Edit: I refer to vibrations a couple of times in this because that's the terminology used by OP and characters in Marvel. In reality, vibrations are a form of kinetic energy. When I say vibrations, I really mean any type of force acted on the vibranium. This includes punches, bullets, and hitting an object.

Vibranium in the MCU is a bit complicated. It is mentioned to absorb all vibrations (we know this can't be 100% true because otherwise Captain America's shield wouldn't bounce off of objects). It seems to me that the default for vibranium isn't to absorb vibrations but to disperse them. For example, imagine kicking down a door. You apply force toward the door and the door is moved backwards the same direction you pushed. However, if you tried to kick down a vibranium door, it would instead disperse the energy into the door frame around the door. This is best shown in the Avengers (2012) when Thor slams his hammer down on Captain America's shield. If he were to do that to a normal shield, Captain America would be crushed. But in the scene, we see a shockwave move outwards in all directions.

As for Black Panther's suit, it was the ability to store the energy for a short period of time before dispersing all of it at once.

Vibranium has a response curve, based on how much energy it's trying to absorb.

If you hit it with a small amount of force, like when Steve Rogers uses it as a weapon, or when a bullet hits it at an angle, vibranium acts like most metals; there's an elastic reaction where some of the energy is absorbed, but most of the energy is returned. This is why it can be used as a weapon, and why some bullets deflect off of it.

But if you hit it harder, like when Steve Rogers falls out of a buildings, a bullet hits it square on, or it is exposed to an explosion, vibranium's special properties activate. Rather than an elastic reaction that reflects kinetic energy, it actually stores all of that energy with its own molecular bonds. The energy needed to trigger this reaction is more than the energy needed to damage vibranium, hence its read-indestructibility.

Vibranium's ability to store energy is limited, however. If you hit it with too much energy at once, like when Thor struck Steve Roger's shield with Mjolnir, its capacity is exceeded, and all of the kinetic energy it has and is trying to absorb is released at once, in the form of a shockwave.

Black Panther's suit is a special case. For one, it isn't pure vibranium, but a vibranium weave. The suit moves like fabric, not a suit of Tony's armor, which likely means that vibranium threads are woven into it, instead of vibranium being the primary component. The suit also has special features, like the ability to release stored energy on command, which might impact its ability to absorb energy perfectly.

Vibranium absorbs all vibration. It cannot absorb momentum, or at least not as efficiently. Otherwise, you're inferring Black Panther can tank an impact from Juggernaut without moving, and that just isn't going to happen. Panther won't get hurt (much), but he's not going to just stand there.

Also, if you're going to ask a question in this subreddit, don't use the term "writers." That's being doylist, and we want to answer from in-universe. I'll let the question stand, just keep that in mind the next time you ask something.

>His whole suit is made out of vibranium. He should be the most powerful thing in the universe, nothing should be able to move him.

Why should having a suit of the strongest metal on Earth make you king of the universe. There are thousands of planets and other metals like whatever thanos's sword is made out of or Uru.

Vibranium being vibration absorbent isn't exactly the same as being sound absorbent, but even in that case the sound waves would still travel to the vibranium so I don't think it would be invisible to Daredevil. Though it would probably be confusing to him at first.

MCU vibranium makes absolutely no sense. It absorbs all vibration - including sound waves - yet when Mjolnir hits it it can create a sound wave that can destroy tanks. They can absorb all kinetic energy, yet can still be used as penetrative weapons despite any impact theoretically stopping it in its tracks. It can absorb all kinetic energy, but it can still be broken by sheer force (Namor and Thanos).

The answer to any MCU vibranium question is "don't think about it".

I suppose a case could be made that ole’ DD could/would be able to sense the void/absence of sound due to the vibranium.

I feel that he wouldn’t hear the weapon but rather the sound of it moving through the air. E.G: he would probably be able to hear a wakandan soldier swing and throw their spear and would use that to sence where the weapon is

While both adamantium and vibranium are extremely durable and the latter has some very versatile properties, they are mundane in nature. If you want a metal ideal for possessing magical properties and resisting magical attacks, uru is the way to go.

In the MCU, vibranium seems highly resistant (yet not outright immune) to the effects of the Infinity Stones. However, the Stones are described and shown as being more reactive toward organic beings and matter and less likely to freak out when touching something inorganic, which may be while various metal containers are used to control and/or isolate them.

Vibraium seems to have some mystical properties related to the pather god, but what those exact things are i dont know. adamantium got nothing

however, if you were to touch wolverines claws of black pathers suit to mjolnir nothing wotn happen, they dont interact with them in that way

As you've mentioned yourself, wakandan vibranium was mentioned to interacting very well with sorcery, hence why Doctor Doom got very interested in it, however beyond him making a suit enhanced with vibranium, I don't remember it being brought up afterwards.

Adamantium is a purely mundane metal, not having any kind mystical properties.

