Black Panther
Black Panther is a comic book character that first appeared in Fantastic Four #52
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Leader of the African country Wakanda, the most advanced nation on Earth. Former Avenger and husband of Storm, King T'Challa is the first modern black superhero.
Black Panther
The Beginning
A huge meteorite made with the mineral known as Vibranium crashed in Wakanda. T‘Chaka the father and king of T‘Challa, knew outsiders would manipulate or destroy Wakanda for this valuable resource. So King T‘Chaka concealed his country from the outside world. That is till explorer Ulysses Klaw found his way to Wakanda and created a vibranium-powered, sound-based weapon. When Klaw was discovered he then killed King T’Chaka. His son T’Challa who was just a boy turned this sound weapon on Klaw and destroyed Klaw’s right hand. Klaw and his men fled Wakanda and swearing to return one day. 
Love Lost
During his youth, T’Challa met and fell in love with an orphan child named Ororo Monroe. The two would break-it off due to his need to avenge his father’s death.
Origin
The Black Panther is the ruler of Wakanda. It's a spiritually-based warrior cult. Sort of like being pope, president, and head of joint chiefs of staff all at once. The Panther is a hereditary title, but one still has to earn it. The series of test that a Panther must pass are so arduous that only candidates who've had special training from childhood can qualify. But just so everyone gets a chance, once a year there's a day when any Wakandan can challenge the king for the throne.
As one of his first acts as King, T'Challa threw the Hatut Zeraze out of the country in an effort to establish his country as a global leader in technology. Being King continued to bring up new difficulties when a tribal war commenced in Wakanda. T'Challa was forced to take sides in the war, choosing Dora Milaje over the Jabari tribe for his secret service agents as well as his harem.
The more Wakanda became a technological global power, the more T'Challa realized the threats of the outside world. While developing nuclear weaponry inside Wakanda, he began to invite super-powered people to his country, as well as infiltrate groups like the Avengers in an effort to test the limitations of their abilities. Although once he found out what kind of people they were, T'Challa saw them as allies as well as friends.
Even so, he only allowed most members of the Avengers to know him as Luke Charles, an American teacher romantically involved with a singer named Monica Lynne.
For the next few years, T'Challa lived three lives, one in America as a teacher, one as an Avenger, and one in Wakanda as King. The many threats to his Kingdom continued, including the Supremacists of Azania, Solomon Prey, Moses Magnum, the Soul-Strangler, Kiber the Cruel, Wind Eagle, Baron Macabre, and even the Ku Klux Klan. On a mission to recover King Solomon's Frogs, T'Challa met a future version of himself who was telepathic and fatally sick. Attempting to change this future, he broke up with Monica Lynne and kept his future body in cryostasis.
Wakanda almost went to war with Atlantis, during an incident on Kiber Island, and T'Challa found out that his stepmother had not left his family, but was kidnapped and made into a South-African slave by Anton Pretorius. He rescued her and joined the Knights of Pendragon while learning that he had a Pendragon Spirit within.
With the help of Black Axe and Afrikaa, he exposed the efforts of Cardinal Technology to escalate the civil war in Mohannda.
Empowered by the demon Mephisto, Reverend Achebe led a coup on Wakanda backed by Xcon, an alliance of rogue intelligence agents and the Russian mafia. In exchange for Mephisto's, abandoning Achebe and leaving Wakanda in peace, T'Challa sold his soul to him, knowing that his unity with the Panther God and its link to the spirits of past Panther Clan leaders would ruin Mephisto’s plans. Demanding sanctions against America over the Xcon coup, T’Challa linked the United States to it and presented evidence to the United Nations.
Nakia attempted to kill Monica Lynne and was replaced in the Dora Milaje with Queen Divine Justice. Distrought and alone, Nakia was captured, tortured and almost killed by Achebe before Killmonger rebuilt her into Malice.
Killmonger also attempted to wipe out Wakanda’s economy, so T’Challa was forced to nationalize all foreign companies. This resulted in Tony Stark having controlling interest in the Wakandan Design Group.
At the same time, the White Wolf took over Xcon and killed most of its leaders. The previous Xcon leadership had used King Solomon's Frogs to replace the U.S. President and Canadian Prime Minister with brainwashed future counterparts, allowing the company to overthrow both countries. Hunter continued with this plan and exacted revenge on Tony Stark for his buy-out of Wakandan Design Group. Afraid for Tony, T’Challa sent him a message by using financial finagling to seize control of Stark Enterprises and simultaneously annex a small Canadian island in Lake Superior. This prompted the U.S. and Canadian leaders to meet to discuss this crisis. The coordination of these leaders allowed Panther and his allies, including the future Panther, to invade the White House and foil Xcon's plot, thereby un-brainwashing the duplicate leaders and returning them to their own times.
