Evidently, September 6, 2025, is Beard Day. Who knew? Geekly has celebrated lesser-known observances over the past couple of months, like Shark Day. Why not comic book beards? Sorry, but I couldn’t help but make the Beard Hunter our featured image. Tee hee. Hey, hey, Geekly Gang! Kyra Kyle here. JK Geekly has ignored the important topic of beards in comic books for too long. We aren’t talking about the best comic book characters who wear beards; that’d be a different list. No, we’ll try to break down the best beards. Let’s get to these glorious flavor savers.
5) Lobo
Typically, Lobo wears a mustache and mutton chops, which don’t qualify as a beard. I like it when Lobo sports a chin strap. He may always be the “Main Man,” but Lobo works best when he’s the “Mane Man.” What’s the point of surviving decapitation if you’re not sporting a yeard?
4) Maestro
I admit it. I’m partial to Maestro. If you can no longer grow hair on your scalp, grow it on your face. Like I used to say, it’s just one’s hair migrating south for the winter. Look at Maestro’s luxurious beard. You can’t deny how magnificent his chin curtain looks. I wonder if he’d let me run my fingers through his Grizzly Adams. You know what, no. I want to keep my hands.
3) Vandal Savage
Vandal Savage has lived for a long time. I mean a long time. Centuries. Millennia. Savage has sported various beards throughout the years. Like Lobo, he’s even gone with mutton chops, but those count as beards. Savage looks best when he lets his grizzle flow. Vandal Savage has earned every touch of gray.
2) Aquaman
Aquaman is another comic book character who doesn’t always wear a beard, but let’s face it, he looks tough with a beard. Aquaman’s abilities make him one of DC Comics’ most powerful heroes, but he often gets clowned. That ended when he sported a lumberjack. There’s something about Arthur’s hair, all of his hair, flowing under the sea. Aquaman’s anchor shows true grit.
1) Hercules
I almost went with Thor at this spot, but he’s another comic book character who isn’t always depicted with a beard. Instead, we’ll go with Marvel Comics’ Hercules, who rocked a hipster beard before it was cool. How long do you think it takes Hercules to topiarize that beard? Forget the muscles. You’ve got to give it up for a true beardionado.
I tried to put as many references to beards as I could in this post. Feel free to mention some of your favorite beard terms, and while you’re at it, add a few more comic book beards for this list. There are way too many great beards. Let’s share more hot fuzz. Happy Beard Day, Geekly Gang. Thank you for reading, and wherever you are, I hope you’re having a great day.
Happy Wednesday, Geekly Gang! Kyra Kyle here. For this week’s Whatcha, our Geekly writers will be sharing which games they’ve been playing over the past month. Let us know what games you’ve been playing, because we’re all part of the Geekly Gang. I’ll start by sharing the games I’ve been playing.
Kyra’s Games
Kyra’s Board Games
Phil Walker-Harding is known for Bärenpark, Gizmos, and Sushi Go!, and Super Mega Lucky Box is Walker-Harding’s twist on Bingo. Like many of Walker-Harding’s games, Super Mega Lucky Box is easy to learn but may take a few play-throughs to figure out the best strategy.
A deck of cards, containing two copies of numbers 1-9, is used to determine which box players may check off one of their multiple Bingo cards. (You begin the game with three.) As soon as you fill a column or row, you immediately claim the reward (if any), shown at the end of that column or row. Lightning bolts allow you to change the number on the card, so typically, you’re not stuck with a number you can’t use. Stars grant you victory points. Super Mega Lucky Box rewards players who can manage their resources (lightning bolts and rewards) and who know when to manipulate their Bingo cards and rewards to great effect.
A Mensa 2022 Select recipient, Super Mega Lucky Box encourages creative thinking. The game’s variability ensures no two games play the same.
Wazabi spelled with a “Z,” not an “S,” is–essentially–a dice version of Uno. Players begin the game with four dice, and they attempt to rid themselves of their dice. Each die has three possible results, give a die to another player, draw a card, and a W (more sides have W than the other two), which is the currency needed to play a card from your hand. During a turn, a player rolls the dice, follows the directions on the dice, and can play one card that they can afford. Cards cost 1, 2, or 3 W.
Wazabi can be fun, but it suffers from the same shortcomings as Uno, only you’re adding dice (another variation of luck) to the mix. Games of Wazabi can–and should–end in less than ten minutes, but typically, you’ll end up with a stalemate with players trading dice and cards back and forth for about twenty to thirty minutes. Still, I can see the appeal of Wazabi. It adds a little spice to Uno’s gameplay.
