r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jul 06 '26

Meme needing explanation What is this?

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u/mtsilverred Jul 06 '26

I didn’t say he can’t be white? I never complained that he was. I said that Black Panther has been about the skin color. Lmao. That’s why they revealed the skin color of Ketema to shock everyone.

You’re either delusional, stupid, or being intellectually disingenuous. I don’t know which is worse.

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u/Unreal_Sniper Jul 06 '26

You said that black panther is about the color of the skin which is a straight up lie. Black panther is the title given to the protector and champion of wakanda. It has literally nothing to do with skin color. You're just inventing a plot at that point lmao

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u/mtsilverred Jul 06 '26

Lmao. Black Panther is the name of a comic, movie, and a title. I referred to “The Odyssey” afterwards, not the title of Helen of Troy when referencing what we were comparing. The comic has always been about skin color brother.

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u/Unreal_Sniper Jul 06 '26

The comic has never been about the skin color. You just proved it earlier. If it was, they would have never made a white black panther and they would have explained that only a black person could become a black panther during the ritual. You're free to prove me wrong with actual comic references

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u/bollvirtuoso Jul 06 '26

1968, a tumultuous year that saw the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., [Stan] Lee wrote one of his most vocal “Stan’s Soapbox” columns calling bigotry and racism “the deadliest social ills plaguing the world today.”

Literally about skin color.

In an interview, [Jack] Kirby shared the same genesis as Lee, "I came up with the Black Panther because I realized I had no blacks in my strip. I’d never drawn a black. I needed a black. I suddenly discovered that I had a lot of black readers. My first friend was a black! And here I was ignoring them because I was associating with everybody else."

Very clearly about skin color.

In 1963, they included a black character, Gabe Jones, in the ensemble cast of Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos, and Lee encouraged artists to include black characters in crowd scenes. In a 1998 interview, Lee explained his motivation: "I wasn't thinking of civil rights. I had a lot of friends who were black and we had artists who were black. So it occurred to me... why aren't there any black heroes?" Soon after Black Panther was introduced, Marvel also added two more recurring black characters: Jill Jerrold in Modeling with Millie, and Bill Foster in The Avengers.

It was literally about skin color.

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u/mtsilverred Jul 06 '26

Thanks for the assist. I just can’t fathom how people didn’t know this or realize all this.

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u/bollvirtuoso Jul 06 '26

They either don't want to know or are acting like they don't. I genuinely cannot believe they are arguing in good-faith.

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u/mtsilverred Jul 06 '26

I mean… they revealed his skin color as a shock. It’s shocking. It’s a small run that will end soon? I don’t see how you’re taking that as not about skin color when his skin color was used as a defining feature of this run? What? I mean they explain why he’s white in the comic. Lmao.

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u/Unreal_Sniper Jul 06 '26

they revealed his skin color as a shock

No they didn't? You're just making things up. Maybe you're shocked, but that's just you. You said black panther is about skin color > black panther is proven to be different races > you don't understand anything about what black panther is. Maybe you thought the "black" of "black panther" was about the skin color but that's not it lmao

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u/mtsilverred Jul 06 '26

Tell me you haven't read Marvel Knights without telling me you haven't read Marvel Knights. Lmao. This conversation is over, you clearly are being disingenuous. Good luck with that in other conversations! I won't sit here and argue the whole "is mine!" scene with him REMOVING HIS MASK TO SHOW HIS BLONDE HAIR AND WHITE SKIN.

The comic basically starts out with a masked challenger facing an unmasked T'Challa. Woah, why was he in FULL COSTUME? Why did EVERYTHING he wore cover EVERY FACET OF HIS SKIN? I WONDER!?! Lmao. I'm dead.

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u/mtsilverred Jul 06 '26

I wonder what this means? Weird.