Black Panther is a 2018 American
superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the eighteenth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film is directed by Ryan Coogler from a screenplay by him and Joe Robert Cole, and stars Chadwick Boseman as T'Challa / Black Panther, alongside Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong'o, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman, Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker, and Andy Serkis. In Black Panther, T'Challa returns home as king of Wakanda but finds his sovereignty challenged by a long-time adversary in a conflict that has global consequences
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Centuries ago, as five
African tribes war over a meteorite made up of the alien metal
vibranium, a warrior ingests a "heart-shaped herb" affected by the metal and gains superhuman abilities. Becoming the first "Black Panther", he unites the five tribes and forms the nation of
Wakanda. As time passes, the Wakandans use the vibranium to develop highly-advanced technology while simultaneously isolating themselves from the rest of the world and posing as a
Third World country.
In 1992, while on an undercover assignment in
Oakland, California, Prince N'Jobu becomes convinced Wakanda's isolationist policies have done more harm than good and vows to share its technology with
people of African descent around the world in order to help them conquer their oppressors. N'Jobu enlists black-market arms dealer
Ulysses Klaue to infiltrate Wakanda and steal a cache of vibranium only for his older brother
T'Chaka to learn about his actions. T'Chaka reluctantly kills N'Jobu and abandons his son
Erik in order to prevent the Wakandan people from learning the truth.
In the present day, following T'Chaka's death at the hands of
Helmut Zemo[N 1], his son T'Challa returns to Wakanda to assume the throne. After working with
Okoye, the leader of the
Dora Milaje, to extract his ex-lover
Nakia from an undercover assignment, he reunites with his mother
Ramonda and younger sister
Shuri only to learn that
M'Baku, the leader of the rival Jabari Tribe, is challenging him for the crown. The two engage in ritual combat, with T'Challa emerging victorious and becoming the new King.
When Klaue resurfaces and prepares to sell a stolen Wakandan artifact to a buyer in
Busan, South Korea, T'Challa's closest friend
W'Kabi, who lost his parents as a result of the dealer's actions, urges the young monarch to bring him to justice. T'Challa, Okoye, and Nakia plan to intercept Klaue at an underground casino only for their plan to go wrong when T'Challa discovers the buyer is
CIA agent
Everett K. Ross and Klaue suspects the deal is a setup.
Following a confrontation and a high-speed car chase through the city, Klaue is taken into federal custody. As Klaue causes Ross to doubt everything he knows about Wakanda, Erik, now an ex-U.S.
black ops soldier who goes by the name "Killmonger", breaks into the compound and frees the dealer. Ross is seriously injured saving Nakia in the attack, and rather than pursue Klaue, T'Challa takes Ross to Wakanda where Shuri uses the nation's advanced technology to save his life.
Killmonger kills Klaue and takes his body to Wakanda as a token, revealing his identity to the tribal elders and challenging T'Challa for the throne. Killmonger triumphs in ritual combat and hurls the defeated T'Challa over a waterfall. After ingesting the heart-shaped herb to gain the powers of the Black Panther, Killmonger enacts his father's plan, preparing shipments of Wakandan weapons to be distributed to Wakandan operatives around the world. Nakia, Shuri, Ramonda, and Ross flee to seek the aid of the Jabari, only to learn that M'Baku's men have found and are caring for the comatose T'Challa.
Healed by a heart-shaped herb brought by Nakia, T'Challa returns to Wakanda and renews his combat with Killmonger, who is now wearing a Black Panther armor of his own. While Shuri, Nakia, and Okoye join the Dora Milaje and Jabari in battling W'Kabi and the Wakandan army, Ross, piloting a remote jet, shoots down the planes carrying the weapons before they can leave the country. T'Challa and Killmonger's battle carries them into the heart of the vibranium mine, where sonic disruptors used in the transport of the metal destabilizes their vibranium armors. While Killmonger's body is briefly exposed, T'Challa stabs his cousin, and Killmonger chooses to die free rather than accept T'Challa's offer to be healed and imprisoned.
Rejecting the isolationism of past Wakandan kings, T'Challa establishes an outreach center in Oakland to be run by Nakia and Shuri. In a mid-credits scene, T'Challa appears before the United Nations to reveal Wakanda's true nature to the world. In a post-credits scene, Shuri continues to help
Bucky Barnes with his recuperation.
