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* SympathyForTheDevil: [[spoiler:Has this for Erik "Kilmonger" Stevens a.k.a. N'Jadaka, his cousin.]]
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!!''King T'Challa / [[ComicBook/BlackPanther The Black Panther]]''
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-->''"Wakanda will no longer watch from the shadows. We cannot. We must not. We will work to be an example of how we, as brothers and sisters on this earth, should treat each other. Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis, the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another, as if we were one single tribe."''
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Despite earlier proclaiming to Black Widow in the the wake of his [[spoiler:father's death]] that he's not his father, [[spoiler:at the end of ''Civil War'', this trope has been passed down from his father to him when he gives asylum to Bucky in Wakanda and promises to help undo his brainwashing to atone for almost killing him in the mistaken belief Bucky was behind the UN bombing]]. Then in his solo film, he then shows himself as a NiceGuy and TheGoodKing in his position as the King of Wakanda.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Despite earlier proclaiming to Black Widow in the the wake of his [[spoiler:father's death]] that he's not his father, [[spoiler:at the end of ''Civil War'', this trope has been passed down from his father to him when he gives asylum to Bucky in Wakanda and promises to help undo his brainwashing to atone for almost killing him in the mistaken belief Bucky was behind the UN bombing]]. Then in his solo film, he then shows himself as a NiceGuy and TheGoodKing in his position as the King of Wakanda. In fact, [[spoiler:he even proves himself as this more then his father due to latter having abandoned his nephew who become Killmonger, prompting T'Challa to finally drop his country's isolationist policy to help outsiders]].
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* BerserkButton: T'Challa has a special vehemence for innocents being made to suffer, especially if done because of callous indifference for how it will hurt them. He explicitly calls Zemo for tricking him into targeting an innocent man and lays down the law with Okoye when she suggests just leaving Ross to suffer being shot in the spine after he saved Nakia from gunfire. [[spoiler: He even goes full BrokenPedestal on the spirit of his father, and the rest of his ancestors, upon finding out that T'Chaka left his own nephew behind after killing N'Jobu.]]
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* BerserkButton: T'Challa has a special vehemence for innocents being made to suffer, especially if done because of callous indifference for how it will hurt them. He explicitly calls Zemo for tricking him into targeting an innocent man and lays down the law with Okoye when she suggests just leaving Ross to suffer being shot in the spine after he saved Nakia from gunfire. [[spoiler: He even goes full BrokenPedestal on the spirit of his father, and the rest of his ancestors, upon finding out that T'Chaka left his own nephew behind after killing N'Jobu.N'Jobu]]
** Rubbing it in his face makes it worse. [[spoiler:When Killmonger says that he’ll bury everyone of T'Challa's allies next to Zuri, T'Challa flies into blind rage and fights more aggressively against Killmonger.]]
** Rubbing it in his face makes it worse. [[spoiler:When Killmonger says that he’ll bury everyone of T'Challa's allies next to Zuri, T'Challa flies into blind rage and fights more aggressively against Killmonger.]]
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* BigBrotherInstinct: Threatening his little sister Shuri is a one-way ticket to an asskicking. Subtly done during [[spoiler:M'Baku's challenge; T'Challa tolerates it up until M'Baku shouts at Shuri and makes her flinch, at which point T'Challa is visibly pissed off and cuts M'Baku off mid-sentence to announce he accepts the challenge.]]
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* BewaretheNiceOnes: T'Challa is one of the most nicest people in the MCU and is a ReasonableAuthorityFigure. He is polite, respectful, and very caring for people he is around and who he considers his friends. But unlike his comic book counterpart who is mostly a stoic character this version shows that T'Challa actually is more emotional and is more prone to anger when he views that something is a problem.
* BigBrotherInstinct:Threatening Thretatening his little sister Shuri is a one-way ticket to an asskicking. Subtly done during [[spoiler:M'Baku's challenge; T'Challa tolerates it up until M'Baku shouts at Shuri and makes her flinch, at which point T'Challa is visibly pissed off and cuts M'Baku off mid-sentence to announce he accepts the challenge.]]
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--->'''T'Challa:''' All of you were wrong! For turning your backs on the rest of the world. We let the fear of our discovery stop us from what 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 mountain. I ''must'' right this wrong.
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--->'''T'Challa:''' All of you were wrong! For turning your backs on the rest of the world. We let the fear of our discovery stop us from what 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 mountain. mantle back. I ''must'' right this wrong.these wrongs.
