Life is never easy for the Black Panther.
The world of the Black Panther is as chock full of mystical and tribal horror as it is with technological wonders due to combining the most savage parts of Darkest Africa with Afrofuturism. Not to mention the wide assortment of disturbing baddies the eponymous Panther has to deal with.- The Panther's Teeth, a sophisticated Wakandan springtrap that impales its victims midsection.
- T'Challa's grandfather King Azzuri was The Dreaded during World War II and for good reason. Any intruder who came to Wakanda's borders was brutally slaughtered and had their decapitated heads placed on pikes as a warning to any outsider. Azzuri made a point of doing this for a substantial amount of time and even gave Captain America a Curb-Stomp Battle just to prove poor Cap was out of his league.
- Armless Tiger Man. He may look like a rambling armless freak of nature, but he's actually a dangerous Handicapped Badass who can kill entire crowds of armed warriors with just his razor sharp teeth in seconds. He's also a noted cannibal. He gives this threat to a group of armed Wakandas before leaving them as a pile of corpses.Armless Tiger: I know what you're thinking...how fast could he be? He couldn't get us all! But then you look at the bodies on the floor and reconsider. As well you should. I'm developing a taste for dark meat.
- How Man-Ape got his powers is pretty nauseating, especially for a primatologist. He went after one of Wakanda's mystical white gorillas, brutally beat it to death, bathed in a pool of its blood, ate its flesh and then fashioned a suit of armor out of its hide.
- Reverend Achebe. If his consistent Slasher Smile and Kubrick Stare doesn't unnerve you, his history will. He is believed to have once been a simple peasant farmer who offered asylum to rebels from a neighboring country. Instead the rebels betrayed him by burning down his farm, stabbing him 32 times, and taking his wife, who left willingly upon being seduced by the rebel leader. Left for dead, Achebe sold his soul to Mephisto and proceeded to track down anyone associated with his wife and the rebels, killing each one by stabbing them 32 times and razing their livelihoods to the ground.
- Even worse he's as clever as he is insane, as he managed to take over Wakanda as its new Prime Minister through political guile and good publicity, before setting murderous robots on the Wakanda populace for fun.
- The poor fate of T'Challa's stepmother/Shuri's mother, Ramonda. Abducted when T'Challa was a teenager during a South African protest by a white supremacist Magistrate of Communications named Anton Pretorius. Pretorius made her disappear via paperwork/bureaucracy and brought her to his mansion, where he kept Ramonda hidden from the public and sexually abused her for years on end, even keeping her tied her to his bed.
- At one point (as shown in the page image), T'Challa is attacked by African gang members and given one of the famous South African neckties — a burning tire dipped in gasoline forced over his head.
- Erik Killmonger. T'Challa's archnemesis, intellectual equal, and his physical superior, serving as one of the few people who can regularly best The Black Panther in hand-to-hand combat. He's also an Ax-Crazy angry black man whose plans generally include wholesale genocide or just to screw with T'Challa. At one point he managed to even take over Wakanda through ritualistic combat and remained ruler of the country for a while. The worst part about him however is his inability to stay dead no matter how many times he is killed. As long as T'Challa lives, Erik will find a way back to life to make trouble again.
- Solomon Prey's process that gave him his wings and claws is nothing short of nauseating. The process caused his body to grow and tear open from his back through a large surgical scar, resealing itself as the new limbs formed from his back muscles and bone. The sequence it played very graphically, and his body is covered in blood and raw flesh after the wings grow
- T'Challa and Storm getting tortured by the Skrulls. The Skrull commander himself is unnerved by the two as they are tortured and then recounts how they finally start to break. Then it's revealed it was all the ruse by T'Challa and the two being tortured were Skrulls who had their bodies and voices surgically switched to be decoys.Skrull Leader: My soldiers beat them for what seems like hours without either of them uttering so much as a grimace. Occasionally T'Challa will tell us all to go to Hell. But other than that, they are silent. They never look at the Skrulls who beat them or at each other. They only stare at me. Icy stares that chill me to the bone. Only after we lay them down and the torture priests began to work with their blades, does T'Challa give in and glance over at his wife. And then he screams. They both do.
- T'Challa and his forces leave hills of bodies of Skrulls within their ship before painting a warning in blood: This is what happens when you invade Wakanda.
