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* [[Mary Suetopia]]: Wakanda.
** Ruled by their [[Marty Stu]] leader, of course.
*** During the period where it was at its worst, Black Panther would effortlessly conquer any situation by simply saying "Wakanda has completely mastered (placeholder) long ago." This included at one point being surrounded by ([[Straw Character|racist and stupid, of course]]) police officers at one point, who all try to shoot the friggin' ''Fantastic Four''... and their guns just refuse to work. T'Challa makes some comment about Wakanda having figured out how to neutralize firearms shortly after firearms were invented. He didn't even have to ''press a button'', [[God Mode Sue|the guns just didn't work because he didn't want them to]].
** Averted in the [[Iron Man: Armored Adventures]] universe. Their economy's messed up, they have no diplomatic ties to the rest of the world and they're all fairly racist. Except for the Wakandans willing to throw each other under a bus for money.
** Averted during Christopher Priest's run too, sure it's one of the most advance nations on the planet but all the many tribes and groups hate each other almost as much as they do outsiders, and Panther's constantly having to deal with some tribal war or coup attempt or whatever.
** Honestly, it's basically only this under Hudlin, and even then, only until Doom starts trashing the place.
*** There was some of it under other writers, it's just that other writers were willing to show some flaws along with Wakanda's advanced technology and research. It was also less glaring because under other writers Black Panther was welcoming and friendly to all other heroes, which reflected better on his country. Under Hudlin, Panther became a borderline black supremacist, so Wakanda accordingly looked more like Perfect African Ubermensch-land than simply an advanced country.
* [[Strangled by the Red String]]: Him and Storm, in one of the most brutal stranglings in mainstream comics. Made worse and/or hilarious by the fact that Storm was a (heavily implied) lesbian under Claremont, only none of her other writers twigged to it. Hudlin basically built the marriage out of a two-issue cameo from Priest's run where their "romance" was treated as an unrealistic-but-cathartic childhood fantasy that would never actually work in any real way. Writers of both characters are now largely ignoring the marriage for exactly that reason.
* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: Storm going from a strong black female character whose survived as a popular character since her introduction to some random chick that dropped her panties for T'Challa the first time they met.
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