@ATACXGYMCAPOEIRA

1 year ago

T'Challa should by rights be and remain the fastest "natural" non-mutant sprinter. Some of these posters below don't know that T'Challa has demonstrated hyperspeed in recent 616 comics lore...a very very rare bright spot during the time of the otherwise irredeemably trashtastic runs of Coates or Ridley... showing he can be at least as fast as Quicksilver over short distances.

T'Challa should ALSO be either the fastest swinging or the 2nd fastest swinging from line to line Avenger ( behind Spider-Man ) because brachiation is a vital survival "jungle skill" which was part and parcel of his original NON-SUPERPOWERED 616 abilities. During their first or one of their first team-ups, a fellow hero remarked upon how very fast and skilled T'Challa is when leaping and swinging from rooftop to rooftop in New York. T'Challa explained to...was it Daredevil? Spider-Man? Somebody...that in his native Wakanda, his brachiation skills were put to the ultimate test every day. Every. Single. Day. Since childhood. When asked about how that was possible, T'Challa pointed out that falling from skyscraper heights alone is fatal so the heroes of New York who did so had to develop truly extraordinary gocus, steel nerve, truly remarkable balance, reflexes, sharp vision quickness and pinnacle physical prowess.

Then T'Challa paused.

And said something like:"Imagine doing similar things since childhood, but you're negotiating heights from mountaintops far greater than any building. You're being pursued hostile enemies employing high tech radar and sonar detection, ultraviolet tracking devices, satellites ,and other technological tracking devices ( this was a reference to AIM, HYDRA, Cardinal Technologies, Kiber the Cruel, Roxxon Corporations, Doctor Doom and their ilk ). Imagine these malicious forces are aided in their hunt of you by packs of natural and supernatural flesh eating and soul possesing animals who track you not only by sight keener than any human but also by scent and infrared vision, but by means both of nature and of magic...and they're aided in such pursuit by temperamental tropical and oftentime hostile weather. Imagine this is the gauntlet you face daily since the age of six."

This is why I believe T'Challa to be the greatest non-superhuman acrobat in all of comics. Much greater than Nightwing (love him and who's my favorite DC guy btw ), Nightcrawler ( who's really dope and is by canon the Marvel acrobatics equivalent of Nightwing ), or even everyone's favorite wall-crawlers, any of the Spiders of The Spider-Verse.

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