They didn't say they weren't recasting T'Challa for BP 2. They said they are not recasting T'Challa, no other stipulations to it. If they specified the sequel then people here would not be so up in arms about it.
So are we now going to take what others who knew him over Chad's OWN WORDS and say they know best? Again it's not my own uninformed opinion vs those who knew him, I am going off of his own words and what he has said over the years. Dude was a trailblazer, talked so many times about setting up the people to follow him and knowing how important T'Challa was for millions of black boys and men. One can make a safe guess that he wouldn't want them to honor hom by retiring T'Challa. Otherwise what's the point of fighting through cancer to play such a character? He could of let someone else take the role and focused on his health.
And his brother Did say he still wanted T'Challa to be in the sequel, but didn't think that they would go that route because the image of black kings.
Again, I would have accepted this of they came out and said they aren't recasting right now, or they are going to hold on the sequel to allow time to heal. But they didn't, instead they kept schedule and using Digits word here, revisionist history, started talking as though T'Challa was never a big deal about was always about Wakanda and that this was the plan from the get go, when that goes against what was said in the past.
There are a ton of ways to honor actor's who had impactful roles in their careers, very rarely have o seen them completely retire fictional characters that have existed long before said actor took the role. But it seems that for poc especially Black men, there's always an exception.
I don't care about Snyder cut or any of that. Frankly the more time that goes on, the more dream the team recast gets, because people are healing and then having more time to think about it and ask is retiring the character really the best thing to do.
I critised people on both sides who were calling for Shuri to take the mantle less that an hour after news broke of his passing, and the people who called for a recast and who could do it. I am on the recast side, but I am also on the push the movie back and let people frakking grieve side. Recasting isn't some taboo like people act like, especially when it's been done for many other fictional characters
Your aren't minimizing the actor who came before then or pretending they didn't exist, that will never happen. People to this day still mention the names Christopher Reeves and Adam west for supes and bats respectively. But thing's like Bucky giving Ayo and Shuri credit while leaving T'Challa out? Little stuff like that slowly erasing his existence is more damaging.
Depends how you are using prominent.
Klaw has way more appearances. But vast majority of them, he is a joke henchman who jsut gets taken out quickly. He got used too much and looks silly so no one takes him seriously.
Killmonger has only appeared 9 times.
1. Panthers Rage (origin)
2. Iron Man Annual 5 (reanimated by the mandarin rings)
3. Over the Edge (reanimated by Klaw)
4. Priest (Killmongers Reign)
5. Priest again (kasper run, didn't do much but talk)
6. Hudlin
7. Rise fo the BP
8. Solo
9. Coates
#2 and #3 everyone forgot about until I brought it up in this thread 5 years ago when researching for the blog and then the wiki copied me (still wonder which one of you edited the wiki afterwards! Show yourself!).
The other 6 appearances before the movie he was formidable as hell. Then he was formidable again in Rise, then he go his mini-series, then whatever the hell Coates is doing.
Klaw, on the ther hand, gets beat up by Goldballs
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I see. I usually rank villains by number of appearances but also on importance to the MU overall. Guys like Loki would be A-list, while someone like MODOK would be B or C list. I guess I never thought Killmonger ranked very high
Getting beat by Goldballs seems like a major downgrade though
Tbh, I kinda wish Klaw was the main villain in BP. IMO he's more of a realistic threat, i.e. a colonizer stealing resources from an African nation, rather than an African-American man who seeks justice against racism. I didn't see why that had to be villainized
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