History Characters / MCUErikStevens

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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/MichaelBJordan, Seth Carr (young)

!! ''[[ComicBook/{{Killmonger}} Lt. Erik "Killmonger" Stevens, US Navy]] / King N'Jadaka of Wakanda / [[ComicBook/BlackPanther The Black Panther]]''

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler:Had Erik not stopped to try to convince his fellow Guardians to join him in using the Infinity Stones for their own desires, he could've conceivably escaped and started using the completed set for his own villainous agenda. But because he does, it gives Zola enough time to gain full autonomy over Ultron and attempt to claim the stones for himself, which distracts Killmonger long enough for Strange Supreme to seal both of them in a can for all of eternity.]]
* NotSoSimilar: Basically what he tells [[spoiler:Tony when he is about to kill him and Tony compares their similar desires to live up to their father's legacies. He's actually right though not in the way he thinks as even this version of Tony, who had an IgnoredEpiphany and never became Iron Man, is still a better person than Killmonger and cares about his friends while Killmonger cares about nobody but his goals]].

* TheQuietOne: Surprisingly is this to the Guardians of the Multiverse, rarely uttering a word as his teammates are shooting the shit with each other while preparing to fight Infinite Ultron. Gamora and Thor notice this and lampshade it, pointing out how suspicious it makes him, along with him tampering with an Ultron head.
* SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler:Arnim Zola (in Ultron's body) and Eric Killmonger (wearing Ultron's armor) end up trapped inside a temporally-displaced pocket dimension, frozen in the midst of their cataclysmic and equally-matched struggle over the infinity stones. The time bubble is left in the care of Strange Supreme in his dead universe, with the Watcher warning him of the chaos that would unfold if the two ever get out.]]

* VillainHasAPoint: Being perceptive as he is, he does have his moments. [[spoiler:The biggest comes when he tries to convince his fellow Guardians to use the stones for themselves, given the number of worlds with terrible destruction that can't be undone otherwise. Given The Watcher returns to his oath of non-interference and refuses to fix any of the damage caused by Ultron, Erik's right.]]

* ForWantOfANail: Killmonger's timely rescue ensures that the age of Iron Man (and all the heroics that come with it) never came to pass, as Tony developed neither the technology nor the moral heart to become the man of the Sacred Timeline. It's heavily implied that the exact nail isn't Erik saving Stark but rather N'Jobu dying unexpectedly in a gang war instead of at T'Chaka's claws, resulting in a more mature but still evil Killmonger who immediately saw Stark's war profiteering greed as the best way to take over Wakanda.

** Killmonger correctly states to the museum guide that the African artifacts on the exhibit were stolen.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Downplayed, but Killmonger arguably bears some culpability for Thanos' victory in the Infinity War. His coup splintered Wakanda's military and triggered a brief civil war. While T'Challa ultimately triumphed, he was forced to purge the Wakanda military of the elements that had sided with the usurper (i.e. W'Kabi and most of the Border Tribe). Had Wakanda's military been at full strength when the Black Order invaded, things may have gone differently (although given Thanos had all but one of the Stones at that point, it's also debatable how much of a difference an intact Wakandan military might have made).

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Downplayed, but Killmonger arguably bears some culpability for Thanos' victory in the Infinity War. His coup splintered Wakanda's military and triggered a brief civil war. While T'Challa ultimately triumphed, he was forced to purge the Wakanda military of the elements that had sided with the usurper (i.e. W'Kabi and most of the Border Tribe). Had Wakanda's military been at full stregnth when the Black Order invaded, things may have gone differently (although given Thanos had all but one of the Stones at that point, the difference an intact Wakandan military might have made would probably been negligble).

* CelebrityParadox: In ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'', one of the items on Cap's list includes the ''Film/{{Rocky}}'' movies. Jordan played the title character of those movies' spinoff ''Film/{{Creed}}'', which was Ryan Coogler's previous film before ''Black Panther'', making it a two-for-one example of this trope.

* StrawHypocrite: At first, his goal of ending the oppression of black people seems noble, but as the plot thickens, it’s clear that he just wants revenge on the world. This is made clear by the {{Hypocrisy}} he does.

** Killmonger displays traits of a Hotep, the Hotep ideology being one that values the desires of hyper-masculine heterosexual cis-gendered African men above all else.