One of my game group members hates trick-taking games. He shall remain nameless. Anyway, this trick-taking game hater hasn’t shown up to meetings over the past month, so we’ve been playing a ton of trick-taking games: Little Devils, The Bottle Imp, Cat in the Box, and Squeeze.
I won’t go over all of these games, but I enjoyed each one. I like having a theme for game night. Quick. So-and-so isn’t here, let’s play games they hate playing. Each of these trick-taking games are nasty in their own way. The Bottle Imp requires the most replays to wrap your brain around what’s happening, although Cat in the Box isn’t too far off in that regard. Little Devils is the easiest to explain (we’ll have a review of that game in a couple of months), and it happens to be the meanest of the three non-traditional card games. But Squeeze (played with a traditional deck of cards) may be the most mean-spirited.
Players begin Squeeze with ten cards. The top card of the deck denotes which suit is trump for the round. The person to the dealer’s left makes their bid, and then everyone else makes a bid. When the bidding makes its way to the dealer, the dealer can only choose a number that doesn’t equal the total number of cards in hand.
For example, during the first round of a three-player game, if the first player says “3” and the second player says “4,” the dealer can say any number other than “3,” which would equal ten (3+4+3 = 10).
At least one person is guaranteed to miss their bid each round, hence the name Squeeze. “Zero” is a legal bid, so long as it wouldn’t equal the number of cards in play. Players earn ten points plus their bid if they achieve their bid, and get nothing for missing their bid. Play continues like this until a dealer deals only one card during a round. You don’t want to be the dealer during the final round. You may not have a choice of bid. Yikes!
My favorite thing about Squeeze is that you get less knowledge of what’s in players’ hands the longer you play. I may be the only one with trump for the round, but my trump cards are two and three. I’ve bid one and ended up getting a lot more tricks than one. Lol
Kyra’s Video Games
I won’t go into too much detail with Tiny Bookshop; this game will definitely make Season’s list, too. Geekly covered Tiny Bookshop during one of our Geekly News posts. In short, Tiny Bookshop is an excellent, cozy game and will probably receive a game review sometime in early 2026. I love making book suggestions for customers. Tiny Bookshop is one of the few video games that offer reading recommendations. What’s not to love?
I like auto battlers. My favorite is the now-defunct Fate Arena, so I’ve been looking for a worthy replacement. I’ve put in a handful of hours with Mirror Throne, and it’s most likely not going to be my Fate Arena replacement. Mirror Throne doesn’t appear to have balanced abilities for its characters. I could be wrong. But I did run the table with one or two overly strong units during the game’s campaign. Mirror Throne only offers two factions (technically, a third that’s a mix of the other two), so gameplay styles are limited. But Mirror Throne has room for improvement.
While I’d like a more robust campaign mode, Mirror Throne needs to fix its competitive (Arena) mode. I dislike how I don’t know who I’m in a lobby with, and that I have no idea what kind of teams they’re building. That’s something Fate Arena handled beautifully. I want to know my competition. Instead, I’m given randos who may be bots.
Fate Arena also had bots, but you’d get an idea of who the bots were, and they didn’t dominate lobbies. I also wonder about leavers. Fate Arena would backfill leavers with bots; leavers were the main reason for bots in Fate Arena. Mirror Throne may suffer from leavers who only purchase one unit and duck the game. I can easily roll them.
I’ve played Mirror Throne after its first major update, and I still don’t know what’s going on during Arena mode. Hope is the currency needed to stay in the game (you begin a game with 100), and sometimes when I lose, I’ll lose 5 or 10 Hope, but other times it’s a whopping 25. What determines the amount of lost Hope? Mirror Throne is needlessly opaque.
Mirror Throne also matches me against opponents I may never see again in the lobby. I’m unable to build up a rivalry with any opponent. Mirror Throne has just been released, but it needs to iron out a lot of kinks. Fingers crossed.
That’s all I have for games this past month. Let’s see what Season and Skye have been playing.
Season’s Games
season’s board games
It’s been a minute since I last included a board game on this list. I originally played Just One at a going-away party with a former coworker years ago, but it’s recently hit the table again. Just One is a simple game that has the active player draw a card (without looking at the underside) and select a number (1 through 5). Each number has a word next to it. The rest of the players use their whiteboard standees to write one word that describes the word from the list the active player chose. Players reveal the descriptive words they chose to each other (without the active player looking), and if any words match, the players with matching words have to erase their whiteboards. The active player gets one chance to guess the word they picked.
