[Trivial Psychic]

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Originally Posted by redfox

While he originated from the F4, the character has grown so much since then. It's strange that Black Panther has to share the spotlight with 3 other headlining Marvel Characters in his first actual wave of Marvel Legends. Classifying Iron Man, Namor, and Black Bolt under the Black Panther mantle seems weak and disingenuous to T'Challa and his supporting cast of characters.

To be fair though, if you were to ask the average person to name two of BP's supporting characters wothout naming MCU characters or popular characters with origins from elsewhere (such as Storm) you would be hard pressed. Even I couldn't answer this, and while I'm no expert, I'm also no spring chicken either.

And that's not a dig at Black Panther. It's simply the truth.

I'm sure Hasbro realizes this, hence the failure to go deep into his supporting cast. There is a reason that characters like Speed Demon, Female Beetle, Nico, White Tiger, Misty Knight, and Ashley Barton are clogging up toy aisles, and that's because the average person, and even the casual comic fan, has no clue who or what they're looking at, or even the connection to said character.