As Panther returned to Wakanda, the future Panther fell into a coma and was placed back into stasis until he was killed by Man-Ape. Man-Ape had then been freed by Divine Justice in hopes of freeing her tribe.
After all of this, the original T'Challa became unstable and constantly hallucinating. He attacked the Jabari tribe with the intent of wiping them out; but almost accidentally killed Divine Justice. This caused him to come to his senses and stop the battle. Unable to face almost killing a woman he loved, the Panther went into hiding in New York and handed over Wakanda to his council.
A policeman named Kasper Cole adopted an abandoned Panther costume and sought out T’Challa for training and guidance. This incident gave T'Challa the strength to fight for his health, his nation and his world.
Killmonger was revived later and challenged T’Challa’s rule, an issue which remains unresolved.
At the same time, T'Challa went back to the Avengers, who battled Scorpio, and unmasked U.S. Defense Secretary Dell Rusk as the evil Red Skull. The team was disbanded after the Scarlet Witch had a mental breakdown.
Civil War
New Four
At the conclusion of the superhero Civil War the Wakanda embassy in New York was destroyed, leaving T'Challa without a home while in the city. At the same time Reed and Sue Richards decided to “take a break” from the Fantastic Four, leaving an opening on the team. T'Challa and Ororo accept the Richard’s offer to stay in the Baxter Building and along with the Thing and the Human Torch form a new Fantastic Four. Although affiliated with the Illuminati, T'Challa is not a member of it. But he was invited to join by its members, they were Iron Man, Doctor Strange, Mr. Fantastic, Black Bolt, and Namor. The old team has currently retaken the mantle as the Fantastic Four, and Black Panther, and Storm left the team.
Secret Invasion
When the Skrulls try to infiltrate and take over Wakanada for their vibraniumores in their invasion an all out battle between the forces of Wakanda and the forces of the Skrulls begins. Black Panther decisively defends his nation with cunning tactics and the rallying of his soldiers. Eventually the two opponents find themselves at a loss of technological weaponry. After this happens the forces break out older weapons to continue the conflict. Black Panther holds back the super-skrulls (including a massively large Skrull with the powers of Iron Fist, Wolverine, Luke Cage and Bullseye), while his legion fends off the infantry. When the Wakandans start to decline, the Skrulls capture Black Panther's wife, Storm, and threaten to kill her. Black Panther retaliates by chopping a super-skrulls head off but unexpectedly gets shocked from behind by an infiltrating Skrull. New Black Panther
Powers
Thanks to the Heart Shaped Herb, T'Challa has enhanced speed, agility, strength, endurance, healing and senses. All of these attributes have been raised to near superhuman levels. With his enhanced senses the Black Panther can see in complete and total darkness as if it was bright as day, and can see something 100 feet as if it were right in front of him. With his sense of smell he can track someone across a continent with his sense of smell, memorize tens of thousands of smells and can detect fear lies in a person. He can hear things that normal humans can't as well as sounds that they can, but at a distance not possible with normal ears. He can hear the breathing and heartbeats of enemies. With his sense of taste he can determine any ingredients in anything he eats. He can use his senses together to sometimes predict his opponent's moves ahead of time.
The Heart Shaped Herb also created a connection between T'Challa and the Panther God, the deity his people worship. On top of all his powers, T'Challa is a skilled martial artist. He learned to fight both at home (from the best warriors in Wakanda) and abroad. When he was still a teenager he traveled the whole world to learn various skills, some academic and others focused on physical combat.
Captain America entered Wakanda during World War Two on a search-and-destroy mission. He was hunting Nazis who were out to exploit Wakandan science. Cap didn't know the Wakandans had already beheaded the Nazis days ago. Black Panther and Cap had an extended hand-to-hand battle. And Cap lost.
In addition to all his physical strengths, the Black Panther is an intellectual giant. Not only is he recognized for his brilliance by his peers across the seas, he's one of the smartest of his own people, which is impressive considering that his nation holds some of the smartest people in the world. T'Challa is a scientist, an engineer, an inventor, a weapons designer and a tactical and strategical genius. It is T'challa who designed the Avengers Quinjet, and the Wakanda Design Group built it.
