Podcast 87: Black Panther

November 17, 2022 The Comic Book Guy Movies, Podcasting 01:34:56134MB 0 Comments
Marvel Black Panther starring Chadwick Bosman

The 3 Guys Podcast

Recorded on 11/10/2022

Long live the king. In this podcast we review Marvel’s Black Panther starring Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman, Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker, Andy Serkis and directed by Ryan Coogler. WARNING: There will be SPOILERS!

The 3 Guys Rating

4.7/5

Notes From The Show

  • Quick Synopsis

  • Released: February 16, 2018

    Based On The Comic Book By:  Stan Lee & Jack Kirby

    Directed By: Ryan Coogler

    Screenplay By: Ryan Coogler & Joe Robert Cole

    Stars:   Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman, Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker, Andy Serkis and a bunch of other actors.

    Plot: T’Challa, heir to the hidden but advanced kingdom of Wakanda, must step forward to lead his people into a new future and must confront a challenger from his country’s past.

    Taglines: Long live the king.

    How did this movie do?
    Budget: $200 Million
    Box Office: $1.3 Billion

  • Awards

    • The film won 3 Academy Awards for Best Costume Design, Best Production Design and Best Original Score.

  • Comic Book

    • The Black Panther was created in July 1966, two months before the founding of the Black Panther Party. Many people mistakenly assumed the name referred to the Party, so the character was renamed the Black Leopard. However, neither the readers nor the creators cared for that title, and it didn’t last long. However, the Black Leopard name gets a nod from T’Challa’s battle paint at his inauguration fight.
    • The character first appeared in Fantastic Four #52 (cover-dated July 1966) in the Silver Age of Comic Books.
    • Black Panther Abilities:
      • The power to draw upon the knowledge, strength and every experience of every previous Black Panther
      • Superhuman strength, endurance, speed, agility, reflexes, stamina and senses
      • Expert hand-to-hand combatant and martial artist
      • Genius-level intellect
      • Highly proficient tactician, strategist and inventor
      • Utilizing vibranium suit and equipment
    • T’Challa was once married to Ororo Munroe, otherwise known as Strom of the X-Men.
    • In the comics, Shuri takes over as the Black Panther from T’Challa. This is referenced in the film when she appears to challenge her brother for the throne.
    • Erik Killmonger is based on his version in the comics, a Wakandan exile who seeks to overthrow his country, but incorporates elements of T’Shan, T’Challa’s envious cousin, and the White Wolf, a relative of the Black Panther who becomes a villainous extremist and wears a Black Panther-styled habit.
    • (at around 53 mins) T’Challa tells Klaue “Every breath you take is mercy from me.” This is a line from Jonathan Hickman’s “New Avengers” comic, where he said it to Namor the Sub-Mariner, with whom he was at war.
    • Chadwick Boseman was two years into his four year battle with colon cancer when this film came out.
    • Black Panther actor Chadwick Boseman died on August 28th 2020 at 43 years old after 4-year fight with colon cancer.
    • Killmonger wears a golden version of T’Challa’s Black Panther suit, which makes him resemble a leopard. In the comics, he owned a leopard named Preyy.
    • Michael B. Jordan initially auditioned for the role of Sam Wilson/The Falcon back in 2013 before being cast in this film three years later. The role was taken by Anthony Mackie, who was also cast in Triple 9 (2016) when Jordan dropped out.
    • The Dora Milaje wear neck rings. These are known as dzilla, and come from the Ndebele people of the southern African regions, where these wives wear these rings as a sign of matrimonial loyalty. This is a tribute to the comics, where the Dora Milaje were meant to serve as wives-in-training to the Black Panther.
    • In the comics, Wakanda is eventually destroyed by Namor.

  • Trivia

    • The voices in the beginning narrating Wakanda’s history are of Nobu and his son Erik.

    • This was the 18th film released by “Marvel Studios” for the “Marvel Cinematic Universe.”

    • During an interview with Michel Martin on the radio program “All Things Considered,” Danai Gurira (Okoye) said that the language spoken by Wakandans is a real language, Xhosa, a South African language characterized by clicks and glottal stops: “It’s the same language that is native to Nelson Mandela. It’s from the Cape region of South Africa. And Mr. John Kani, who plays T’Challa’s father, T’Chaka, he’s Xhosa. And so he – they started and agreed to that language being the language of Wakanda in Captain America: Civil War (2016).”

    • The Dora Milaje translates to The Adored Ones, a group of female soldiers who protect Wakanda. In the comics, each of the tribes sends their most powerful female fighters to join the Dora Milaje guard.

    • In response to being asked what it felt like being one of the only few non-black actors on set (and sometimes the only non-black actor on set), Martin Freeman said “You think, ‘Right, this is what black actors feel like all the time?'”

    • Freeman and Andy Serkis were known as the “Tolkien white guys” on set, since they also starred together in The Hobbit films.

    • Michael B. Jordan was allowed to keep his Panther costume.

    • The fighting in this film is based on African martial arts. The filmmakers also cited the action scenes in Creed (2015) and the Kingsman films as an influence on the style.

    • The name “Wakanda” comes from the Wakamba tribe of Kenya, also known as the Kamba.

    • Black Panther is the first movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to have its opening weekend domestic box office surpass its production cost. It cost $200 million to make, and its Thursday night, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday opening weekend domestic box office was $202 million.

