Jakarra (Character)

Created by:  Jack Kirby

1st appearance: Black Panther vol.1 #6, 1977

Nationality: Wakandan

Team Affiliations: none

Legal Status: unknown

Height: 5′ ; 6’1 after transformation

Weight: 100 lbs ; 260lbs after transformation
Eyes: Brown; white after transformation

Hair: Black; Bald after transformation

Relatives: T’Chaka (Father, deceased), Azzari the Wise (Grand-Father, deceased), unnamed mother deceased,  S’yan (Uncle),   N’Yami  (Stepmother, deceased),  Ramonda (stepmother),  Shuri (1/2 sister),  T’Challa (1/2 brother), White Wolf (adopted brother),  Storm (Sister in Law),   T’shan (cousin).

Skills and abilities: Capable leader and military strategist

Powers: After being mutated by Vibranium he gained invulnerability and super strength. He could also project fire and heat from his hands. Once inside the vibranium mound, he could also initiate a deadly vibration that could shatter the earth.

Biography

Jakarra claims to be the son of an unnamed wife of T’chaka sometime after the death of N’yami but before Ramonda. He was a sickly and diminutive child making him unfit to be king. He was shipped off to foreign military camps for training and finally returned as a man where he would be made general of Wakandas army while T’challa ruled. When his brother was away he tried to seize powers and exposed himself to raw vibranium which resulted in him mutating into a hideous pink monster. He was defeated by the gathered royals before T’challa returned. When they attempted to cure him his memories where lost and he became a rampaging monster. He tried to initiate a wakandan prophecy which suggested a creature like him could destroy the earth by releasing vibrational energy into the vibranium mound. He was confronted by T’challa who had no choice but to kill him and thus save the world.

In the modern era

Born the son of the Wakandan king T’Chaka and spy Mateena, Jakarra was raised abroad. Sometime following the death of T’Chaka, Jakarra traveled to Wakanda to demand his birthright. Wakanda’s regent and Jakarra’s uncle S’Yan were mistrustful of him, so he gave Jakarra his inheritance on the condition he didn’t meddle in the country’s affairs. However, Jakarra didn’t keep his word. He fell in with the outcasts of the Hyena Clan and claimed to have ties to the Wakandan throne. After T’Chaka’s first son T’Challa ascended to the throne and made Wakanda’s existence public to the rest of the world, the Hyena Clan made contact with a Latverian underling, and Jakarra personally entered Wakanda’s coordinates into a Doombot which was teleported to Black Panther’s throne room. After learning of Jakarra’s existence, T’Challa went to Kenya to confront him. On his way, he joined forces with Ororo Munroe. When both reached the Barrier Volcano Complex in the North of the country, Jakarra used a Vibranium to scrape a geothermal pipe. The Hyena Clan had dug deeper into the properties of Vibranium, so Jakarra stabbed himself with the dagger as he was being exposed to the pipe’s energies. His body metabolized the Vibranium from the dagger and converted the heat energy into mass, turning Jakarra into a monstrous, swarthy creature. In his new form, Jakarra attempted to kill Black Panther. Knowing that when bound to a living creature, Vibranium could interrupt biological functions if it absorbed too much energy, Black Panther programmed the emitter of a dagger with a destabilizing energy sequence and stabbed Jakarra with it, causing him muscular paralysis when he absorbed it. Black Panther then had Storm throw Jakarra into a volcano so the energy overload would keep him in stasis, not actually knowing whether doing so would kill him or not.