>After the events of CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR, T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman) returns to Wakanda to prove himself as warrior and king to the Wakandan tribe leaders by defeating their champions at a tournament at Warrior Falls. Erik Kilmonger (Michael B. Jordan) challenges T'Challa's claim, opposing his plan to integrate Wakanda to the outside world, but is defeated and goes into exile, vowing revenge.
>One year later, T'Challa prevents a group of mercenaries working for weapons dealer Ulysses Klaue (Andy Serkis) from stealing Vibranium. T'Challa's best friend W'Kabi (Daniel Kaluuya) is the commander of the border tribe tasked with keeping Wakanda's true nature a secret from the outside world.
>T'Challa is advised by Zuri (Forest Whitaker), Wakanda's spiritual leader and the guardian of the Heart-Shaped Herb, a rare herb laced with Vibranium particles that affords the kings of Wakanda superhuman abilities, including enhanced strength, speed, agility and stamina and heightned senses.
>T'Challa's childhood love Nakia (Lupita Nyong'o), an undercover operative traveling the world to protect Wakanda's interests and hunt its enemies, locates Klaue in South Korea and T'challa heads there with his sister Shuri (Letitia Wright), a technological genius on par with Tony Stark who has dedicated her life to studying Vibranium and it's scientific applications, and has designed the Black Panther's weaponry; and Okoye (Danai Gurira), leader of the Dora Milaje, Wakanda's secret service. They aprehend Klaue after a car chase, crossing paths with CIA agent Everett Ross (Martin Freeman) in the process.
>Klaue is later sprung from prison by Kilmonger and his followers and they join forces to overthrow T'Challa, so Klaue can profit off of the Vibranium and Kilmonger can usurp the throne. They steal Wakandan technology and manage to reproduce the Black Panther technology.
Jaxon Diaz
>Kilmonger surrenders to Wakanda in order to be granted an audience with T'Challa and the tribal leaders, where he denounces T'Challa's leadership and gathers support for himself. While T'Challa is away on a diplomatic mission, Kilmonger is freed by his supporters, including W'Kabi, and allows his followers into Wakanda.
>When T'Challa returns, his jet is shot down and he is confronted and defeated by Kilmonger. The tribal leaders overthrow T'Challa and name Kilmonger as his replacement, and Okoye and the Dora Milaje are forced to support them. Nakia, Shuri, Ross and T'Challa's mother Ramanda (Angela Basset) remain loyal to T'Challa and go on the run as Kilmonger prepares for war against the outside world, while Klaue benefits from the resulting arms race.
>Both T'Challa and Kilmonger seek the support of M'Baku (Winston Duke), the ruthless leader of the mountain tribe of Wakanda, who ultimately chooses to side with T'Challa not out of respect, but because his own plans for Wakanda don't account for it to be ravaged by war in Kilmonger's crusade against the outside world.
>After consulting with the spirits of past kings through the mystical properties of the Heart-Shaped Herb, T'Challa rallies those loyal to him to challenge Kilmonger and his followers in a vicious battle that'll decide not only the fate of Wakanda, but of the entire world.
Jose Murphy
Ok
Lucas Campbell
>people still leaving out the flashbacks to Nor-Cal when T'Challa was going to school in the states >Leaving out flashbacks to young T'Chaka and Killmonger's dad
Aaron Davis
This...sounds complicated
Luis Mitchell
Politics often are.
Jacob Taylor
>his sister Shuri a technological genius on par with Tony Stark of course
Brody Parker
WE
Jack Lee
WUZ
Luke Gray
In the comics, T'Challa himself is a genius on par with Tony Stark, as well as being one of the best fighters, statesmen, etc. Why does it bother you so much that they've split his skillsets into two characters?
Gavin Garcia
She inherits Tony's technology after Tony dies in Infinity War.
Levi Diaz
>woman >smart no but memeing aside I'm sick of seeing this forced agenda bullshit especially after riri
Nathan Carter
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Liam Wilson
It's not more complicated than Civil War's convoluted mess.
Brayden Morris
>movie looks cool but every discussion will be full of racial bullshit
Thanks current year
Kevin Phillips
For fucks' sake, they're just splitting the skillset so it's less ridiculous. I assume if T'Challa was still the tech genius you'd be whining about black people being portrayed as smart.
Kevin Wright
Then they shouldn't have made a movie about nignogs.
Robert Hughes
no not really since that's just how T'challa is why would i complain about that? I'd rather have Shuri take the mantle of black panther in Wakanda while T'challa is saving the world like how that one run before.
Isaiah Thompson
>Shuri >Technological genius >Removing that aspect from T'challa and passing down to his sister.
Why though? I liked her as a spunky tactician.
Parker Carter
Because it waters down T'challa AND Shuri. She is a hot-headed yet smart fighter, not a science genius. T'challa is tech-smart and colder than his sister. This small tidbit kinda makes both characters less interesting. It's nothing to lose sleep over but it's pretty clear they don't really give a damn about the specifics of the characters. Why can't T'challa be the equivalent of Iron Man? Why must he be inferior to Stark when it comes to smarts but his sister now is the equivalent? It's a change made for the sake of change and I don't like when they do that to such broad, iconic characters like Super Heroes.
Josiah Ramirez
>such broad, iconic characters like Super Heroes. >Black Panther >Iconic You don't really believe this, do you?
Nathaniel Flores
Well he is a Jack Kirby creation and the first African superhero ever created and is one of the bigger recurring Avengers character. What else do you need to call a comic book character iconic?
Jordan Johnson
Gives her greater purpose in the movie and tones down T'Challa's Mary Sue-ness.