    • Despite being released 2 years after Captain America: Civil War (2016) (which marked Black Panther’s first appearance in the MCU), the events of this film take place a week after the events of that film.

    • Composer Ludwig Göransson traveled to South Africa and visited the International Library of African Music in Grahamstown to listen to the musical archives “thousands of different tribes in Africa.” He also traveled to Senegal and South Africa to record local musicians to form the “base” of the music.

    • Production designer Hannah Beachler created a 515-page bible on the history of Wakanda.

    • The actresses who played the Dora Milaje had to agree to shave their heads.

    • Screenings at the Alamo Drafthouse included a PSA in which Chadwick Boseman stares straight at the camera, warns the audience not to talk or use their phones during the movie, and says that he is always watching. After the credits roll, and the post credit scenes play, the screen would go black for a few seconds, then suddenly cut to a quick extreme close up of Boseman, yelling at the audience, “I am still watching!”

    • (at around 1h 13 mins) For the scene when Killmonger barges into the Wakanda throne room and challenges T’challa, Michael B. Jordan said his mental approach to play the scene was as if he was from a low-income neighborhood and had being invited to his rich cousin’s house for Thanksgiving.

    • Ryan Coogler wanted the film to feature the supervillain Kraven the Hunter, who has been a rival of the Panther. However, the character is primarily a Spider-Man enemy and Sony/Columbia Pictures holds the rights to Spider-Man, and so they refused permission. Ironically, Sony/Columbia Pictures used to own the right to Black Panther himself, before selling him back to Marvel in 2005.

    • First comic book/superhero film to be nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture – Drama.

    • Ryan Coogler sees the challenge’s end T’Challa being tossed to his death over the waterfall as him “paying for sins he didn’t commit,” and while that’s true there’s something to be said for his silence after learning the truth about his cousin. He could have spoken to Killmonger privately, he could have extended compassion and a plea for forgiveness, but instead he treats Killmonger like an invader. T’Challa may not have committed the original sin, but he allows it to continue.

    • Stan Lee: (at around 44 mins) a casino guest.

    • When N’Jobu and James/Young Zuri talk over the paperwork in the beginning of the film, they’re trying to figure out a way to break the woman N’Jobu fell in love with out of prison. The idea is that they never got her out, so she passed away in prison, leaving Killmonger without a mother as well.

    • When Erik is in the Ancestral Plane, he finds himself in a version of his father’s apartment looking over the actual Ancestral Plane where King T’Chaka and his ancestors remain. The apartment has blinds resembling the traditional iron bars of prison cells, implying that N’Jobu’s soul is imprisoned inside the Ancestral Plane and forbidden to associate with other ancestors.

    • This is one of two 2018 films in which Michael B. Jordan plays a character fighting the son of a man who killed his character’s father. The other was Creed II (2018).

    • While he partakes in a lot of action, it could be said that T’Challa kills only one man in the movie. Much like his father, he kills a family member: Erik/N’Jadaka.

Released: February 16, 2018

Based On The Comic Book By:  Stan Lee & Jack Kirby

Directed By: Ryan Coogler

Screenplay By: Ryan Coogler & Joe Robert Cole

Stars:   Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman, Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker, Andy Serkis and a bunch of other actors.

Plot: T’Challa, heir to the hidden but advanced kingdom of Wakanda, must step forward to lead his people into a new future and must confront a challenger from his country’s past.

Taglines: Long live the king.

How did this movie do?
Budget: $200 Million
Box Office: $1.3 Billion

  • The film won 3 Academy Awards for Best Costume Design, Best Production Design and Best Original Score.
  • The Black Panther was created in July 1966, two months before the founding of the Black Panther Party. Many people mistakenly assumed the name referred to the Party, so the character was renamed the Black Leopard. However, neither the readers nor the creators cared for that title, and it didn’t last long. However, the Black Leopard name gets a nod from T’Challa’s battle paint at his inauguration fight.
  • The character first appeared in Fantastic Four #52 (cover-dated July 1966) in the Silver Age of Comic Books.
  • Black Panther Abilities:
    • The power to draw upon the knowledge, strength and every experience of every previous Black Panther
    • Superhuman strength, endurance, speed, agility, reflexes, stamina and senses
    • Expert hand-to-hand combatant and martial artist
    • Genius-level intellect
    • Highly proficient tactician, strategist and inventor
    • Utilizing vibranium suit and equipment
  • T’Challa was once married to Ororo Munroe, otherwise known as Strom of the X-Men.
  • In the comics, Shuri takes over as the Black Panther from T’Challa. This is referenced in the film when she appears to challenge her brother for the throne.
  • Erik Killmonger is based on his version in the comics, a Wakandan exile who seeks to overthrow his country, but incorporates elements of T’Shan, T’Challa’s envious cousin, and the White Wolf, a relative of the Black Panther who becomes a villainous extremist and wears a Black Panther-styled habit.
  • (at around 53 mins) T’Challa tells Klaue “Every breath you take is mercy from me.” This is a line from Jonathan Hickman’s “New Avengers” comic, where he said it to Namor the Sub-Mariner, with whom he was at war.
  • Chadwick Boseman was two years into his four year battle with colon cancer when this film came out.
  • Black Panther actor Chadwick Boseman died on August 28th 2020 at 43 years old after 4-year fight with colon cancer.
  • Killmonger wears a golden version of T’Challa’s Black Panther suit, which makes him resemble a leopard. In the comics, he owned a leopard named Preyy.
  • Michael B. Jordan initially auditioned for the role of Sam Wilson/The Falcon back in 2013 before being cast in this film three years later. The role was taken by Anthony Mackie, who was also cast in Triple 9 (2016) when Jordan dropped out.
  • The Dora Milaje wear neck rings. These are known as dzilla, and come from the Ndebele people of the southern African regions, where these wives wear these rings as a sign of matrimonial loyalty. This is a tribute to the comics, where the Dora Milaje were meant to serve as wives-in-training to the Black Panther.
  • In the comics, Wakanda is eventually destroyed by Namor.
  • The voices in the beginning narrating Wakanda’s history are of Nobu and his son Erik.

