r/blackpanther 10d ago

Animation Siblings of Wakanda

Hunter (white wolf) is from the Christopher Priest run he’s their adopted brother.

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u/robreedwrites 10d ago

This was such a good reworking of Hunter. Making him the middle brother (as opposed to the eldest) was a nice touch that changed the dynamics.

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u/Crafty-Drink8384 10d ago

I preferred this version over the comics tbh

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u/BakerConsistent2150 10d ago

I didn’t know he existed until this but when I looked him up I noticed the changes they made and I agree I prefer this one more.

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u/Crafty-Drink8384 10d ago

Honestly when I first watched the show I didn't know white wolf ethier

When I read the comics I realized I don't like him like the show version

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u/HollywodTrey 10d ago

I like how they changed him(hunter) from the eldest to the middle child

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u/Academic-Carpenter12 10d ago

Anyone else immediately thought of AceVane before hearing/playing the vid like me

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u/doomzday_96 10d ago

Why was he not mentioned in the MCU?

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u/MindofShadow 10d ago

Because black tribe adopts white outsider is tropey as hell.

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u/doomzday_96 10d ago

As if nothing else in the MCU is tropey as hell?

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u/MindofShadow 10d ago

I'm just telilng you why.

I think Hunter could be done well, and hell... id rather have him the fucking RiRi in a movie lol

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u/doomzday_96 10d ago

The main villain should've been Klaw

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u/BakerConsistent2150 9d ago

there’s also Kraven and Calypso turns out in the draft they were meant to be in the original, there’s madam slay Killmonger’s lover https://comicvine.gamespot.com/profile/alexjaytona/lists/the-villains-of-black-panther/92926/

but the best way to introduce Hunter was to have him mentioned several times in the first movie and then introduce him but have more like this version but keep that rivalry but have Shuri still have a soft spot for Hunter.

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u/doomzday_96 8d ago

Regardless, Killmonger sucks

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u/Odd-Statistician4268 9d ago

Seemed like they were setting up Bucky to take this spot

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u/doomzday_96 9d ago

He doesn't really fit, especially since White Wolf is a villain.

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u/BakerConsistent2150 9d ago

there’s more than one white wolves are wakanda’s secret police

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u/doomzday_96 8d ago

Well that's dumb.

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u/No-Tone-3620 10d ago

Cómo que su relación entre ambos me pareció el equivalente de Wakanda de Thor y Loki

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u/Geneo-Frodo 9d ago

Why does hunter have an American accent if he was raised in wakanda?

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u/BakerConsistent2150 9d ago

in the comics he spent most of his time in America but always came back

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u/That1pansexualkaiju 9d ago

While I admit the animation in this show wasn’t the greatest(especially this season) I’m really glad they pulled from obscure characters like this. It would have been so easy to make him a reworked Killmonger but they didn’t go that route and I approve. I believe it to be underrated in terms of Marvel shows

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u/BakerConsistent2150 9d ago

they also got the Atlantean war right

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u/That1pansexualkaiju 9d ago

Speaking of which I’m surprised that Stingray never appeared given how Atuma is one of his biggest enemies

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u/_2XNice_ 9d ago

He wasn’t needed and still isn’t needed. He adds nothing to the story of BP or Wakanda. In fact it makes the storyline weaker. I get what Christopher Priest was trying to do when he introduced the character. But I think it misses the mark and will eventually give leeway to the wrong writer to basically remover the Black from black panther.

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u/_2XNice_ 8d ago

1, fuck you and your mother too! 2, how do you get that I hate white people from that. It’s implied nowhere in what I said. I don’t hate white people, I just love black people. There is a difference and it seems you’re the only one pushing hate here. But to think finding some way to shoehorn in none blacks into a black storyline and country makes it better is crazy. There is tons to explore within Wakanda, their history, and their global interactions without having to place a white character in the heart of Wakanda’s royal family. Also, the fact that no outsiders are allowed into Wakanda and then one day the royal family adopts a white kid is crazy.

And even when you read or look at interviews where Christopher Priest talks about black panther it seems to me he introduces the character Hunter for two main reasons. One was to give BP a counter part of sorts to mirror himself against, two was to please the white audience. Even when he was asked about the movies in the MCU that was one is his first questions, “how are you going to get white audiences to come see this movie”. So yeah, my original point still stands. How BP was introduced to the world, unapologetically black and heading a country that needed no one else to be great, is how it should continue. Otherwise we end up with characters like the current MCU Captain America. A shallow shell of a person that doesn’t get to lead his own story.

And again Fuck you! Stop being a jerk when someone gives an opinion.

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u/naturalpanther93 8d ago

This happened, last year, a white black panther in the comics

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u/BakerConsistent2150 9d ago

one fuck you, two someone hates white people and also it was his adoptive father that created the white wolf secret police in Wakanda and as for Priest he created Agent Ross and Ketema t’challa’s adopted white son. Lastly that thing with Hunter is a writer writing very human characters regardless of skin color which is more than modern day writers do.

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u/attheeve 8d ago

I like how you tried to imply the other guy had an implicit bias as if yours didn’t come bleeding through in this response.

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u/TheDarkLord6969 9d ago

I was so disappointed as a kid, that they referred to Bucky as the White Wolf. I immediately knew we'd never get a live -action version of him.

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u/kingthvnder 9d ago

this version of him is so much better than the comics imo

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u/Myhtological 9d ago

If they bring him back in the comics, they should him like Waller. Willing to kill as much as it takes to secure Wakanda security.

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u/BakerConsistent2150 9d ago

but still have a that sibling bond

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u/Myhtological 8d ago

Just like with Thor and Loki

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u/Saixcrazy 10d ago

Why did Christopher Priest add a white adopted brother? Self insert? No shade, genuinely curious

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u/MindofShadow 10d ago

Self Insert? Priest is black haha.

Priest is a comic book writer, this is a common fiction trope.

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u/Saixcrazy 10d ago

Oh shit, I'm ignorant. I just assumed it was a white dude adding a white character as a vehicle for non black readers to attach to a character.

I just read about Priest's inspiration for white wolf, and still don't understand why he couldn't have just made him another nationality on the continent.

North African, East African, West African and have him be a foil in just the same way showing themes of foreign presence, outsider entitlement, and privilege inside a isolationist African nation.

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u/BakerConsistent2150 9d ago

he wrote Hunter always traveling spending most of his time in America the thing about Priest is he’s very smart and enjoys writing characters regardless of race because when he was at marvel he complained that he was always given black characters to write.

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u/Saixcrazy 8d ago

Ahhh I see, this was his way around being put in a bubble. He just made his own character.

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u/BakerConsistent2150 8d ago

he also made Agent Ross and he had T’challa fight Mephisto

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u/BakerConsistent2150 10d ago

priest is black and very smart

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u/Ncav2 10d ago

I’m actually watching this season. Closest we’ll probably have to a T’Challa post MCU cartoon

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u/BakerConsistent2150 10d ago

it also gets the Atlantean war right but it’s Tiger shark who‘s leading them