Black Panther first pounced unto the scene in 1966 appearing in Fantastic Four #52. He was the creation of legendary Marvel artists Jack Kirby and Stan Lee.♛ His character is an iconic milestone as he represents the first superhero of African descent in mainstream American comics. He precedes other famous African American superheroes like The Falcon (1969), Luke Cage (1972), and Blade (1973) who were all under the Marvel umbrella. DC comics had their first black superhero in John Stewart (not that John Stewart!) with Green Lantern #87 in 1971.
🥀But Black Panther holds the title of being the first superhero that opened the door to develop a comic universe that was more realistically reflective of the one in which we all live. It seems his creators knew this character would be significantly more important so they came up with an impressive list of powers and abilities for his backstory.
The quick version of Black Panther: He eats a mystical herb that grants him super-humanly acute senses, enhanced strength, speed, agil🎐ity, stamina, durability, healing, and reflexes. He is King of Wakanda which makes him insanely rich. And he wears a sick Black Panther costume made of vibranium. Basically, you don't mess with Black Panther.
Unless you can make𒈔 a good joke in comic form... then you get 25 Hilarious Black Panther comics only true fans will understand.
25 🍃 Get This Man Something ꩲ
You never know what phrase or cultural touch-point is going to catch on and become viral. These are little moments of online awareness where the world seems to 'get' some kind of inside joke, that's not really all that inside. They take the form of memes and one-off gags. This one comes from a scene in 2018's Avengers: Infinity War. I won't give any spoilers, this one can be seen on the♋ official trailer for the movie which is where this joke mostly spawned from.
T'Challa (the Black Panther) is giving some official decree to prepare for battle and he ends with one of those serious statements that comes off like a punch-line. (with a heavy African accent) “Evacuate the city... Engage all defenses... and get this man a shield.” Which is an obvious reference to Cap🍒tain America. Watching all these superheroes interact in the same world is one of the best things about these Avengers movies.
🐈So now the running gag is Black Panther granting other superheroes what they need. Like a planet for Superman (his was blown up), or a body for Cyborg (whose is mostly machine). But Batman gets the snub because he's loaded. This also plays upon the made-up 'feud' between the two because of their similar costumes and abilities.
24 ꦚ Nail-ed it
Aaaaah! I am one of those people. Even imaging that sound makes my finger tips awkwardly tingle and the back of my neck tense up. Just writing about it is giving me that effect right now. And perhaps you 💯are experiencing the same sensations as you read this.
The Spanish have a word for this, “”. It generally means an unpleasant sensation, shivering, and repulsion in res𒐪ponse to certain stimuli. On the scale of emotional responses, it was𓃲 generally rated as being less pleasant than disgust.
Scientists have even studied this effect on humans noting that when volunteers where exposed to grima-eliciting sounds, their heart ra𓆏tes fell very 🌊slightly at first, then rose sharply, then returned to normal after about six seconds.
Can you imagine the grima inducing sound that Black Panther's vibranium claws would make on a chalkboard.
He'd have to do it oh-so-gently to avoid shre🐲dding that chalkboard like it was made of cheese. His claws are made of the same stuff that Captain America's shield is composed of, so you know they are, ah, tough as nails. While it is a ridiculous name for a metal, it's still way more belie✨vable than that 'unobtanium' James Cameron tried to sell us in Avatar.
23 🌄 The Killmonger Lego 𒊎Set
Spoiler alert. If you haven't seen the Black Panther movie, you most 💫definitely should. There is a reason it set box office records. The discussion might🍬 touch on some minor plot points from here, but I am going to assume you are a loyal Black Panther fan and have seen the movie. Twice. So you will most likely agree, Killmonger was one of the best characters in the Black Panther movie.
His character is complex and his backstory could be a Maury Povich special. His father S'Yan is the uncle of T'Challa, the current Black Panther, whose father, T'Chaka was the King of Wakanda before him. The Black Panther is a power bestowed upon the King of Wakanda, so there have been multiple Black Panthers. So when T'Chaka was eliminated, his son became The Black Panther. T'Challa was challenged by M'Baku at his celebration, who he defeated to solidify himself as the current Black Panther. Later int he movie, Killmonger challenges for the role and wins, becoming the third Balck Panther that we see o🀅n-screen.
As for the all the scars that Killꦬmonger wears, each representing one of his kills... yeah, they are actually little Lego stubs. You can build a Wakandan village on his chest.
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22 ♏ Spider teases the cat
Everyone knows that cats love to play with those little red laser pointers. The first time I saw this in effect, there were two you꧋ng kitties 🎃and one old cat. The two little ones were absolutely losing their little kitty minds over this red racing menace that had to be caught at all costs. The old one would watch intently, and every once-in-awhile, when the dot got close enough, he couldn't help himself and would give a little pounce and reach. He wouldn't muster up the energy to actually chase it around the room, but he was still completely fascinated.
My mom had a cat. It hated everybody but my mom. If you tried to give it love, it would hiss, howl, and smack you with its paw. Unless you had food. Then it would reluctantly let you pet it, but only as long as 🎶the food lasted. I suggested we get the ornery thing a laser pointer. So we got one and projected a little red dot unto the floor in front of the cat. The cat looked it,🌸 looked at us, back at the laser dot frantically zig-zagging in front of it. The cat turned around and walked into the the next room, completely unimpressed.
This comic deservedly mocks that cat.
21 Bad Kitty
Ah Deadpool, the clown prince of the super-hero world. Superheroes are not often known for their super-senses of humor. So anytime Deadpool is on the scene, it's a breath of sadistic fresh air. He is certain to bring a la⭕ugh while push꧒ing the boundaries of political correctness. Plus, I dig the 'kid-style' art approach to this one.
