Something tore up this whole area.
Maybe those rumors about monsters in the Wakanda jungle
weren't just old wives' tales.
Whatever made these tracks was enormous.
[roaring]
Unbelievable! Our bullets just ricochet back at us!
It... it just disappeared!
It was a giant, fearsome gorilla, mighty chieftain,
whose fur was the unnatural color of red.
The beast was impervious to our spears.
Such a thing has never been seen in the jungle before.
So, at long last it begins.
What's the matter, junior?
Can't sleep?
[gurgling]
Here, have some milk.
Couple of gallons of moo juice always does the trick for me.
It's that Crystal dame, ain't it?
I don't know, Ben.
I just can't seem to get her outta my mind.
I guess there's nothin' to do but hope and pray
that Reed finds a way to break the Negative Barrier
that holds her and the other Inhumans prisoner
and keeps her away from me.
Yeah, well, don't worry, kid.
The big brain'll think of somethin'.
He always does.
I was right.
Stretcho's been burnin' the midnight oil
tryin' to crack that stinkin' Negative Barrier.
Well, it ain't Christmas,
so that can't be ol' Saint Nick and his boys up on the roof.
No need to spoil your beauty rest, professor.
Clobberin' a prowler or two's just the nightcap needed
to help this blue-eyed Thing sleep like a baby.
Okay, Mr. Lucky, it's clob...
What the...?
No one's here.
Wha...?
[Thing groans]
So you wanna play tag, eh? My turn!
What? Fire alarm in the hangar.
What are you, A.W.O.L. from the cast of Cats?
Gotcha!
Not so fast! I ain't said "Uncle" yet!
- Ben! What's going on? - Ah, sorry, Stretcho.
- Didn't wanna wake you! - We're all awake now, Ben.
Well, c'mon. Or is it our new policy to just let anyone
break into our new headquarters and get away with it?
Ha, ha, ha. You're a girl after my own heart, Susie.
Scooch over, let me drive.
Hang on, kiddies!
Incredible.
Magnetic waves seem to power that craft we're pursuing.
[Sue] Better make that the craft we were pursuing, dear.
- Oh. - It's long gone.
Figure out why after a good night's sleep.
You're right, darling. May as well take us home, Ben.
I would if I could, pally, but...
The ol' Fantasticar here seems to have other ideas.
Hmm. That craft has locked a highly magnetic tractor beam
onto us, causing the Fantasticar to follow it.
- Follow it where? - I don't know where.
But I'm sure we're going to find out soon enough.
[Thing] Fine with me. I'm lookin' forward to a rematch.
[Reed] Equatorial Africa.
My instruments show us over
an unexplored region known as Wakanda.
The ship is approaching, just as our chieftain said it would.
Now the Black Panther will stalk once more.
Looks like the "over" part's about done.
This crate's fixin' to land.
- Fasten your seatbelts, class. - There's nothing down there.
Except jungle.
Incredible. The real foliage is concealing
a man-made jungle of steel and wire.
Even the boulders hum like computer dynamos.
Who could have created this electronic nightmare?
Why don't we just ask... him?
Huh? Aw, nuts.
At last. The Black Panther's prey has arrived.
Oh, yeah? Puss-in-Boots' prey!
Well, you better start prayin' I don't catch you!
Thanks, Susie!
Why are you attacking us?
It's so difficult for a warrior such as I to find challenging prey.
And now... let the hunt begin!
He's gotta be kiddin'! Flashlight beams ain't gonna stop
the orange heart-throb of millions!
They're not light beams, Ben! Don't you feel that vibration?
We're being bombarded by magnetic anti-polarity beams!
Auntie who?
They make us repel each other, forcing us apart!
Until they wear off!
Reed! He's trying to separate us!
Maybe I can't stay with the others.
But I can still flame on!
- You! - Come...
Match your flame power against my feline agility.
You reacted just as I knew you would.
In your honor, I've designed my trap to be flameproof
and escape-proof.
Vacuum blasts puttin' out my flame!