  • This was the 18th film released by “Marvel Studios” for the “Marvel Cinematic Universe.”

  • During an interview with Michel Martin on the radio program “All Things Considered,” Danai Gurira (Okoye) said that the language spoken by Wakandans is a real language, Xhosa, a South African language characterized by clicks and glottal stops: “It’s the same language that is native to Nelson Mandela. It’s from the Cape region of South Africa. And Mr. John Kani, who plays T’Challa’s father, T’Chaka, he’s Xhosa. And so he – they started and agreed to that language being the language of Wakanda in Captain America: Civil War (2016).”

  • The Dora Milaje translates to The Adored Ones, a group of female soldiers who protect Wakanda. In the comics, each of the tribes sends their most powerful female fighters to join the Dora Milaje guard.

  • In response to being asked what it felt like being one of the only few non-black actors on set (and sometimes the only non-black actor on set), Martin Freeman said “You think, ‘Right, this is what black actors feel like all the time?'”

  • Freeman and Andy Serkis were known as the “Tolkien white guys” on set, since they also starred together in The Hobbit films.

  • Michael B. Jordan was allowed to keep his Panther costume.

  • The fighting in this film is based on African martial arts. The filmmakers also cited the action scenes in Creed (2015) and the Kingsman films as an influence on the style.

  • The name “Wakanda” comes from the Wakamba tribe of Kenya, also known as the Kamba.

  • Black Panther is the first movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to have its opening weekend domestic box office surpass its production cost. It cost $200 million to make, and its Thursday night, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday opening weekend domestic box office was $202 million.

  • Despite being released 2 years after Captain America: Civil War (2016) (which marked Black Panther’s first appearance in the MCU), the events of this film take place a week after the events of that film.

  • Composer Ludwig Göransson traveled to South Africa and visited the International Library of African Music in Grahamstown to listen to the musical archives “thousands of different tribes in Africa.” He also traveled to Senegal and South Africa to record local musicians to form the “base” of the music.

  • Production designer Hannah Beachler created a 515-page bible on the history of Wakanda.

  • The actresses who played the Dora Milaje had to agree to shave their heads.

  • Screenings at the Alamo Drafthouse included a PSA in which Chadwick Boseman stares straight at the camera, warns the audience not to talk or use their phones during the movie, and says that he is always watching. After the credits roll, and the post credit scenes play, the screen would go black for a few seconds, then suddenly cut to a quick extreme close up of Boseman, yelling at the audience, “I am still watching!”

  • (at around 1h 13 mins) For the scene when Killmonger barges into the Wakanda throne room and challenges T’challa, Michael B. Jordan said his mental approach to play the scene was as if he was from a low-income neighborhood and had being invited to his rich cousin’s house for Thanksgiving.

  • Ryan Coogler wanted the film to feature the supervillain Kraven the Hunter, who has been a rival of the Panther. However, the character is primarily a Spider-Man enemy and Sony/Columbia Pictures holds the rights to Spider-Man, and so they refused permission. Ironically, Sony/Columbia Pictures used to own the right to Black Panther himself, before selling him back to Marvel in 2005.

  • First comic book/superhero film to be nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture – Drama.

  • Ryan Coogler sees the challenge’s end T’Challa being tossed to his death over the waterfall as him “paying for sins he didn’t commit,” and while that’s true there’s something to be said for his silence after learning the truth about his cousin. He could have spoken to Killmonger privately, he could have extended compassion and a plea for forgiveness, but instead he treats Killmonger like an invader. T’Challa may not have committed the original sin, but he allows it to continue.

  • Stan Lee: (at around 44 mins) a casino guest.

  • When N’Jobu and James/Young Zuri talk over the paperwork in the beginning of the film, they’re trying to figure out a way to break the woman N’Jobu fell in love with out of prison. The idea is that they never got her out, so she passed away in prison, leaving Killmonger without a mother as well.

  • When Erik is in the Ancestral Plane, he finds himself in a version of his father’s apartment looking over the actual Ancestral Plane where King T’Chaka and his ancestors remain. The apartment has blinds resembling the traditional iron bars of prison cells, implying that N’Jobu’s soul is imprisoned inside the Ancestral Plane and forbidden to associate with other ancestors.

  • This is one of two 2018 films in which Michael B. Jordan plays a character fighting the son of a man who killed his character’s father. The other was Creed II (2018).

