Almost every Hollywood blockbuster movie series is written on the fly, the creative team frantically laying track with the proverbial speeding locomotive right behind them. So no, Marvel didn't kick off the MCU with a pile of 40 screenplays already written, their stories all intricately woven together to form a cohesive whole. This "make it up as we go" approach means there will inevitably be gaps in the fictional universe that multiply from one film to the next, leaving us with some truly weird questions. For instance ...

5 Who Lives In The Fake Third-World Wakanda?

Wakanda is an elementary school in Wisconsin, but you probably know it better as the homeland of Black Panther and sole repository of the fictional wonder metal vibranium. The mysterious nation first shows up in the MCU during a post-credits scene in Iron Man 2. While Tony Stark drowns both the drama and the plot of the scene in a vomit of quips, a map behind him shows the location of Wakanda (or at least where S.H.I.E.L.D. thinks it is).

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Captain America: Civil War introduces us to King T'Chaka and his son, T'Challa. They represent Wakanda at the United Nations, before the sniper from Inglourious Basterds blows the place up. The point here is that the world at large knows about the African nation, and that means it has to show up on other maps besides the one in Nick Fury's sparse computer room.

But in Black Panther, Gollum-Without-The-CGI (Ulysses Klaue) asks Now-Taller Bilbo (Everett K. Ross) what he knows about Wakanda. Ross answers, "shepherds, textiles, cool outfits." Klaue dismisses that image, and says it's a front for a technologically advanced nation. Ross says that's a "nice fairy tale," and that Wakanda is a "third-world country."