How does that even work?

[thepmpknking]

There was just a commercial on Cartoon Network for some sort of animated Avengers movie. (Avengers the Marvel superhero team, not the suave British television series.)

The guest-hero in the straight-to-video movie was a guy calling himself the "Black Panther," a jungle-dwelling black dude with a thick accent.

The fuck?

Can you even DO that?

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[rwdederick]

Marvel's been doing it since 1966. Seems he recently married Storm (of the X-Men) -- go figure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_%28comics%29
http://www.marveldatabase.com/wiki/index.php/Black_Panther_%28T%27Challa%29

[wicketsnatcher]

Mutha' fucka.

[cucumberseed]

Funny how 40 years can take what was once a sincerely groundbreaking character and convert him to hokey minstrelsy. It's actually kind of a positive thing for the times, but Marvel would be much better served by doing a little more research about central Africa and, maybe, just maybe, calling him "Panther" instead.

[thepmpknking]

Now I'm no comics afficianado by any means (I was a lot of kinds of geek...just never a superhero geek) so I have to go with what wikipedia is telling me on this one...and as we all know, wikipedia is never incorrect. In fact, did you know that the population of African elephants has TRIPLED in the last few years? Amazing!

But, anyway...yeah: one of the first "non caricatured" black superheroes? Debatable, but check. Apparently pre-dating the political party by about two months? Check. Still completely and utterly absurd in a modern context? Check and check.

[commonboy]

I had heard that the African elephant population was on the rise in the last 30 years, but I had no idea it had tripled!

Amazing!

[starlaiste]

I amazed that you even knew what an African elephant was. Amazed!

[maltlick]

I'm more amazed who know who the British Avengers are.

[commonboy]

Back in the early 90's I submitted a character concept to Marvel called The Anti-Nigger Machine.

He was a east LA rapper who had been shot and mortally wounded. Luckily, a super scientist who lived in the ghetto pulled him into his meth / science lab and constructed a whole new body for him.

Now he fights gangs and racial stereotyping in the hood.

Unfortuantely, Marvel rejected it, because they're a bunch of pussy-whiners. They said he was horribly politically incorrect and offensive, but I think they were just afraid of getting sued like St. Ides by Chuck D.

Vagiwhores.

[thepmpknking]

No way, I've read that before!

I think Marvel just stole your intellectual property and took off laughing-all the way to the bank!