There's a particular comic storyline/set of ships that I want to nominate but what universe it is under is currently...complicated. It is the Black Panther: Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda storyline, which is Ta-Nehisi Coates's volume 7 of BP. This question will contain a lot of spoilers, sorry if that matters to you.
For most of the run/the first two trades, it's been set "2000 years in the future" and with characters who had the same names as classic BP characters (Nakia, M'Baku, etc), but who had very, very different backstories. But in the last couple issues, it's clear that at least a couple of the characters are in fact the same ones as Marvel 616. But definitely a couple of them aren't, or at least, I have no idea how they would be.
Even weirder, they just made contact with "Wakandan Prime" which seems to be in continuity with the rest of Marvel 616, but they are acting like it is happening at the same time as the Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda, because they are worried about that Empire possibly invading Earth-616. But that totally conflicts with the "2000 years in the future" framing the previous two trades talked about and also does not at all explain why there are people with the same names as Wakanda Prime characters wandering around, with totally different backstories and largely different personalities.
I'm interested in a couple ships with the Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda versions of the characters--is there some way I can nominate it separate from Marvel 616, even though since the run is still happening, I currently have genuinely no clue what universe it is? Just like, if I request Nakia/M'Baku/T'Challa and mean the future versions, that would be very confusing for someone looking for Nakia/M'Baku/T'Challa from the main continuity.
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Date: 2019-10-12 11:09 pm (UTC)For most of the run/the first two trades, it's been set "2000 years in the future" and with characters who had the same names as classic BP characters (Nakia, M'Baku, etc), but who had very, very different backstories. But in the last couple issues, it's clear that at least a couple of the characters are in fact the same ones as Marvel 616. But definitely a couple of them aren't, or at least, I have no idea how they would be.
Even weirder, they just made contact with "Wakandan Prime" which seems to be in continuity with the rest of Marvel 616, but they are acting like it is happening at the same time as the Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda, because they are worried about that Empire possibly invading Earth-616. But that totally conflicts with the "2000 years in the future" framing the previous two trades talked about and also does not at all explain why there are people with the same names as Wakanda Prime characters wandering around, with totally different backstories and largely different personalities.
I'm interested in a couple ships with the Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda versions of the characters--is there some way I can nominate it separate from Marvel 616, even though since the run is still happening, I currently have genuinely no clue what universe it is? Just like, if I request Nakia/M'Baku/T'Challa and mean the future versions, that would be very confusing for someone looking for Nakia/M'Baku/T'Challa from the main continuity.