#i straight up got rid of brians hat lol

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hough sillies 🫶 i told myself like half an hour ago i would go to bed after i finished jonny so im following through goodnight lads

found my ref btw

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Daredevil 101: Black Panther: The Man Without Fear, Part 2

The continuing adventures of T’Challa as the protector of Hell’s Kitchen! Last time, Matt asked T’Challa to look over his neighborhood while they both got their heads on straight, and T’Challa took down a new crime boss. This time, he’s got a more overt opponent, and a more insidious one. Also: Storm!

Content warning: Racism and xenophobia, suicidal ideation, ableism.

Our story picks up with T’Challa on the trail of his former employee Brian, who was subjected to nonconsensual experiments by the creepy Dr. Holman. It turns out Brian isn’t the only living thing she’s experimented on:

T’Challa escapes from the evil monkeys, but Dr. Holman ups the ante by hiring a much more serious threat to take T’Challa down:

KRAVEN THE HUNTER!!! I do love him so.

This is the most relatable page in comics. If two guys dressed as jungle cats started fighting where I was having dinner, I would also be filming it immediately.

Kraven isn’t really a mercenary, but he’s working for Holman because he recently died and then came back to life and is now immortal, and doesn’t want to be. Holman has promised him death, basically - she swears she has a cure, or reverse cure, or whatever you want to call it, for his “condition.”

T’Challa and Kraven fight their way onto a bridge, and Kraven gets the upper hand:

Luckily, in swoops a SURPRISE RESCUER:

IT’S QUEEN ORORO OF WAKANDA, AKA STORM!!! She’s so preeeeetty.

We saw how butthurt T’Challa was every time another superhero tried to help him before, so you can imagine that he doesn’t take this surprise terribly well:

Ororo is vastly more patient than I am, I would have kicked him in the shins. Also, I do appreciate that she’s like “You’re literally dressed as the Black Panther, if people haven’t already figured out that’s who you are, me being here won’t change that” but also this comic is written by the same guy who wrote the preceding ones so he’s kind of dragging himself and it doesn’t really make sense?

Anyway, T’Challa calms down and thanks her for the save, but they are then attacked by Kraven - and Brian, who is under Kraven’s command and can...move stone I guess? That wasn’t the same as Vlad’s powers but sure:

I find T’Challa’s endless strategizing so much more charming than Batman’s. It’s also probably a nice surprise to the residents of Hell’s Kitchen. “A guy with pointy ears saved me last night, but this one had a little to do list!”

The fight makes its way back to Holman’s lab, and T’Challa drops some truth bombs:

Note to self: do not trust creepy kidnapping doctors who make monsters to keep their promises.

Kraven’s like, “Okay, that’s legit,” and now all they need is for Holman to agree to cure Brian:

Ororo may be a very patient, nurturing person, but she can also be stone cold when she wants to be. T’Challa is totally heart eyesing behind his mask.

Anyway, Holman caves, Brian is whisked away to presumably be cured, and Ororo has T’Challa “show her his walkup apartment” (their cheesy euphemism, not mine, bless) before returning to Wakanda or the X-Men or wherever she was hanging out in 2011.

On to the next plotline! We begin with this racist piece of trash:

The dig at the wife’s “chronic fatigue syndrome” is unnecessary, but otherwise this is a pretty prescient look at how young men in the far right get radicalized. He starts wearing his ridiculous Klan-esque hat to work:

With no job, Racist McGee (he probably has a name, but who cares) spends his time ranting on the internet about immigrants and living off of his wife’s parents until he hits her and she files a restraining order. He gets caught at attempted robbery by T’Challa, who ties him up and leaves him for the cops. Soon after, he hits rock bottom, homeless and ranting on the street.

Meanwhile, the Hate-Monger returns to Earth. This is a clone of Adolf Hitler turned into a spirit that can possess people but was eventually shot into space, obviously. In Racist McGee, it finds the perfect host:

Soon after, the company-wide crossover “Fear Itself” hits. BP:TMwF doesn’t touch on it much except to basically say that the streets are in chaos and everyone’s freaking out, but it causes T’Challa to turn his diner into a makeshift triage center. Hate-Monger arrives with a mob eager to use the “disorder” of a triage center as an excuse to attack an immigrant-owned (and black-owned) business:

When T’Challa tries to get rid of them, the muscle shows up:

Yeah, I don’t even know who this asshole is - the series never really tells us. Throw him in the garbage with his stupid costume (and hope alt-right cosplayers never stumble across this comic).

Sofija reminds T’Challa that discretion is the better part of valor, and they leave the diner rather than give away T’Challa’s secret identity or endanger those who are there for triage - but they are then immediately apprehended by an immigration officer:

Yeah, they’ve caught on that Foggy forged T’Challa’s immigration papers, and they’re both thrown in jail - which means that Foggy, who only just got his license back (he lost it due to yelling at a corrupt judge), will lose it again. At least Becky’s able to get them both out on bail:

T’Challa is like “I WILL SAVE YOU, FOGGY NELSON” because he is one of us. But first he needs to deal with the Hate-Monger and his lackeys. And he has a plan, because he always does:

T’Challa and Sofija allow themselves to be rounded up and brought to the precinct that the Hate-Monger has turned into his headquarters, and then Sofija deploys a small EMP that knocks out the power. T’Challa does some knocking out of his own:

Then he takes on Hate-Monger, who’s gone outside to rile up the masses:

Note to self: tase racists.

Here, have another shot of T’Challa punching a racist, just because I like you guys:

And with that, Hate-Monger and the American Panther are vanquished, and Hell’s Kitchen calms down. “Fear Itself” is resolved elsewhere, and the city returns to normal, but there’s still one task on T’Challa’s aforementioned to do list:

It kind of looks like he’s deleting Foggy from the matrix (lol @ his nickname being in his government file) but I promise he’s not, just deleting the charges. Which hopefully no one will remember? WHATEVER, IT’S A NICE GESTURE, OKAY?

Next up: Black Panther: The Most Dangerous Man Alive faces off against Lady Bullseye, Typhoid Mary, and the Kingpin!