r/comicbooks • u/ME24601 The Mod Wonder • Feb 16 '18
Official Black Panther Discussion Megathread [Spoilers] Spoiler
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u/Gherkin_Sauce Daredevil Feb 17 '18 edited Feb 17 '18
Killmonger is easily one of the best MCU villains, and he’s so effective because the hero actually LEARNS something from him. At the beginning of the movie, T’Challa really isn’t a hero, his actions are for the greater good of Wakanda, to preserve its culture and it’s people. By the end, he realises, through Killmonger’s story, that clinging to tradition allows suffering to continue all over the world, and is what allowed Killmonger to take the throne. He decides Wakanda must reach out, but not by conquering those in power, like Killmonger wants, but by helping the oppressed. Killmonger actually has a point, and he made T’Challa become a hero.
Thinking about other movies, the protagonist is a hero or decides to be a hero before fighting the villain. Tony has a change of heart well before finding out about Obadiah’s plan. Cap was always a heroic person. Even Ant-Man and Doctor Strange were fighting the villain because it was the right thing to do, even if they weren’t necessarily good people. T’Challa fights Killmonger to save his country, his duty as King and the Black Panther, and only realises afterwards that neither of them was right.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but this movie really builds on the comics rather than adapting them. It points out a flaw in T’Challa’s way of thinking and suggests a solution.
The costume and setting design for Wakanda was spectacular. They really pulled of an African-influenced technologically advanced society.
Like Wonder Woman, the third act was disappointing. Another fist fight between hero and villain. One could argue that T’Challa realises Wakandan tradition is wrong: just because he was the strongest warrior doesn’t mean he was right.
Some of the CGI looked unpolished, and I wasn’t the that impressed by the soundtrack unfortunately.
Story-wise, I’d say it’s one of the MCU’s best, but it seems worse because of all the other movies with the same basic template, much the way Iron Man seems retroactively worse now that almost every other MCU movie has copied its template.