Review: Marvel’s Avengers: Black Panther’s Quest “Mask of the Panther”

This is getting out of control bad.

Overview (Spoilers Below)

This week, Black Panther teams up with Cap and Hawkeye after a rousing battle with Taskmaster. The artists, formally known as the Avengers, traverse to an underground laboratory where one Whitney Frost is on house arrest. The Avengers are there to look for another Wakandan artifact and do so in some sort of abandoned submarine that used to belong to Wakanda. While there, we get a battle with some robots and the ship nearly sinks, but the big news is Whitney Frost turns into Madame Masque and takes off. Meanwhile, Hawkeye is pissed at the Secret Avengers.

Our Take

Nothing like watching a writing team completely run out of ideas mid-way through the season of a television show. First of all, the battle with Black Panther and Taskmaster was laughably bad. It features Black Panther with a jetpack and a Taskmaster that was horribly produced in both presentation and choreography giving no respect to the character’s astute martial arts background. Oh, but don’t worry, the character assassination doesn’t stop there!

Whitney Frost’s turn to Madame Masque was a nice touch, but she’s given one hell of a lame superpower. Being able to control a Wakandan submarine with the power of her mask? Talk about the most underwhelming superpower of all time. The submarine in question isn’t even that great, it features mahogany-built robots…MAHOGANY! Of all the super metals presented in the Marvel universe, you’re expecting me to believe that the Wakandans decided to build their robots out of wood? Are we nuts???? Not to mention the fact that Frost’s lame new superpowers are nowhere near as cool as her comic book counterpart’s which makes the revelation of this character all that much more disappointing.

Last, but not least, this whole Secret Avengers vs the Avengers conflict, I’m not buying any second of it. There’s no substantiation of the build-up towards what the argument between the two is even about and I don’t care to find out. The Disney-fied take on these Marvel characters get worse by the day.