The new Marvel Movie, Black Panther, just hit the market and everyone is raving about it already. This movie hero from modern times shares the same qualities as a hero from the Greek times; the stories of heroes use the same concepts, just with different names and settings. For example, Odysseus from Homer’s epic poem the Odyssey, shares many characteristics with the Black Panther. The major difference between the two is that Odysseus is struggling to go back home while Black Panther is struggling to save his home, but both concern the battle against injustice.
Although Odysseus is different to Black Panther as he is a modern day hero and Odysseus is a Greek hero. Black Panther did not necessarily deal with the Greek gods and the mythical monsters from the Greek era. On the other hand, he did have to deal with the modern day technology used against him by his fellow enemies. For example, Klaw, he has an arm that he made that has a built-in machine gun which was composed by vibranium, the strongest metal in the world. While Odysseus was on his trip he encountered many difficult creatures such as Scylla. Scylla is a six-headed sea creature, “She has twelve dangling feet and six long necks. On each neck, there is a gruesome head, each head with three rows of teeth”(79). As well as Black Panther he also came in the path of creatures that had to be dealt with. Black Panther was in a war between the new kings ' soldiers which they happened to bring out rhino’s, leaving Black