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quinn. xxi. mostly marvel.
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mxmajor

Cool things i learned abt the Dora Milaje from the dora milaje training manual

this is canon to the 616 and comics, not the MCU, but it was cool to learn about and definitely impacts my canon compliant AU fic. So it might be useful to others. Its not the full book, not even a chapters worth of info, but if you were considering getting it, do so. It made me look at wakanda forever differently, too.

Joining

  • they accept women from all 5 tribes (17 in the comics) between the ages of 15-20 to become Dora
  • They have to bring a gift and be accepted by Bast to begin training
  • If accepted they are called Kanwata and the process takes 4 years to complete.
  • Upon initiation they go through an ori ceremony where their heads are shaved and they received their first ritual tattoo. They receive another tattoo each year, an ink with vibranium, until the second and final ori ceremony where they receive the final tattoo after their acceptance from Bast.

Training

  • They have to learn 7 of 10 languages: Wakandan, Xhosa, Hausa, Arabic, Yoruba, English, Igbo, Mandarin, Swahili, and Korean. They have 9 additional elective languages they can learn, especially to connect to the diaspora and blend in: cantonese, Hebrew, Japanese, French, Farsi, Spanish, Amharic, and Portuguese. They get to conversation and translation in the following years.
  • In the first year they must learn hand to hand combat in the forms of Ngolo, Laamb, Silat, Muay Thai, Musangwe, and Krav Maga. Once the required mastery has been met they add weapons in the second year. The Dora are considered "living weapons".
  • In the comic verse, they have a mystical and supernatural combat section. The kanwata training is in 3 pillars: physical, mental, and spiritual/herbal. They study vibranium application and properties as well as herbal practices like identifying plants for food and medicinal purposes.

Essentially, Dora are super smart and well trained so it takes a unique situation for them to be unprepared lol. There is even more that goes into what was listed above.

Structure

  • The DM have 3 major units: Domestic, international, and Off world.
  • Dora can be broken into units, squads, or teams (helpful when trying to name group that they might be on a mission in)
  • They are all trained in combat and munitions (weapons) but some units are researchers, mechanics, pilots, healers, or apart of a secret division (like the cia) but no one knows who is in that secret division
  • Kanwata are the trainees, the 3rd and 4th years apprentice with Iya Dora and/or train younger Kanwata.
  • Ile Dora Milaje is what the group of active, graduated, and fully initiated Dora are called.
  • Iya Dora is the council that confers with wakandan leadership (Taifa Ngao, the council of elders), determines the graduation passage of kanwata, and governs the active duty, dismissal or removal from Dora ranks. There are Dora that have been re-instated after dismissal.

There are some cool excerpts if you clicked the link below. I am tired of typing lol.

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What Does It Take to Become a Member of the Dora Milaje?
The in-world 'Protectors of Wakanda: A History and Training Manual for the Dora Milaje' arrives this September!
Marvel Entertainment
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I think the saddest thing in black panther wakanda forever is the fact that both Shuri and T’Challa were blipped for five years so when they did come back they literally only had months together before T’Challa ended up passing. And you can understand Ramonda’s speech wasn’t just because she lost T’Challa but because she had literally just gotten both of her children back and she was back to being all by herself when Shuri was taken to Talokan.

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inmyheadimobsessed

every time i think about this my heart hurts ☹️

And then to think the time they did have together how much of that did Shuri spend trying to cure her brother 😭😭

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inmyheadimobsessed

oh god exactly. and shuri was definitely beating herself up over it too like not only was she not able to cure him, she missed valuable time with him in his last moments oh i'm gonna off myself.

Literally don’t know if I can watch it again after realizing this. Shuri deserved so much better 😭😭

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inmyheadimobsessed

they won't let my baby be happy ☹️

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lilhawkeye3

I have never heard a movie theater be so quiet as it was when Chadwick was on screen. And that’s how it should be. He was and is respected like no other to come from these movies.

Stan Lee’s tribute got applause to thank him. Chadwick’s memorial had respectful and honoring silence. I wouldn’t have it any other way.

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thatssovision

That moment you realize Wanda and America could have both resolved their issues by working together to find their missing family (and maybe become family themselves in the process), but that’s too smart so MoM had to make the girl from a planet of all women gain a father figure

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milesmorahles

Must a movie have a plot?? Is it not enough to watch an overpowered witch go on an insane murder spree to try and get her kids back while a magic man and a lesbian try and stop her?

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i-dream-of-idk

Wong as Sorcerer Supreme is literally the best decision they made

he is in contact with the other Sanctums readily, he studies all the extra knowledge which is opened to him, he is pretty great at organising, and he cares

he really cares about every single sorcerer under Kamar Taj's roof, and he cares about all the innocent people out there, and he shows it with each step he takes, each defensive measure he enforces, each life he refuses to give up

and I believe he deserves more appreciation for it.

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