21st (Afro-Asian Literature: Black Panther)

• Vibranium


  The strongest metal in the universe
• How the first Black Panther came to be

  1. Five African tribes at war over vibranium

  2. One warrior ingests heart-shaped herb affected by vibranium

  3. Gains super-human powers

  4. Unites all but one tribe

  5. Forms the nation of Wakanda
• Wakanda uses vibranium to become a technological superpower, but isolates itself and hides from the rest of the world by pretending to be a third world nation
• King T'Chaka visits his brother N'Jobu in Oakland, California

  1992
• T'Chaka accuses N'Jobu of helping an arms dealer named Ulysses Klaue attack Wakanda and steal vibranium


  Zuri confirms T'Chaka's suspicions are true
• In the present day, T'Chaka's son T'Challa is to be crowned King after his father's death
• Events at T'Challa's coronation ceremony


  1. Okoye extracts Nakia from undercover assignment

  2. M'Baku challenges T'Challa to ritual combat for the crown

  3. T'Challa defeats M'Baku and persuades him to yield
• Klaue and Erik Stevens (Killmonger) steal a Wakandan artifact made of vibranium


  W'Kabi urges T'Challa to bring back Klaue, dead or alive
• T'Challa, Okoye and Nakia's mission to Busan, South Korea

  1. Confront Klaue who is planning to sell the artifact

  2. Firefight ensues, Klaue is caught but then rescued by Killmonger

  3. T'Challa takes injured Ross to Wakanda for medical treatment
• Zuri explains that in the 1990s, N'Jobu was planning to give Wakandan technology to people of African descent across the globe so they could overthrow their oppressors
• N'Jobu attacked Zuri


  T'Chaka had to kill N'Jobu
• T'Challa realizes Killmonger is N'Jobu's son
• Killmonger's challenge for the throne


  1. Kills Zuri

  2. Defeats T'Challa in ritual combat

  3. Ingests heart-shaped herb to gain Black Panther powers

  4. Orders remaining herbs be incinerated
• Nakia manages to extract one last heart-shaped herb
• Killmonger is supported by W'Kabi and his army, and prepares to distribute shipments of vibranium around the world
• T'Challa's return to fight Killmonger


  1. Nakia, Shuri, Ramonda and Ross flee to the Jabari tribe

  2. They find comatose T'Challa, who is healed by Nakia's herb

  3. T'Challa returns to Wakanda to fight Killmonger

  4. Shuri, Nakia and Dora Milaje join T'Challa

  5. Confronted by Okoye, W'Kabi and his army stand down

  6. T'Challa manages to stab Killmonger
• Killmonger refuses to allow himself to be healed as he would rather die a free man than live in a prison
• T'Challa establishes an outreach center in Oakland to help uplift impoverished communities around the world
• T'Challa appears before the United Nations, finally revealing Wakanda's true identity as a technological superpower