History YMMV / BlackPanther

* MoralEventHorizon: Though whether they deserved it or not can be debated, T'Challa and Shuri's [[NoKillLikeOverkill complete annihilation]] of Atlantis and the majority of Namor's subjects during ''New Avengers (2013)'' - done [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge in vengeance for his flooding of Wakanda]] during ''Avengers vs. X-men''. Made worse by the fact that Namor had offered a peace treaty just moments before, and that T'Challa had lured him away from the city so that Namor would have to live with the carnage for the rest of his days.

* GeniusBonus: Coates' run features characters discussing the likes of John Locke, as well as obscure poems by Henry Dumas, and generally features a lot of AllohistoricalAllusion to real-world political struggles in the present and in history.

** John Ridley's run has drawn a lot of fire for its non-sensical plot, middling dialogue, unlikable characters, and overly bleak ending. Throughout the run, John Ridley continues Coates' tradition of making T'challa out to be the bad guy for making pragmatic political decisions, and many complain that the arc seems set to deprive T'challa of his role in the Black Panther franchise in order to sync up with the MCU movies. The result is a run that is viewed as an outright Dork Age by fans and critics alike.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: T'Challa under different writers has ranged from grim superhero, noble adventurer, {{Jerkass}} and KnightTemplar tyrant.

* AudienceAlienatingEra:
** Hudlin's run due to the extreme amount of CharacterShilling.
** Jonathan Maberry's run, especially Doomwar.
** David Liss' run is often considered one for T'Challa as well, but almost always considered one for his enemy the White Wolf.

** Creator/TaNehisiCoates' run is shaping up to be one as well.

** Former ''Power Man and Iron Fist'' scribe Creator/ChristopherPriest used a story in his Panther run to give Iron Fist his powers back.

** Ta-Nehisi Coates is using his run to [[spoiler:resurrect T'Challa's sister, Shuri]].* StrangledByTheRedString: T'Challa and Storm. Hudlin basically built the marriage out of a two-issue cameo from Priest's run where their "romance" was treated as an unrealistic-but-cathartic childhood fantasy that would never actually work in any real way, and included Storm explicitly comparing Panther to ComicBook/{{Magneto}}. This was either alleviated or exacerbated (depending on your point of view) by the Storm flashback miniseries which came out around the same time and established that Storm and T'Challa did have an earlier romantic relationship when they were teenagers.

** Christopher Priest's run essentially redefined Black Panther in every way and is almost universally loved. Reginald Hudlin's work was tolerated only as long as it reworked Priest's ideas; the second he went in his own direction, sales tanked.

* StrangledByTheRedString: T'Challa and Storm. Hudlin basically built the marriage out of a two-issue cameo from Priest's run where their "romance" was treated as an unrealistic-but-cathartic childhood fantasy that would never actually work in any real way, and included Storm explicitly comparing Panther to ComicBook/{{Magneto}}. This was either alleviated or exacerbated (depending on your point of view) by the Storm flashback miniseries which came out around the same time and established that Storm and T'Challa did have an earlier romantic relationship when they were teenagers.

* FandomEnragingMisconception: The fan utterly hate it when anyone accuses the comic of being created as a mascot for the Black Panther Party. Not only did his comic book come out before the party was founded, but Marvel actually changed the hero's name to Black Leopard to avoid any associations with the political organization

%% The Hinsight cleanup thread has determined that comic book Wakanda holding back the cure for cancer and the death of Boseman are not a valid Harsher In Hinsight example. See https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=15816392660A25032600&page=50

* DorkAge:
** Hudlin's run due to the extreme amount of CharacterShilling.
** Jonathan Maberry's run, especially Doomwar.
** David Liss' run is often considered one for T'Challa as well, but almost always considered one for his enemy the White Wolf.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: T'Challa under different writers has ranged from grim superhero, noble adventurer, JerkAss and KnightTemplar tyrant.
* AuthorsSavingThrow:
** Former ''Power Man and Iron Fist'' scribe Christopher Priest used a story in his Panther run to give Iron Fist his powers back.
** Hudlin's ''Captain America/Black Panther: Flags of our Fathers'' miniseries retconed a short WWII flashback in the first issue of Hudlin's run that had Captain America losing to an unnamed WWII Black Panther in a CurbStompBattle. The mini gave the context behind the fight while leaving the result ambiguous. It fleshed out the Black Panther, now identified as Azzuri T'Challa's grandfather, and had him team with Cap against the Red Skull.
** 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''.
** Ta-Nehisi Coates is using his run to [[spoiler:resurrect T'Challa's sister, Shuri]].

