History Characters / MCUTChalla

* BaritoneOfAuthority: Courtesy of Chadwick Boseman, T'Challa's voice carries weight and power in both diplomacy and in battle.

** In the ''ComicBook/CivilWar'' comics, T'Challa was against registration and sided with Steve on the issue. In the MCU, T'Challa's stance on the Sokovia Accords is a mix of Steve and Tony's on the matter, i.e. he's in favor of the idea of oversight, but not the politicking that will almost certainly result from the Accords. He ends up helping Tony because he believes Bucky killed his father in the bombing at Vienna, Cap intervenes to help Bucky escape from him and Tony can help him track Steve and Bucky down, but besides that, his story in ''Civil War'' has nothing to do with the pro/anti-registration conflict. And while he does eventually agree to help Steve evade custody and even help deprogram Bucky's HYDRA brainwashing, by that point the Accords are barely a factor in the story.

* CharacterDeath: Dies of an unknown illness in the beginning of ''Wakanda Forever'', despite Shuri's desperate attempts to save him. With his absence felt throughout the entire film, and Creator/KevinFeige being completly adament on not recasting him after Creator/ChadwickBoseman's real life passing, [[KilledOffForReal it's very unlikely that T'Challa will ever coming back]].
* CheatedDeathDiedAnyway: He was one of the people dusted by Thanos and was resurrected by Bruce Banner, only to die of an unidentified illness at the start of ''Film/BlackPantherWakandaForever'' due to Chadwick Boseman's passing and Creator/KevinFeige completely refusing to recast him.

* CheatedDeathDiedAnyway: He was one of the people dusted by Thanos and was resurrected by Bruce Banner, only to die of an unidentified illness at the start of ''Film/BlackPantherWakandaForever'' due to Chadwick Boseman's passing.

* KilledOffForReal: Dies of an unknown illness in the beginning of ''Wakanda Forever'', despite Shuri's desperate attempts to save him. With his absence felt throughout the entire film, it's clear that T'Challa is never coming back.

* BadassBaritone: Courtesy of Chadwick Boseman, T'Challa's voice carries weight and power in both diplomacy and in battle.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: As prince of Wakanda, he was trained from childhood to eventually take the place of his father as both King and the protector of Wakanda, the Black Panther.

->''"You are in Wakanda now. [[Characters/MCUThanos Thanos]] will have nothing but dust and blood."''

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[[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see him in the Black Panther habit]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/panther.jpg [softreturn]''"Every breath you take is mercy from me."''[[/labelnote]]]]

-->'''T'Challa:''' You were wrong! ''All of you were wrong!'' To turn your backs on the rest of the world! We let the fear of our discovery stop us from doing what is ''right''! No more... I cannot stay here with you. I cannot rest while he sits on the throne. He's a monster of our own making. I must take back the mantle back, I ''must''... I must right these wrongs.

* LikeADuckTakesToWater: In the Sacred Timeline, T'Challa growing up in Wakanda leads him to becoming the Black Panther and proving to be a more progressive king with the desire to have Wakanda be more open with the outside world, meaning he was already pretty amazing. However giving this T'Challa the chance to explore the entire galaxy leads him to become the greatest hero ever who regularly redeems seemingly amoral and outright evil characters and saves entire planets. Yondu even says that he believes T'Challa would be able to adapt to any situation he found himself.

* TheCharmer: As T'Challa never went through the ritual of eating the Heart-Shaped Herb to become the Black Panther, his most dangerous weapon here is how persuasive he is with his altruism. Unlike Star-Lord, he actually managed to convince the Ravagers to become a force for good and even convinced Thanos that there were solutions outside of genocide to accomplishing his goal solve resource scarcity.

* CoolGuns: He uses blasters like with the Sacred Timeline Peter Quill. He later lends one of his blasters to his timeline's Peter Quill so he can help him fight Ego.

* BadassNormal: Never being given the post of the Heart-Shaped Herb hasn’t made him any less of a badass than he was in the Sacred Timeline.

