Black Panther (film)/Characters: Difference between revisions

 

=== T'Challa/Black Panther ===

Portrayed By: [[Chadwick Boseman]]

 

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* [[Ascended Extra]]: From his role from [[Captain America: Civil War (film)|Civil War]] and getting his first solo movie (First "Black Panther" anything movie/tv-wise from the last 40 years, excluding [[The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes]] and a few other cartoons).

 

=== Shuri ===

Portrayed By: [[Letitia Wright]]

 

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* [[Badass Princess]]

* [[Flipping the Bird]]: Shuri does this to her brother. Albeit in a teasing manner.

* [[Guinea Pig Family]]: Shuri gets her older brother to test out some new Habits and a few gadgets.

* [[Guns Akimbo]]: She does these with her Vibranium Gauntlets.

* [[Of Corset Hurts]]: A mild form, Shuri wants to get the ritual [[Duel to the Death]] over with so she can get out of said corset.

** But she could be teasing T'Challa again.

* [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]]

* [[The Medic]]: Shuri also does this, since her brother dragged in a critically injured Ross into her lab and {{spoiler|at the end of [[Captain America: Civil War (film)|Civil War]] she was task with healing the Winter Soldier.}}

 

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=== Nakia ===

Portray By: [[Lupita Nyong'o]]

 

A "War Dog" and T'Challa's love interest.

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* [[Cunning Linguist]]: This comes with the spy job.

* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: Knows how to wield the Ring Blades.

* [[Master of Disguise]]: Nakia's disguise helps her undercover missions, like when she infiltrated the and poses as a prisoner.

* [[Spy Master]]

* [[Trope]]: Nakia is stubborn.

** T'Challa states that Nakia can be [[The High Queen|queen]], if she wasn't so stubborn.

 

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=== W'Kabi ===

Portrayed By: [[Daniel Kaluuya]]

 

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* [[Amazon Chaser]]: He was Okoye's lover. Until, {{spoiler|Killmonger restored his faith in humanity, by bringing him the body of Ulysses Klaue.}}

 

=== Okoye ===

Portrayed By: [[Danai Gurira]]

 

 

=== Zuri ===

Portrayed By: [[Forest Whitaker]]

 

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* [[The Good Chancellor]]: Zuri, the Wakandan shaman, has this trope as part of his resume.

* [[Master of Disguise]]: Zuri disguised himself as a man named James, just to keep an eye on N'Jobu.

** His cover works, N'Jobu is convinced that James is just an average Californian. {{spoiler|Until, his cover was blown.}}

 

=== Erik "Killmonger" Stevens ===

Portrayed By: [[Michael B. Jordan]]

 

 

* {{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.}}

* [[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.}}

** {{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.}}

* [[Halfbreed]]: He's half-North American and half Wakandan.

* [[Heroic Lineage]]: Because of his back story.

* [[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 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.}}

* [[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.}}

 

=== Prince N'Jobu ===

Portrayed By: [[Sterling K. Brown]]

 

Prince N'Jobu was a War Dog and brother of King T'Chaka.

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** {{spoiler|This resulted in both T'Chaka and Zuri doing and saying [[Treachery Cover-Up|that a beloved uncle disappear]].}}

* {{spoiler|[[Conflicting Loyalty]]}}: {{spoiler|Prince N'Jobu's loyalties about Wakanda's isolation and culture are conflicting the more he stayed in Oakland, California.}}

* [[Spy Master]]: He's part of the War Dogs.

 

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=== M'Baku ===

Portrayed By: [[Winston Duke]]

 

* [[Animal Motifs]]: Gorillas.

* [[Cunning Linguist]]: Speaks both Xhosa and English.

 

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=== Ramonda ===

Portrayed By: [[Angela Bassett]]

 

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== "Outsiders" ==

 

=== Everett Ross ===

Portrayed By: [[Martin Freeman]]

 

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* [[The Ace]]: Everett's background was that he used to be a United States Armed Forces pilot.

* [[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.

* [[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.}}

 

=== Ulysses Klaue ===

Portrayed By: [[Andy Serkis]]

 

 

=== Linda ===

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 ===

Sophia is the owner of a hidden Korean gambling joint.

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