** Some people really, '''''really''''' hate Reginald Hudlin's run on the comic, finding the T'Challa/Storm marriage forced and seeing Hudlin portraying Wakanda as [[MarySuetopia too perfect]]. Some people love it for the Panther/Storm marriage, cool victories for T'Challa, external villains instead of the endless Wakandan coups and civil wars of the [=McGregor=]/Priest years, and a lighthearted, fun tone.

** Wakanda itself is similarly subject to both abject praise by fans who love its strong AfroFuturism theme and the fact it has never been conquered in its history, and to derision by people who see it as a MarySuetopia.

** John Ridley's run has drawn a lot of fire for its non-sensical plot, same face art style, and unlikable characters, and many fans view it as little more than a rehash of the overdone 'T'challa is a bad king' idea that has been driven into the ground in recent years. Throughout the run, the titular hero of the comic T'challa is routinely bashed and brow-beaten by other characters for making pragmatic decisions, while new and poorly written characters like arrogant purist Tosin and self-righteous politician Folasade are shamelessly shilled by other characters in dialogue. The result is a run that has been received as a Dork Age by fans and critics alike, right after the much-praised saga that was the Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda.

** John Ridley's run has drawn a lot of fire for its non-sensical plot, same face artstyle, and unlikable characters, and many fans view it as little more than a rehash of the overdone 'T'challa is a bad king plot'. Throughout the run the titular hero of the comic T'challa is routinely bashed and brow-beaten by other characters for making pragmatic decisions, while new and poorly written characters like arrogant purist Tosin and self-righteous politician Folasade are shamelessly shilled by other characters in dialogue. The result is a run that has been received as a [[DorkAge]] by fans and critics alike, right after the much-praised saga that was the Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda.

* BadassDecay: In the late 2000s/early 2010s. Panther had gone from outwitting [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]], [[TheDevil Mephisto]], and pulling off repeated [[GambitRoulette impossibly complex and brilliant schemes]], and going to toe-to-toe with heavy hitters like Namor and [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk the Hulk]] to getting yelled at by Luke Cage for not being as good as Daredevil. Al Ewing corrected this, though. Six issues into ''The Ultimates'', and Panther's already dealt with little things like "Galactus" and "How do you get outside of time and space?" without blinking.

* CantUnhearIt: Creator/ChadwickBoseman and Creator/JamesCMathisIII have both become fan favorite choices for T'Challa's voice. Mathis in particular became one of the few cast members of ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'' to reprise his role for ''WesternAnimation/AvengersAssemble''[[note]]Creator/FredTatasciore also reprised the role of the ComicBook/IncredibleHulk, but with years of experience from projects predating and following ''EMH''[[/note]], and even attended the premiere of the first live-action ''Black Panther'' movie (to promote ''Avengers, Assemble!'').

** Creator/JonathanHickman is also credited as one of T'Challa's best writers by Ta-Nehisi Coates. T'Challa was featured in a major role in his epic run on Fantastic Four and ''ComicBook/JonathanHickmansAvengers'', where he was {{Deuteragonist}} to Reed's protagonist. Hickman made T'Challa and Wakanda into a major corner of the overall Marvel Universe and many of the events in ''Infinity War'', the Black Order's attack on Wakanda in particular is based on events from his ''ComicBook/{{Infinity}}'' in addition to heavily focusing on the heavy burden of being King and superhero on T'Challa's shoulders.

** 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.

** [[ComicBook/BlackPanther Comic]]: [[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.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Many believed that [[spoiler:the death of Shuri acted as [[StuffedIntoTheFridge emotional angst]] for T'Challa instead of any real conclusion to her role as Black Panther in the "End Times" storyline]]. The 2016 comic corrects this by [[spoiler:following Shuri's adventures in Djali, the plane of ancestral memory, and bringing her BackFromTheDead soon after.]]

** [[ComicBook/BlackPanther Comic]]: [[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 ComicBook/{{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.

* FridgeLogic: Whilst comic books have never let scientific accuracy get in the way of a good story, the RetCon of Wakanda to having always been generations ahead of the rest of the world on a technological level really flounders when you consider one simple question: how did an Iron Age culture figure out how to even begin to interact with what is literally the most NighInvulnerable metal on the planet? They can't melt it down, they certainly can't beat it into shape, so where do they even begin to experiment with it?