Black Panther has been getting some well-deserved popularity these past few weeks since the
MCU film dropped at the end of January this year.
But he’s been a beloved character for long before that, and, as we examined in our part
one of this list, he’s gotten the alternate treatment like many other iconic superheroes
and villains in both the Marvel and DC universes.
So today we’re adding ten more awesome editions to our list with the top 10 alternate versions
of Black Panther part 2!
This time around, there’s a few sillier versions, but fear not, we have some pretty
epic ones too.
Including a certain Black Panther alternate that made an appearance on our previous thumbnail.
10 Black Panther – TRN654 Continuing where we left off last list, let’s
take a look at another vemonized hero – this time around the Black Panther of Earth TRN654,
from the 2017 Venomverse vol 1 issue 1.
The Venomverse story, which felt eerily similar to what Marvel had done with the Spider-Verse
event, starts off with Eddie Brock being dragged into an alternate universe where fellow Venoms
are all fighting for their survival together.
It includes the likes of many Marvel venomized heroes, including Black Panther, whose suit
is a slick combination of T’Challa’s usual mixed with some symbiote sleekness.
He’s part of Doctor Strange’s Resistance, and was pulled from another universe where
he was taking part in a global peace submit.
By the end of issue 5, he’s returned back to his own universe, as are most of the other
members of the resistance.
9 A-Babies vs X-Babies Black Panther (Earth 71912)
If you’re unfamiliar with the A-Babies vs X-Babies, let me take this moment to read
you the preface in the comic.
“The book you’re about to read doesn’t really have anything to do with the AvX event,
but it does have baby versions of the Avengers and X-Men fighting each other.
So, yeah, you’re buying a book where babies fight babies.
What does that say about you?”
Perhaps THE CUTEST alternate version on this list, Baby Black Panther is part of the A-Babies,
who are called into action when Cyclops steals Captain America’s Bucky Bear.
Black Panther, who is dating Storm at the time, decides to skip out on the battle and
go on a date with his lady instead, but that’s interrupted when Daredevil, Bucky Bear in
hand, busts through them while being chased by Cyclops.
8 Black Panda Black Panda is part of the Spider Ham universe,
or rather, Earth 8311 aka Larval Earth.
He first appears in Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham #15, and is a part of the Scavengers
team.
Cute.
This was part of a 17 issue run that initially began as a one shot humour comic book called
Marvel Tails Starring Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham #1 in 1983, and featured all anthropomorphic
animals replacing the regular human Marvel characters, with of course a focus on Peter
Parker.
Who was now a pig.
Rather than a panther, T’Challa was turned into a panda.
7 Marvel Vs Capcom: Infinite Venturing from panels over to consoles, T’Challa’s
Black Panther makes an appearance in Marvel Vs Capcom: Infinite, voiced by James C Mathis
III.
His story is altered slightly – he rules the kingdom of Valkanda, and uses the Time
Stone of the Infinity Gems to protect it.
The reasoning behind this is because the Marvel universe has been combined with the Capcom
one, with this being a combination of Wakanda and Val Habar from Monster Hunter 4.
6 Lego Black Panther Like every other superhero, Black Panther
has been transformed into a Lego version of himself.
He appears in multiple Lego games, including Lego Marvel Super Heroes 1 and 2, and the
Civil War DLC in Lego Marvel’s Avengers.
He even has a pet cat named Mr Tiddles that appears in Super Heroes and in the Hub Areas
of Marvel’s Avengers.
5 Ghost Panther – Earth 161 If you watched part one of our list, you’ll
remember how we discussed a version of Black Panther from Earth 161 that was tricked by
Storm – or rather, an evil clone of Storm – the two were married, and on their wedding
night, he was murdered by Killmonger under her orders, along with the rest of the royal
family.
Worth noting that she also killed Killmonger after he was done.
The whole thing was a ruse to get the people of Wakanda to trust her so she could take
over as their Queen.
The character would later be defeated by the original Storm, who became known as the Ghost
Panther.
The original Stom had undergone a transmodification process where her adult memories would be
removed and put into storage.
Tony Stark would then try to release her back into a physical form, but that caused her
body to separate from her memories and energy state – the memories and energy state would
take the form of Ghost Panther after Stark gave her a suit that looked like the Black
Panther’s.
She would eventually rule over Wakanda in the evil clone’s place.
This Black Panther is a part of the Marvel 2099 continuity - an imprint that started
in 1992 that was initially intended to be one possible future for the Marvel Universe,
and provided futuristic takes on various Marvel characters.
Thandaza was once a black panther, a descent of T’Challa’s and a former Black Panther.
But back to that in a second - in the future, Wakanda has been severely weakened, and it’s
princess, Okusana is about to take the throne.
She goes to 2099’s Doctor Doom to seek help, requesting that he resurrects her grandfather
Thandaza.
Doom does it, out of respect of T’Challa, and resurrects him, but the current panther
guard, Mkhalali, attacks Thandaza thinking that his resurrection is some sort of abomination,
which interrupts his calibration and leaves him in a constant state of pain and madness.
This of course results in a rampage, leading Doom to kill Thandaza and put him out of his
misery.
3 Marvel Knights 2099 Speaking of the Marvel 2099, one of the off
shoots of that was Marvel Knights 2099, a fifth week event that took place on Earth
2992, and weren’t tied to the main Marvel 2099 continuity.
It featured a new Black Panther, the son of T’Challa named K’Shamba, who rose to fight
the mounting invasions by the successor of Doom.
Unfortunately, despite being victorious, it was revealed that K’Shamba was actually
a puppet of Doom in the long run.
He’s also ridiculously ripped.
2 Exiles Panther of Earth 1119 Known simply as Panther, this character is
T’Challa & Storm’s son, named T’Chaka after his grandfather.
In contrast to his father’s personality, he’s always cracking jokes, and is quite
flirtatious and flippant.
He spent a lot of his youth in America, and when his father retired from the role when
he was 20, he stepped up, alongside his robotic lion, L-10.
He’s also a member of the Exiles, being recruited to the team after he was blasted
out of his dimension after an encounter with Ulysses Klaw.
1 Mangaverse Black Panther Ending off this list with one of the coolest
alternate versions of Black Panther – and one of the ones that was featured in our last
thumbnail, derp! – is the Mangaverse Black Panther.
Appearing in Marvel Magnaverse Vol 2, T’Challa has a pet panther that he combines with to
become the Black Panther.
Kind of like a were-panther.
But that’s not the only transformation he has up his sleeve - he also has the ability
to turn into a falcon.
If all of that seems a little odd to you, turns out there’s actually a somewhat logical
reason to his plethora of abilities.
The character is largely inspired by the Egyptian god Horus, and is a combination of both Black
Panther and Falcon from the mainstream Marvel continuity.
If that wasn’t enough for you, in addition to that, rather than having Shuri for a sister,
he has T’Channa, who just so happens to be Earth 2301’s Doctor Doom.
There we have it friends!
Out of our two lists, which is your favourite alternate version of Black Panther?
Mine’s definitely the Earth X one.
Who doesn’t love a good anthropomorphic panther?
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