![]() ![]() ![]() But this should not be interpreted as a cooling of tempers between the two monarchs. It also included both T’Challa and Namor. The team included Tony Stark, Reed Richards, Stephen Strange, Blackagar Boltagon, and Steve Rogers. The self-appointed best and brightest of the Marvel Universe decided to work together in secret on the problem of Earths smashing into one another and taking their entire realities with them - all without ever alerting the public. The Black Panther found out about Incursions when one happened to occur in the skies over Wakanda, and the information he gleaned from the sole survivor of the incident caused him to assemble the Illuminati once again. The Black Panther also swore an oath to murder Namor for his actions that day - whether or not they’d been influenced at all by the cosmic entity he happened to be bonded with at the time.īefore T’Challa could get too far into his Namor revenge scheme, he learned something terrible - the Marvel Multiverse was dying. Due to Namor’s association with the X-Men, T’Challa immediately had his marriage to Storm annulled. The consequences of the incident were immediate and widespread. Birnin Zana was nearly destroyed, thousands were slain, and the devastation was so massive that it spread to nearby communities, too. Using the power of the Phoenix, Namor made the waters of Lake Victoria rise, and then wash over the Wakandan capital. T’Challa allowed the Avengers to hide out in the Wakandan capital city of Birnin Zana - and when Namor found out, he was incensed. The Phoenix Five, as they came to be known, attempted to create a paradise on Earth, even as they hunted down Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. Instead of inhabiting Hope, the Phoenix was split into five pieces and inhabited the quintet of Cyclops, Emma Frost, Colossus, Magik… and Namor the Sub-Mariner. Tony Stark built an anti-Phoenix armor and punched the Phoenix Force in the face with it. The Avengers, reasoning that the Phoenix Force had only ever brought misery and death to Earth, wanted to stop that from happening. To make a long story short, the Phoenix Force was returning to Earth, and the X-Men wanted to let it inhabit the body of Hope Summers, the first mutant born after the Scarlet Witch’s decimation of the mutant populace. X-Men was a series of bad decisions that somehow had even worse outcomes than they should have. The lead-up to the conflict known as Avengers vs. He’s held onto his regency more-or-less steadily ever since, despite frequent warfare - including with T’Challa’s nation of Wakanda. There, he suffered amnesia and wandered as a derelict for years, until Johnny Storm discovered him and restored his memories.Īfter a brief stint as a supervillain, Namor returned to Atlantis, fought for his kingdom, and regained it. But before he could truly claim the throne that was rightfully his, Namor was sent into exile on the surface world. ![]() Namor became a hero of World War II, fighting alongside Captain America and the Invaders, and in time, both his mother and grandfather perished. While pregnant, Princess Fen was forcibly returned to Atlantis, where she gave birth to Namor - a human/Atlantean hybrid, and a mutant, to boot. Namor McKenzie was born as the result of an affair between an early 20th-century human explorer and the daughter of the Atlantean Emperor. The origin of Namor the Sub-Mariner is older, with the character having debuted way back in 1939, and far less well-known, but it is not entirely dissimilar. He’s since survived countless challenges to his throne - and fought most of them back successfully. The Wakandan heir T’Challa watched his father cruelly cut down, and then, when the time was right, challenged for the honor of succeeding his father as both Black Panther and King of Wakanda. Thanks to the timeless performance of Chadwick Boseman, the Black Panther’s origin story is now as well-known as any superhero’s. ![]()
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