Feige says the film honors the history of Marvel’s first black superhero. “Creating a character named Black Panther, who comes across in those early comics as smarter than everybody else, is shrewder than everybody else, comes from a country that is more advanced than any other country… They were doing this in the ‘60s, right in the middle of the Civil Rights movement. That’s pretty good,” Feige says. “And we are certainly not going to shy away from that.”