[Pravus Prime]

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Originally Posted by TheBlueMarvel

I love Namor and Panther equally and that whole story irked me greatly.

While John Byrne wrote a clever explanation for Namor's vacillation between good and evil, being the sovereign of a beset upon nation-state works just as well to explain Namor's equivocating. Panther has also been at odds with American interests, Captain America, and Iron Man. His station as ruler of Wakanda, never caused him to declare war on the States nor kill (or have killed) Tony or Steve. Conversely, Black Panther has allied himself with other questionable rulers like Dr. Doom and Namor - even while Namor was in the midst of one of his 'manic' (if you can call wanting to protect your people from mankind's pollution manic) episodes. I place the blame for this upsetting turn of events squarely on the poorly conceived Phoenix "junk" from AvsX. That story, like far too many "events," was horribly executed and an abject failure in regard to representing the "Phoenix-force" with both conviction and gravitas. The events of that weak plot have carried through and been doubled down on resulting in the death of one of Marvel's most enigmatic characters. Non-Namor fans have no clue how rich the character is in depth and complexity, nor do readers realize his long history and importance within the Marvel Universe. The personality of Namor is so layered that DC, seeing how compelling the character was, gave its own Black Adam the "Namor" treatment to great success (largely the reason we are getting a film about Teth Adam). I guess Marvel viewed Namor as low hanging fruit due to fans of Namor not being vocal enough in our want to see more done with the character. Personally, I can't wait for him to be restored and the first thing I want him to do is return the favor to Hyperion (a waste of a character as Marvel's first, and weakest, Superman clone). I'm very torn about what I want him to do to Black Panther...

...end bitter rant.

Exceptionally well put though.

I'll admit, I overlooked Namor for quite a while; funny enough, it was finding the 1960's "animated" cartoons that completely changed my outlook on him. They may have been pretty much a predecessor for motion comics and mere adaptions of existing stories, but they did get me to pay attention and after seeing them I had a new respect for the character.

It was kind of a shame that they weren't doing much with him by the time I was more into Marvel as a young adult. When I heard they killed him off, it was just another in a long lines of what I felt were bizarre and bad moves they were making.