  • While he partakes in a lot of action, it could be said that T’Challa kills only one man in the movie. Much like his father, he kills a family member: Erik/N’Jadaka.

About The Movie From IMDB

Black Panther | February 16, 2018 (United States) 7.3
Director: Ryan CooglerWriter: Ryan Coogler, Joe Robert Cole, Stan LeeStars: Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong'oSummary:

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Cast

Chadwick Boseman
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T'Challa
Michael B. Jordan
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Erik Killmonger
Lupita Nyong'o
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Nakia
Danai Gurira
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Okoye
Martin Freeman
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Everett K. Ross
Daniel Kaluuya
...
W'Kabi
Letitia Wright
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Shuri
Winston Duke
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M'Baku
Sterling K. Brown
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N'Jobu
Angela Bassett
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Ramonda
Forest Whitaker
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Zuri
Andy Serkis
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Ulysses Klaue
Florence Kasumba
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Ayo
John Kani
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T'Chaka
David S. Lee
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Limbani
Nabiyah Be
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Linda
Isaach De Bankolé
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River Tribe Elder
Connie Chiume
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Mining Tribe Elder

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Countries: United StatesLanguages: English, Swahili, Nama, Xhosa, Korean
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7.3
Black Panther | February 16, 2018 (United States)
Director: Ryan CooglerWriter: Ryan Coogler, Joe Robert Cole, Stan LeeStars: Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong'o
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Countries: United StatesLanguages: English, Swahili, Nama, Xhosa, Korean
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Quotes

M'Baku: If you say one more word, I'll feed you to my children!

[Ross shuts up, beat]

M'Baku: I'm kidding. We're vegetarians.

T'Challa: Wakanda will no longer watch from the shadows. We can not. We must not. We will work to be an example of how we, as brothers and sisters on this earth, should treat each other. Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another, as if we were one single tribe.

T'Challa: We can still heal you...

Erik Killmonger: Why, so you can lock me up? Nah. Just bury me in the ocean with my ancestors who jumped from ships, 'cause they knew death was better than bondage.

Everett K. Ross: [after he wakes up] Is this Wakanda?

Shuri: [sarcastically] No, it's Kansas.

Shuri: Did he freeze?

Okoye: Like an antelope in headlights.

King T'Chaka: [to T'Challa] You're a good man with a good heart. And it's hard for a good man to be king.

Nakia: You can't let your father's mistakes define who you are. You get to decide what kind of king you are going to be.

Everett K. Ross: Does she speak English?

Okoye: When she wants to.

Ulysses Klaue: What do you actually know about Wakanda?

Everett K. Ross: Um... Shepherds. Textiles. Cool outfits.

Ulysses Klaue: It's all a front. Explorers searched for it for centuries. El Dorado. The Golden City. They thought they could find it in South America, but it was in Africa the whole time. A technological marvel. All because it was built on a mound of the most valuable metal known to man. Isipho, they call it. "The gift".

W'Kabi: You would kill me my love?

Okoye: For Wakanda? Without Question.

T'Challa: My suit is good.

Shuri: Old tech. Functional, but old. "People are shooting at me - wait, let me put my helmet on!"

Everett K. Ross: Why don't you give me the name of your supplier and I'll ask them?

Ulysses Klaue: He's right outside. Why don't you ask him yourself?

Okoye: Wakanda forever!

Okoye: Just don't freeze when you see her.

T'Challa: What are taking about? I never freeze.

Young Oakland Kid: It's a Bugatti Spaceship.

T'Challa: If you weren't so stubborn, you would make a great queen.

Nakia: I would make a great queen because I am so stubborn.

[first lines]

Young Killmonger: Baba...

N'Jobu: Yes, my son.

Young Killmonger: Tell me a story.

N'Jobu: Which one?

Young Killmonger: The story of home.

N'Jobu: Millions of years ago, a meteorite made of vibranium, the strongest substance in the universe, struck the continent of Africa, affecting the plant life around it. And when the time of man came, five tribes settled on it and called it Wakanda. The tribes lived in constant war with each other until a warrior shaman received a vision from the Panther Goddess Bast, who led him to the Heart-Shaped Herb, a plant that granted him superhuman strength, speed and instincts. The warrior became king and the first Black Panther, the protector of Wakanda. Four tribes agreed to live under the king's rule, but the Jabari Tribe isolated themselves in the mountains. The Wakandans used vibranium to develop technology more advanced than any other nation. But as Wakanda thrived, the world around it descended further into chaos. To keep vibranium safe, the Wakandans vowed to hide in plain sight, keeping the truth of their power from the outside world.

Young Killmonger: And we still hide, Baba?

N'Jobu: Yes.

Young Killmonger: Why?

Shuri: Don't scare me like that, coloniser!

Everett K. Ross: [to T'Challa] I have seen gods fly. I have seen men build weapons that I couldn't even imagine. I have seen aliens drop from the sky. But I have never seen anything like this. How much more are you hiding?

Erik Killmonger: I've waited my whole life for this. The world's going to start over. I'MA BURN IT ALL!

T'Challa: I never yielded! And as you can see, I am not dead!

T'Challa: What happens now determines what happens to the rest of the world.

Erik Killmonger: I lived my entire life waiting for this moment. I trained, I lied, I killed just to get here. I killed in America, Afghanistan, Iraq... I took life from my own brothers and sisters right here on this continent! And all this death just so I could kill you.