I don’t remember how many rounds are supposed to be played. Whenever I play, my group plays until we burn out on guessing words.
Travel-sized Scattergories makes a comeback. We’ve covered SiXeS before, so I won’t go into too much detail. The gist of SiXeS is writing thirty-six words over six rounds in six minutes. Each round has a different category (or categories for Lightning rounds that occur every third round), which players either try to match words with each other or be unique. In rounds one and four, players are trying to match every word. In rounds two and five, players are trying to have different words. In rounds three and six, players are trying to match in six different categories with one word per category (Lightning rounds). Each round is timed for a minute, and players read their lists aloud once the timer is up.
I love games that let me flex useless knowledge. I always have a good time whenever SiXeS hits the table.
season’s video games
I’ve gone with another tabletop game in video game form with this month’s Inscryption. Inscryption is a rogue-like deck-building game that combines role-playing with escape room elements. You can get up from the table and explore the room around you for clues. Some of the puzzles offer the player cards to help them progress through the game. Not much is explained about your character (player piece) in the game, other than animals randomly start following you as you trek through the woods.
Your starting deck has three cards and a squirrel deck (which players may use as sacrifices). You collect cards and build your deck as you progress across the map. Every time you fail, you must start over with the same starting deck and build your deck from the ground up. You’ll start to notice something peculiar about one of the cards in your starting deck. I won’t go into further detail.
Inscryption incorporates an ARG (Alternate Reality Game) through some of its Easter eggs. An ARG is a code, link, or something else within a piece of content that connects the consumer to go into the real world to discover more lore. In Inscryption, several binary codes are scattered throughout the game, connecting players to external sources and providing context on fictional entities within the game. It’s fun for those who like a bit of sleuthing.
That’s all I’ve for this week. What have you been playing, Skye?
Skye’s Games
I made an important realization this month. If I get into a game, I really get into it. Case in point: Horizon: Zero Dawn. I hadn’t played Horizon: Zero Dawn before, and I was looking for another RPG. After finishing Ghost of Tsushima months ago, Horizon: Zero Dawn has filled that void. My favorite aspect of Horizon is exploration. I always love running around to the farthest reaches of an open-world game’s map and stretching the limits of what I can do. You can’t tell me what to do, game! I do what I want!
I got the random urge to play Don’t Starve again. What sets Don’t Starve apart from most other survival games is its tendency to throw random things at you without warning. You suddenly come across a new biome you’ve never seen and get killed by a subterranean tentacle. You’re barely managing to scrape by when a pack of wild dogs comes out of nowhere and mauls you to death. I still don’t have an ideal strategy, but Don’t Starve is an enigma I’m willing to spend my time. I forgot how much I love Don’t Starve.
Kyra Kyle again. Those are all the games our writers have played this past month. Let us know which games you’ve played over the past month, Geekly Gang. Thank you for reading, and wherever you are, I hope you’re having a great day.
Happy Labor Day for those of you who celebrate and have the day off. For those of you who don’t celebrate Labor Day or have to work in an office environment, you can secretly play plenty of video games at work. Hey, hey! Kyra Kyle here. We will be a little naughty with today’s list in honor of Labor Day and share five great video games you can secretly play at work.
Never mind that the first board games I designed were solo-player games that fit inside school folders and could be played in the middle of class. I would never condone playing video games while at work. Wink, wink.
5: Desktop Tower Defense
We’re kicking this list off old school. The tower defense genre is crazy popular. One of the genre’s first breakout hits was the 2007 Flash game, Desktop Tower Defense. This browser game was my introduction to the tower defense video game genre. Even though I never played Desktop Tower Defense while at work (yeah, right), the game scores extra points for recreating the aesthetics of an office desktop. That’s the trick to games one can play while at work. They need to be easily concealed, like in a school folder.
Like the name implies, players must set up tower defenses to prevent enemies called “Creeps” from reaching portions of the playfield. Desktop Tower Defense further differentiates itself from competitors by using mazes as a game mechanism. Rather than players being at the mercy of the Creeps moving in a predetermined path, players created paths for the enemies to travel. So, while Desktop Tower Defense may have found an early audience by being easy to conceal at work, its unique maze mechanism made it more than just a “game you can play at work.” Desktop Tower Defense is a good game. It even earned a port for the Nintendo DS.
