Black Panther/YMMV

• Alternative Character Interpretation: T'challa under different writers and appears differently to different characters has ranged from grim superhero, noble adventurer, Marty Stu, Jerkass Stu and Knight Templar tyrant.
  • His Iron Man: Armored Adventures universe self is very much this from backstory to personality. He ends up being more of a angry and alone Anti-Hero than anything else.
• Author's Saving Throw: Former Power Man and Iron Fist scribe Christopher Priest used a story in his Panther run to give Iron Fist his powers back.
• Badass Decay: Panther has gone from outwitting Tony Stark, Mephisto, and pulling off repeated impossibly complex and brilliant schemes, and going to toe-to-toe with heavy hitters like Namor and the Hulk to getting yelled at by Luke Cage for not being as good as Daredevil.
• Complete Monster: Several of Panther's rogues gallery, while surprisingly T'challa himself skirts the line on occasion.
• Designated Hero: Depending on interpretation.
  • Played when Killmonger technically became the Black Panther, and insisted on joining the Avengers, despite being a villain and the guy who took the previous Panther out of action.
• Fanon Discontinuity: So much of Hudlin's and the current series plot points are Wall Bangers for some that were big fans of the Priest run, although this isn't always the case. However, pretty much everyone agrees that Doomwar never happened... except, unfortunately, for Marvel themselves.
• God Mode Sue: Hudlin's interpretation of the character, up until the re-launch, where he suddenly became a total chump.
• Iron Woobie: His Iron Man: Armored Adventures incarnation.
• Mary Suetopia: Wakanda.
  • Ruled by their Marty Stu leader, of course.
    • During the period where it was at its worst, Black Panther would effortlessly conquer any situation by simply saying "Wakanda has completely mastered (placeholder) long ago." This included at one point being surrounded by (racist and stupid, of course) police officers at one point, who all try to shoot the friggin' Fantastic Four... and their guns just refuse to work. T'Challa makes some comment about Wakanda having figured out how to neutralize firearms shortly after firearms were invented. He didn't even have to press a button, the guns just didn't work because he didn't want them to.
  • Averted in the Iron Man: Armored Adventures universe. Their economy's messed up, they have no diplomatic ties to the rest of the world and they're all fairly racist. Except for the Wakandans willing to throw each other under a bus for money.
  • Averted during Christopher Priest's run too, sure it's one of the most advance nations on the planet but all the many tribes and groups hate each other almost as much as they do outsiders, and Panther's constantly having to deal with some tribal war or coup attempt or whatever.
  • Honestly, it's basically only this under Hudlin, and even then, only until Doom starts trashing the place.
    • There was some of it under other writers, it's just that other writers were willing to show some flaws along with Wakanda's advanced technology and research. It was also less glaring because under other writers Black Panther was welcoming and friendly to all other heroes, which reflected better on his country. Under Hudlin, Panther became a borderline black supremacist, so Wakanda accordingly looked more like Perfect African Ubermensch-land than simply an advanced country.
• Strangled by the Red String: Him and Storm, in one of the most brutal stranglings in mainstream comics. Made worse and/or hilarious by the fact that Storm was a (heavily implied) lesbian under Claremont, only none of her other writers twigged to it. Hudlin basically built the marriage out of a two-issue cameo from Priest's run where their "romance" was treated as an unrealistic-but-cathartic childhood fantasy that would never actually work in any real way. Writers of both characters are now largely ignoring the marriage for exactly that reason.
  • They now seem to be officially divorced.
• Unfortunate Implications: Storm going from a strong black female character whose survived as a popular character since her introduction to some random chick that dropped her panties for T'Challa the first time they met.