Black Panther’s latest posters: What you may have missed

With under 100 days until Black Panther comes roaring into theaters, is it any wonder that Marvel has released a tidal wave of information?

Thor: Ragnarok hasn’t even finished its first full week in theaters, and yet Marvel is already turning its attention to Black Panther, next year’s opening gambit for a set of movies that also includes Avengers: Infinity War. (It has not gone unnoticed by other Twitter users, either, aside from this writer.) It might seem a little early, but like the film’s official Twitter account has reminded us, the movie is actually 99 days away as of today.

In the grand scheme of things, that’s not very long at all. Time to start teasing things a little more strongly, right?

That seems to be the principle behind Black Panther dropping a huge number of new posters, character by character, each with a unique tagline, but which fairly easily

For example, here’s T’Challa, with “His father’s legacy” as his line:

It’s an unusually solemn poster — T’Challa’s eyes are closed, his hands are up as if he can’t quite believe what he’s done with them. Additionally, he’s in the Black Panther costume, just sans the mask. The overall effect is of weight, which ties back nicely to the tagline being about “legacy.”

Meanwhile, Michael B. Jordan’s Erik Killmonger is in a similar pose — head bowed, eyes closed, hands as weapons — but where T’Challa’s tagline is mostly about a connection to a specific person (although the “legacy” in question can also be read as referring to Wakanda), Killmonger’s is part of something greater on the surface, without any need to think it through.

Angela Bassett’s Ramonda and Danai Gurira’s Okoye share the distinction of being in profile, although they face opposite ways. Ramonda’s tagline of “Her son’s survival” ties back to T’Challa’s “His father’s legacy,” in the sense that it quite clearly establishes the two still-living characters as a family unit. Meanwhile, Okoye, despite being in profile, still gets to hold onto her weapon, providing a different look at the similar poses adopted by Killmonger and T’Challa.

So do Lupita Nyong’o’s Nakia and Letitia Wright’s Shuri, although they face forward. Their eyes are open, looking ahead, directly at something. Both are ready for combat, though. They also match in that their taglines refer to the same person — T’Challa, king to Nakia and brother to Shuri.

Daniel Kaluuya’s poster as W’Kabi doesn’t quite pair neatly with anyone else’s …

Though it’s not dissimilar in facial expression to that of Martin Freeman as Everett Ross, and tagline-wise, they’re operating on similar levels.

Winston Duke’s M’Baku doesn’t exactly fit in either — he’s looking at the camera in a different pose than anyone else — but that might be a point of contention anyway, since he’s supposed to be a different voice in Wakanda.

Finally, here are Andy Serkis as Klaue and Forest Whitaker’s Zuri. They pair together both in the “hand up but not necessarily holding anything” pose, and in the sense that they’ve been around longer than other characters. In Klaue’s case, it’s long enough to yearn for “revenge,” as his tagline promises, but it’s “his king’s commands” that define Zuri.

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What do you see in this collection of frankly amazing posters? Let us know.