Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33690333-20171119230642/@comment-33690333-20171125203512

Blizzard, can you remind me what your plans were for the Black Panther solo film? I recall you wanted Man-Ape as a villain, and I have an idea for how to set up M'Baku in Crown of the Serpent.

My idea is to have M'Baku be a royal guard member obsessed with Wakandan tradition who thinks T'Challa's rebellious nature is dangerous, and so this puts them at odds with each other. At the end of the movie, after T'Challa has become the new king and announces that Wakanda will be getting more involved with other nations, M'Baku quits the royal guard. I was thinking there could even be a mid-credits scene where M'Baku discovers an old temple out in the jungle with a large statue of Ghekre, the gorilla god.

I really want to explore the culture of Wakanda involving the different animal gods, with Bast the panther goddess and Ghekre the gorilla god being rival deities who at some point had a battle for supremacy, which Bast won, making her Wakanda's sole guardian. I think having M'Baku taking on the Man-Ape persona to try and overthrow T'Challa could be a really good story, with the legend of Bast and Ghekre being great foreshadowing for this. I don't remember if you wanted to include Klaw or not, but having a foreign threat come that forces both of them to work together could also be a good angle to tackle it from. Just throwing ideas out there, since I'm currently working on Cap 2 and all of this Black Panther business is a big part of it.