* AdaptationalRelationshipOverhaul: Because he's lives a life so completely different from anything his variants or comic self have lived, he naturally has this with many characters. He's never met Yondu or the other Ravagers like Taserface and Kraglin, while here they are his surrogate father figure and family. Nebula is generally someone he knows about as opposed to actually knowing in the Sacred Timeline and the comics, but here she's his ImpliedLoveInterest. And finally, Thanos has always been an enemy of T'Challa and the Avengers in the comics, but here they're teammates.

** Done again in the final battle in a splendid inversion of the usual "superhero sees his LoveInterest in danger and gets a HeroicSecondWind" trope: once he sees that Kilmonger is about to murder his little sister in cold blood, T'Challa screams "SHURI!" and makes his suit release a blast so powerful, it sends every Border Tribe soldier around him ''flying.'' Cue T'Challa tackling Kilmonger into the lab and giving him a beating so fierce, Erik is finally on his toes for the first time.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: The King of Wakanda is decided by ritual one versus one combat. T'Challa had to win against the likes of M'Baku and later Killmonger to keep his throne.

** Despite his annoyance with sixteen-year-old Shuri, it's quite obvious that T'Challa dotes on his baby sister and would do just about anything for her, even if it means humiliating himself for her amusement.

!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' | ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'' [[note]]Cameo in a video recording[[/note]] | ''Film/{{Black Panther|2018}}'' | ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' | ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' | ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'' [[note]]Archive photography[[/note]] | ''{{Film/Black Widow|2021}}'' [[note]]Archive footage from ''Civil War''[[/note]] | ''Film/BlackPantherWakandaForever''[[note]]Archive footage[[/note]]

* AlternateSelf: T'Challa has three alternate counterparts, but only one of them is confirmed alive.

** Though he still loves his father and is proud of his heritage, T'Challa couldn't help but be disappointed when he found out that T'Chaka's killing of N'jobu helped turn Killmonger into the threat he became. By extension, he's disillusioned with the rest of his ancestors after realizing just how many people Wakanda has hurt or failed to help in their efforts to keep themselves hidden.

* CovertPervert: When his female bodyguard Ayo threatens to fight Black Widow, he admits with a [[GirlOnGirlIsHot huge grin on his face]] that as [[CatFight entertaining it is to let it happen]], now isn't exactly the time or place.

* HappyEndingOverride: Shortly after his cathartic triumph in his own film, Wakanda is invaded by Thanos during ''Infinity War'' and he is forced to evacuate the city before fighting the Mad Titan alongside the Avengers. And then he finds himself [[FromBadToWorse erased from existence]] after they fail to stop him from completing the Infinity Gauntlet. Things do get better for him in ''Endgame'' however, being returned back to life and later helping lead a successful attack against Thanos' forces... only to die from illness shortly after that.

* TheHeroDies: One of the main protagonists of the MCU, the official synopsis of ''Film/BlackPantherWakandaForever'' confirms that he died prior to the film's events.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: His adoption of ThouShaltNotKill bites him in ''Black Panther''. During his duel with Killmonger, he actually manages to knock him down first and has a chance to finish him for good. His decision to not take it and offer mercy instead allows Killmonger to get the upper hand, kill Zuri and win the fight, giving him the right to rule Wakanda. Through that, Killmonger is able to cause serious destabilization of Wakanda, most notably burning all the Heart-shaped Herbs and with them the legacy of the Black Panthers.

* PosthumousCharacter: ''Black Panther: Wakanda Forever'' opens with T'Challa dying of an unidentified illness. His shadow looms large over the rest of the movie, as he is frequently spoken of by those who knew him.

* CovertPervert: When his female bodyguard threatens to fight Black Widow, he admits with a [[GirlOnGirlIsHot huge grin on his face]] that as [[CatFight entertaining it is to let it happen]], now isn't exactly the time or place.

-->'''T'Challa:''' You were wrong! All of you were wrong! To turn your backs on the rest of the world. We let the fear of our discovery stop us from doing what is ''right''! No more. I cannot stay here with you. I cannot rest while he sits on the throne. He's a monster of our own making. I must take back the mantle back, I ''must''... I must right these wrongs.

-->''Up, General! [[IronicLastWords This is no place to die.]]''

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