@static_shock: @kokemabb200: @granitesoldier: @wyldsong: Wyldsong, if I am confident I am correct, the prospect that I am "going to be in the minority" doesn't bother me in the least. What a majority believes isn't always so. After all, a majority of teen age girls believes Justin Beiber is FAR more talented than Stevie Wonder and The Beatles; a majority of tea party republicans believe that our current President was not born in the United States; and for quite a while, a majority believed that the Earth is flat, women were little more than chattle, and slavery was perfectly okay (in fact, many people STILL believe the last two notions). That is why what a majority thinks should not be used as the "end all, be all" indicator of what is or is not correct. And GraniteSoldier, the Panther has ALREADY "beat the FF 4v1" (and defeated ANOTHER team with SUPER POWERS, the Supremacists, even though he was temporarily blocked from the enhancements of the heart shaped herb). So bringing up the Fantastic Four proves my point!
Now, as far as the Lizard goes, T'challa has too many attributes at his disposal (since-childhood-combat-training, meta human speed and strength, incredible tech) for the reptile to "murder" or even "take him apart". Such is the Panther's speed that he has made the likes of Captain America, Beast, and Wolverine not just miss, but BADLY miss him on several occasions; starting from WAY BEHIND, shocked Sabertooth by chasing, catching up to, and appearing in front of the mutant; and avoiding and tagging Spider-Man on more than one occasion (in fact there is evidence that T'challa is FASTER than Spider-Man! In Marvel Team-Up issue 20, the two heroes squared off against an opponent named Stegron, a man/dinosaur hybrid that sported an inhumanly fast tail. Despite having previous experience facing this creature, Spider-Man was batted around at will the entire issue by Stegron; even though at one point Parker webbed down the villian's tail, he was fast enough to break free and STILL strike Spider-Man, knocking him out and off a huge height, where he would have become street pizza if not for being saved by T'challa. The Panther, however, even though he had not ever faced Stegron, was not touched even ONCE by this bizzare opponent; the first time Stegron swung his tail at Panther and missed, he exclaimed "Impossible! Nothing that LIVES can avoid my flashing tail!" To which T'challa, as he punched his foe in the face replied "Sorry to make a LIAR out of you, dinosaur man---but the BLACK PANTHER CAN!") And this was quite a while before the King Of The Dead added enhancement, so there is ample evidence that Panther can stay out of the Lizard's clutches.
The once and future Wakandan King has also defeated opponents with body toughness FAR superior to the Lizard, including the afore mentioned Super skrull with Luke Cage's durability, Luke Cage HIMSELF (by using nerve strikes) and Thanos' top Black Order general, the massive Black Dwarf who had incredible stamina, invulnerability, and super strength. After dealing with the likes of them-although this in no way detracts from how formidable this long time Spider-Man foe is-the Lizard might be something of a relief.
And finally, if it comes down to it, T'challa's tech will pull out a win for him. Static Shock and RenaissanceMan dealt with the fallacy of the claim that the force field is so weak it can be pierced by bullets before I could; so bottom line, if it is implemented the Lizard will NOT be getting through it. And speaking of force fields, Panther's energy daggers have proven potent enough to go through one-therefore they will go through the Lizard with no problem. So, there can be no doubt---the Panther does INDEED have the right stuff to defeat the Lizard. Kokemabb200, glad you concur with my points. Oh, and all of this is not to say that the Lizard is not a lethal threat, or that he is some kind of punk---it is that T'challa is JUST THAT GOOD.
Translation: When going through the Spider-man villian guantlet---BLACK PANTHER WINS.
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