Everett K. Ross: Quite the entourage, do you have a mixtape coming out?

Ulysses Klaue: Actually yeah there is, I'll send you the Sound cloud

[to his guard]

Ulysses Klaue: do you have the link?

Okoye: Guns... So primitive!

T'Challa: [freezes] Nakia... hi.

[Okoye appears and saves TChalla]

Okoye: You froze.

King T'Chaka: What is wrong, my son?

T'Challa: I am not ready, Baba.

King T'Chaka: Have you not prepared to be king your whole life? Have you not trained and studied, been by my side?

T'Challa: That is not what I am talking about. I am not ready to be without you.

King T'Chaka: A man who has not prepared his children for his own death has failed as a father. Have I ever failed you?

King T'Chaka: Never.

Shuri: [as a fatally wounded Everett Ross is wheeled into her lab] Great! Another broken white boy for us to fix.

[Shuri drives a car and runs over someone]

Shuri: What was that?

T'Challa: Don't worry about it, you're doing fine!

Shuri: It's like riding a hover-bike.

Everett K. Ross: You have hover-bikes?

N'Jobu: No tears for me, son?

Erik Killmonger: People die every day. That's just part of life around here.

Erik Killmonger: [to T'Challa] Wassup, cuz?

Shuri: [about T'Challa's sandals] What are those?

T'Challa: [on saving Ross] I will not abandon someone to die, when I have the means to save his life.

Shuri: This corset is really uncomfortable, so can we all just wrap it up and go home?

W'Kabi: You let the refugees in, you let in all their problems.

Okoye: [to Killmonger] You are so full of hatred, you will never be a true king!

Everett K. Ross: [T'Challa leaves a craps table] Hey, you won!

Thirsty Gambler: You know what? I'm just going to take these chips and set them over here.

Okoye: I am loyal to that throne, no matter WHO sits on it.

[TChalla confronts his ancestors in the ancestral plane]

T'Challa: You were wrong - all of you were wrong - to turn your backs on the rest of the world! We let the fear of discovery stop us from doing what is right. No more! I cannot stay here with you. I cannot rest while HE sits on the throne! He is a monster of our own making! I must take the mantle back. I must! I must right these wrongs!

[in Oakland]

Shuri: When you said you'd bring me to California when I was a kid, I thought you meant Coachella, or Disneyland. Where are we?

T'Challa: This is the building where our uncle lived, where our father killed him.

Shuri: [sees a condemnation notice] They're tearing it down. Good.

T'Challa: They are not tearing it down, not anymore. I bought the building. And that one... and that one.

T'Challa: How are you feeling today, Mama?

Ramonda: Proud. Your father and I would talk about this day all the time. He is with us. And it is your time to be king.

Nakia: [to Ross] The king is dead. Come with me if you don't want to join him!

[post-credits scene: in a small village at Wakanda, Bucky comes out of a hut. He looks around. A group of children call him "White Wolf". He approaches Shuri]

Shuri: Good morning, Sergeant Barnes.

Bucky Barnes: Bucky.

Shuri: How are you feeling?

Bucky Barnes: Good.

[pause]

Bucky Barnes: Thank you.

Shuri: Come.

[Shuri starts walking away]

Shuri: Much more for you to learn.

[Bucky pauses for a moment, looking at the landscape, then follows Shuri]

Ulysses Klaue: [blasts a safe and sends the money falling everywhere] I made it rain!

Erik Killmonger: When I tell you to do something, I mean that shit.

T'Challa: Baba...

[falls to his knees]

King T'Chaka: Stand up! You are a king!

T'Challa: What do you want?

Erik Killmonger: I want the throne!

Erik Killmonger: Y'all sittin' up here comfortable.

King T'Chaka: [to his brother] Did you think you were the only spy we sent to the States?

[Zuri reveals himself]

Nakia: It is my duty to fight for who I... for the things I love.

T'Challa: You will destroy the world, Wakanda included!

Erik Killmonger: The world took everything away from me! Everything I ever loved! But I'ma make sure we're even. I'ma track down anyone who would even think of being loyal to you! And I'ma put their ass in the dirt, right next to Zuri!

Erik Killmonger: Wassup, princess?

[attacks Shuri]

Shuri: You will never be king of Wakanda!

M'Baku: Witness the strength of the Jabari... first-hand!

[picks up W'Kabi and throws him into the field surrounding the Wakandans]

Erik Killmonger: Helluva move

M'Baku: Glory to Hanuman

Everett K. Ross: My intel reports that the chunk of vibranium you took was all that Wakanda had.

Ulysses Klaue: [laughs, then gets serious] ALL OF IT? I took a tiny piece of it! They have a MOUNTAIN of the stuff! And they haven't even scratched the surface.

[Killmonger takes a Dora Milaje hostage, Okoye hesitates]

Dora Milaje: Wakanda forever!

[Killmonger cuts her throat, Okoye screams and attacks him]

Okoye: Wakanda survived for so long by only fighting when absolutely necessary.

Shuri: Just because something works doesn't mean that it cannot be improved.

Shuri: The entire suit sits within the teeth of the necklace. Strike it.

T'Challa: Anywhere?

Shuri: Mmm-hmm.

[T'Challa knocks the suit across the room]

Shuri: Not that hard, genius!

