>M’Baku is trouble for Black Panther. He’s the ruler of the Wakanda’s mountain tribe and has serious issues with how T’Challa is fulfilling his role as the nation’s new king.
>But M’Baku was also a potential problem for Black Panther the movie.
>That’s because the comic-book version of this villain, who first appeared in Avengers #62 in March 1969, encased himself in white fur and attacked the hero under the moniker “Man-Ape.”
>Rather than abandon one of Black Panther’s most famous antagonists, Marvel Studios decided to rescue M’Baku. The character is a hard-bitten, ruthless warrior, but as played by actor Winston Duke (Person of Interest) he also has dignity and strength. Not that this makes him a nice guy.
>And in a fictional culture where leaders take on the symbols of native animals (like the panther), his tribe’s affinity for the gorilla is regarded as something noble — not cringeworthy.
>Still, the filmmakers felt that “Man-Ape” would never be an easy name for newcomers to accept.
>“We don’t call him Man-Ape,” executive producer Nate Moore told EW during our set visit. “We do call him M’Baku.”
>The problem was self-evident. “Having a black character dress up as an ape, I think there’s a lot of racial implications that don’t sit well, if done wrong,” said Moore. “But the idea that they worship the gorilla gods is interesting because it’s a movie about the Black Panther who, himself, is a sort of deity in his own right.”
>So he’s still adorned with elements of fur on his arms and legs and sports a chest-plate that hints at the animal that is symbolic of his tribe. But he doesn’t wear the full gorilla mask that, in the comics, often made him literally look like that creature.
>Director Ryan Coogler and his co-writer Joe Robert Cole (American Crime Story) borrowed some inspiration for the character from Marvel scribe Christopher Priest, who had an acclaimed 1998-2003 run on the Black Panther series.
>“You learn that M’Baku is essentially the head of the religious minority in Wakanda and we thought that was interesting,” Moore said. “Wakanda is not a monolithic place. They have a lot of different factions.”
>In Priest’s story line, M’Baku was enraged that his White Gorilla cult was outlawed, leading to a clash with the Panther. The character’s exact role in the film is still being kept under wraps, but the filmmakers confirm that M’Baku and his Jabari tribe are, once again, not happy with the young, new ruler (played by Chadwick Boseman).
>“A lot of the writers who did some of the most interesting work around the character, they treated Wakanda like a truly African country,” Coogler said. “When you go to countries in Africa, you’ll find several tribes, who speak their own languages, have their own culture, and have distinct food and way of dress. They live amongst each other, and together they make the identity of those countries. That’s something we tried to capture. We wanted it to feel like a country, as opposed to just one city or town.”
Hudson Collins
>implying he needs the mask
Ryder Fisher
Works for me.
John Butler
>“Having a black character dress up as an ape, I think there’s a lot of racial implications that don’t sit well, if done wrong,”
Disney is so fucking stupid
Jason Carter
tbqh there would be endless jokes about man ape's name...
It's just too easy of a target
Liam Clark
Sho enuff! No need for a gorilla mask when you're already a total nigger.
William Ortiz
Why are niggers so upset about looking like apes? They can't help it or change it, why not embrace it and brand it like racial slurs and stereotypes?
Gabriel Cox
I don't mind and neither do the white girls I creampie
Henry Turner
Black Manta is a nigger too but they didn't change his name to pander to a bunch of delicate flowers.
Joshua Ramirez
>My favorite character is He-Boon you know it
Joshua Bell
There isn't a history of denigrating black people by likening them to rays.
Connor Brooks
Wouldn't him being "a hard-bitten, ruthless warrior" with "his tribe’s affinity for the gorilla is regarded as something noble" solve the problem of the silly sounding name? Also since when is Marvel pandering to people who would make jokes like that.
Jose Roberts
This is both pathetic and kinda actually racist. For one I think the average black person would know the difference between a black character taking on the moniker of a bad ass gorilla and "hurrr durrr dem black folk are monkeys" and second the average black person has thicker skin than to break down because of something like this. I can think of at least a few rappers who compare themselves to apes or gorillas in their songs.
Connor Stewart
>having to change a character's name because dumb americans and dumb american niggers can't comprehend different cultures
BIX NOOD GIBS ME DAT MUHFUGGENS BE CALLING MUH NIGGA A MONKEY WAT DA FUCK
Next up they'll need to call this guy Manta of Color.
Ian Bennett
Gorilla Zoe and Gucci mane to name a few
Christian Gomez
>the average black person has thicker skin AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Xavier Howard
...
Eli Parker
>For one I think the average black person would know the difference No
Mason Rivera
I don't understand, Europeans also lived in huts but we didn't put a log cabin on top of the Chrysler Building.
Henry Cook
>Man Ape
Don't call him that.
Tyler Peterson
Not to mention Black Manta has a nice ring to it, and he wears a mask 99% of the time. You wouldn't even know he was black. Man-Ape just sounds ridiculous.
