Wait, what?! I know what youre thinking. First, did that happen? And second, how could it possibly suck? Well it did, and it was bad. While Iron Man and the King of Wakanda have been teaming up for years as members of The Avengers, this particular Marvel Team-Up gone awry took place in 2002s Marville #2. Written by Bill Jemas, the series was meant to be a meta-fictional parody of the comic book industry, but in the end it bordered closer to a creative aneurism playing out over 7 issues in a 6-issue series. In issue #2, a character from the future stumbles upon 300 million dollars given to him by Alan Greenspan for some reason and he proceeds to just give it away to people on the street. When a group of angry looking youths demand some for unbeknownst reason as he was giving it away after all Iron Man, Black Panther and the goddamn Batman descend upon them, and just brutally destroy them. And I mean brutally. Batman enters the fray by ripping someones arm off and beating him over the head with it. Iron Man shows up and immediately vaporizes someone, and once the Black Panther shows up the two Avengers of the group decide to smash the skulls of two of the assailants together without a second thought. The over-the-top, uncharacteristic ridiculousness of the scene aside, what makes this brief team-up particularly bad is the dialogue that takes place while its happening, which bordered on psychopathic. At the beginning of the book, Jemas made the random mention that Batman, Iron Man and Black Panther are all superheroes that happen to be billionaires...even though Black Panther is the head of an ancient kingdom, not some rich, industrial playboy like Bruce Wayne and Tony Stark. When they decide to take down the group of rag-tag citizens, they do so while ragging on poor people, and the joys of exploiting people for their labour. So the whole point of the story wasnt that they were trying to save someone, but trying to stop people from getting money? Wait, what? Seriously Iron Man even makes jokes about outsourcing to Mexico, and almost drops an N-bomb in his comparison to the Mexican work ethic before being stopped by the Black Panther. Words almost fail to describe how truly insane this team-up was. It literally made zero sense to begin with, and made less by the end. How could it possibly make less sense, you ask? Well, the scene ends with Rush Limbaugh teleporting to the scene and incapacitating the three heroes with a golden microphone. Well, you asked, didnt you?
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Wait, what?! I know what youre thinking. First, did that happen? And second, how could it possibly suck? Well it did, and it was bad. While Iron Man and the King of Wakanda have been teaming up for years as members of The Avengers, this particular Marvel Team-Up gone awry took place in 2002s Marville #2. Written by Bill Jemas, the series was meant to be a meta-fictional parody of the comic book industry, but in the end it bordered closer to a creative aneurism playing out over 7 issues in a 6-issue series. In issue #2, a character from the future stumbles upon 300 million dollars given to him by Alan Greenspan for some reason and he proceeds to just give it away to people on the street. When a group of angry looking youths demand some for unbeknownst reason as he was giving it away after all Iron Man, Black Panther and the goddamn Batman descend upon them, and just brutally destroy them. And I mean brutally. Batman enters the fray by ripping someones arm off and beating him over the head with it. Iron Man shows up and immediately vaporizes someone, and once the Black Panther shows up the two Avengers of the group decide to smash the skulls of two of the assailants together without a second thought. The over-the-top, uncharacteristic ridiculousness of the scene aside, what makes this brief team-up particularly bad is the dialogue that takes place while its happening, which bordered on psychopathic. At the beginning of the book, Jemas made the random mention that Batman, Iron Man and Black Panther are all superheroes that happen to be billionaires...even though Black Panther is the head of an ancient kingdom, not some rich, industrial playboy like Bruce Wayne and Tony Stark. 
