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=== T'Challa/Black Panther ===
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Portrayed By: [[Chadwick Boseman]]
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=== Shuri ===
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Portrayed By: [[Letitia Wright]]
Shuri is the princess of Wakanda, leader of the Wakandan Design Group, and T'Challa's darling little sister.
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* [[Annoying Younger
* [[Badass Princess]]
* [[Flipping the Bird]]: Shuri does this to her brother. Albeit in a teasing manner.
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=== Nakia ===
[[File:Nakia-black-panther.png|200px|thumb
Portray By: [[Lupita Nyong'o]]
A "War Dog" and T'Challa's love interest.
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* [[The Call]]: Nakia mentions in one scene about her calling as a "Watch Dog".
{{quote|''Nakia''|"But I can't just stay, it's just I found my calling out there, I've seen too many in need just to turn a blind eye, I can't be happy here knowing that there's people out there who have nothing."}}
* [[Cunning Linguist]]: This comes with the spy job.
* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: Knows how to wield the Ring Blades.
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* [[Trope]]: Nakia is stubborn.
** T'Challa states that Nakia can be [[The High Queen|queen]], if she wasn't so stubborn.
{{quote|'''T'Challa''|"If you're not so stubborn you would make a great queen."}}
{{quote|''Nakia''|"I would make a great queen because I am so stubborn."}}
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=== W'Kabi ===
[[File:W-Kabi-black-panther.png|200px|thumb
Portrayed By: [[Daniel Kaluuya]]
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=== Okoye ===
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Portrayed By: [[Danai Gurira]]
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=== Zuri ===
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Portrayed By: [[Forest Whitaker]]
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=== Erik "Killmonger" Stevens ===
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Portrayed By: [[Michael B. Jordan]]
Erik Stevens was Prince N'Jobu's son and an Wakandan-American.
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* [[Lonely Together]]: {{spoiler|In the flashback, Erik suggested to his father.}}▼
* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Once Erik was given the Panther Habit, he was crown this trope as well.▼
{{spoiler|{{quote|'''Erik''': Maybe, Wakanda abandon us.}}}}▼
* {{spoiler|[[Burial At Sea]]:}}{{spoiler|He requests this of T'Challa, so he can be buried where so many escape black slaves jump in to drown.}}
▲* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Once Erik was given the Panther Habit, he was crown this trope as well.
* [[Composite Character]]: This version of Erik is based on three comic book characters combine into one: the actual Killmonger, [[Green Eyes|T'Shan]], and the White Wolf (Not {{spoiler|[[Bucky Barnes]]}}).
* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]:
** To even top it all off [http://www.dorkly.com/post/85969/6-questions-about-black-panther-im-still-thinking-about Dorkly] made an observation that Killmonger is like a villainous [[Expy]] of [[Lion King|Simba]], like {{spoiler|Father getting killed by an Uncle, living in poverty (Wished that somebody taught him Hakuna Matata), and fighting for the throne/ royal heritage.}}
* [[Expy]]: [[Iron Man (film)|Obediah Shane]], [[Thor: Ragnarok|Hela]], and [[Thor (film)|Loki]], [[The Avengers (2012 film)| before]] the latter {{spoiler|gotten [[Character
** {{spoiler|Mainly because T'Challa has to fight an evil Black Panther.}}
* [[Goal in Life]]: {{spoiler|His younger self wants to see the Wakandan sunset.}}
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* [[Halfbreed]]: He's half-North American and half Wakandan.
* [[Heroic Lineage]]: Because of his back story.
* [[Hypocrite]]:
* Sympathetic Erik's goals and back story makes him this.▼
** All of his speeches about solidarization between african people are in extreme contrast with his [[It's All About Me]] attitude. Untimely, Killmonger is just egomaniac using an ideology as a mask for his plans of world domination.
** After talking about african artifacts being "stolen" just because they were taken by museums of foreign countries, {{Spoiler|he destroys a priceless biological artifact of his father's nation because he is paranoid that someone will use it against him sooner or later}}.
* [[It's All About Me]]: {{Spoiler|He is already on the path of betraying America by coveting the throne of Wakanda, but what truly cements that he doesn't have any loyalty towards anyone but himself is burning the heart-shaped herb, ensuring there will be no new Black Panthers after him and so no one, presumably including his own kids, can use it against him}}.
▲* [[Lonely Together]]: {{spoiler|In the flashback, Erik suggested to his father.}}
* [[Useful Notes:Navy SEALs|Navy SEALs]]
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Merge with [[Meaningful Name|Meaningful Nickname]]. Erik got a rather infamous nickname '''"Killmonger"''' from his time in the US military.
* [[The Nicknamer]]: Erik began to call himself "Killmonger".
* [[The Power of Hate]]: Erik drive, determination, and training to defeat the ruling current Wakadan King is this. And he has the cool scars to prove it. {{spoiler|Until, Erik was defeated in the movie's end, where he develope some sort of understanding.}}
▲* Sympathetic {{context|reason=Sympathetic ... what? More than one trope starts with that word.}} Erik's goals and back story makes him this.
* [[Used to Be a Sweet Kid]]: Erik loves playing basketball. {{spoiler|In a flashback, he found his father, Prince N'jobu,'s diary and Wakandan stuff, including the ring of his own grandfather.}}
* [[Take Over the World]]: Erik {{spoiler|wants to flip the current international systems, by giving oppressed people, mainly blacks, Vibranium. And have Wakanda take over every country as well.}}
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=== Prince N'Jobu ===
[[File:Prince-N-Jobu-black-panther.png|200px|thumb
Portrayed By: [[Sterling K. Brown]]
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=== M'Baku ===
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Portrayed By: [[Winston Duke]]
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* [[Cunning Linguist]]: Speaks both Xhosa and English.
* [[Pretty in Mink]]
* [[Veganopia]]: M'Baku explains that he and all of the Jubari are this. Unless, one considers fish as meat. ([[The Other Wiki]] says that [[Winston Duke]], who played M'Baku, thought this was "kind of teaching kids that [[Veganism and Vegetarianism |eating vegetables]] is cool".)
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=== Ramonda ===
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Portrayed By: [[Angela Bassett]]
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=== M'Kathu ===
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M'Kathu is the Border Tribe's leader.
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=== Everett Ross ===
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Portrayed By: [[Martin Freeman]]
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* [[Info Drop]]: He explains a bit about Killmonger's Navy Seal and assassin background to T'Challa and the latter's Wakandan friends. This also makes him a [[Gijinka|gijinka]] version of this trope.
* [[Fake Nationality]]: Everett Ross, the CIA Agent, is portrayed by Martin Freeman, who is British.
* [[Taking the Bullet]]: {{spoiler|During the explosion, he took
* [[Token White|Tolkien White]]
* [[Waking Up Elsewhere]]: {{spoiler|He was surprise to find himself in Shuri's lab, more surprise to find that he was healed within a day or less.}}
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=== Ulysses Klaue ===
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Portrayed By: [[Andy Serkis]]
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=== Linda ===
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Portrayed By: [[Nabiyah Be]]
She's Killmonger's girlfriend.
* [[Action Girl]]
* [[Outlaw Couple]]: She and Erik can be seen making cute glances, even kissing in one scene, and enjoying each others' company.
** Another character calls her and Erik as "[[Bonnie and Clyde]]."
* [[Tampering with Food and Drink]]: She poses as a museum barista just to brew a poisonous drink for one of the curators.
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=== Sophia ===
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Sophia is the owner of a hidden Korean gambling joint.
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