Jonathan Young
They're pushing a movie called BLACK PANTHER as the most important superhero movie of all time. Nothing political there?
Ian Martin
>wonder why he didn't get the role >google him >he's dead oh...
Samuel Diaz
To be fair to blacks, BLM are SJWs.
Samuel Reed
>i dont know any black people IRL: the post
Cameron Green
We all feel the pain of MCD to this day. Truly a legend.
Benjamin Young
>Hey Arthur, how's the wife and kid?
Eli Cook
The people who would complain about it the most are white liberal women
Gavin Scott
Too soon boss. . .
Nicholas Brooks
It would be pretty ballin' though
Jacob King
how its it getting pushed as the most important? infinity war is the hyped up one. Plus apekino and dunkirk are also getting hyped up more
Jayden Bailey
Faggots who post on twittergrams are not the average person user.
Andrew Morris
how many pretty white girls are going to get BLACKED in this movie?
Nicholas Johnson
You do know that the character predated the party by months.
They tried to rename him throughout the decades to names like Black Leopard or just Panther but everyone didn't buy into the new names so they just stuck with Black Panther
Joshua Allen
Hmmmm
Robert Cook
Why is a black man dressing as an ape a self-evident problem?
What do they mean?
I'm not quite sure I understand.
Evan Moore
Why are blacks so thin skinned? I'm expecting some JaMarcus shooting a white guy at a screening.
Henry Thomas
Why would you name yourself after gorillas, they're completely nonviolent unless attacked
Luke Reed
That is the shittiest arrow placement I have seen on an image
Aaron Morgan
Take that up with the Disney and Entertainment Weekly.
Carson Watson
I don't understand, if the character was completely badass no one would make fun of him.
Sebastian Baker
That's because you are not a racist. Up is down and down is up. Liberals are pushing for segregation of all races and war against Russia.
Ayden Lopez
Is that nick cannon?
If so lmfao
Jayden Martin
>muh baku
Angel Campbell
Not even the same thing fucking faggot ass retard
Dominic Green
>“We don’t call him Man-Ape,” executive producer Nate Moore told EW during our set visit. “We do call him Di'Ndu.”
Luke Thompson
Big hint: they're not doing this for black people
Easton Murphy
Why are neckbeards so triggered by kids film?
Connor Robinson
>implying based wans would do that
Colton King
oh so comic fans and people that know the character will still call him man ape.
Noah Bailey
This. No big deal.
I've never encountered ONE single Man-Ape fan anyway.
Leo Roberts
The comic predates the party
Aaron Rogers
Sounds like a fucking train wreck.
Cooper Johnson
Does the black panther story ever explain how everywhere in Africa is a shithole but wakanda is the most advanced place on earth?
Surely millions of Ugandans, Nigerians, southafricans etc. Would have tried to emigrate there. Are the wakandans jingoists?
Eli Lopez
>oh so comic fans and people that know the character will still call him man ape. So literally no one
They put walls to avoid those poorfags from coming in with the excuse of "they are to protect our resources from whitey"
Asher Roberts
Wakandians isolated themselves away from the rest of Africa after decades of war and invasions. They fought them back, built borders/walls, and refused to aid them after the white colonizes came. That was part of the storyline for why the Black Panther's Father was at the UN meeting in Cap America Civil War, after the events of Ultron they decided to they needed to stop being isolationists.
Jacob Robinson
Wakandas found the worlds only source of onubtanium, the shit they made captain americas shield off and other unbreakable stuff. For some reason this made them incredibly wealthy, even though nobody would be able to actually mine and process that kind of material until the 20th century. Also they don't sell it but are still extremely rich. shit's full of plot holes.
The reason they have a wall around the country and don't give a shit about other niggers is that the kings sacred duty is to protect his own people, the wakandians, not everyone else which sounds reasonable.
Nolan Foster
I hope the movie deals with religious persecution/freedom and fundamentalism. The White Gorilla cult might represent conservative Christianity, or radical Islam, and Black Panther is a moderate or something.
Hudson Bailey
no thats Apollo creed's son. aka michael b jordan
Nathaniel Diaz
>don't give a shit about other niggers is that the kings sacred duty is to protect his own people Well. That is why so many Kingdoms sold their enemies to to the Spanish and Muslim slavers.
Michael Miller
What about this ray?
Carson Price
>implying Sup Forums wouldn't chimp out and call them racists if they kept the man ape name and accuse libshits of being closet racists.
Aiden Rogers
What's the problem with Man-Ape? or Gorilla-Man?
Luke Jenkins
>Most beloved >the filmmakers felt that “Man-Ape” would never be an easy name for newcomers to accept. How can be most beloved if people don't know shit about his history and rogue gallery? Wait, can you call a group of black foes rogues? oh shit can you call black evildoers foes? damn, can you say black people can do evil?
Gabriel Lewis
Is this a movie, says prop of (((Disney))), but can't find out more/
Alexander Carter
I think there's going to be a scene where Klaw tells him "you filthy MAN-APE!" just so the audience hates him more because le white racist.