T'Challa: You told me to strike it. You didn't say how hard.

Shuri: I invite you to my lab,and you just kick things around?

T'Challa: Well, maybe you should make it a little stronger.

[T'Challa notices a glow coming from the middle of the suit]

T'Challa: Hey. Wait a minute.

Shuri: The nanites absorb the kinetic energy... and hold it in place for redistribution.

T'Challa: Very nice.

Shuri: Strike it again in the same spot.

T'Challa: You're recording?

Shuri: For research purposes.

T'Challa: [T'Challa kicks the suit and is immediately knocked over] Delete that footage.

Ulysses Klaue: [to a mirror in an interrogation room] Hello.

Ulysses Klaue: [laughs] I can see you! I can. I can see you.

[Klaue makes kissing noises as TChalla glares at him behind the screen]

Ulysses Klaue: [sees T'Challa] You look just like your old man.

W'Kabi: You let the refugees in, they bring their problems with them, and then Wakanda is like everywhere else.

T'Challa: So surprised my little sister came to see me off before our big day.

Shuri: You wish! I'm here for the EMP beads. I've developed an update.

T'Challa: Update? No. It worked perfectly.

Shuri: How many times do I have to teach you? Just because something works doesn't mean that it cannot be improved.

T'Challa: You are teaching me? What do you know?

Shuri: More than you.

T'Challa: I can't wait to see what kind of update you make to your ceremonial outfit.

[Shuri gives T'Challa the finger]

[deleted scene]

Everett K. Ross: It's not my place to say, but man, I really don't think you should do this. What you guys have is going to scare a lot of people in that room. They're going to come after you.

T'Challa: Yes. But I will no longer rule out of fear.

James: [hearing a knock on the door] It's these two Grace Jones-looking chicks. They're holding spears.

N'Jobu: Open it.

James: You serious?

N'Jobu: They won't knock again.

Everett K. Ross: [to Klaw] That is quite the entourage!

[Killmonger is going to kill T'Challa]

Zuri: I had your father killed! Take me.

Erik Killmonger: I'ma take you both, Uncle James!

[kills Zuri]

T'Challa: NOOOO!

N'Jobu: I observed for as long as I could. Their leaders have been assassinated. Communities flooded with drugs and weapons. They are overly policed and incarcerated. All over the planet, our people suffer because they don't have the tools to fight back. With vibranium weapons they can overthrow all countries, and Wakanda can rule them all, the right way!

[W'Kabi brings Killmonger in front of T'Challa and the Elders]

T'Challa: [in Xhosa] Speak.

W'Kabi: [to Killmonger] Speak.

Erik Killmonger: I'm standing in your house, serving justice to a man who stole your vibranium and murdered your people. Justice your king couldn't deliver.

[T'Challa stands up and approaches Killmonger]

T'Challa: I don't care that you brought Klaue. Only reason I don't kill you where you stand is because I know who you are. Now what do you want?

Erik Killmonger: I want the throne.

[Mining Tribe Elder laughs]

Mining Tribe Elder: [in Xhosa] My goodness.

[the other Elders laugh]

Erik Killmonger: Y'all sittin' up here comfortable. Must feel good. It's about two billion people all over the world that looks like us. But their lives are a lot harder. Wakanda has the tools to liberate 'em all.

T'Challa: And what tools are those?

Erik Killmonger: Vibranium. Your weapons.

T'Challa: Our weapons will not be used to wage war on the world. It is not our way to be judge, jury, and executioner for people who are not our own.

Erik Killmonger: Not your own? But didn't life start right here on this continent? So ain't all people your people?

T'Challa: I am not king of all people. I am King of Wakanda. And it is my responsibility to make sure our people are safe and that vibranium does not fall into the hands of a person like you.

Erik Killmonger: Mmm...

Ramonda: Son, we have entertained this charlatan for too long. Reject his request.

Erik Killmonger: Oh, I ain't requesting nothing. Ask who I am.

Shuri: You're Erik Stevens. An American black operative. A mercenary nicknamed Killmonger. That's who you are.

Erik Killmonger: That's not my name, Princess. Ask me, King.

T'Challa: No.

Erik Killmonger: Ask me.

[T'Challa turns around and walks back to his throne]

T'Challa: Take him away.

T'Challa: You want to see us become just like the people you hate so much! Divide and conquer, just as they did!

Erik Killmonger: Nah, I learned from my enemies! Beat them at their own game!

T'Challa: You have become them!

Everett K. Ross: [Everett drives up to a stranded Okoye and Nakia after their car explodes] Hop in. Put that spear in the trunk.

Erik Killmonger: [robbing a British museum] Bro, why ain't you just shoot him right here?

Ulysses Klaue: Because it's better to leave the crime scene more spread out. Makes us look like amateurs.

T'Challa: This ends today!

[as T'Challa signals his guards to take Killmonger away from the throne room, the River Tribe Elder gets up]

River Tribe Elder: [in Xhosa] Who are you?

Erik Killmonger: [in Xhosa] I am N'Jadaka, son of Prince N'Jobu!

Mining Tribe Elder: [in Xhosa] Son of N'Jobu?

Erik Killmonger: I found my daddy with Panther claws in his chest! You ain't the son of a king. You're the son of a murderer!

Ramonda: [in Xhosa] You're lying!

