MCU: What Every Major Villain ALMOST Looked Like

2. Killmonger - Black Panther

Killmonger Concept Art 2
Marvel Studios

As anime fans will tell you, Michael B Jordan's "civilian" costume was clearly designed in homage to Dragon Ball Z's Vegeta, but it wasn't always that way.

Concept artists have revealed that there were several other designs for him, though the most striking variations involved the mask he took from the museum to make himself look more bad-ass when he busted Ulysses Klaue out of custody.

Some of them were pretty striking...

Killmonger Concepts
Marvel Studios

And one concept design seemed to be taking more of a horror movie approach...

Killmonger Mask Concept Art
Marvel Studios
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