The water spray bottle is a cat-training technique that mos𓃲t are familiar with. However, and not surprisingly, using such negative deterrent systems to modify cat behavior. While the method of spraying your cat with water when it does something undesirable may seem like a fairly clear action-to-consequence event, one must remember that a cat doesn't have the ra꧋tionalization abilities of a human. They are just being a cat, doing cat-like things when all of a sudden, the person they trust most in the world pulls a dirty mean trick and soaks them with water.
Experts suggests addressing the problem by providing appropriate and non-destructive ways to address the cat's needs, along with positive reinforcement or passive deterrent systems. Experts also suggest you don't spray Black Panther in the face unless you a🌄re looking for a premature ending to your o🥀wn existence.
20 Than𓆏ks Rudyard Kipling 💟
The idea of mistaken ide𓃲ntity seems to run through a lot of The Black Pan🎶ther comics. While the character is wholly unique in certain aspects, there are elements of The Black Panther that are similar in appearance to other characters which leads to this running gag.
Here we have a Jungle Book cross-over, which makes total sense since Bagheera is also a black panther and a character in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book. The word '' is Hindu for 'black panther'. In the Kipling stories, he acts as friend, protector, and mentor to the man-cub Mowgli. His character is dark and complex with an interesting backstory that explains why the cat has such a special insight to the world of men. Boಌrn in captivity to one of the Raja, (a princely ruler) of India, the only to is Mowgli. “I had never seen the jungle. They fed me behind bars from an iron pan till one night I felt that I was Bagheera - the Panther - and no man's plaything, and I broke the silly lock with one blow of my paw and came away; and because I had learned the ways of men, I became more terrible in the jungle than Shere Khan.”
19 🦹 𒈔 Hulk feed kitty
Coming in as the most technically artistic entry on this list, the whole 'Hulk Feed Kitty' abstract is hilarious. The level of realistic detail is quite astounding. I am duly impressed that someone with this level of talenꦏt, sat around and dropped what, I am assuming, was a significant amount of effort into this visual gag.
There's just a level of 'go with it' that the artist is projecting upon any viewer of this piece. Not only i꧋s Hulk pointing at w♊here Black Panther is supposed to eat, because, y'know... he's a cat, he is visibly upset that the feline-man chose to eat at the table with the humans. Humans such as The Incredible Hulk who was probably Bruce Banner just moments before this scene took place. But he was so enraged at the concept of a cat eating at the table, he Hulk'd out and picked up Black Panther by the scruff. Poor BP still has his fork and spoon in hand.
That's what happens when you model your superhero self on an animal.
All the wise-guys will chime in with their oh-so-funny jokes. But when ꧋that wise-guy is an enraged green lunatic with severe radiation poisoning, maybe you just roll with it and eat from the bowl on the floor.
18 What kind of Batman 🍸 ꧒
You start to feel sorry for Black Panther after awhile. As cool as he is, i✤t seems he is forever in the shadow of his fashion frenemy 𒈔Batman. You can see why the jokes are made. They both have black-ish costumes. They are both quite rich, although Batman isn't King of Wakanda rich. Let's just say T'Challa could buy out the entirety of the Bruce Wayne fortune many thousands times over. That vibranium meteor that lies underneath Wakanda has made their King the richest super-hero in the Marvel universe. By far.
But yet, the compariso🧔ns persist. They both use their engineering skills to make really cool gadgets for their suits. They are both considered genius level smart. And both are martial arts experts. Although, in theory, Black Panther should wipe the floor with Batman at straight hand to hand combat due to his enhanced super-human abilities granted to him by a mystical flower.
Richer, tougher, faster, better in most ever measurable contest, yet who is the more popular superhero? Deadpool 🎶knows. Deadpool is kind of a jerk, though. Something that Deadpool also knows (and takes some degree of pride in). He is also smart enough to run away from Black Panther.
17 Kitties love boxes ജ
Kitties do love boxes. I've even seen displaying that curious behavior when presented✃ with a giant cardboard boಞx. Science has even examined this cat action and offered up an explanation. , science adviser for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, “Cats like boxes because they are cryptic animals; they like to hide. And a box gives them a place of safety and security."
It gives the cat a sense of having its flanks protected so nothing can sneak up on them.
Because your house is always so full꧟ of potential predators for your roving litter contaminator. It also gives their lazy butts a secure place to sleep, for like, 20 hours a day. Essentially, these hiding places let them see the world without being 'seen'. Even though every one knows the cat i𓆉s in the box. There was a physicist named Schrodinger who built a whole career around that concept.
So once again, The Black Panther falls victim to his own cat instincts. At least Iron Man still gives him the proper respect of addressing him as “Your Highness”. While he is safely tucked away in his little box. But look atꦰ how well his flanks are pr♔otected!
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16 ♕ ♉ Is That Batman?
This time it's Spider-Man asking the question that Black Panther gets sick of hearing. Iron-Man and Black Widow are thinking, “Oh here we go again”. That must be one of those 'touchy' subjects around yhe King of Wakanda. Like, when you have a friend that's going through a particularly rough break-up and before they enter a room, you warn everyone to “not mention his ex-girlfriend” because it just sets them off and the police are gonna get involved again. I picture the same thing happening when guests are being prepped to meet the King of Wakanda. His handlers brief all visitors with a speech that includes, “And if your highness thജe King is wearing his Black Panther jammies, do not, I repeat, DO NOT, make any Batman jokes. I assure you the King has heard them all and is quite tired of the comparison. Please keep your questions to a minimum and again, I cannot stress this enough... no Batman jokes.”
And then because the Black Panther has a wicked sense of hu🐟mor, he walks out wearing a full on Batman costume just to see if anyone mentions it. I'm not saying that actually happened in any movies or comic, but it should, because that's comedy gold right there.