As the years passed and Ross and T’Challa continued working together, Ross eventually became an expert on Wakanda, and even after Priest’s Black Panther run ended, Ross has remained an important character in the Black Panther mythology.
That’s a fitting classification for Chandler Bing not just in Friends Season 1, but pretty much throughout the show’s entire run.
So with that kind of characterization in mind, Christopher Priest created Everett Ross for his Black Panther book (although the character’s first appearance was in Ka-Zar #17).
Still, one can only imagine how Priest’s white protagonist might have turned out if he’d stumbled across a Seinfeld or Frasier rerun.