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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Regarding the casting call: didn't his reps already say John Boyega wasn't going to be in BP? Yet this thing lists him. And I don't know if they are really going to be throwing this many villains at T'Challa in his first movie, seems a bit like overkill. ETA: Also, read Klaue's character description. We know from Civil War that he didn't kill T'Chaka. This is at least odd.
edited 23rd May '16 1:51:42 PM by hollygoolightly
Isn't there an adopted brother in the comics that calls himself White Wolf? He'd probably be a good Starter Villain to show the unrest in Wakanda.
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Kind of. He became a straight-up active Avenger in the mid 80's, though he was still more or less a supporting character there who didn't get much of anything to do besides swing his sword around, and that's when he actually had a sword. It was only in the 90's where he finally came into his own, becoming the de-facto leader of the Avengers and getting a big storyline with him at the center, involving a destructive love-triangle with the Inhuman Crystal and the Eternal Sersi, as well as a Big Bad who turned out to be an alternative version of him from a parallel universe. He's barely a blip on the radar these days, but back then, he was hot stuff, at least as far as the Avengers were concerned.
Come to think of it, that whole arc was pretty darn good. It wasn't exactly traditional Avengers material, but it was still well done for what it was, and helped get the Avengers out of the slump it was in. They should really collect the whole thing one of these days.
edited 23rd May '16 2:29:48 PM by kkhohoho
White Wolf is a kinda-sorta good guy, so him showing up as a villain wouldn't be a great idea (from what I know of him, he's a good-aligned Knight Templar who's resentful to T'Challa but still super loyal to him).
Then again, they did the same sort of thing with Kurse, so who knows.
edited 23rd May '16 3:05:56 PM by KnownUnknown
If you ask me, the ideal villain for a Black Panther flick is Ulysses Klaw (representing the western Imperialism over African countries) and M'baku. He's a Proud Warrior Race Guy Blood Knight traditionalist seeking to throw back Wakanda to its primitive. If Klaw represents the western Imperialism vulturing over African nations, M'baku could actually be a pretty great metaphor for the own traditionalist religious fundamentalists, warlords and backwards factions in African politics
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That's one reason why I want Marvel to get the FF rights back. I still care about the FF, but there are also many great characters that Marvel can't use just because they're tied up with the FF, and Kang is one of them. Even if Marvel never made a FF movie, (though I'd really want them to,) getting Kang and all of those other characters like Galactus and the Surfer would be reason enough to get the rights back.
edited 23rd May '16 5:17:59 PM by kkhohoho
True. I really hope they figure out the rights.
Now, a different question: would you like it if they introduced Bill Foster in Ant-Man and The Wasp? I don't know much about the character other than basically being a cross between Hank Pym and Luke Cage (and that Foster died in Civil War thanks to the Clone Thor).
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edited 23rd May '16 1:27:36 PM by AlleyOop