Your sister is next.
Finally slowing down!
The polarity must weaken the further I am from the others.
Your assumption is correct, Susan Richards.
But the others cannot help you now!
Huh!
My every sense is as sharp as any jungle cat's.
I hear even the softest foot-fall.
My only chance is to stand stock still
and hope this generator drowns out my breathing.
I applaud your cleverness, Mrs. Richards.
But even when a Panther cannot hear his victim,
he can always detect the scent!
No! How did you...?
I have studied your powers well.
My speed allowed me inside
your force field before you could seal it!
And now sleep gas will end your futile struggling.
By the time you awaken, the hunt will be over
and the Black Panther shall have won his greatest victory.
Must've landed pretty far from Reed and Susie,
'cause I ain't doin' that nutty vibration any more.
[Thing] Sure am hot.
But even I ain't dumb enough to drink this here jungle water.
You don't have to. Merely touching my devitalizing fluid is enough.
The liquid has sapped your strength,
allowing me to fight you as an equal.
Well, goody for you, Tabby.
[panting]
Need a breather. That phony water of yours really...
Fooled you!
Your strength has far exceeded my expectations,
but I am ever prepared!
You will thaw out eventually,
but not before I defeat the most dangerous foe of all.
Once I have bested Reed Richards, the hunt will be ended.
Let's end it right now, Panther!
If you've harmed my wife, so help me I'll...
She's safe enough for now. You, however...
We jungle cats can see in the dark.
Unfortunately, mere humans can't!
Nor can they escape from my titanium shackles.
I don't understand your motives, Black Panther.
But you'll soon learn the hard way that nobody attacks the Fantastic Four.
Hmm. Empty words.
The hunt is over. The Black Panther is victorious!
- Think so, masked man? - Who said that?
Here's a little hint. It rhymes with scorch!
Sorry I'm late, brother-in-law. I had to defrost the big orange Thing-cicle.
- But how...? - Remember me, Felix?
- Sue, are you all right? - Not a scratch, dear.
I am your prisoner, Fantastic Four.
- How did the Torch manage to... - Free myself? I couldn't.
While you were hunting Ben and Sue,
I was tracking Johnny and freeing him.
I overestimated myself and underestimated my quarry.
Perhaps I do not yet have
the skill necessary to save my people.
Save your... But who are you?
Remove your force field, Mrs. Richards.
You have my word I shall not attack any of you again.
And T'Challa, hereditary chieftain of the Wakandas,
does not give his word lightly.
- Yes, but... - It's all right, dear.
Chief? You mean I've been clobberin' the Lion King?
- Hey. Over here. - Hi there, junior.
Looks like you can start a Wakanda branch of your fan club, Benjy.
It ain't every day a kid sees an ever-lovin' blue-eyed Thing.
[Johnny] I hear that.
So we've gone from prey to honored guests.
T'Challa, whatever did you think you'd accomplish
- by fighting the Fantastic Four? - Ah, please, Susan.
Your wife is right.
I have much explaining to do.
It all began ten years ago,
when a scientist made his way to Wakanda.
He called himself Ulysses Klaw, the Master of Sound,
and demanded our sacred mound of the precious eternal rock
from my father, T'Chaka, who refused.
Begone! This land is ours!
For years, the worid called me mad to hunt
for what that mound of yours contains. Pure vibranium!
The one element necessary to power my sound transformer!
Don't you see? With the vibranium,
I can transform pure sound into any living form I desire!
Oh, how the worid will grovel before Klaw!
I command you to leave Wakanda!
So speaks T'Chaka the Chieftain.
Then why bother speaking at all?
- That's when I heard a sound... - [gunshot]
...I would remember all my life.
- Father! - They have slain T'Chaka!
But his death shall not go unpunished!
It was not to be.
My father's warriors were no match for Klaw's strange weapon
which converted sound into pure energy.
From this moment, Father, I live only to avenge this evil deed.
I shall be as strong and as fearless
as the sacred Black Panther.
