The problem with super hero movies is here is no limit to what they can do. Every conflict can only be pointless
I was perplexed by, not only the properties, but the apparent transcendental influence of VIBRANIUM. I know this imaginary substance was not new in this movie, but still it seems problematical that it could, ipso facto, provide the entire basis for the putative technological dominance of Wakanda.
... BTW Wauconda,IL has “been mentioned” in conjuction with this movie, but you know what? The original name was spelled “Wakanda”. Apparently an Indian name. No matter.
Well, I was led to contemplate how it was that VIBRANIUM was in contradiction to our well established understanding of our hard won atomic theory of matter, and in so doing, I reviewed its history.
Surprisingly, this led me immediately into a real life analogue, namely ALUMINUM. Well, not as fabulous as VIBRANIUM, of course, but it does have many points of correspondence. It’s a very common element, which takes its name from ALUM, a substance know from antiquity.
Yet even as chemistry advanced, and it was suspected that a “metal earth” was a constituent of alum, no one could isolate the metal itself.
This was finally achieved, but it was very difficult, and aluminum metal, for a brief time, was more expensive than gold. In the 1940’s, the method of electrolysis was developed, which led to the ability to mass produce aluminum metal. Of course, I cut the story short.
As per the analogy to Vibranium, I quote a message of Stalin to Roosevelt, “Give me 30,000 tonnes of aluminium, and I will win the war.”
... look it up.