Black Panther: 10 Reasons Why It's The Most Important Marvel Film Yet

6. There's Genuine Commentary

Much like Captain America: The Winter Soldier made an effort to discuss surveillance and espionage in the age of Snowden, Black Panther too possesses commentary in spades. The film broaches different themes obviously, but they're no less important.

The comic book medium has always been political, and it is to that tenet that Black Panther most adheres. The film's aforementioned command of history in its storytelling is impressive in that respect, but it reiterates that the past doesn't engender any perceived lack of relevance, and rather that these themes still define the world in a great many ways. The subject of empire is raised on multiple occasions, but so too is it raised within the context of the CIA, with Martin Freeman's Everett K. Ross noting how Killmonger's plot to overthrow T'Challa was inspired by the Agency's designs on regime change elsewhere, where destabilisation - much like the Empires of old - was the name of the game.

Interwoven through all this is a really interesting debate on isolationist and interventionist foreign policies, with the world now knocking on Wakanda's door. The dilemma there, much like the film's other key topics, lies directly in history, with Wakanda having elected to take the path of isolation to avoid a world increasingly consumed by conflict.

There's just bags and bags of nuance, making Black Panther not only the most important Marvel movie yet, but also the most intelligent.