[in English]

Ramonda: Lies!

W'Kabi: I'm afraid not, Queen Mother.

[W'Kabi pulls out a necklace with N'Jobu's ring, to the surprise of the Elders]

River Tribe Elder: What?

Mining Tribe Elder: [in Xhosa] You, the descendant of N'Jobu?

Erik Killmonger: Hey, Auntie.

[W'Kabi gives the ring to Ramonda]

Erik Killmonger: I'm exercising my blood right to challenge for the mantles of the King. And Black Panther.

Ramonda: Do not do this, T'Challa.

Border Tribe Elder: As the son of Prince N'Jobu, he is within his rights.

Ramonda: He has no rights here!

River Tribe Elder: The challenge will take weeks to prepare!

Erik Killmonger: Weeks? I don't need weeks. The whole country ain't gotta be here. I just need him. And somebody to get me outta these chains.

[T'Challa sits on his throne, looking at N'Jobu's ring]

Ramonda: T'Challa, what do you know of this?

T'Challa: I accept your challenge.

Ulysses Klaue: Put some music on. What do you think this is, a funeral?

Zuri: M'Baku, what are you doing here?

M'Baku: It's challenge day. We have watched and listened from the mountains! We have watched with disgust as your technological advancements have been overseen by a child! Who scoffs at tradition! And now you want to hand the nation over to this prince who could not keep his own father safe. We will not have it. I said, we will not have , oh! I, M'Baku, leader of the Jabari...

T'Challa: I accept your challenge, M'Baku.

Nakia: Great Gorilla M'Baku...

[kneeling and presenting the Heart-Shaped Herb]

Nakia: ...this is why we are here. To offer this to you. An outsider sits on our throne. Only you can help us stop him.

Ramonda: I don't like this. The Herb belongs to us. We may be creating a bigger monster with M'Baku. Nakia, you should take it yourself.

Nakia: I am a spy with no army. I wouldn't stand a chance.

Museum Director: Good morning. How can I help you?

Erik Killmonger: I was just checking out these artifacts. They tell me you're the expert.

Museum Director: Ah. You could say that.

Erik Killmonger: They're beautiful. Where's this one from?

Museum Director: The Bobo Ashanti tribe, present-day Ghana, 19th century.

Erik Killmonger: For real? And what about this one?

Museum Director: That one's from the Edo people of Benin, 16th century.

Erik Killmonger: Now, tell me about this one.

Museum Director: Also from Benin, 7th century. Fula tribe, I believe.

Erik Killmonger: Nah.

Museum Director: I beg your pardon?

Erik Killmonger: It was taken by British soldiers in Benin, but it's from Wakanda. And it's made out of vibranium. Don't trip. I'mma take it off your hands for you.

Museum Director: These items aren't for sale.

Erik Killmonger: How do you think your ancestors got these? You think they paid a fair price? Or did they take it, like they took everything else?

Museum Director: Sir, I'm going to have to ask you to leave.

Erik Killmonger: You got all this security in here watching me ever since I walked in. But you ain't checking for what you put in your body.

T'Challa: He will send our weapons all over the world. You must get them out of Wakanda safely.

Ramonda: What?

Shuri: What about you?

T'Challa: The challenge will have to continue.

Ramonda: T'Challa, we will not leave Wakanda.

T'Challa: It is my duty to keep you safe.

Shuri: If he gets control of our technology, nowhere will be safe.

Shuri: The Black Panther lives. And when he fights for the fate of Wakanda, I will be right beside him.

Nakia: As will I.

Everett K. Ross: I'm in, too.

[they all look at him]

Everett K. Ross: What? You're gonna need all the help you can get.

Okoye: Our mission was to bring back Klaue. We failed. This man is a foreign intelligence operative. How do we justify bringing him into our borders?

Nakia: He took a bullet for me.

Okoye: That was his choice.

Nakia: So now we are just supposed to let him die?

Okoye: Let us consider that we heal him. It is his duty to report back to his country. And as king, it is your duty to protect ours.

T'Challa: I'm well aware of my duties, General.

Ulysses Klaue: Let's have some fun!

[opens fire on his pursuers]

W'Kabi: The world is changing. Soon there will only be the conquered and the conquerors. I'd rather be the former.

Everett K. Ross: Erik Stevens. Graduated Annapolis aged nineteen, MIT for grad school. Joined the SEALs and went straight to Afghanistan, where he wrapped up confirmed kills like it was a video game. Started calling him Killmonger. He joined a J-SOC ghost unit, now these guys are serious, they would drop off the grid so they could commit assassinations and take down governments.

Ulysses Klaue: [singing] What is love? Baby, don't huuuurt me! Don't huuuurt me! No more...

Shuri: The real question is WHAT ARE THOSE? Why do you have your toes out in my lab?

T'Challa: What, you don't like my royal sandals? I wanted to go old school for my first day.

Ulysses Klaue: Oh, mercy, King. Mercy.

T'Challa: Every breath you take is mercy from me.

Ulysses Klaue: [during a pursuit, his goons shoot at Okoye and Nakia] It's a vibranium car, you idiots! The bullets won't penetrate!

Nakia: Eyes up. Americans. I count three.

Okoye: Five. How could you miss Greased Lightning there behind you?

