After listening to Marc Bernardin give his full-out Black Panther review, the light bulb in my head finally went off as to why I liked Black Panther and didn't love it. He called it the T'Challa problem. To preface this, keep in mind that for me, my favorite characters in Civil War were both Spider-Man and Black Panther. Both characters were able to really pop for me, even with limited screen time. However, now that Black Panther has his own movie, I never got that pop again that I was looking for and already knew he had in him.
Like Bernardin said, in the end, T'Challa is a fairly one-note character throughout, who is a bit too perfect, lacks a clear motivation, lacks conflict, has really no character flaws, and if we are honest, is usually our least favorite character on the screen at any point in time. Most of the time, he is just there. Once you then compile all of this, there is a point in the movie where T'Challa pretty much comes back from the dead, yet you somewhat don't care since you just assumed it would happen anyway, beings how the dude is just that perfect. Then, just when we don't need any more tropes, you add in a bunch of heavy CGI action scenes into the mix, where our seemingly invincible character in the first place, fights everyone in an over-the-top invincible cartooney manner.
Sure, I agree that I'm definitely being a little harsh right now on T'Challa, because it isn't like he was bad either. He is also was surrounded by an amazing supporting cast too which probably didn't help his cause to pop in the manner I was wanting. Ultimately, I just wanted him to be great, especially being the central character in the movie and one of my favorite parts of Civil War, and all I got was good. In the end, maybe I came to see a Black Panther movie, yet rather got something of a Black Panther's world movie. Shoot, I still prefer the Black Panther character arc in Civil War over his character arc here.