Sentences with phrase «important black superhero»

The Black Panther is arguably Marvel Comics» most important black superhero, a king who's never been mired in the kinds of stereotype - heavy portrayals that have dogged other characters.

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The Afro - punk and Afrofuturism aesthetics, the unapologetic black swagger, the miniscule appearances from non-black characters — it's an important resetting of a standard of what's possible around creating a mythology for a black superhero.

Marvel's «Black Panther» is another important step in that process, the first big - budget superhero pic to feature a mostly black Black Panther» is another important step in that process, the first big - budget superhero pic to feature a mostly black black cast.

What separates «Black Panther» from the Batmans, Spidermans and Iron Mans of the creaky, big studio superhero genre is that it looks and, more important, feels nothing like the usual bloated franchise movie that takes no chances and plays by genre rules.

And the film counts as a major, important victory for representation — not just as a rare, series - launching vehicle for a black superhero, but also as a mega-budget Hollywood tentpole starring mostly black actors, one that's explicitly about black (and African) identity.

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Painted the year after his acclaimed Turner Prize exhibition, Chris Ofili's The Naked Soul of Captain Shit and the Legend of the Black Stars is one of a number of important works that features the artist's invented superhero, including Double Captain Shit and the Legend of the Black Stars, 1997 (Tate, London) and The Adoration of Captain Shit and the Legend of the Black Stars (Third Version), 1998, (Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh).