WAKANDA VERSUS DOCTOR DOOM
When Doctor Doom set his sights on Wakanda, the Fantastic Four helped T’Challa and his sister, Shuri, take on their nemesis. Doom’s first attack put T’Challa in a coma, so Shuri took on the mantle of Black Panther and became Wakanda’s leader. To destabilize things further, the Latverian monarch manipulated Shuri and Namor into fighting one another. The Fantastic Four broke up the ensuing fight and helped defend Wakanda against Doom’s forces in BLACK PANTHER (2009) #11 by Jonathan Maberry, Ken Lashley, and Paul Renaud.
While the heroes won that battle, they had yet to win the war. Doom overthrew Wakanda’s government to steal Wakanda’s vibranium and increase his mystical powers in DOOMWAR (2010) #1 by Maberry and Scot Eaton. Shuri enlisted the Fantastic Four into the war, with Reed and a now-recovered T’Challa developing a way to track vibranium. As the war ensued, the Fantastic Four, the Dora Milaje, and Wakanda’s warriors fought Doom’s forces all over the world.
Against Reed’s advice, T’Challa used shadow physics, an experimental field that merged science with ancient Wakandan magic, to throw Doom off balance. Although Doom built a vibranium armor, T’Challa defeated him by rendering Wakanda’s vibranium inert. As Wakanda recovered from the conflict, the Fantastic Four assisted their friends in starting the rebuilding process.