4: GeoGuessr
GeoGuessr uses Google Maps to make an interesting game. GeoGuessr is another browser game, which will be a trend because we’re trying not to get caught playing video games at work. When players load into GeoGuessr, they’ll receive a random street view. The player must use their surroundings to figure out where they are. It’s like Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?, only you’re Carmen Sandiego and you don’t know where you are.
Google is ubiquitous in workplaces, so it’s easy to load up a game of GeoGuessr without raising suspicions. The game can be played without time limits, which makes it a casual game, and players can play GeoGuessr in between other tasks. If you want to work, you can. GeoGuessr is also a great way to figure out where you want to take your next vacation or holiday. You’re being productive.
3: Arena XLSM
Arena XLSM may do a better job than Desktop Tower Defense at pretending to be work. In fact, Arena XLSM is a free RPG made in Microsoft Excel. It works in Excel’s 2007, 2010, and 2013 versions, but hasn’t yet been updated for later versions. Like all good RPGs, Arena XLSM is story-driven. The player has been captured after rebelling against an emperor. He’s imprisoned in the titular arena and must fight waves of enemies to survive. Arena XLSM features thousands of enemies and a story told through notes the player receives from their wife, leading to several possible endings.
I was tempted to put Arena XLSM higher on this list, but the game’s availability knocks it down a spot or two. If your company’s PC runs older versions of Windows and the Microsoft Office suite of products, you may be in luck.
2: Paperclips
Oh, ho ho! Paperclips is yet another video game masquerading as work. Except for one other game on this list (our top spot), Paperclips may be the best video game to disguise itself as work. Also known as Universal Paperclips, Paperclips is a clicker game that looks like a calculator program. Clicker games may not be my first choice, but they can have a lot of complexity. After clicking a button to create a paperclip, the player gains the ability to automate, and then they can focus on resource allocation. Resource allocation is what makes clicker games so addictive. Paperclips is a ton of fun and happens to look like something you may have on your computer screen while working. Those numbers aren’t going to click themselves.
1: Leadership
Leadership takes our top spot because it’s the sneakiest.If you couldn’t tell by now, I love it when video games one secretly plays at work are disguised. Leadership looks like a boring line graph, but look closely, and you’ll find a tiny spaceship between the lines. Leadership is a secret lunar lander clone from a group of Danish developers. Leadership must be fun because Danish people tend to be voted the happiest. Just saying. During Leadership, players must guide their spacecraft from point A to point B, and they have a set amount of fuel to reach their goal.
Like other games on this list, Leadership is a browser game, so it’s easy to conceal. But Leadership’s appeal runs deeper than its skin. It’s another fun game. There’s even a leaderboard. You can compete with fellow slackers, I mean, otherwise motivated people from around the world.
That’s our list. I would include more, but I had a lot of other “research” I needed to conduct. Pay no attention to the line graph on my computer. What video games do you like to “not play at work?” Let us know in the comments. Thank you for reading, and wherever you are, I hope you’re having a great day.
Happy Sunday, Geekly Gang! Kyra Kyle here with another week of Geek News. We have several new releases for video games and board games, but before we get to those, the MCU made a somewhat major announcement: they’ve started work on their version of the X-Men. Okay. The MCU was going to begin work on the X-Men within the next year, so this may not be the biggest of headlines, but this could lead to future headlines.
The MCU Begins Work on X-Men
Thunderbolts* may not have done as well at the box office as the MCU had hoped, but it was a great recent entry for the MCU. The Thunderbolts*’s director, Jake Schreier, proved he could handle the quirky and dysfunctional family dynamics of the New Avengers. He even explored the team’s mutual trauma and had them bond. Marvel agrees with me. Early this year, Marvel Studios gave Jake Schreier the nod as the upcoming X-Men movie’s director, meaning Marvel’s mutants are in good hands. In a recent interview with Empire Magazine (via Deadline), X-Men director Jake Schreier confirmed he’s already working on X-Men.
Schreier doesn’t elaborate on his statement, so we don’t have much to glean from what he said. He literally said work on X-Men has begun. Okay. Looks like we may need to extrapolate. That’s right. Buckle up, because we’re flooring the gas pedal into MCU speculation territory.
Early this month, we mentioned an unnamed MCU movie scheduled between the two upcoming Avengers movies (Doomsday and Secret Wars). I stand by our reasons for the MCU films we thought could be released between Doomsday and Secret Wars: Deadpool 4, Black Panther 3, Blade, and Doctor Strange 3. Schreier mentioned X-Men would begin filming next year. Taking recent MCU production practices into advisement, this could add X-Men to the list of possible movies to fill the “unnamed MCU” film slot. But I’m reluctant to add X-Men.
