Yes, You Can Be Black Panther in Second Life (At Least Until Marvel Frowns)

The upcoming Black Panther movie is already a cultural phenomenon before its premiere in the US next weekend, so it's not surprising that Black Panther avatars have been available in the Second Life market for at least the last few weeks. Here's one (pictured above) which uses SL's latest Bento technology for highly articulated avatar movement, including working claws. Customer reviews are quite good:

I bought 3 black panther avatars last week, one cost me more the other was cheap but this the best of 3 by far. Great details in texture, shine on metal parts and suit lining and bento hands. <3 wow

Price to be this Black Panther? L$800 (about $3.25). Price for people going "Whoa!" when you leap your Black Panther self into a crowd of newbies in the Welcome Area? Priceless.

And as that review above suggests, there's many Black Panthers being sold in Second Life at the moment:

Portrait by Flight of Osiris

Which suggests the nice legal team at Marvel hasn't browsed the SL Marketplace lately. Or maybe they have, but are reluctant to be corporate bad guys against fans of their franchise, knowing that these SL creators are actually helping them promote the movie and its official tie-ins. (Right?)

 

Comments

[Large Marge]

Certainly some troll brought that too your attention as the reduced population is filled with special snowflakes now compared to 8 years ago when the place was jamming with cool people.. now they go to VRChat.

seller stole the model from here
https://www.deviantart.com/art/Black-Panther-Civil-War-MH-for-XNALara-XPS-607455338

[Sneaky Hobbit]

Oh, and I'm sure by now, the person who ripped the model, from the ios game, who is listing said model in XNALara format, is aware that it's now in SL.
And, I am sure the Marvel/Disney and game-maker lawyers are aware of both the ripping and hosting of said model on DA, and also aware of the subsequent selling of said model in SL. They are probably just waiting till there's enough money being made, from all the illegal usage of all Disney IPs (Disney, Marvel, Lucasfilms, etc) to warrant sending the sharks in.
Or, maybe, since SL is now so insignificant they don't feel it's worth their time chasing such a small target.

And, isn't CBS still keeping their beady eyes on all the Star Trek stuff in SL?

[x1XDanteX4x]

Thanks everyone for the links now i got so much rigging to do with bringing these models in hehe

[Terrarium tv apk]

I watched the movie and it is amazing. I would take everyone and anyone to see this movie. The characters are great, the story is beautiful and is the best Marvel movie so far. Black Panther deserves all the love and praise.