History Trivia / BlackPanther2018

* ExecutiveMeddling: If you're wondering why it took so long to get a Black Panther movie, blame Ike Perlmutter -- Kevin Feige wanted one (as well as ''Film/{{Captain Marvel|2019}}'') much earlier, but Perlmutter refused, allegedly due to believing that a movie with a lead that wasn't a white male wouldn't sell (a belief that rings hollow not only due to the success of ''Film/{{Wonder Woman|2017}}'', but also when you consider the success of ''Film/BladeTrilogy''), and only agreed to make the movie after Kevin Feige agreed to make an ''ComicBook/{{Inhumans}}'' movie. After Feige was put in a position that doesn't require him to answer to Perlmutter, the ''Inhumans'' movie got put on ice, and ''Black Panther'' and ''Captain Marvel'' both got pushed up.

*** Creator/AnthonyMackie, Creator/DjimonHounsou, Creator/ChiwetelEjiofor, and Creator/AdewaleAkinnuoyeAgbaje were also considered for the part of Black Panther before the casting of Boseman. Hounsou previously voiced the titular character in ''WesternAnimation/BlackPanther''. All four actors would go on to portray other characters within the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse with Mackie as [[ComicBook/TheFalcon Sam Wilson]] in ''Trivia/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'', Hounsou as Korath the Pursuer in ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'', Ejiofor was Baron Mordo in ''Doctor Strange'' and Agbaje as Kurse in ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld''.

* DeletedScene: Coogler's original submitted cut is rumored to have been four hours long:
** Okoye and W'Kabi talk after T'Challa loses the duel against Erik Killmonger. W'Kabi blames T'Challa for bringing Ulysses Klaue to strangers (CIA, UNO) instead of to his people, and fully lays out his motives for helping Erik.
** In a flashback, while playing in the Catacombs, young T'Challa and Nakia find T'Chaka mourning over a difficult choice he had to make. King and prince discuss the responsibilities and the burden of being a king.
** T'Challa remembers when T'Chaka gave him the mantle of Black Panther, while remaining the king. Zuri tells him T'Chaka had told him he had grown too fat for the suit.
** Right before his speech to the UN, King T'Challa meets Everett Ross. Ross tries to dissuade him from revealing Wakanda's wealth and power to the world, but T'Challa tells him he won't rule by fear anymore. Then Ross tries to wish the king luck in Wakandian, but ends up saying "Good luck and many shoelaces" instead.

* UnderageCasting: Jordan was born in 1987, but Killmonger's younger TimeShiftedActor during 1992 is clearly middle school aged, meaning Killmonger is older than Jordan by at least three years.

*** Creator/AnthonyMackie, Creator/DjimonHounsou, and Creator/AdewaleAkinnuoyeAgbaje were also considered for the part of Black Panther before the casting of Boseman. Hounsou previously voiced the titular character in ''WesternAnimation/BlackPanther''. All three actors would go on to portray other characters within the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse with Mackie as [[ComicBook/TheFalcon Sam Wilson]] in ''Trivia/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'', Hounsou as Korath the Pursuer in ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'', and Agbaje as Kurse in ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld''.

* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: Plans for a ''Black Panther'' movie stretch as far back as 1992, but various problems, including those with potential scripts, corporate troubles and casting conflicts, kept the idea from getting off the ground until 2014, over two decades after the original concept was pitched.

* FanNickname: [[spoiler:Killmonger is sometimes called "Golden Jaguar" due to his gold-accented [[EvilKnockoff version of Black Panther's suit]].]]

** Shuri is canonically classified as being an incredibly intelligent scientist, and is hinted to be one of the smartest characters in the entire MCU. Her actress Creator/LetitiaWright became controversial a few years later for sharing and promoting anti-vaccination theories both online and on the set of this film's sequel that have been disproven scientifically.

* CreatorProvincialism: Killmonger was raised in Ryan Coogler's native Oakland instead of the comics' Harlem.

** Creator/AnthonyMackie, Creator/DjimonHounsou, and Creator/AdewaleAkinnuoyeAgbaje were also considered for the part of Black Panther before the casting of Boseman. Hounsou previously voiced the titular character in ''WesternAnimation/BlackPanther''. All three actors would go on to portray other characters within the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse with Mackie as [[ComicBook/TheFalcon Sam Wilson]] in ''Trivia/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'', Hounsou as Korath the Pursuer in ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'', and Agbaje as Kurse in ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld''.
** Creator/WesleySnipes wanted to play Black Panther ever since Marvel approached him with the project in 1992. Creator/JohnSingleton was briefly considered as director, but the movie never materialized due to various CreativeDifferences. Snipes would later go on to portray ComicBook/{{Blade}} in the ''Film/BladeTrilogy'' and while he always kept his interest in a Black Panther film, it never happened due to disagreements over the script.