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* {{Nanomachines}}: His new suit in ''Black Panther'' (along with the one Killmonger acquires) is composed of Vibranium nanomachines, which means the suit assembles on him in a nigh-instantaneous way that would make Tony Stark dead jealous. Even better, it's all contained in his collar, somehow.
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* {{Nanomachines}}: His new suit in ''Black Panther'' (along with the one Killmonger acquires) is composed of Vibranium nanomachines, which means the suit assembles on him in a nigh-instantaneous way that would make Tony Stark dead jealous.nigh-instantaneously. Even better, it's all contained in his collar, somehow.
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** T'Challa in the comics has a reputation for being quite stoic, apart from being easily-detached with romantic partners--what with Nakia's [[AllLoveIsUnrequited unrequited crush]] and the fact that his marriage with Storm ended in divorce. In-film, however, T'Challa is visibly more emotionally open: to bantering with his sister, being full-on {{Adorkable}} / TheComicallySerious when Nakia and his friends are in the picture, or venting his rage at [[spoiler:Zuri's death and T'Chaka's mistakes when they meet at the astral plane the second time]].
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** T'Challa in the comics has a reputation for being quite stoic, apart from being easily-detached with romantic partners--what with Nakia's [[AllLoveIsUnrequited unrequited crush]] and the fact that his marriage with Storm ended in divorce. In-film, however, T'Challa is visibly more emotionally open: to bantering with his sister, being full-on {{Adorkable}} / TheComicallySerious when Nakia and his friends are in the picture, being stricken by or weeping with grief, or venting his rage at [[spoiler:Zuri's death and T'Chaka's mistakes when they meet at the astral plane the second time]].
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* BaitAndSwitch: [[spoiler: A particularly cruel one in ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', Given the immense popularity of his solo movie, most everyone expected that he would survive Thanos using the Infinity Gauntlet to wipe out half of the universe. After the BadassFingerSnap goes off we see him going to help up the relatively expendable Okoye, only for her to survive and T'Challa to fade away.]]
-->[[spoiler:''[[FamousLastWords Up, General! This is no place to die.]]'']]
-->[[spoiler:''[[FamousLastWords Up, General! This is no place to die.]]'']]
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-->''[[FamousLastWords Up, General! This is no place to die.]]'']]
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-->''[[FamousLastWords: Up, General! This is no place to die.]]'']]
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* AdaptationalDumbass: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] since T'Challa is still very intelligent, making some of his own gear and successfully leading his country, but even so he isn't quite up to the level of his comics counterpart. In the comic books T'Challa is not only one of the most skilled martial artists in the Marvel Universe, but he's also TheChessmaster and among the 10 smartest characters in the universe. T'Challa in the film is far more down to Earth.
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* AdaptationalDumbass: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] since T'Challa is still very intelligent, making some of his own gear and successfully leading his country, but even so he isn't quite up to the level of his comics counterpart. In the comic books T'Challa is not only one of the most skilled martial artists in the Marvel Universe, but he's also TheChessmaster and among the 10 smartest characters in the universe. T'Challa in the film films is far more down to Earth.Earth, and if anything, his intellectual capacities are handed off to Shuri in these adaptations.
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* Adorkable: Vehemently denies he'll freeze when he sees Nakia... until he does. While he's fully decked out in his Panther outfit.
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** In the ''ComicBook/CivilWar'' comics, T'Challa was against registration and sided with Steve on the issue. In the MCU, because the triggering event of the Accords is the deaths of Wakandan emissaries and furthered by [[spoiler:Steve helping the man T'Challa thought killed his father]], T'Challa is for registration and assists Tony.
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* TookALevelInKindness: Downplayed. He was always a very goodhearted person but his grief over his father's death gave viewers an introduction to a much more vengeful, snarky and even abrasive Black Panther. His shock at discovering he nearly murdered an innocent man man snaps him out of it, and by ''Black Panther'' his NiceGuy nature shines through.
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* AdaptationalDumbass: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] since T'Challa is still very intelligent, making some of his own gear and succesfully successfully leading his country, but even so he isn't quite up to the level of his comics counterpart. In the comic books T'Challa is not only one of the most skilled martial artists in the Marvel Universe, but he's also TheChessmaster and among the 10 smartest characters in the universe. T'Challa in the film is far more down to Earth.
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** In his own film, he has the same isolationist policy as his own nation, and is set on keeping it that way whenever it's brought up. [[spoiler: Learning about T'Chaka and Zuri's hand creating Killmonger had shaken his beliefs and he calls out his father in the afterlife, pointing out how Wakanda's policies had resulted its worst enemy yet. By the end of the film, he announces his intention to unveil Wakanda's technology to the rest of the world, and had set up National Relation Centers in California.]]
