The reason I say that the average Wakandan soldier should not have that type of tech is because then you run into the super man issue. Where he is so powerful, he cannot gel into stories with Batman in Gotham or he cannot go into certain stories below a certain threshold without heavily nerfing him and you know full well if standard WK soldiers were thst powerful writers would be frothing at the mouth ready to punk them by having Cap, danny, or wolverine smash through them. Even the elite DM/HZ being capable of taking them down, if I were writing the book I would have it known that they Could of taken them down, it wouldn't of been easy but they could of but T'Challas orders were to lead then to a certain place. Because ultimately this is superhero comics and the title character is the one who should be doing the heavy lifting and getting the lions share of feats. If regular redshirts can take down actual title hero's (thst are above street level) than that heavily limits T'Challa and makes him less usable. Same with certain threat's, like SE if Wakanda could trounce them without T'Challa ever getting involved, than he just won't be used. That's not to say that Wakanda struggles or gets punked but rather Wakanda sets off the Domino effect to the heroes victory
I absolutely am feeling all of the well thought out positions and arguments above...but my position is that facing this reality is PRECISELY why we need to add more layers and nuance to the title heroes etc.
For example. If I were writing CAP? I'd have a biotech and willpower response from Cap to prevent the Vita Rays and similar things from being sapped from his cells again. I would have Cap experience a version of something like The EXTREMIS enhancile designed specifically to prevent such bioattacks vs Cap from ever being fully successful again. Therefore the Wakandan soldiers could break out with their tech and still weaken CAP with the tech...and Cap would STILL BEAT THEM because Cap's experience, skills, combat genius and instincts remain unaffected and pinnacle human, aided by his still partially enhanced physique. Were I writing BP and Cap ran afoul the Wakanda soldiers, I would still have this exact scenario play out.
Imo nobody has to be or should be nerfed. Imo it's about still finding plausible means of victory etc when facing the best version of each hero/villain/whatever, every single time. Such pinnacle instances require pinacle writing prowess and make for far more interesting encounters, characters, conflicts, story arcs, etc.
Facing Danny? The Wakandan baseline soldiers would use their baseline psikatech to protect themselves from Iron Fist blows...but The Iron Fist has many multiple uses. Hypnosis, accelerated healing, momentary mental domination, etc. Furthermore, Iron Fist IS called "The Living Weapon". There's nothing stopping him from Chi Shifting for an encounter and emulating a Wakandan soldiers fingerprints and partial DNA [ gleaned from the blood on Danny's knuckles from punching or kicking various Wakandan warriors ] and actually using the Wakandan warriors' own weapons against them after he passes the fingerprint and DNA check locks required to operate any baseline Wakandan weapon. For those of you who forgot? Danny Rand has Chi Shifted before, one of the most infamous times was when The Black Dragon unbalanced his Chi and forced Danny Rand to wear the blood red Iron Fist outfit...and fight his fellow heroes.
Daniel Rand can and will Chi Shift again, as his mastery of the Chi of Shou'Lou the Undying increases.
As for Wolverine? People keep forgetting that there's A WHOLE LOT TO UNPACK in Wolverine's past. Wolverine has been and still remains an expert SPY AND ASSASSIN. Remember tat he's known and feared in one of his other aliases as PATCH or something like that. Remember?
He's dealt with the international assassination and espionage networks for CENTURIES. He's also a samurai who never achieves his goals because his personal goals are PERFECTION in the samurai and other warrior traditions. The berzerker rage of his is still there, but he can and does sublimate it in favor of his other skills, when circumstances warrant. Wolverine can very effectively get his Double-Oh-Seven on. That's the guy who'd face Wakandan warriors and tech. Not the battle lust berzerker barbarian who would be a shield brother and drinking buddy of young, unbridled Thor.
