MCU: 10 Things You Didn't Know About Vibranium
8. Captain America Met Black Panther Defending Wakanda's Vibranium From The Nazis
While Captain America and Black Panther meet for the first time under the MCU banner in 2016's Captain America: Civil War, events play out a little differently in the comics.
These two iconic characters actually meet during WWII, as depicted in the 2010 comic "Flags of our Fathers". Rogers is dispatched to Wakanda to prevent Nazis led by the Red Skull from stealing vibranium from Wakanda. On his arrival, he soon finds himself face to face with the Black Panther of that time period.
Much like the events depicted by the Civil War film, the two heroes actually go toe to toe upon meeting for the first time before eventually teaming up to decimate the incoming Nazi attack with the help of Nick Fury.
During this conflict, Cap's triangular original shield made of ordinary metal is destroyed. He is subsequently gifted with a round vibranium shield by Black Panther which inspires the iconic circular shield he wields in his later adventures. This is quite a shift from the MCU canon, where Rogers' original shield is forged by Howard Stark, who confides that making the shield used virtually all of the vibranium stores he had access to.
Safe to say, it was worth it in the long run.