Adamantine however is a golden divine metal of Olympus, the metal Hercules' mace is forged out of. It also holds enchantments as well as uru, and likely as strong, if not stronger.

They have zero mystical properties. In fact, you're probably better off using iron in some instances.

Marvel Comics Presents actually showed a few issues where adamantium caused a massive explosion when it interacted with hellfire. However in a more recent Uncanny Acengers annual, the phenomenon did not repeat. (Will post the images when off mobile.) In general though, as others have mentioned adamantium doesn't react with mystical forces in any special way. In fact, magic is often an effective way to shield from or affect the otherwise very sharp and strong metal.

I'm less familiar with the ins and outs of vibranium, but I believe it can absorb magical energy much like it would other energy types. I want to say there have been at least a few instances where Black Panther delved I to the magical applications of vibranium. He might have enhanced himself with enchanted vibranium at one time?

This is great! Out of curiosity, where does your chemistry knowledge come from? Your final statement sounds like you're saying you're not a chemist yourself, despite the impressive amount of knowledge in here. Did you do additional research for this?

Question: If vibranium is a specific network solid like diamond is for carbon, does that mean there's a theoretical weaker form of vibranium found elsewhere in the universe (ala coal)?

The only thing I wanted to add to this is - in Black Panther, didn't Shuri say that raw vibranium was too unstable to transport - hence why they had the fields to 'deactivate it'. I don't know if that changes the initial part of your theory.

I think your conclusion is accurate, but one of the ways you got there might not be;

>2, alkaline earth metals aren't found freely in nature, so if it was in group II, Wakanda wouldn't be mining it up, they would be synthesizing it in a lab.

Vibranium might not occur "naturally" at all. It only arrived on Earth through space, via meteorite during Wakanda's pre-history. It is extraterrestrial in origin, and beyond that we don't know anything about where it comes from or how it is created.

Wakanda mines it because it crashed into Earth, not because it occurs naturally on Earth.

It’s also why the “mining tech” that Klau shoots at Black Panther temporarily disrupts his suit

As a chemist, I'm impressed.

Gonna comment this because it doesnt seem like you know. But you are absolutely right! Proto adamantium (Caps Shield) is a specific blend of wakandan vibranium and iron/steel (I can't remember) and beta adamantium (Ultron adamantium) is an attempt to recreate it and whatever wolverine adamantium is called is beta adamantium when it interacts with healing factor and apparently has "different" properties

Isn’t vibranium everywhere in wakanda

I have always wondered what a suit would look like of Iron Man's if it was made out of 2 rare metals in marvel. One was Vibranium and the other is Adamantium

Honestly you made me think about an aspect I never co considered. A suit made out of any of the big metals would be impossible to modify which would be a major issue down the line at some point

He also made a suit out of URU the metal mjolnir is made of

That's just a model, no vibranium in it...

We're talking MCU here not Marvel Comics. Which film or show did that happen in? 🤔

In the comics he did. In the MCU they literally told us that Cap's shield represented all of it outside Wakanda. Any we saw after that never made it into Stark's hands.

Vibranium (Vb) is a rare, non-terrestrial nobile metal. It has a very high but stable atomic mass, with an incredibly resistant electron shell that repels any other atoms it enters in contact with. This alien metal forms incredibly solid metal bonds when it’s raw structure is melted at high temperatures, but shows signs of ultrahigh-energy quantum/magnetic entanglement once cooled off, making the structure of molecular Vibranium extremely solid. At this point, it’s tendency to reflect all forms of kinetic energy makes it virtually impossible to bend or break, and it’s structure can only be rendered inert by resonating at specific vibration frequencies (hence the name).

Squarely between Adamantium and Uru. Where it belongs. Duh /s

It’s a metal, so it would have to go somewhere in the middle. Then you number it based on what metal elements were discovered before and after it.

Logically someone else in the universe has vibranium, but in the movies it hasn’t been addressed directly.

Indirectly though, we can look at the Captain America v Thanos battle in “Endgame” as, among many other things, a statement that vibranium is king on Earth but not everywhere as Thanos’ rotor sword is able to do what nothing Earth has been able to: break Cap’s shield.

T’Challa actually sent a Wakandan deep space exploration vessel to find the origin of the Vibranium meteor that hit Earth which led to the creation of the Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda in the Vega system. They have Vibranium mines on the planets that are part of the empire, so to answer your question, yeah there’s a lot of Vibranium out there and not just on Earth.

If vibranium came from an asteroid then I think it is safe to say that more exists in the universe. Most asteroids that we know of are the ones that exists in our solar system and we have a pretty good idea what they are made of so it should also be safe to say the Wakandan asteroid came from outside our solar system (fun fact, the first proven interstellar object to enter our solar system was discovered in 2017 named Oumuamua.

