1. America’s mascot who was largely overshadowed in his own show and doesn’t even have his own movie yet.
2. Co lead, enough said
3. TV series revolving around the Dora Milaje (which is still good admittedly but it doesn’t actually revolve around Black Panther at all)
4. Villain
5. Anti hero vampire hunter
6. Gay co lead
NONE of those roles have the same impact as a Black king of the most powerful and richest nation on the planet. How often do we even get movies portraying us in that type of manner? like I said Disney is looking mighty
right now for not recasting, especially since we are getting different versions of Spider-Man and Loki via the multiverse.