Is it The End for Storm and Black Panther?

[RLAAMJR.]

From Avengers vs X-Men # 2.

I actually don't like how their conversation went because it's not on their character to talk that way. I don't think they'll even risk their marriage just because of this event.

 

[Captain Marvel]

I read that, and wow, what a ****** comic. Not only is it terrible, but I really do get the feeling that Marvel writers nowadays don't seem to have ever read any Marvel Comics.

 

[WolfCypher]

The divorce is going to be as forced as the marriage was, so I'm not not NOT surprised by that panel or its writing.

Didn't Storm & Cyclops kiss recently?

 

[Union Jack]

i never really like storm so aren't really fussed.
is panther powered back up again?..i like panther,storm seemed too full of her own importance all the time,never liked her since i first read her..in fact the x-men as a whole seem kinda off nowadays.. except wolverine..he's with the big boy avengers now.

 

[Harlekin]

I was never a fan of them getting married, but breaking them up now would be ridiculous. They've been together for only a few years and have done pretty much nothing together except join the Fantastic Four. If you want to divorce them, at least have a few meaningful arcs of them together. Now it's just a waste.

And yes, the writing in that scene is horrendous.

 

[hippie_hunter]

I hope that Marvel ends the Storm/Black Panther marriage. It was one of the worst things they've ever done in recent history. And I hope it's done as shoddily as their marriage was.

 

[Mad Ones]

It would greatly benefit both characters if they got a divorce. I can't even belief how Storm has been treated the past few years

 

[Mulholland-Jr]

I personally wouldn't. I wasn't against their marriage, but its obvious that they had no idea what to do with it, and their characters became boring. They need to work on making them matter.

 

[spiderbob]

Forgive my ignorance on the matter, but why did they get married in the first place, exactly? I don't recall them having much significant interaction prior to their marriage that would warrant the union, but then my history on the two characters is rather weak.
I know they've been married for a while but I don't remember anything of merit coming out of it (plus, didn't Scott and Storm kiss in a recent issue?)

 

[Manic]

They can't get a divorce! Why, that would only age the characters! Clearly, the most obvious option is for them to make a deal with some sort of devil figure who will save the life of a mutual loved one and remold the world around them, asking only for the documentation of their love affair in exchange because that's somehow equivalent.

 

[spiderbob]

t:

All the while promoting it as the responsible thing to do.

 

[JewishHobbit]

Or they can have an affair on each other and then Storm die and nudge Panther to makeout with his fling on Storm's freshly dug grave

 

[hippie_hunter]

Forgive my ignorance on the matter, but why did they get married in the first place, exactly? I don't recall them having much significant interaction prior to their marriage that would warrant the union, but then my history on the two characters is rather weak.
I know they've been married for a while but I don't remember anything of merit coming out of it (plus, didn't Scott and Storm kiss in a recent issue?)

In Hudlin's run on Black Panther, relationships that T'Challa had were based on skin color, not actual genuine interactions.

 

[Harlekin]

Eh, they had been lovers as teens and when Storm showed up during Priest's run, it was obvious that there was still a great deal of attraction and love there.

 

[hippie_hunter]

Eh, they had been lovers as teens

You mean from a retcon mini to try and promote the Storm/Black Panther marriage?

Asides from that, the only time they had interaction as teens was from one issue of Marvel Team-Up.

and when Storm showed up during Priest's run, it was obvious that there was still a great deal of attraction and love there.

She showed up in a grand total of how many issues in 60+ issue run on the book?

 

[Mulholland-Jr]

It's not like they'd make them more interesting if they broke up. I say just work on making them interesting... flesh out their characters. Marriage should evolve their personalities.

 

[Raiden]

Everyone in the MU should wake up like in an episode of Dallas and discovered that BP and Storm's marriage was just a dream, nothing more. The way that Marvel treats this marriage, they might as well never gotten married in the first place anyway.

 

[hippie_hunter]

It's not like they'd make them more interesting if they broke up. I say just work on making them interesting... flesh out their characters. Marriage should evolve their personalities.

By breaking them up, they won't be tied to something that was horrifically contrived. It's like you said, marriage should flesh out characters. But when there is no real reason for these characters to be married except for their skin color, there really is nothing to flesh out.

Typically when comic book characters get married they should have a long standing basis for it like Spider-Man and Mary Jane, Superman and Lois Lane, Wally West and Linda Park, Reed Richards and Sue Storm, Cyclops and Jean Grey, and so on.

 

[WolfCypher]

Everyone in the MU should wake up like in an episode of Dallas and discovered that BP and Storm's marriage was just a dream, nothing more. The way that Marvel treats this marriage, they might as well never gotten married in the first place anyway.

Can I use my Dallas-scenario to undo Sins Pasts instead? And the bringing back of Harry Osborn??

 

[vindrow]

To be honest...I don't care how forced the divorce is as long as they get it. It was a rediculous marriage to begin with.

 

[Mulholland-Jr]

By breaking them up, they won't be tied to something that was horrifically contrived. It's like you said, marriage should flesh out characters. But when there is no real reason for these characters to be married except for their skin color, there really is nothing to flesh out.

Typically when comic book characters get married they should have a long standing basis for it like Spider-Man and Mary Jane, Superman and Lois Lane, Wally West and Linda Park, Reed Richards and Sue Storm, Cyclops and Jean Grey, and so on.

I think it had more to do with the fact that they were both from the same country. I do agree that they should have spent more time developing the relationship. But, to say that it was their intention to put both characters together because they were black is a very unfair assessment.

 

[Manic]

I think it had more to do with the fact that they were both from the same country.

Black Panther - Born and raised in Wakanda

Storm - Born in America, orphaned and partially raised in Egypt, reached adulthood while living in Kenya

 

[Mulholland-Jr]

Black Panther - Born and raised in Wakanda

Storm - Born in America, orphaned and partially raised in Egypt, reached adulthood while living in Kenya

What does her being born in America have to do with it? She spent most of her early life in Africa and thus grew up into that culture. I was born in Pennsylvania and spent most of my life in Iowa. And I'm as Iowan as it gets.

 

[Manic]

What does her being born in America have to do with it? She spent most of her early life in Africa and thus grew up into that culture. I was born in Pennsylvania and spent most of my life in Iowa. And I'm as Iowan as it gets.

Storm and Black Panther aren't from the same country at all. Not unless you're saying Africa is a country, which is all kinds of wrong. It's a continent with thousands of cultures scattered across it.

 

[Mulholland-Jr]

Storm and Black Panther aren't from the same country at all. Not unless you're saying Africa is a country, which is all kinds of wrong. It's a continent with thousands of cultures scattered across it.

Yes, you are correct. But that's still not the point I'm trying to get across.