Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33690333-20171119230642/@comment-25179360-20180105070602

Okay, this is my two cents.

We had the idea before where M'baku's ultimate reason for turning against T'Challa and start worshipping Gheke was because of his failure to save King T'Chaka from assassination, and T'Challa's goal to start opening Wakanda's borders (as a result of his positive interaction with S.H.I.E.L.D.).

This could be changed though to fit the direction you're taking Crown of the Serpent. Your original plan of having T'Chaka die due to Zemo or what have should come back into play. It doesn't seem necessary for M'baku to be dealing with that in addition to everything else. Just feels overstuffed in my opinion. What I would ask though is that his actual turn to Gheke not done in Crown of the Serpent, and instead saved for the Black Panther film. That's a lot of really juicy storytelling I personally would like to explore and flesh out in the movie, I also like the idea of his Civil War ultimately starting because of T'Challa's decision to open Wakanda's borders. The destruction sent M'baku down the wrong path, but T'Challa's decision is what really turns him into a super villain.

I'm also totally on board with having Bast and Gheke be Elder Gods in addition to Wakandan deities. I'm honestly often on board with amalgamizing the similar yet different concepts that frequently pop up throughout the Marvel lore. Yeah, I get in the comics that overlap is bound to arise along with inconsistency. But in a cinematic universe where we naturally have to trim some stuff down it just feels jarring and awkward to have so many different God pantheons that are only loosely connected or are different for circumstantial reasons.

Speaking of which, have we ever explained what Asgardians or Olympians are in the CMCU?