Wolverine...if you all remember the classic Claremont runs onward into the early '90's...was a version of Winter Soldier before Winter Soldier existed. He displayed advanced stealth skills superior to that of Hand Ninja, whom he took by surprise on numerous occassions. Wolverine took missions with Black Widow which required sniping and intelligence gathering.Wolverine has gone on several missions with Elektra herself, wherein stealth, intel gathering, and assassination of targets were primary. He's done similar missions with Omega Red and Sabertooth. In several of these missions? Leaving no footprint, no hint of his entrance, presence, and exit, were paramount. No "snikt" of the claws at all. He became expert at disguise and evasion, as his numerous enemies never cease scouring the world for him and their opportunity for vengeance upon him.
As a result of their many adventures and deaths they've seen? Long before facing Wakandan soldiers, Wolverine and all the other mutants would have had anti- Neutralizer and anti-Inhibitor Field tech built into the micron sheathe and fabric of their uniforms and worn as a invisible sheathe upon their very flesh. Forge would have been the first creator of such work, and Hank would have fine tuned the tech as time passed. This would present an interesting tech challenge to Wakanda, as Wakandan tech would then be compelled to recalibrate its attacks upon the mutants...and overcome the protection the mutants enjoyed previously.
The result? Would be a DAMPENING of mutant powers, as neither tech...Wakandan baseline soldier tech nor mutant tech...would achieve full ascendancy over the other. Shuri and/or T'Challa could break the impasse with their personal attention, and so could Forge, Mr. Sinister or Hank. But Shuri and T'Challa would rather clearly and thoroughly outperform Forge, Sinister and Hank in the tech department, should such a tech throwdown occur.
This again would introduce a constantly changing but challenging and realistic dynamic to the exchanges between mutants and Wakandans, Krakoa and Wakanda. Each writer could put his/her/their own spin on each encounter and it would be authentic for that encounter, for that conflict, at that time.
The person who would have the most difficulty vs Wakandan soldiers is The Winter Soldier. His tech would be worse than useless...his tech would be turned against him. The only chance he would have? Is if his tech received a truly awesome upgrade during the time he was part of THE ORIGINAL SIN saga, when he became "The Man on the Wall" [ that's a very GAME OF THRONES like title ].
Now. How does this kind of ability affect T'Challa's ability to partake in street level mysteries the likes of which say...Luke Cage...would engage in? Does T'Challa come in and be overpowered and whatnot, does he have to be nerfed to be part of that street mystery or street level work?
Nope.
Most of these kinds of street level mysteries/adventures don't revolve around high tech or high espionage. T'Challa could literally arrive sans prep and work the mystery/adventure on the fly. His spy network does indeed include the likes of people like Turk etc, simply via multiple proxies. In other words, people like Turk don't know that they're part of the Wakandan spy network. We saw T'Challa further extend his street network in Christopher Priest's epic THE CLIENT
This right here? Would be easy work. And fun. Our own R to the H in this very forum stated and showed and proved that T'Challa is a multilevel operator in his sticky thread THE VISION with this phrase right here: "I know some people at Marvel feel the Panther's base being in Africa is a problem. It shouldn't be. The Panther should move back and forth betwen Wakanda and the rest of the world the same way Thor moves between Asgard and Earth. He's an INTERNATIONAL player who's equally at home at the Davos Conference in Switzerland, meeting with Colin Powell in D.C. Cuba with Fidel Castro and Prince Namor."
There are places in Afrika that are faaaarrrrr more hood than the most dangerous, hoodiest hoods on Earth. T'Challa is absolutely at home there. He's literally tread those streets on foot sans tech or backup since he was a child doing his very first Walkabout. Remember?
So there should never be a question of T'Challa being too powerful for this or that adventure. It's just a matter of whether this or that adventure serves T'Challa's needs or evokes the proper response from him.
In this way, T'Challa would get involved with various things, it's just that the threats would prove themselves to be threatening by overcoming actually potent threats in Wakanda or threatening Wakandan interests abroad or trampling upon T'Challa's Code of Honor abroad [ T'Challa himself and T'Challa's warriors, even special units like The DM, The HZ, The Squad and The MKH aka The Mashujaa Kifalme Ya Heshima...ROYAL WARRIORS OF HONOR miscalled THE BLACK MUSKETEERS by The West... would, for instance, get involved in destroying sex trafficking, drug trafficking, etc rings because of the repulsive nature of these criminal enterprises ].
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