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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
I... actually wouldn't be opposed to Chadwick Boseman's Kang the Conqueror. It would even kinda darkly tie in to a line from the movie.
"The world changed. I knew what I was going to be."
My various fanfics.Only half joking now, I could actually see Shuri being the Kang of a Bad Future.
edited 26th Feb '18 8:31:07 PM by KnownUnknown
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"It's hard for a Good Man to be a King."
But in all seriousness, it should be fine as long as it's presented very clearly that our T'Challa won't become Kang.
edited 26th Feb '18 8:34:11 PM by SonOfSharknado
My various fanfics.I do think T'Challa actually has a lot of potential as a headliner going down the line. I've seen some people complaining that BP's supporting cast outshines him despite Boseman's warm and charismatic performance (a statement I can agree with, at least partially), but I think depending on how they develop him and how the following movies test him as king he could be really interesting in his own right.
It's not gonna be easy for him and I expect Coogler to give him some really difficult choices to make going forward.
edited 26th Feb '18 8:37:53 PM by Draghinazzo
T'Challa's great but he has a lot of growing to do.
I want the guy who punches out Mephisto & then immediately carves out his heart, the guy who could manage his kingdom despite a ton of people complaining at him all at once (this includes a BP'd Killmonger), the guy who along with a team of super-powered geniuses cured Galactus' hunger in a heartbeat, the guy who took command of a violent tiger deity to escape an impenetrable barrier around Earth to aid in his allies fight against a sentient universe, the guy who once faced down an omnipotent Doctor Doom with the motherfucking Infinity Gauntlet at the end of the universe.
That is the T'Challa I wanna see one day.
edited 26th Feb '18 8:40:15 PM by slimcoder
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."This actually is consistent with the Priest run.
T'Challa is for the most part understated due to his stoicism & a lot of the story is seen through Ross' eyes as T'Challa is constantly outmaneuvering every menace he encounters.
Though of course as the run continues we start getting more into his head & personalness.
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."If we theoretically got evil alternate universe T'challa who became Kang (not that I particularly want that, but humoring the thread for a bit), would the major divergence point be one who killed Baron Zemo instead of being "done letting [revenge] consume [him]"?
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!Another one: Erik came to live with T'Challa in Wakanda and T'Challa agreed with his ideas.
My various fanfics.I kinda dislike this line because I thought it was going to show that being a good ruler demands that you abandon your self-virtue but then.....it didn't go that route. T'Challa screams T'Chaka was wrong after he discovers that even his father's hands aren't clean and that's that.
T'Challa is as a spotless going in the movie as he came out of the movie.
I interpreted that line as being more about how as king, difficult and painful decisions weigh much heavier if you're someone that's very warm and compassionate like T'Challa is. That line might still pay off in the future since T'Challa has only just barely begun his rule.
edited 26th Feb '18 9:12:33 PM by Draghinazzo

I still wish that somehow we can get cosmic entities to battle Thanos with the Infinity Gauntlet, but they don't have enough setup and the special effects budget would be through the roof.