* Uncredited Role: Creator/SebastianStan is uncredited for his cameo as Bucky Barnes in the post-credits scene.

* {{Uncredited Role}}: {{Creator/Sebastian Stan}} is uncredited for his cameo as Bucky Barnes in the post-credits scene.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[WhatCouldHaveBeen/MarvelCinematicUniverse Enough for its own page.]]

** Juan Antonio Edwards (the Latin American voice for Everett K. Ross) and Erica Edwards (the LA voice for the museum director) are father and daughter, respectively. Juan's ex-son-in-law, Creator/ArturoMercadoJr, voices N'Jobu.

* InspirationForTheWork: Coogler was influenced by 1970s films such as the works of Creator/FrancisFordCoppola in that decade, as well as crime fiction. He also watched the film ''Film/AProphet'' for inspiration.

* RelationshipVoiceActor: A cross-language version: Killmonger's voice actors in both Japanese and Latin American Spanish dubs (Creator/KenjiroTsuda and Alejandro Orozco respectively) voiced Kylo Ren in their respective dubs of the ''Franchise/StarWars'' sequel trilogy.

* StarMakingRole: Wright and Duke (but the former mostly) are considered as the film's breakout stars (the rest of the cast are already well-known and established). This is, however, regarded as the role that solidified Boseman as a major star.

* AuthorExistenceFailure: Chadwick Boseman died of colon cancer on August 28, 2020. Marvel Studios announced that T'Challa won't be recast nor recreated through digitized effects for ''Black Panther: Wakanda Forever'', with the film focusing on the other supporting characters instead. There's also a handful of Wakanda-set series in the works starring some of said supporting characters.

* {{Jossed}}: [[spoiler:As this is the last film before ''Infinity War'', some expected the plot to involve the Soul Stone, the only Infinity Stone we haven't yet seen. No dice. Also theories around T'Challa's ring and its connection to said Soul Stone. Other than being a plot device, the royal rings aren't explored, either.]]

* AuthorExistenceFailure: Chadwick Boseman died of colon cancer on August 28, 2020. Marvel Studios announced that T'Challa won't be recast nor recreated through digitized effects for ''Black Panther: Wakanda Forever'', with the film focusing on the other supporting characters instead. There's also a Wakanda-set series in the works starring some of said supporting characters.

* AuthorExistenceFailure: Chadwick Boseman died of colon cancer on August 28, 2020. Marvel Studios announced that T'Challa won't be recast nor recreated through digitized effects for ''Black Panther II'', with the film focusing on the other supporting characters instead. There's also a Wakanda-set series in the works starring some of said supporting characters.

** Even better in Hungarian as sneakers are called "Surranó" so Shuri calls her silent shoes "Shuri-nó"

** Juan Antonio Edwards (the Latin American voice for Everett K. Ross) and Erica Edwards (the LA voice for the museum director) are father and daughter, respectively.

* IAmNotSpock: Several of the cast members, including Creator/ChadwickBoseman and Creator/MichaelBJordan, are tired of the constant requests to do the Wakandan salute. It got to point where Jordan mentioned that he never does the salute in the movie. Boseman's antipathy about doing the salute has reached the point of becoming a meme due to how after 2018 he looks utterly dead inside whenever he's asked to do it. Jordan even joked while accepting an Creator/{{MTV}} music award that Chadwick had told him to tell the crowd to stop asking him to do it.

* ActingInTheDark: As per usual with Marvel's movies, not every cast member was given a full script for the film. Denzel Whitaker (young Zuri), for example, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce5am6yJy54 had no idea that the Oakland flashback was two parts]] with [[spoiler:T'Chaka killing N'Jobu]] being shown in Act Two until he actually saw the film.

* AuthorExistenceFailure: Chadwick Boseman died of colon cancer on August 28, 2020. Marvel Studios announced that T'Challa won't be recast nor recreated through digitized effects for ''Black Panther II'', with the film focusing on the other supporting characters instead.