T'Challa (Earth-2149)
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History
Little is detailed about Black Panther’s life before the zombie plague arrived on Earth-2149, however it can be presumed that it followed much the same path as Black Panther (Earth-616).
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Giant Man asks T’Challa to escort him back to his lab, but on the way he realises that Dr Pym has been bitten, and may have ulterior motives. He questions Pym about it, but before he can act Giant Man increases in size and swats him unconscious.
He regains full consciousness sometime later, most of his right arm and leg missing, and after discovering the still animated severed head of Wasp he makes a deal with it to help him escape.
After making himself a simple crutch and carefully tucking Wasp’s head under his arm, T’Challa makes his way through the ruined city. Eventually he is confronted by the Acolytes who mistake him for a zombie. After defending himself, and protecting Wasp they both join the Acolytes aboard Asteroid M.
Whilst onboard the satellite, T’Challa meets Forge, who builds him a cybernetic arm and leg. He also meets Lisa Hendricks who he later marries and with whom has a son.
5 Years Later
After scans reveal no movement on the planet, the Acolytes land Asteroid M in the middle of New York, and Black Panther, his wife, and T'Channa, their child, step into a new world. Wasp follows, her hunger removed by going ‘cold-turkey’.
It is presumably around this point that T’Challa receives a call from a T'Challa from an alternate universe, who is having problems with familiar zombified super-heroes on the Skrull home-world.
40 Years Later
Even with New York renamed New Wakanda, and T’Challa in it’s throne, there doesn’t appear to be a viable way to rebuild the population and so, the new generation of Acolytes, frustrated, plot to remove the old man from his throne.
In the dead of night an assassin, creeps into the Royal bedchamber, and stabs the King of New Wakanda. But having been alerted to the intrusion Wasp, in her new cybernetic body, dashes the assailant against the wall of the chamber. T’Challa lays dying, however, and she rationalises that the only way he will survive is if he is zombified, and so bites him.
With the hunger returning, Wasp tries to eat Lisa but is prevented in doing so by the Black Panther, who joins her in eating the assassin. Sated and cognoscent, they agree that they now have to be quarantined until once again the hunger dissipates.
After a few weeks in quarantine, Reynolds, along with a newly found (and donned with Wasp's original body) Hawkeye and Forge, release T'Challa and Wasp due to the leader of the Acolytes' plot to kill them. However, they are caught, but the people of New Wakonda are preoccupied with the newly arrived Zombie Galacti. He helps fend off the zombies with Spider-Man and Luke Cage, both of whom are cured of their hunger. They retreat to the palace in New Wakonda and seal the zombies out of the palace with a force field, but trapping Gladiator and Bruce Banner (knocked out/asleep) inside.
After a battle with Gladiator that resulted in his death, T'Challa and the other zombies get their wounds fixed up. However, they realize they aren't well-manned to protect the dimensional portal the zombies came for. However, Reynolds revealed T'Challa's deceased son, T'Channa, dressed as Colonel America, and discovered that Reynolds and Forge placed Col. America's brain into his son's body. However, he falls under attack by T'Channa, who is about to kill T'Challa, who eventually gets reminded of their alliance. The zombies return, and they release the force field, and T'Challa, Spidey, Cage, and Wasp battle the zombies. The force field is reactivated, but Iron Man gets through.
After the force field is deactivated by Bruce Banner, who tries to devour Reynolds and hits the switch, the zombies get through to the survivors, but realize they aren't hungry. But not before T'Challa is smashed, leaving only his left arm, left shoulder, part of his chest, neck, and head intact, and Wasp crushed from the waist up. After the zombies cope with their newly discovered humanity, Hulk breaks into the room, eats Reynolds, and kills Iron Man, Phoenix, Firelord, and Hawkeye, before being killed by Spidey, Giant Man, and Wolverine. After getting a new body by Forge, the zombies decide to help the survivors get supplies and breed in another dimension. However, Malcolm Cortez, the leader of the Acolytes reveals that he was behind T'Challa's assassination attempt, T'Channa's death, and a new plot to kill K'Shamba, Panther's grandson. He states he likes this way of life and wants to destroy the zombie plague, and sends T'Challa, along with the other zombies, to another dimension.
Powers and Abilities
Powers
Superhumanly Acute Senses: T'Challa can see in total darkness as if it was a clear sunny day, something at 100 feet appears as though it is right in front of his face. T'Challa's sense of hearing is enhanced in a similar manner, enabling him to hear sounds that an ordinary human can't and to be able to hear sounds that an ordinary human can, but at much greater distances. T'Challa can memorize tens of thousands of scents and track them to the exact location, can smell fear, and detect if someone is lying by change in body odor. T'Challa's sense of taste is sensitive to the point that he is able to taste the exact ingredients of any particular food he is eating.
Peak Human Strength: The special herb has enhanced T'Challa's physical strength. While not superhuman, he is nearly as strong as a human can be and can lift approximately 750 lbs.
Peak Human Speed: T'Challa is able to run and move at speeds superior to those of any Olympic athlete. He is capable of reaching speeds of 35 miles per hour.
Peak Human Stamina: T'Challa's musculature generates less fatigue toxins than the bodies of most humans. He can exert himself at peak capacity for approximately 1 hour before fatigue begins to impair him.
Peak Human Durability: T'Challa's ability to resist and recover from physical injury or disease is also at the pinnacle of human capability. His body is as physically durable as it is possible to be without being considered superhuman.
Peak Human Agility: T'Challa's agility, balance, and bodily coordination are also heightened to the pinnacle of human development. He is superior to any Olympic level gymnast that has ever competed.
Abilities
Genius-level Intellect: Black Panther possesses a genius level intellect and is a skilled inventor, strategist, tactician, and leader. He is a scientist — he has a Ph.D. degree in physics from Oxford University.
Master Martial Artist: T'Challa is a rigorously trained gymnast and acrobat. He has been groomed to be a warrior from birth an expert in armed and unarmed combat, master of all martial arts including African and unknown forms, and has mastered most weapons.
Expert Tracker & Hunter: Even without his superhuman senses, he is an expert tracker and hunter. He is a skilled hunter, tracker, and He can pick up a prey's scent and memorize tens of thousands of individual ones.
Highly Influential Connections: As king of Wakanda, the Panther has access to a vast collection of magical artifacts, technological and military hardware, as well as the support of his nation's wide array of scientists, adventurers, and superheroes.
Diplomatic Immunity: As the leader of a sovereign nation, Black Panther often visits the United States or the United Nations for political reasons. He enjoys diplomatic immunity during these trips, and his embassy is considered foreign soil.
Paraphernalia
Transportation
Advanced Wakandan aircraft.
Notes
- The character of Black Panther was created by Stan Lee, and Jack Kirby.
- The zombified Black Panther of Earth-2149 first appeared in Marvel Zombies by Robert Kirkman and Sean Phillips.
- The reality of Earth-2149 was created by Mark Millar and Greg Land, in Ultimate Fantastic Four: Crossover.
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