could have major repercussions for T’Challa moving forward.
The first Secret Wars series from the 1980s was the first line-wide crossover in mainstream comics, created to capitalize on a toy licensing deal with Mattel. The Secret Wars brand was reinterpreted in 2015 by the creative team of writer Jonathan Hickman and artist Esad Ribic. While the original series concerned a mysterious being known as the Beyonder gathering the greatest heroes and villains of the Marvel Universe to duke it out on a distant planet called Battleworld, the 2015 Secret Wars raised the stakes considerably. In the new series, the Ultimate Universe and the traditional Earth-616 Universe collided into each other, causing havoc throughout the multiverse. In an attempt to save reality, pieces of the various universes are merged into one giant planet: the new Battleworld, where the heroes and villains of the different universes compete to survive.
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It’s eventually revealed that Battleworld was constructed by Dr. Doom, Dr. Strange and Molecule Man. Doom eventually kills Strange, but the Sorcerer Supreme returns as a ghostly apparition to his fellow Illuminati members Namor and the Black Panther. In Secret Wars #5, Doctor Strange gifts them the Siege Courageous, a talisman that allows teleportation. Strange goes on to explain that the Siege Courageous will “transform the traveler in a manner befitting their true p[UNCLEAR]al.” He’s interrupted by Black Panther
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