Part of what you love about Marvel is that it's just a fantasy world.

Looks bad 🤷‍♂️

Like always they didnt do shit even though they had the Power to prevent the Rwandan Genocide and Many others atrocities in África

they didn’t gaf

“Wow, that’s so crazy, thank god we barely interact with them”

Ignore it like a bunch of other countries

Willing to bet these events didn't happen in that universe.

Haven’t seen the show yet but is it mentioned when it exactly takes place?

I want more tv shows And movies taking Place in the distant past for example a tv Animated series with Iron Fists across time , a Thor Animated series or a Asgard Animated series in the past maybe with a Young Odin

It take place in the main timeline??

Pretty good! It's nothing insanely special, but it's exactly what Marvel said it'd be and I wouldn't mind if they released more prequel miniseries like this for other parts of their universe's mythos (eg, misadventures of young Thor).

I wasn't expecting Achilles, Odysseus and the Trojan War to be part of the MCU, but here we are.

As a kid I was obssesed with a book I had about Greek mythos, so you can see that I enjoyed with all the references.

I'm amazed Marvel and Disney aren't hyping this up more and advertising it everywhere - it's absolutely gorgeous. Had I not followed this sub, I wouldn't have even realized it was coming out today.

Just watched them and they were alright. The animation and score were the real outstanders for me and also a couple of cameos.

This made me want a similar show set in the MCU continuity but in the current day to fill some gaps.

I was thinking serious Fury vibes in the second episode. 😂

Must've been scratched by a Flerken.

So are they gonna show how and why Wakanda, with all its incredible powers and resources, never intervened in all the horrendous events that transpired on the continent? The slave trade, colonization, the various dictatorships and genocides, more recent issues like terror groups?

In fact, Tch'ala admits Killmonger is right and opens up Wakanda to the world

There are other, better black stories in comic books than the gated ethno state country.

Wakanda is basically the lies GOP peddle.

"if we wall our country off to keep the deplorables out, we will become a utopia"

You see, Wakandans let King Leopold's men cut the hands of hundreds of thousands of Congolese. They couldn't intervene for reasons.

And when Italians used poison gas on Ethiopians in 1936, the Wakandans again couldn't intervene due to reasons.

Wakanda are assholes in their history.

> Well… isn’t that the point?

You're right, but we both know Disney is not going to do that. They're going to show how Wakanda has always been secretly helping other Africans, from the shadows. It's going to undercut Killmonger's point because it'll turn out that he was just plain wrong. Wakanda has always cared.

Calling it now, there is going to be some mega-versal threat that our Wakandan heroes will travel through time to solve and the series will end with a "The world will never know what you did to help them" message. Which just makes thing weird about slavery because there is the subtle message of "Be happy with what you got, because it could have been worse".

Disney has no idea how to handle Wakanda. The first movie was a lot more accepting the Wakandans being straight up fascists.

I mean, outside of their War Dog division, which focused on espionage, they stayed extremely isolationist.

Then if we use the book, The Wakanda Files, it was shown that through their espionage efforts they knew about the Starks' death, Hydra, Shield, the Avengers, and many other events, but weren't involved in them as their goal was to find out what information those groups had, take it for themselves, and prevent the reveal of Wakanda to the world

Animation looks great! I hope this series can become like what Star Wars Tales is. This season focuses on Wakanda, the next one on Asgard, Kamar-Taj, Ta-Lo, Madripoor, and so on and on...

I wonder if we will get to see other heroes.

It would also be cool to see Klaue make an appearance since this will be set in the past.

Have they referred to the Dogs of War as the Hatut Zeraze before this? Maybe we’ll get the White Wolf.

I am loving this animation style.

God I love Wakanda. What a genius idea to uplift an entire people by elevating them with spirituality. Regal. 

A better question I think is if Wakanda decided to intervene during slavery... where would they start and why?

The USA as we know it wouldn’t exist because it’s very foundation was built on the backs of those very slaves. Also the entirety of Africa probably becomes an extension of Wakanda in one form or another

Uhmmm.... I'm not sure if much changes? Mutants ended up facing pretty blatant racism. I think the universe remains unchanged. And actually wasn't there a few early comics with BP taking down KKK members?

Africa is a continent, not the world. Wakanda is isolationist. They could have just colonised with permission, African countries.

Do you mean invade America and stop slavery or prevent slaves being taken from Africa?

If the first, that starts a war between the US (the slave owning states at least) and Wakanda. Maybe we get a United States of Africa with Wakanda as the capital?

I think the second option they could have accomplished.

Either leads to frosty relations between the US and Africa/Wakanda likely to this day.

The only way to do that would be to unite the disparate tribes under one rule… ie- become an empire that outlaws slavery.

Definitely. I think it involves arming other African nations but it can be done and I think they'd be successful in preventing the slave trade from continuing. Now, getting those weapons back, that's interesting. They'd have to up their tech game.

This is a pretty decent theory. But sailing up the nile is not correct. Famously finding the source of the Nile was challenging to even modern explorers due to cataracts, tsetse flies and thick jungle.

It is more likely that the Wakandans came down the Nile.

I thought this was intentional? Why else would Bast be part of Wakandan lore?

Re BP 2: How did Namor expect to attack a land-locked country like Wakanda en masse? Sure he could swim up a river alone when he had the stand-off with the council, but he's not going to be able to bring an army in like that.

Wankanda

Love it.