Wakanda and Talokan
T'Challa
Black Panther
DeadPlayed by Chadwick Boseman
Who they arebeyond the guide
King of Wakanda and the Black Panther, enhanced by the heart-shaped herb — strength, speed and senses — over a vibranium suit that stores and returns kinetic energy. He ends his own country's isolation, which is the political turn the rest of the franchise runs on.
Dead of an undisclosed illness, between films
- Appearances
- 4
Along the chronological spine
A life, in order
Every appearance in chronological order. Tap an entry to read what happens there.
- 2016What T'Challa reveals at the end of Black Panther is that the poverty was a front. T'Challa pursues him for vengeance. Barnes goes into voluntary cryosleep in Wakanda while T'Challa's scientists work on undoing his conditioning.Open Captain America: Civil War →
- 2016T'Challa returns to be crowned. Erik "Killmonger" Stevens — son of T'Challa's uncle N'Jobu, who was killed by T'Chaka in Oakland in 1992 and whose child was abandoned there — arrives to claim the throne and use Wakandan weapons to arm oppressed people worldwide. T'Challa wins the fight and adopts half his argument: Wakanda reveals itself and opens outreach centres, beginning with Oakland.Open Black Panther →
- 2018He opens Wakanda's border and its dome to fight someone else's war on his own ground, and is dusted at the end of it.Open Avengers: Infinity War →
- 2018 → 2023Dusted at Wakanda; he comes back through the portals at the head of an army.Open Avengers: Endgame →