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Michael B Jordan and Danai Gurira at Comic-Con 2017.
Michael B Jordan and Danai Gurira at Comic-Con 2017. Photo: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for Disney (Getty Images)

6. Black Panther’s greatness begins

The year is 2017. The first trailer for Marvel’s Black Panther is fresh in everyone’s minds, having just been released. There couldn’t be more footage shown at Comic-Con, could there? Yes. Yes, there could. It was an extended scene from the casino fight we now all know and love and the cast’s excitement at seeing the footage was only rivaled by the standing ovation it got from 7,000 fans. A few months later, Black Panther would go on to be one of the highest-grossing films of all time and give Marvel Studios its first Oscar nomination. But the first spark of that came in Hall H.