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* [[California Doubling]]: Played straight. Georgia doubles as Wakanda and whatever African place.
** Averted with the Korean scenes.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: [[Rogue One: A Star Wars Story|Saw Gerrera]] pretends to be a North American to spy on Prince N'Jobu.
** [[Modern Family|Dwight]] threatens to feed a CIA agent to his children...Turns out, he's just joking.
** [[Creed (film)|Adonis Johnson]] challenges T'Challa for the Wakandan throne.
** [[All My Children|Reggie Montgomery]] decided to go "Old School" with his taste of shoes.
** [[The Hobbit (film)|Bilbo Baggins and Gollum]] duke it out in an interrogation room.
** [[Doctor Who|Barclay]] sides with Erik, since the latter avenge Barclay's family.
** [[Life on Mars|Angela]] joins and becomes a general of an elite warrior/bodygaurd group.
* [[Memetic Mutation]]: [[Catch Phrase|Wakanda Forever]].
* [[Loners Are Freaks]]: Not Michael B. Jordan himself, but he reason that Erik was this trope, being distant and conflicted with the other characters. So, Jordan decided to isolate himself while on set.
* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]: A tiny bit, since Ryan Coogler, the director, compared Vibranium mines to the significance involving the Congo mines.
* The quote "Every breath you take is mercy from me." was taken from a "[[New Avengers]]" comic, when T'Challa said it to Namor.
* [[Trope]]: [[Eli Bradley]] was considered for appearing in the film, but [[Ryan Coogler]] and [[Joe Robert Cole]] nix the idea in favor of the Wakandan characters and fleshing the latter out.
* [[Trope]]: Black Panther was the first Marvel character whose movie rights reverted back to Marvel, these rights were owned by [[Artisan Entertainment]] and [[Columbia Pictures]].
* [[Meaningful Release Date]]: The film was released in February which was during [[Black History Month]].
* [[Trope]]: According to [[Michael B. Jordan]], unlike the other MCU films, Black Panther is "very honest and gritty."
* [[TropeProlonged Prologue]]: Just like [[Captain America: Civil War (film)|Captain America: Civil War]], Black Panther includes a prologue scene ahead of the studio logos.
* [[TropeSliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty]]: According to [[Michael B. Jordan]], unlike the other MCU films, Black Panther is supposed to be "very honest and gritty."
* Chadwick Boseman in an interview stated that his reasoning to use an African accent.
{{quote|"Colonialism in Africa would have it that, in order to be a ruler, his education comes from Europe. I wanted to be completely sure that we didn't covey that idea because that would be counter to everything that Wakanda is about. It's supposed to be the most technologically advanced nation on the planet. If it's supposed to not have been conquered - Which means that advancement has happened without colonialism tainting it, poisoning the well of it, without stopping it or disrupting it - Then there's no way he would speak with a European accent."}}
* Both [[Lupita Nyong'o]] and [[Winston Duke]], who both play as Nakia and M'Baku, were just Yale School of Drama students, who saw the first [[Avengers]] movie when it was released. They were so awestruck that they wish that they'll star in a similar film in the future.
* The costuming department deliberately made that three out of every five Wakandans go barefoot.
* The filmmakers got inspired by different African tribes and created unique blend of them to form the fictional Wakandan tribes:
** The Golden Tribe uses black motifs and a continental sun symbol that's found throughout Africa. Which also has panther themes and designs.
** The Border Tribe were inspired by the Lesotho architecture and language, and their motifs are blue and wood. Even wearing Basotho blankets (The reasons are that there's a Basotho tribe that's lviing in Lesotho).
** The River Tribe were inspired by a combo of the Surma and Mursi Ethiopian tribes.
** The Mining Tribe was inspired by both the Himba and Maasai tribes of Africa's southern regions.
** The Merchant Tribe were inspired by the Tuareg tribe, who lives in the Sahara.
** Last but not least, the Jabari Tribe were inspired by the tribes of Africa's western regions, mainly the Bari, Igbo, and Dogon tribes.
* Ryan Coogler felt that putting the Jabari Tribe in the rain forest is too obvious, so he placed them in an unexpected place...A snow-covered mountain.
* Trevor Noah voiced the Royal Talon Remote Pilot System.
* The golden Black Panther habit that Killmonger wears resembles a leopard. A reference to his pet leopard, Preyy.
** Also, Michael B. Jordan was allowed to keep the costume.
* According to Hannah Beachler, Wakanda's circular designs are to represent completeness and eternity.
* This was Saudi Arabia's first live-action film in thirty-five years.
* The Black Panther film was one of the utterly few movies were we see how Andy Serkis actually appears like.
* Ryan Coogler, the director, wanted to have [[Kraven the Hunter]] to be one of the film's main villains, since he's also T'Challa's problem. But due to Sony reasons, them refusing permissions, and Kraven hunts [[Spider-Man]] more.
* [[Daniel Kaluuya]] described the Black Panther movie as "Marvel's [[Game of Thrones]]."
* [[Yahya Abdul-Mateen II]] tried to audition for M'Baku.
* The huge inspiration for the City of the Dead was Samsara, the cycle of death and rebirth.
 
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