History Creator / ChadwickBoseman

After numerous small roles in TV series in the 2000s, he rose to prominence in the mid-to-late 2010s when portraying UsefulNotes/JackieRobinson in ''Film/FortyTwo'', Music/JamesBrown in ''Film/GetOnUp'' and ComicBook/BlackPanther in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, who appeared for the first time in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar''.

* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse (2016 -- 2021) as T'Challa/Black Panther:

* AssumedWin: At the 2021 Academy Awards, it was widely accepted Boseman would become the third man to win a posthumous Oscar. His turn in ''Ma Rainey's Black Bottom'' had already earned him the Golden Globe, Critic's Choice Award, and Screen Actors Guild award and most took his Oscar win as a given. That included the Oscar producers who, bucking decades of tradition, scheduled Best Actor as the last award of the evening to close it out with Boseman's widow accepting on his behalf. Instead, in a stunning upset, Creator/AnthonyHopkins (who wasn't even in attendance) won for ''Film/TheFather''.

* ''Film/FortyTwo'' (2013) as Jackie Robinson

* ''Film/GetOnUp'' (2014) as James Brown

** ''[[WesternAnimation/WhatIf2021 What If...?]]'' (2021)[[note]]released posthumously[[/note]]

->''[[Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar "In my culture, death is not the end. It’s more of a stepping-off point. You reach out with both hands and Bast and Sekhmet, they lead you into a green veld where you can run...forever."]]''

* {{Determinator}}: He had a tendency to portray men who had to overcome great obstacles in their life: Jackie Robinson, Thurgood Marshall, James Brown, and T'Challa.

* ''Message from the King'' (2016) as Jacob King

Chadwick Aaron Boseman (November 29, 1976 – August 28, 2020) was an American actor, producer, screenwriter, and playwright.

He passed away on August 28, 2020 at the age of 43 due to complications from stage IV colon cancer. [[SecretlyDying He had battled the illness for four years, and it was not publicly revealed until after his death.]]

* {{Determinator}}: He had a tendency to portray men who had to overcome great obstacles in their life: Jackie Robinson, Thurgood Marshall, James Brown, and T'Challa. He was posthumously revealed to have been this in real life as well: he was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2016, which means that for almost all the time he was part of the MCU, he was battling a potentially fatal disease but was able to keep up his physical fitness routine nearly that entire time. The effects of his illness only became openly visible shortly before his death.

* {{Determinator}}: He had a tendency to portray men who had to overcome great obstacles in their life: Jackie Robinson, Thurgood Marshall, James Brown, and T'Challa.

->''[[Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar "In my culture, death is not the end. It’s more of a stepping off point. You reach out with both hands and Bast and Sekhmet, they lead you into a green veld where you can run...forever."]]''

[[caption-width-right:300:''[[Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar "In my culture, death is not the end."]]'']]

->''Wakanda Forever.''

** ''[[WesternAnimation/WhatIf2021 What If...?]]'' (2021)[[labelnote:note]]released posthumously[[/labelnote]]
* ''Message From The King'' (2016) as Jacob King

[[caption-width-right:300:[[Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar In my culture, death is not the end.]]]]

[[caption-width-right:300:[[Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar Death is not the end.]]]]

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* InMemoriam: A street in ''VideoGame/SpiderManMilesMorales'' and a Wakandan helicopter in ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' (2021) were both named after him. Current prints of ''Black Panther'', seen on Creator/DisneyPlus since the date of what would have been his 44th birthday, changed the Marvel Studios logo into having Black Panther related images and ending with a purple background.

[[caption-width-right:300:[[Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar Death is not the end.]]

[[caption-width-right:300:[[Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar Death is not the end.]][[note]]His unfortunate death led this statement to be a HarsherInHindsight.[[/note]]]]

[[caption-width-right:300:[[Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar Death is not the end.]]]]

He passed away on August 28, 2020 at the age of 43 due to complications from stage IV colon cancer. He had battled the illness for four years, and it was not publicly revealed until after his death.

* InMemoriam: A street in ''VideoGame/SpiderManMilesMorales'' and a Wakandan helicopter in ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' (2021) were both named after him. Current prints of ''Black Panther'', seen on Disney+ since the date of what would have been his 44th birthday, changed the Marvel Studios logo into having Black Panther related images and ending with a purple background.

* AssumedWin: At the 2021 Academy Awards, it was widely accepted Boseman would become the third man to win a posthumous Oscar. His turn in ''Ma Rainey's Black Bottom'' had already earned him the Golden Globe, Critic's Choice Award, and Screen Actors Guild award and most took his Oscar win as a given. That included the Oscar producers who, bucking decades of tradition, scheduled Best Actor as the last award of the evening to close it out with Boseman's widow accepting on his behalf. Instead, in a stunning upset, Creator/AnthonyHopkins (who wasn't even in attendance) won for ''The Father''.

* AssumedWin: At the 2021 Academy Awards, it was widely accepted Boseman would become the third man to win a postmouthous Oscar. His turn in ''Ma Rainey's Black Bottom'' had already earned him the Golden Globe, Critic's Choice Award, and Screen Actors Guild award and most took his Oscar win as a given. That included the Oscar producers who, bucking decades of tradition, scheduled Best Actor as the last award of the evening to close it out with Boseman's widow accepting on his behalf. Instead, in a stunning upset, Creator/AnthonyHopkins (who wasn't even in attendance) won for ''The Father''.