T'challa is also the religious leader of his people. He has access to the wisdom of the previous Wakandan chieftains, whose souls dwell in the Panther Pavillion, a holy temple within the city. Once he even encountered and fought the embodiment of his God/Tribal Totem The Panther God when it manifested to test his worthiness to remain the tribal leader and to also punish him for maintaining a policy of neutrality toward South Africa during Aparthied in the 1980's.
Equipment
Along with the title of Black Panther T'Challa received a costume woven with Vibranium, a metal with the ability to absorb all vibrations and kinetic energy it comes in contact with. Vibranium is only found in Wakanda, hence the nation's need for protection. The costume negates most force directed against it and robs moving objects of kinetic energy. This keeps him protected from most attacks. Blades can cut the fabric but only if they cut along the grain. Vibranium pads on the feet of T'Challa's feet allow him to drop from the tops of buildings without hurting his legs as well as run up walls. T'Challa also has anti-metal claws that can cut through nearly anything, including the hardest metals. The claws also have the ability to emit small energy blades from the tip as well as launch them as projectile attacks. During the beginning of his career, the finger-tips of his gloves shot out gaseous streams of a powerful sleeping agent.
Alternate Realities
In this alternate reality called Age of Apocalypse the land of Wakanda was ravaged by Apocalypse's agents, the Marauders, in order to mine the land's precious vibranium. During the battles, T'Challa was killed and his skeleton was mounted in the middle of the town as a message to all those that oppose Apocalypse.
Earth-2149
In the (Marvel Zombies) reality Black Panther was one of Earth's last remaining humans and was being kept alive by Giant Man, as a source of stable food. Even though he had lost his right arm and left leg, he escaped with the head of Wasp (who constantly begged him for a piece of flesh). He later joined forces with the Acolytes. Issues later he was assassinated by one of the Acolytes, and Wakanda was on a brink of civil war between the Acolytes and T'Challa's followers. Wasp was forced to eat him, showing little remorse in doing so.
Earth-58163
T'Challa of the House of M reality is known as King T'Challa of the African Commonwealth of Wakanda.Earth-9997
On Earth-9997, Earth X, Black Panther is a now a mutated Black Panther and is married to Storm. Captain America entrusted him with the Cosmic Cube.
Earth-355
T'Challa of Earth-355 was known as Coal Tiger.
Earth-398
In Earth-398 T'Challa was known as the Nubian Prince.
In the marvel manga-verse T’Challa is still king of wakanda, and when calling upon the help of the God Qamatha he can transform into a were-panther. His appearance in the were-panther form is of a large humanoid were-panther in ancient Egyptian clothing. He can also call upon Qamathas power to change him into the Falcon. In this form his appearance is heavily influenced by the ancient Egyptian god Horus. In this reality his magical abilities are prominent as Dr. Strange notices his magical trail.
Earth-8311
In the Larval Universe, Black Panther is turned into a Panda named Black Panda.
Earth-1610
In this reality, Ultimate Black Panther is T'Challa Udaku, the prince of Wakanda, and the son of King T'Chaka. He was severely injured when he fought a Black Panther as a right of passage to be the protector of their nation. King T'Chaka seek help to Nick Fury where he made a deal that he will share Wakandan technology with the US in exchange for saving his son. Fury kept his word and T'Challa was sent to Weapon X, where he stayed for a year and received training and some upgrades in his body such as a healing factor and adamantium claws, only shorter than that of Wolverine. Later in life, Nick Fury asked Captain America to train Black Panther to be his student and that he will be perfect recruit for the Ultimates. After Black Panther defeated a villain, Captain America confronted him about his secrecy and silence during battle. Black Panther took off his mask and showed him his scar in the throat that he received from his battle against an actual Black Panther and that Weapon X wasn't able to fix it, thus rendering him mute. Captain America then confronted Nick Fury and asked him about T'Challa's past, but he lied to him. Then Captain America came to T'Challa to asked him personally about his past and he told Steve that his father is a king and that he misses him. A week later Captain America tells Fury that T'Challa is ready to be with the Ultimates. What Fury didn't know that the Black Panther that joined the Ultimates is actually Captain America himself, as T'Challa was secretly sent home by Cap.
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| Super Name: | Black Panther |
| Real Name: | T'Challa |
| Aliases: |
T'Challa King of Wakanda His Majesty Black Leopard Ukatana Lucas Charles Coal Tiger The Client Nubian Prince T'Chaka |
| Publisher: | Marvel Publishing |
| Gender: | Male |
| Character Type: | Human |
| 1st Appearance: | Fantastic Four #52 |
| Appears in: | 681 issues |
| Birthday: | |
| Died: |
