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During a screening of early footage from the film last year, Vanity Fair noted that there was one scene that featured Danai Gurira’s Okoye and Florence Kasumba’s Ayo sharing a brief moment of flirtation, suggesting that Black Panther was taking inspiration from an LGBTQ+ love story featured in the World of Wakanda comic.

Marvel later reached out to the publication to say that Okoye and Ayo’s relationship in the film was not a romantic one, and that the storyline in the comic was not used as a source for the movie.

In, “Marvel Misses Another Easy Opportunity for LGBTQ Representation With Black Panther,” Charles Pulliam-Moore writes: “A romance between Okoye and Ayo is the sort of thing that easily could have been included in Black Panther with something as simple as a longing look and a bit of flirting kiss, but it looks like we’re going to have to wait even longer for the MCU’s films to catch up with the times.”