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{{quote|''"You are a good man, with a good heart. And it's hard for a good man to be a king."''|'''King T'Chaka''', to his son.}}
|'''King T'Chaka''', to his son.}}
 
'''''Black Panther''''' is a superhero film produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by [[Disney|Walt Disney]] Studios Motion Pictures, based on the ''[[Black Panther]]'' comics of the same name, and released in February 16, 2018 in the United States. It was directed and co-written by [[Ryan Coogler]].
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It tells the story of T'Challa (with [[Chadwick Boseman]] reprising his role)'s ascension to the throne of Wakanda after his father, the previous Black Panther, was killed in a bombing in Vienna (as shown in ''[[Captain America: Civil War (film)|Captain America: Civil War]]''). Once T'Challa returned back in his home country to ascend the throne, he, his friends, and family learns of a plot to ruin Wakanda, especially involving theft of Wakanda's most precious metal, [[Unobtainium|Vibranium]]. He, along with old and new friends, must save Wakanda from [[Town with a Dark Secret|their dark secret]] and an impending international crisis.
 
''Black Panther'' won the BET Award for Best Movie. It was nominated for seven [[Academy Award]]s, including Best Picture, and won three for Best Costume Design, Best Original Score, and Best Production Design.
 
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* [[Fed to the Beast]]: M'Baku threatens to throw Everett to his "children." {spoiler|turns out he's joking and that him and the whole tribe are vegetarians}}.
* [[Final Battle]]: {{spoiler|The Battle of Mt. Bashenga.}}
* [[Flashback (trope)|Flashback]]: After swollowingswallowing the Heart-Shaped herb, T'Challa experienced a bit of a flashback were he talked with his father at the Accord Meeting.
** {{spoiler|The same happened with Erik, back in California when little Erik found the hidden Wakanda stuff. He shared some tender moments with his own father and talked about Wakanda.}}
* [[Fumbling the Gauntlet]]: Averted. Killmonger knows everything about Wakanda, despite not being there, and prepares to [[Duel to the Death]].
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* [[Shockwave Stomp]]
* {{spoiler|[[Shoot the Hostage]]}}: Erik {{spoiler|had to do this when Ulysseus took Linda hostage.}}
{{spoilerquote|{{quotespoiler|"Sorry."}}|{{spoiler|Linda}}}}
* [[Shout -Out]]:
** {{spoiler|Killmonger's reaction to the Heart Shape Herb after consuming it. Is a shout out to his comic book counterpart, who can't even eat it, since Killmonger's body has a deadly reaction, hence why he made a clone of the plant.}}
* [[Sibling Team]]: Shuri and T'Challa are this.
* [[Sins of the Father]]: Turns out that T'Chalka has some things which he kept as a secret.
* [[Shout Out]]:
** {{spoiler|Killmonger's reaction to the Heart Shape Herb after consuming it. Is a shout out to his comic book counterpart, who can't even eat it, since Killmonger's body has a deadly reaction, hence why he made a clone of the plant.}}
* [[Snow Means Death]]: {{spoiler|T'Challa was found in a hypothermia/coma state by some of the Jabari fishermen in somewhere near the freezing cold waters near the mountains, the Jabari's home.}}
** {{spoiler|Averted. Nakia, Shuri, and Ramonda uses snow to cover him up, while they're healing him with the Heart-shaped herbs.}}
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* [[The Spartan Way]]: According to Everett, Erik has this training {{spoiler|as a Navy Seal and trained to be a [[Professional Killer]], just to overthrow other governments and royalty. To Erik this was all just training to help him on his quest to kill off the Black Panther.}}
* [[Spandex, Latex, or Leather]]: The Black Panther habit, especially when Shuri provided upgrades to the original suit, by giving updated versions of it.
* [[Take That]]: To pan-Africanism, the worldwide movement that aims to strengthen bonds between indigenous Africans and the African diaspora. Like most pan-African leaders (Mugabe, Gaddafi, Idi Amin Dada), Killmonger is a brutal dictator with a lot of blood on his hands who seems to ignore that Africa and Africans are not a monolithic group of people while pushing an agenda which seems to be much more about putting him on the top of pyramid of power.
* [[The Stinger]]: {{spoiler|Bucky Barnes came out of an Wakanda hut and seemingly recovered/deprogrammed from being [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]. Tells the kids that were staring at him earlier to not call him "White Wolf."}}
* [[Super Soldier]]: Similar to the Marvel comics, the Heart-Shape herb is used for the Black Panthers' Ascension ritual, granting them super abilities/heighten senses.
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* [[Town with a Dark Secret]]
* [[Thunderbolt Iron]]: Every weapon in Wakanda is this trope, because of the Vibranium there (Even that prosthetic arm which also functions as a weapon that Klaue uses).
* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: According to one of the movie's producers, Nate Moore,
* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: According to one of the movie's producers, Nate Moore, {{quote|"We don't call him 'Man-Ape', we call him M'Baku. Having a black character dress up as an ape, I think there's a lot of racial implications that don't sit well, if done wrong. But the idea that they worship the gorilla gods is interesting because it's a movie about the [[Black Panther]], who, himself, is a sort of deity in his own right."}}
* [[Unusual User Interface]]
* [[Watching the Sunset]]: What Erik wanted as a kid was to watch the Wakandan sunset, {{spoiler|the Wakandan sunset was the last beautiful thing that he sees when he died}}.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: {{spoiler|T'Challa asked this to his Father, when he returned back to the Ancestor/Heaven realm, because T'Chaka unintentionally created Killmonger.}}
{{quote|{{spoiler|'''T'Chaka''': I chose a lie.}}}}
* [[Withholding the Cure|Withholding the Aid]]: Wakanda's Vibranium tech is so advance that it can be used for food {{spoiler|and even heal spinal bullet injuries}}. Nakia and Erik criticizes Wakanda for not participating in foreign aid, knowing that Wakanda can do better than other first world countries in this department.
* {{spoiler|[[World War III]]: Killmonger wants to drag Wakanda... And the rest of the world into a global revolution.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Zipping Up the Bodybag]]: Erik showed proof that Klaue died, by unzipping the bodybag which shows the dead mercenary to W'Kabi and the Border Tribe.}}
 
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