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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
Random story time:
About 10 years ago I was visiting a cousin of mine and her friends (mostly early 20s girls). All of them were "cool" kids, not remotely interested in comic books. They were nice to me but I always felt like a bit of an outsider. They were far more interested in what the hottest nightclub was, than a small pocket of pop culture like comic books. By this time there were quite a few popular superheroes but nothing like we see today. After a long night of drinking and partying, we were hanging out in a car with about 6 people smoking a joint. In the midst of stupid drunk stoner talk they begin talking about superheroes and Black Panther comes up. They start making wisecracks about his name and powers. Finally my urge to correct them overpowers my desire to shut up and pretend I'm cool and I burst out full Sheldon (before that existed) and tell them in an annoyed tone that his name is T'Challa and he's the king of Wakanda. After a brief moment of silence the entire car burst out laughing and for years they've been giving me the gears, shouting "T'Challa from Wakanda" and we all get a laugh about it. Well today I texted my cousin to remind her that T'Challa from Wakanda is about to be the biggest superhero in the world (at least for this weekend).
Anyways, just a stupid story that I would have never guessed at the time that T'Challa from Wakanda would be something that a lot of people are gonna be aware of after this weekend. I can't imagine how much money I would have bet that a Black Panther movie being #1 in the world and pulling in $150M+ on opening weekend was a reality 10 years later.
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i'm going to guess that 10 years later, during your "i told you so" moment, your cousin probably doesn't remember or care.