In the pages of
Marvel's Avengers: Endgame - The Art of the Movie, a few pages of alternate armor and costumes for both the Black Panther himself and his warriors can be seen (starting at the 12:40 mark in the video above). For the Panther, some of his alternate armor appears almost medieval, with a Knight quality to them. Another shows a version outfitted with a similar shield and armor to what Captain America wears in the final fight, others include a variety of firearms which don't quite seem like the T'Challa's style. Perhaps the most interesting bit though comes on the following page featuring a variety of Wakandan mech suits. Some bear a striking similarity to the mechs seen in films like Avatar, though these carry the trademark spears of Wakanda. The book quotes concept artist Fausto De Martini about the design process here, saying:
“I was working with Ryan Meinerding and the VisDev department and he said 'We're thinking about the idea of having these armored guys in mech suits to fight alongside the Wakandan-warriors.' I tried to design the mech suits in a way that was very African-inspired. You can see there's one version that I did that has those African masks so it's hard to see that there's a person even in the suit, because I wanted to make it look like this being that is moving around that you initially don't even know what it is – but then you see there's a guy driving that. In the other one, the drivier is a little more obvious. I tried to bring evicence of the African culture to the both of them and to make it look like Wakanda's style.”
Even cooler on the page following is the reveal that robotic panthers almost stormed the battlefield too. De Martini revealed in the book that they were discussing these designs at the same time, saying the idea came from the simple brainstorm of
“How cool would it be to have a robotic panther fighting alongside the warriors?” The artist said he experimented with the designs including some that were clearly more robot inspired and others that looked more panther-like. In the end, none of these things ended up in the final film and given the close proximity with which
Black Panther was released compared to
Avengers: Infinity War, perhaps it would have been a stretch that these two giant tech leaps had been absent from that film.
No Panther vs Maul
tech in the next one. Go full comicbook mode with that shyt
aim or and mdok appear everyone is appearing via teleporting 2 sides fight namor driven back tchalla questions his leadership end movie next movie shuri takes BP mantle lupita storm angela bassett carry the movie revolving around an African super being respose council gentle is the quasi villain let these black women eat on and of the screen meanig when they shine in this movie roles will come tchalla during movie is struggling with his heart and role as king eventually giving up his kingship to shuri movie 4 is all about when tchalla goes to hell kitchen to find himself no punctuation for me
don't take my shyt marvel
