Why? Why would you want your great heroic hero to beat up Captain America?
That's what hip hop is all about. Being a bad@$$. Everyone wants to be a bad@$$. That's why white kids have always loved black music -- whether it's jazz, rock and roll or hip hop, black music is the music of bad@$$es, and plugging into that culture makes a suburban white kid feel like a bad@$$, too. And for a generation of white kids who have grown up without an "Elvis"- a white interpreter of black culture-their appreciation of the edgy street culture is shocking even to me.
I say all this because the harder the Panther is, the more appealing he is to both black AND white audiences.
Dude, in terms of influence and celebrity we had our Elvis in Michael Jackson. Kids don't actually need "interpreters", they just need to be given a little context and they learn to understand like it belongs to them. And "shocking EVEN to me"? Whaaat? This fella needs to put down his expert stick!
Ughhh by the end I was just finding the described supercharacter SO BORING. I'm glad I didn't try to read (his) BP.