T'Challa: [noticing Ross] Six. Just spotted an old friend who works for the CIA. It just got a little more complicated.

Everett K. Ross: These train things, that... that's magnetic levitation, right?

Shuri: Obviously.

Everett K. Ross: Obviously, but I-I've never seen it this... efficient. The light panels, what are they?

Shuri: Sonic stabilizers.

Everett K. Ross: Sonic what?

Shuri: In its raw form, vibraniun is too dangerous to be transported at that speed, so I... I developed a way to temporarily deactivate it.

Everett K. Ross: There's vibranium on those trains?

Shuri: There's vibranium all around us. That's how I healed you.

T'Challa: What happened to my uncle N'Jobu? My father told me he disappeared. There was a man today wearing a ring identical to this one.

Zuri: That is not possible.

T'Challa: He helped Klaue escape from us and he was wearing this ring! My grandfather's ring! Do not tell me what is possible. Tell me the truth!

Zuri: Some truths... are too much to bear, T'Challa.

T'Challa: That is not your choice to make. What happened to him?

Zuri: I promised the king to say nothing.

T'Challa: I AM YOUR KING NOW!

T'Challa: Agent Ross.

Everett K. Ross: Your Highness.

T'Challa: You are buying from Klaue.

Everett K. Ross: What I'm doing or not doing on behalf of the U.S. government is none of your concern. Now, whatever the hell you're up to, do me a favor, stay out of my way.

T'Challa: I gave you Zemo.

Everett K. Ross: Didn't I keep it under wraps that the king of a third-world country runs around in a bulletproof cat suit? I'd say we were even. You really need to leave, now.

T'Challa: Klaue is leaving out that door with me. You've been warned.

Everett K. Ross: [pursuing Killmonger's cache of weapons] Okay, Shuri, I got 'em. What do I do?

Shuri: Shoot them down, genius!

W'Kabi: Where is Klaue?

T'Challa: He's not here. He slipped through our hands.

W'Kabi: Slipped? For thirty years, your father was in power and did nothing. With you, I thought it'd be different. But it's more of the same.

T'Challa: He killed his own brother and left a child behind with nothing. What kind of king... what kind of man does that?

Nakia: No man is perfect. Not even your father.

T'Challa: He didn't even give him a proper burial. My uncle N'Jobu betrayed us, but my father... he may have created something even worse.

Everett K. Ross: So this is a big mess, huh? I figured we could go good cop/bad cop. I'll talk to him first, then you guys go in.

Okoye: [in Xosha] We can't let him talk to Klaue alone.

T'Challa: [in Xosha, too] Better to let him talk to Klaue alone for five minutes than to make a scene here.

[in English]

T'Challa: After your questioning, we will take him back to Wakanda with us.

Everett K. Ross: What? No. Look, I like you, a lot. But he's in my custody now. He's not going anywhere.

[thumping him on the shoulder]

Everett K. Ross: Listen, I'm doing you guys a favor by letting you even be here.

Okoye: [in Xosha] If he touches you again, I'm going to impale him on this desk.

Young T'Chaka: There has been an attack. This man, Ulysses Klaue, stole a quarter ton of vibranium from us, and triggered a bomb at the border to escape. Many lives were lost. He knew where we hid the vibranium, and how to strike. He had someone on the inside.

N'Jobu: Why are you here?

Young T'Chaka: Because I want you to look me in the eyes and tell me why you betrayed Wakanda.

N'Jobu: I did no such thing.

T'Challa: Thank you.

M'Baku: I owed you a great debt. A life for a life. Consider it paid.

T'Challa: Please allow my mother to stay here.

M'Baku: No harm will come to her. I give you my word.

T'Challa: You know, I could use an army, as well.

M'Baku: [laughing] I bet you could. But no. I will give no Jabari lives towards your cause.

T'Challa: It is our cause. It is for all of us.

M'Baku: Oh, us? Us? You are the first king to come here in centuries and now you speak of "us"?

T'Challa: I cannot speak for past kings. But an enemy sits on the throne right now. We both know the power of vibranium. If Killmonger gains control of it, who do you think he will come for next?

M'Baku: We will not help you.

Erik Killmonger: You know, where I'm from... when black folks started revolutions, they never had the firepower... or the resources to fight their oppressors. Where was Wakanda? Hmm? Yeah, all that ends today. We got spies embedded in every nation on Earth. Already in place. I know how colonizers think. So we're gonna use their own strategy against 'em. We're gonna send vibranium weapons out to our War Dogs. They'll arm oppressed people all over the world... so they can finally rise up and kill those in power. And their children. And anyone else who takes their side. It's time they know the truth about us!

Everett K. Ross: He

[Erik Killmonger]

Everett K. Ross: worked with our CIA to destabilize foreign governments... during election cycles.

W'Kabi: Would you kill me, my love?

Okoye: For Wakanda... no question

Ulysses Klaue: You... you want to go to Wakanda? They're savages!

[shows scarred brand]

Ulysses Klaue: This is what they do to people like us.

Erik Killmonger: I don't worry about no brand. Check these out. Each one is for a kill.

[shows scars on his arms]

Ulysses Klaue: You can scar yourself as much as you like. To them, you'll just be an outsider. Your crazy to think that you can just walk in there. And to think I saw you as a crazy American...

[Klaue laughs, Killmonger shoots Klaue in the head]

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