History YMMV / BlackPanther

** [[ComicBook/BlackPanther Comic]]:
*** [[ArchEnemy Ulysses Klaw]], inheriting the [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain malice]] and {{ambition|Is Evil}} of his Nazi war criminal father, came to Wakanda to steal its Vibranium. Killing hundreds, including King T'Chaka, Klaw was driven off by the young T'Challa before killing him as well. Returning to rule or destroy Wakanda and its people constantly, [[MadScientist Klaw]] uses his [[MakeSomeNoise mastery of sound]] to torture others on the regular, eventually becoming a being of living sound. Klaw helps kick off a war with Wakanda and tries to launch superweapons through the world to bring an "end of days" out of spite for T'Challa. Later turning a woman named Joya into a twisted cyborg to harness his sound powers, Klaw intends his masterpiece to be "The Scream", a blast of sonic power over the world to destroy the minds of humanity so Klaw can rule them, with Klaw vowing to T'Challa's sister Zuri that he will hunt down and kill everyone she loves as the price of defying him.
*** [[SinisterMinister Reverend Doctor Michael Ibn al-Hajj Achebe]], while allegedly having had [[FreudianExcuse his wife cheat on him and the rebel leader she ran off with having burned his farm to the ground]], goes far beyond any reasonable actions. He started off by allegedly murdering everyone who'd ever met his wife--up to and including a merchant who once sold her shoes. Next, he went around starting race wars for fun. That was before he made a [[DealWithTheDevil deal with Mephisto]] to try and destroy Panther just because, murdered a child as a diversionary tactic, and started a race riot in Washington, D.C. while trying to manipulate Panther into accidentally killing his own ex-girlfriend. Since then, he's mostly limited himself to [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals starving animals to death]], torture, and just generally doing whatever will cause the most harm, taking sheer glee in his actions.

%%** Jonathan Maberry's run, especially Doomwar.

** So much of Hudlin's and Liss' plot points are Wall Bangers for some that were big fans of the Priest run, although this isn't always the case. However, pretty much everyone agrees that "Doomwar" never happened... except, unfortunately, for Marvel themselves.

** Jonathan Hickman's ''Fantastic Four'' run (that led into his ''Avengers'' run) had Reed offer to help T'Challa find a fix for inert Vibranium. T'Challa laughs it off, questioning why Reed thinks he himself hasn't already solved it, and also noting that he's smart enough to have contingency plans for his country's economy. Basically it's a quick fix for ''Doomwar''.

** [[WesternAnimation/BlackPanther2010 Animated Series]]: [[BigBad Ulysses Klaw]] was hired many years ago to kill T'Chaka, then leader of Wakanda and the Black Panther. During the mission, Klaw kills T'Chaka and his [[WouldHurtAChild young son]], then tries to execute the man's wife and other child. Returning years later, Klaw assembles a team of supervillains and declares war on Wakanda, killing numerous innocents in the process. Taking the current Black Panther's mother hostage, Klaw tries to force the Panther to kill himself, and, when he refuses, attempts to murder the woman. Klaw then orders [[PersonOfMassDestruction the Radioactive Man]] to destroy Wakanda if his plan to take control of it fails, and makes one last attempt to murder the Panther and his family when thwarted.

** [[WesternAnimation/BlackPanther Animated Series]]: [[BigBad Ulysses Klaw]] was hired many years ago to kill T'Chaka, then leader of Wakanda and the Black Panther. During the mission, Klaw kills T'Chaka and his [[WouldHurtAChild young son]], then tries to execute the man's wife and other child. Returning years later, Klaw assembles a team of supervillains and declares war on Wakanda, killing numerous innocents in the process. Taking the current Black Panther's mother hostage, Klaw tries to force the Panther to kill himself, and, when he refuses, attempts to murder the woman. Klaw then orders [[PersonOfMassDestruction the Radioactive Man]] to destroy Wakanda if his plan to take control of it fails, and makes one last attempt to murder the Panther and his family when thwarted.

** Perhaps the biggest BrokenBase to come in the Panther fandom was the marriage - and subsequent divorce - of T'Challa and [[ComicBook/{{Storm}} Ororo Munroe]]. An avid fandom absolutely loved the idea of wedding Marvel's two oldest and most famous African superheroes and were saddened when they broke up. An equally avid hatedom despised the idea, citing it as a case of StrangledByTheRedString (as explained under its entry) and reeking of [[TokenShipping tokenism]], and were ecstatic (or at least thought it was the most natural result) when T'Challa divorced Storm and she made it plain afterwards that it was over.

* VindicatedByHistory: At the time it was being written, the David Liss run was disliked by fans for having T'Challa serve as a replacement hero for Daredevil in Hell's Kitchen. However, some fans (especially those dissatisfied with the Ta-Nehisi Coates run) have recently expressed some appreciation for the run maintaining T'Challa's GuileHero skills and showing how he can retain his awesomeness in a different environment.

** While it didn't sell particularly well at the time and it got complex to the point of near-parody, Christopher Priest's run on the character in the late 1990s is one of the most well-regarded runs in Marvel's recent history, and is one of the big reasons why so many fans were upset with Reginald Hudlin's run, albeit not by Priest himself who was friends with Hudlin, and who pointed out that Hudlin's run sold better than his, and introduced the BreakoutCharacter Shuri. A lot of the movie was directly inspired by Priest's work.

** Don [=McGregor's=] run in ''Jungle Action'' in the 1970s is now regarded as something of a forgotten classic, with T'Challa returning to Wakanda after a long absence and dealing with his country's feelings of desertion, and new villain Erik Killmonger. It used to be [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes really hard to find]], but thankfully the film has changed that.

* MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales: For all the occasional slips in depicting Africans in the series, the series has many African fans who like the idea of an African nation being an ancient civilization with a highly advanced technological economy.