The X-Men will need more build-up than a standard MCU film production. While I’m excited for an X-Men MCU film, my enthusiasm rises with the thought that X-Men will receive an additional year of filming, ensuring the film is the best it can be. X-Men will have too much going on for a quick year-and-a-half turnaround. That production schedule may work for Thunderbolts*, not X-Men. Asking the MCU to squeeze in an X-Men movie between Avengers: Doomsday and Secret Wars is a huge ask.
However, we should expect X-Men casting news to heat up in 2026. Until now, we’ve had mostly speculation. Geekly even did our own fan casting for the MCU’s X-Men. But that’s what most “X-Men Casting” has been to this point, fan casting. With Scheier’s announcement, X-Men will begin filming in 2026, and casting rumors will be more than speculation. I’ll be on the lookout for trusted industry insiders (like Daniel RPK, who has a great track record with MCU casting news) to report on potential X-Men cast members. In short, if we see someone consistently cast in a role for months by a trusted industry insider, there’s a great chance the actor has been cast for the role. This is the time for X-Men rumors to boil.
Stay tuned. 😉
Transecopia Emerges on GameFound
Transecopia adds hidden placement to the dice placement mechanism. Turns go quick with simultaneous play, and multiple win conditions keep the game fresh and exciting. I’m unsure of Transecopia’s theme, but I imagine it has to do with underwater exploration, based on the game’s artwork. Since I’m unsure exactly what you’re doing, I’ll be focusing on the gameplay, which looks fantastic. Transecopia has a relatively simple concept. Players simultaneously roll dice so everyone can see. Then, everyone places screens in front of their player boards and begins placing dice.
Player boards are resolved in areas, positioned top to bottom and left to right. Whoever has the highest value of dice located in each area, earns the resources from that area. Like I said, Transecopia has a simple concept, but you’ll need to outthink your opponents. Armed with the knowledge of what everyone rolled during the round, you can take educated guesses to where you think your opponents will place their dice. The big reveal is a blast and bound to yield audible responses.
Harness the unique strengths and skills of your people in the robust kingdom builder, The Gilded Realms. Armed with their own factions, players compete to defend and fortify the crucial region, The Pristine Mountains. The Gilded Realms offers a lot of customization to each game. Faction upgrades come in handy as you try to build the best empire.
The Gilded Realms offers a ton in its box. This second printing, offered on GameFound, features a new expansion for an extra wrinkle. The Gilded Realms has received great reviews. It offers an intriguing hybrid of simultaneous and turn-based gameplay. Again, The Gilded Realms is on GameFound, so we have little information on how much a pledge will cost. My guess would be in the triple figures, over a $100. You’d be getting a lot of game at that price. If you’re interested in The Gilded Realms, check out its GameFound page.
Airport Empire Lands on KickStarter
Who hasn’t wanted to run their own airport? Airport Empire puts you in charge of a small airstrip and tasks you with building it into an airport empire. Events occur to keep you on your toes. You can buy upgrades to expand your tiny airstrip to an airport. The airport pieces look great. But watch out. You must meet your needs to upkeep your growing business.
You score points in three categories: customer satisfaction, profits, and efficiencies. I love Airport Empire’s example of “an air traffic control tower is great to improve efficiency, but does little to improve your bottom line, where as maintenance hangars brings in revenue but go unnoticed by passengers.” I’m wondering if you don’t “need” these structures to run your airport. That’ll be fun. The player with the most points at the end of the game wins.
I like that Airport Empire keeps each version the same. Too many board game campaigns offer varied game experiences with deluxe versions of the same game. And Airport Empire offers plenty of pledge options, ranging from $49-95. That’s a good range for what appears to be a middle-weight game. If you’re interested in Airport Empire, you can check out its KickStarter page.
Kirby and the Forgotten Land – Star-Crossed World Expansion and Switch 2 Upgrade Released
Kirby and the Forgotten Land was–and still is–a great three-year-old platformer. Kirby gets his time for a Switch 2 upgrade, but this upgrade comes with an expansion, Star-Crossed World. The 12 new levels add some interesting twists to the fun formula. Hilarious Mouthful Mode transformations and the levels themselves make Star-Crossed World a worthy addition. I am a little worried by the Switch 2 upgrades. Switch 2 upgrades should be free if players already purchased the game for the Nintendo Switch, but this upgrade does come with an expansion. Upgrading Kirby and the Forgotten Land from Switch to Switch 2 does give you the Star-Crossed World expansion. This may be an adequate middle ground.