So, is vibranium naturally occurring or did an advance alien species invent it? If it is naturally occurring there could be other asteroids, asteroid fields or even planets just teeming with the stuff. If it is artificial then the Wakandan asteroid could have been the result of a major catastrophe that befell that species. A war, an accident or a natural disaster that destroyed their planet, system, even galaxy millions of years ago. In that case, other pockets of vibranium might be whizzing about as rogue asteroids.

In the comics it is pretty much said that there are other planets where vibranium has been discovered.

The asteroid could have been part of the core of a gas giant that exploded for some reason, given that such cores are enormous there' probably plenty spread out around the galaxy and certainly in the Universe. Its plausible there's some in Saturn or Jupiter but unless one of them is like Ego's brother-in-law, I don't see any way (aside from employing an infinity stone or two) that anyone can make use of it.

I bet even Strange would be hard pressed to mine Vibranium from the core of a gas giant.

Antarctica is another major source of Vibranium on Earth.

https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Vibranium

Nope. To my knowledge, Vibranium is an alloy derived from the mining of an ancient meteor under what is now Wakanda. It’s strong, has some kind of energy absorbing and redirecting properties, but is not unbreakable.

Adamantium is I believe, is a completely man-made alloy that is unbreakable.

Now, I started reading comics in the 70s and stopped reading comics regularly in late 90s, but have on occasion jumped in here and there since. That’s where my comic nerd knowledge ends and for all I know, and if I were not so lazy as to just look it up on some Wiki, my descriptions of the metals remain true.

Adamantium was the metal the Greek Gods forged their weapons from. In Marvel lore it is an unbreakable metal that only a very few can heat and manipulate, most famously used to lace Wolverine’s bones, making him a real tough S.O.B.

Vibranium is the metal found in Wakanda (from a meteorite) and was named for its weird vibrational characteristics and interactions with sound. Ulysses Klaw was a sound based character and enemy of Black Panther so vibranium & sound and such. It wasn’t nearly as bad-ass in the comics as it is in the MCU.

Cap’s Shield was famously an Adamantium & Vibranium blend, the only known binding of the two metals and nigh indestructible.

Because the MCU owned Black Panther and Vibranium, but NOT Wolverine and Adamantium (movie rights owned by FOX at the time) Vibranium kind of became an Adamantium stand in, and became a lot stronger, and does a lot more awesome stuff, like absorbing kinetic energy.

Comic wise, Adamantium was the strongest metal. Vibranium had weird sound/vibration qualities. So generally speaking I’d say Adamantium is tougher than Vibranium, comics wise. MCU movie wise the distinction is less clear because Marvel didn’t always own the rights to both metals at the same time, so Vibranium became more the bad-ass metal in the movies.

I believe I saw this come up some months ago. And pardon me if I am wrong but adamantium was man made from vibranium.

> Cap’s Shield was famously an Adamantium & Vibranium blend, the only known binding of the two metals and nigh indestructible.

This is not true. Cap's shield is a vibranium-steel alloy also known as proto-adamantium. Adamantium was created in an attempt to re-create that unique alloy.

https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Adamantium#Proto-Adamantium

This page on the Marvel Wikia should answer any questions you have:

https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Adamantium > Dr. Myron MacLain sought to create an indestructible alloy for the American side during World War II. At one point he fell asleep at his lab bench, and the metals he was working with somehow bonded together. This mysterious alloy--a combination of steel, Vibranium, and an unknown catalyst--created a material stronger than any yet known. However, without knowing the exact ingredients and their proportions, MacLain could never duplicate the process. The sample was worked into a disc, which became Captain America's Shield. MacLain's later attempts to duplicate the material included a formula without Vibranium, which resulted in the creation of True Adamantium, which is almost as strong as Captain America's shield.

In the script book it’s confirmed that it was infact Vibranium that he synthesised. Although since this wasn’t in the movie itself, it’s difficult to give a decisive answer either way.

It certainly leans that way, and you could argue from its rarity (and the shield being lost), that Jarvis wouldn’t have any Vibranium in his data banks to reference from - making him entirely truthful from his perspective when declaring it was a “brand new element”.

It also makes a lot of sense that Howard Stark was the one originally trying to synthesise more of it, since he was the one who forged the original shield. He would’ve had intimate knowledge of it, but was known for keeping his secrets tight, which might explain why Vibranium wasn’t widely known by the scientific community at the time, (or Jarvis).

But alas, it’s never explicitly confirmed within officially released media, just the original script book. So if you want it to be Vibranium, have at it. If you don’t want it to be Vibranium, equally have at it. Nobody loses.

No, it’s a completely new element that had not previously been known.

No. It's a new element based on Howard's research of the Tesseract.

No, I've heard that it was originally supposed to be artificial vibranium or even adamantium but the official lore is he made a new element and named it 'badassium'. He then uses the new element in most of his new tech.

That was in the novelization only I think.