Drive them out! The vibranium must be mine! All mine!
[crazed laughter]
You have slain my father!
Oh, and I can arrange for you to join him.
My hand!
I had not the strength to control Klaw's evil device.
Otherwise, he never would have escaped our village that day.
I'll be back! Do you hear me?
Do you pathetic savages think you can stop Klaw?
The vibranium will yet be mine! Ha, ha, ha!
As the new chief of the Wakanda,
I realized I must prepare for his eventual return.
Selling off small amounts of our vibranium allowed me
to amass a fortune and attend the finest schools.
Using my knowledge of advanced physics,
I designed complex inventions to test and hone my skill,
all the while training myself for my supreme test.
To hunt the Fantastic Four.
You sound a bit confused, pal.
Why take us on when it's that Klaw clown you're after?
Ah, it's simple, Ben. T'Challa felt that he needed a challenge
in order to test his fighting skill.
If he could defeat the Fantastic Four,
he'd know he was ready for Klaw.
Not only are you intelligent, Reed Richards, but wise as well.
You realize we all could have been killed in your little hunt.
- Including you. - Yes, I was wrong.
Revenge blinded me. I pray your forgiveness.
They're... They're beautiful.
They are sculpted from our sacred rock.
Pure vibranium.
[bleeping]
The Sensa-scope. Something approaches Wakanda.
Klaw has returned!
- My flames don't faze him! - Johnny!
Stand back, Sis!
Gotta use Nova Heat to escape this crimson Kong.
Johnny, no!
[Johnny screams]
- Quick thinking, Mrs. Richards. - Johnny! Is he all right?
He'll be all right. He was just caught in the shock wave
when his own Nova Flame rebounded against him.
Klaw boasted he could turn sonic energy into living matter.
Creating monsters like that gorilla requires complex machinery.
There's only one place it could be hidden.
Panther! Klaw is too dangerous to face alone. Wait up!
[Sue] Darling!
Be careful. Oh, Johnny.
My sonic creations will trample Wakanda to dust!
Then the vibranium will be mine.
Totally.
My father gave his life to stop you, Klaw.
Now his son is prepared to do the same.
You were smart enough to find me, little prince,
but too stupid to realize you strolled right into a trap!
[crazed laughter]
Fool! You cannot stop Klaw.
Hope you don't mind if I use some of your soundproofing!
No!
Klaw's own force glove is shorting out the converter.
- A sonic explosión is imminent! - Then we must be faster.
[Klaw cackles]
This day has my father, T'Chaka, been avenged.
Thanks to you, my noble friends,
the Black Panther need stalk no more. Klaw has been...
- [squawking] - [Klaw] Reborn.
Reborn as the most powerful being on Earth.
I am living, solidified sound.
Nothing can stand before me.
Flame on!
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, you sonic sleazeball!
Here's one Thing that's standin' before you.
Fools! My sonic power is limitless!
Behold the monsters I can create at will.
[trumpeting]
The armbands! Of course! Vibranium!
Mind if I borrow this, dear?
You want me, Klaw? Here I am.
No! My sonic beams are...
Useless against pure vibranium, Klaw.
[Reed] The one element that can absorb sonic energy.
Klaw will not be defeated so easily.
You wanted all our vibranium, Klaw. Enjoy it.
No! No!
Klaw's sonic energy is being totally absorbed.
No!
Well, you gotta say one thing for that super-villain.
He gave big bang for the buck. Ha!
And you guys did a pretty bang-up job on my new bracelets.
It will be my honor to replace them, but first...
The mantle of Black Panther can now be laid to rest.
His missión is done.
T'Challa, the worid has many dangers.
For your people's sake, and the entire worid's,
a man with your powers can never rest.
So what do you say?
Then... let the monument of the Panther stand tall.
The Black Panther is ready to stalk again.
Now you're talkin', Shere Khan.
Man, what a sight!
And I bet the pigeons are gonna do
a little stalkin' of their own on this baby!
[Ben laughs]