Khalil's_Black_Excellence
The King of Fighters
In fact, the more i think about CA:TWS, the more i realized that the Russos pretty much covered for Steve's "blandness" with how they crafted the story's conflict around him, much the same way Coogler did with T'Challa... but the only difference is Coogler gave us much more charismatic support characters.
i.e. Steve's essential character arc revolved around another man/villain [Bucky] just like it did with T'Challa [Erik] but Bucky as a character was essentially a vegetable who barely said anything and gave us no opposing viewpoints, basically just an evil super soldier. Natasha, Nick and Sam were cool but Sam's whole role from jump was to establish he was inferior to Steve/joke at his own expense ["on your left!"] and he flat out told the audiences later in the film that he was simply there as a slower, weaker version of Cap, to humble brag about Cap. They didn't even show us Sam's fight with Crossbones lol. Compare that and Natasha/Sharon Carter's roles to what we saw out of Okoye, Nakia, Shuri, M'Baku, even Ross... even Sterling K Brown and John Kani, etc... and it's just no comparison.
So it almost seems like the Russos holding back on richer character development and villain motivation benefited Captain America more b/c all the characters pretty much helped magnify his own strengths. And by CA: Civil War, i'm not sure how interesting Cap even was there compared to the other characters, but by then the film was seen as Avengers 2.5 anyway, and again the central motivation for Cap's character arc was the 'villain' [who at this point we the audience know wasn't really a 'villain'].
That said, I prefer the route Coogler took with Black Panther. And that if anything, i think it'll make it easier to double down on T'Challa in the next one because the entire world has already been built.. and we can simply say now we have a T'Challa who is more experienced
Took Nick Fury out of there cuz they showed him to be a badass that needed a whole goon squad plus TWS to attempt to take him down and he still got out alive. But yeah, everything else, I whole heartedly agree on.