10 MCU Scenes Everyone Wishes They Could Unsee
4. "What Are Those?" - Black Panther
Referencing a meme in a movie is always extremely risky, because films take so long to make that there's always the distinct possibility that the meme will fall out of fashion or even become a "dead" meme by the time the movie actually releases.
That's certainly the case in Black Panther, where Shuri (Letitia Wright) makes fun of T'Challa's open-toed sandals by playfully shouting at him, "What are those!?"
This is a reference to a 2015 meme in which a man asks a police officer about his work shoes and does the very same thing.
And though technically speaking Black Panther is set in 2016 when the meme was still going strong, by the film's 2018 release it was a reference that many found horrendously dated.
Nodding to memes that came and went within a short period of time is an easy way to make a movie age like milk left out in the sun all day, but thankfully it's the only such moment in Black Panther.