Black Panther (film)

• Main
• Characters
• Laconic
• Trivia
• YMMV
• Crowners
  • Heartwarming
• Wikipedia
• All Subpages
• Create New

"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.

Black Panther is a superhero film produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by 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.

It tells the story of T'Challa (Which 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). Back in his home country, T'Challa learns of a plot to ruin Wakanda, involving theft of Vibranium. He, along with old and new friends, must save Wakanda from their dark secret and an impending national crisis.

Tropes used in Black Panther include:

• Advanced Ancient Acropolis
• Amazon Brigade: The Dora Milaje is a played straight example.
• Animal-Themed Superbeing
• Badass in Distress: Kinda averted. Nakia infiltrated and "pretended" to be one of the woman prisoners of the terrorist group.
• Battle Strip: Participants for the Duel to the Death (or yield) ritual are required to fight shirtless, except for bringing some armor and wearing a tribal mask.
• Big Damn Heroes: The Jabari tribe. Later in the movie, they fished out a comatose T'Challa and brought him to safety.
  • The Jabari tribe shows up in the film's final climax to team up with T'Challa and friends.
• Bloodless Carnage: In several scenes, When Killmonger slits the throat of one of the Dora Milaje, there's no blood.
  • Also, T'Challa stabbing him with the spear, there's no blood, not even spitting out of his mouth.
• Bodyguard Babes: Played straight with the Dora Milaje, once again.
• Bystander Syndrome: Some of the Hong Kong bystanders began to take pictures with their smartphones, while T'Challa and Uyssues's smack down.
• Cain and Abel: T'Challa and Shuri's Abel to Erik "Killmonger" Stevens' Cain.
• The Cameo: Stan "the Man" Lee makes a cameo as the "Thirsty Gambler" in the Hong Kong den.
• Character Title: Black Panther
• Chase Fight: While Kluwe, Erik, and make their get away in Hong Kong, the heroes go after them in hot pursuit. Whizzing though the streets and fighting to capture Wakanda's Most Wanted.
  • Gets more insane when Ulyssus uses his prostectic arm which doubles as a Energy Weapon/ Ray Gun.
• Cloak and Dagger: Played straight with the "War Dogs". But Deconstructed with Prince N'Jobu, who shows that spying isn't glamorous and betrayed Wakanda.
• Crystal Spires and Togas: Wakanda is more technological advance and enlighten compare to the rest of the world, they are this.
• The Coats Are Off:In and the final the Battle of , Erik removes his coat. Only using his Panther Habbit.
• Color-Coded for Your Convenience: T'Challa's Habit (Purple) is different from Erik's (Yellow/helmet has Yellow spots).
• Cool Starship: Wakanda has little versions of these, similar to the pin jet.
• Cool Train: The mining train is this.
• Combat by Champion: This trope is what happens if the challenger yields, in this ritual duel to the death combat.
• Con Lang: Xhosa, Wakanda's native tongue.
  • Makes characters like Nakia, the War Dogs, and a few other characters as polygots because of this.
  • Makes the movie seemingly bilingual at times, with subtitles.
• Country of Illusion: All of Wakanda has an illusion for the rest of the world to see and that they're a Third World country, like the rest of Africa (saved Egypt). When actually, they're a First World country in a Up to Eleven sense.
• Culture Clash: Wakanda's first encounter with Erik (and Ulysses's) North American ways are a villainous example.
  • Everett Ross is a good guy version.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Erik Killmonger, whose father was killed in the beginning part of the movie by T'Chaka, who left Erik as an orphan and grew up in poverty in California.
• Domed Hometown: Wakanda became this, since they have a force field wall to protect and camouflage the whole city.
• Duel to the Death: This duel is to determined which of the five tribes' representative will rule as the new Black Panther, unless the challenger yields.
  • Erik Killmonger came in and throw T'Challa over the waterfall, making him the victor. T'Challa survived this.
• Easily-Conquered World: In their meetings, Wakanda politicians debate and worry about becoming this trope. Since they realize that there's a chance that the outside world will catch up to them, technological-wise.
• Everything's Better with Monkeys: The Jabari Tribe loves this trope. Justified, since they revere and worship gorillas.
• Fantastic Flora: The Heart-Shaped Herb, which is native only to Wakanda.
• Flashback: After swollowing the Heart-Shaped herb, T'Challa experienced a bit of a flashback were he talked with his father at the Accord Meeting.
  • 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.
• Gadget Watches: The Kimoyo Beads are all of this and more.
• The Good Chancellor: Zuri, the Wakandan shaman.
• Hologram: These pop out in their advance bracelets, since the latter also functions like a smartphone.
• Higher-Tech Species: The Five Tribes that formed Wakanda are this.
• Holographic Terminal: Some the hi-tech stuff, like the bracelets, does this.
  • Other Wakandan tech are part of this trope as well.

The holographic car and The mini-jet that Everett Ross uses in the final battle are this and so much more.

• Kill the Ones You Love: T'Chaka kills his brother, Prince N'Jobu, for betraying Wakanda, by giving Ulysses some very special metals, falling in love with an North American "Outsider," and a few other things.
  • Erik Stevens has to shoot his girlfriend/partner-in-crime, Linda, to also kill Ulysses.
• Long-Lost Relative: Erik Stevens is a villainous Ur Example.
• MacGuffin: The spear, which Killmonger stole from the museum.
• Magic Meteor: In the prologue, when the meteor which had Vibranium fell into Africa. The surrounding land, plants, and animals got powers and develop in strange yet fantastical ways. The Five warring tribes took advantage of this.
• Magic From Technology: Some of Wakanda's scientific advancements are this or appear like this, especially to "Outsiders," like Everett Ross.
• Magnetic Weapons
• Mountain Tribe: All of the Jabari Tribe are this in spades, even shunning mainstream Wakandan society, Vibranium, and living in the snowy nearby mountains.
• Noodle Incident: Nakia explains a bit that she made a mess involving poaches and ivory.
• Orphan's Plot Trinket: Erik has a Wakandan ring of T'Challa's grandfather which he threads as a necklace of sorts.
• Outside Context Villain: Erik Killmonger is this to some Wakandans.
• Powered Armor: The Panther Habit.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: All the Black Panthers in the past and the current T'Challa.
  • Shuri isn't a slouch, either.
• Running Gag: "He froze, like an antelope in front of headlights." And many other teasing and banters between T'Challa, Shuri, and Nakia.
• Schizo-Tech: Wakanda's blend of old fashion African culture meets future tech is this.
• Sequel Episode: To Captain American: Civil War.
• Shockwave Stomp
• 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:
  • 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: 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.
  • Averted. Nakia, Shuri, and Ramonda uses snow to cover him up, while they're healing him with the Heart-shaped herbs.
• Snowball Lie:T'Chaka chose to maintain Wakanda's lie, over his own brother and Erik's wellbeing and happiness. This snowballs into serious consequences which endangered Wakanda and the whole world's safety.
• Space Clothes: Wakanda is a blend of this and various African cultural clothes.
• Spandex, Latex, or Leather: The Black Panther habit, especially when Shuri provided upgrades to the original suit, by giving updated versions of it.
• The Stinger: 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."
• Tribal Face Paint: Wakandans wear these.
• 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).
• Unusual User Interface
• What the Hell, Hero?: T'Challa asked this to his Father, when he returned back to the Ancestor/Heaven realm, because T'Chaka unintentionally created Killmonger.

T'Chaka:I chose a lie.

• 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.