That’s all the geek news we have for you this week. Thank you for reading, and wherever you are, I hope you’re having a great day.
Eyes of Wakanda continues its run this month, so we’re celebrating by recounting the greatest Black Panther villains. Hey, hey! Kyra Kyle here. We’ve done the Top 5 villain treatment to several Marvel and DC Comics heroes. It’s only fitting that Black Panther receives his Top 5 Villains.
Honorable Mention: Ulysses Klaw
I feel like we have an honorable mention a lot in these lists, but Ulysses Klaw makes this list in this manner for a reason. He’s a Marvel Universe villain more than just a Black Panther villain. Sure, his origin has Wakandan roots, but Klaw has often battled the Fantastic Four and Avengers. Everyone should fear the man with a body of pure sound.
5: Achebe
Achebe is the Joker to Black Panther’s Batman. Little is known about Achebe, only rumors. The most persistent of these rumors is that Achebe was once a Ghudazan farmer who helped rebel guerrillas from the neighboring country of Ujanka. He helped nurse the fighters back to health, but his wife fell in love with the rebel leader, and the rebels repaid his kindness by stabbing him 32 times, razing his farm, and taking his wife. What is known is that Achebe made a deal with Mephisto and serves as an emissary of Marvel’s version of the Devil. Achebe is ruthless, unpredictable, and a constant thorn in Black Panther’s side.
4: T’Channa
T’Channa is T’Challa’s sister in an alternate universe (Earth-2301). She and her siblings were beaten (she implies brutally) by T’Challa in a contest for Wakanda’s throne. As a result, she left Wakanda for Latveria, where she joined forces with Victor von Doom, until she became strong enough to overtake him as the new Doctor Doom. Honestly, I wouldn’t mind seeing T’Channa’s Doom in an upcoming Marvel project. She blends Wakanda’s technology with the magic she learned from Victor von Doom to become a menace, not just to T’Challa, but to the entire world.
3: White Wolf
Hunter is T’Challa’s adopted brother. The two were close as children. They even competed in childish games like footraces. But Hunter was born a foreigner from the African nation Mohannda. He was the sole survivor of a plane crash before T’Chaka, T’Challa’s father, adopted him. Hunter doesn’t look like other Wakandans. He has light skin. When he was young, Hunter was the Wakandan envoy to European nations because he looked like them. This othered Hunter from his fellow Wakandans. Eventually, Ulysses Klaw killed T’Chaka and Ramonda (Hunter’s adoptive parents), and he was orphaned again. Hunter blamed T’Challa for his problems and sought revenge against Klaw. He strives to make the country of his birth, Mohannda, as technologically advanced as Wakanda. Hunter’s nationalism often puts him at odds with T’Challa.
The Winter Soldier has been nicknamed White Wolf in the MCU, so it’s unknown if a White Wolf will make an appearance. Fingers crossed that he will.
2: Erik Killmonger
Born N’Jadaka, Killmonger needs little introduction. Portrayed by Michael B. Jordan, he exploded on the screen in the original Black Panther movie. Killmonger is a Wakandan exile and vows to take the Black Panther mantle. He often challenges T’Challa to ritual combat. Even when he dies, he finds ways to return. One of his most recent reanimations came in the form of an alien symbiote (like Venom). N’Jadaka will never rest until he’s taken his rightful place on Wakanda’s throne. Death can’t even stop him.
1: M’Baku/Man-Ape
M’Baku’s alias Man-Ape has gone out of favor for obvious reasons. It’s problematic. While the MCU has mostly shown M’Baku as one of T’Challa’s allies, he rarely ends up on the same side as the Black Panther. While T’Challa controls the Panther cult, M’Baku is head of the Gorilla cult (hence his alias Man-Ape). In the comics, M’Baku detests Wakanda’s technological revitalization. He seeks to outlaw technology and return the nation to its mystical roots. Often, M’Baku will use greater conflicts to undermine Wakandan leadership. He’s cunning and willing to ally himself with anyone he thinks will grow his standing within Wakanda. Occasionally, that will be Black Panther. But often, he’ll choose Black Panther’s opposition.
I’d love to see Winston Duke’s M’Baku receive more shine in the MCU. I also like how the MCU changed his alias to Great Gorilla. That works.
Did we get the list right? Let us know who you would add or remove in the comments. And wherever you are, I hope you’re having a great day.
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