Black Panther delivers explicit messages about the good and bad of tribalism and the need for brotherhood and sisterhood, as well as implicit messages about African and African-American pride, with swashbuckling flair and eclectic, eye-popping spectacle
What makes it all feel new are the galvanizing figures of Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman), aka T’Challa, King of Wakanda, and the power-mad seeker of his crown, Erik Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan). Coogler emphasizes their humanity.
He depicts Killmonger as a brilliant black-ops assassin before revealing the primal tragedy that spurs him on to political and then racial revenge.
killmonger's ideological certitude is as intimidating as the pattern of scars he raises on his body to mark each kill.
Black Panther/T’Challa, by contrast, is a charismatic liberal with a romantic streak, and a man who always weighs his options
When T'Challa meets his late father T’Chaka (John Kani) on the mystical Ancestral Plane, T’Chaka tells him, “You are a good man, with a good heart. And it’s hard for a good man to be king.”
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.
In 1992, King T'Chaka (Atandwa) visits his brother N'Jobu (Sterling K. Brown), who is working undercover in Oakland, California.
In the present day, following T'Chaka's death, his son T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman) (The king of the African nation of Wakanda, who gains enhanced strength by ingesting the Heart-Shaped Herb.
the death of his father T'Chaka, T'Challa is in mourning while ascending to the throne) returns to Wakanda to assume the throne.
Wakanda is an isolated high-tech African nation that has remained undetected by other nations due to its use of camouflage technology.
It is ruled by the Black Panther, who possesses superhuman abilities thanks to the herb known as the Heart-Shaped Herb.
ask you can see i am not dead - tchalla
t'challas character grows from a selfish in pain character, to an open leader