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** In his own film, he has the same isolationist policy as his own nation, and is set on keeping it that way whenever it's brought up. [[spoiler: Learning about T'Chaka and Zuri's hand in creating Killmonger had shaken his beliefs and he calls out his father in the afterlife, pointing out how Wakanda's policies had resulted its worst enemy yet. By the end of the film, he announces his intention to unveil Wakanda's technology to the rest of the world, and had set up National Relation Centers in California.]]
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* GeniusBruiser: T'Challa is an accomplished warrior and is also technologically savvy enough to have designed his own Black Panther suit, which is the one seen in Civil War. Shuri remarks that it's utilitarian but not as advanced as it could be.
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* GeniusBruiser: T'Challa is an accomplished warrior and is also technologically savvy enough to have designed his own Black Panther suit, which is the one seen in Civil War.''Civil War''. Shuri remarks that it's utilitarian but not as advanced as it could be.
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* TheGoodKing: Wakanda’s most competent king who, unlike the previous rulers, is willing to show to the world Wakanda’s true nature in hopes that [[spoiler:the tragedy that happened to Erik will never repeat]]. As such, all of Wakanda’s love him for it.
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* TheGoodKing: Wakanda’s Wakanda's most competent king who, unlike the previous rulers, is willing to show to the world Wakanda’s Wakanda's true nature in hopes that [[spoiler:the tragedy that happened to Erik will never repeat]]. As such, all of Wakanda’s love Wakanda loves him for it.
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* ModestRoyalty: When not in costume, he tends to dress casually. This also applies to his Black Panther suits when tend to be SimpleYetOpulent. He is also quite approachable in person as shown in ''Infinity War'' when he interacts with his friends in the Avengers, who are non-royalty and when Bruce bows to him in reverence, T'Challa tells him this is unnecessary - a sharp contrast how even his uncle N'Jobu was expected to bow before T'Chaka when he was king.
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* NiceGuy: T'Challa has a warm and kind heart matched only by Captain Steve Rogers', and a moral integrity matched only by Peter Parker's. Even though driven down the path of vengeance briefly by grief over his father's murder, having both qualities allowed him to forgive said murderer ''on his on accord.'' Said MomentOfWeakness aside, T'Challa consistently and selflessly places the needs of his people and the world first, and is torn with guilt and grief whenever the inevitable compromises one must make as a politician causes suffering and sadness in the few sacrificed for the greater good, such as [[spoiler: when he is confronted with the truth of how T'Chaka orphaned and destroyed the life of Erik Killmonger, his cousin]].
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* NiceGuy: T'Challa has a warm and kind heart matched only by Captain Steve Rogers', Rogers, and a moral integrity matched only by Peter Parker's.Parker. Even though driven down the path of vengeance briefly by grief over his father's murder, having both qualities allowed him to forgive said murderer ''on his on accord.'' Said MomentOfWeakness aside, T'Challa consistently and selflessly places the needs of his people and the world first, and is torn with guilt and grief whenever the inevitable compromises one must make as a politician causes suffering and sadness in the few sacrificed for the greater good, such as [[spoiler: when he is confronted with the truth of how T'Chaka orphaned and destroyed the life of Erik Killmonger, his cousin]].
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* SplashOfColor: ** At the beginning of ''Film/BlackPanther'', he is dressed in black, white, and gray symbolizing both his mourning for his father and his discomfort in his new role as king. At the end of the film, when he's truly ready to step up and be King of Wakanda, his clothing begins incorporating bits of bright color.
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* LikeFatherUnlikeSon:[[spoiler:Even before the revelation that T'Chaka abandoned his nephew, T'Challa already shows that he is vastly different from his father in one regard;he will not leave behind a person he could save, Wakanda's secrecy be damned. He brings Everett Ross with him to Wakanda to save his life, whereas his father didn't even bring his blood relative home, leading to that relative becoming Kilmonger.]]
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* AdvertisedExtra: T'Challa was heavily featured in most of the later marketing for ''Infinity War''. Despite this, he has only 3,5 minutes of screentime (less than Mantis) and doesn't really get to do much until the last act of the film.
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* AdaptationalIntelligence: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] since T'Challa is still very intelligent, making some of his own gear and succesfully leading his country, but even so he isn't quite up to the level of his comics counterpart. In the comic books T'Challa is not only one of the most skilled martial artists in the Marvel Universe, but he's also TheChessmaster and among the 10 smartest characters in the universe. T'Challa in the film is far more down to Earth.
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!!''King T'Challa / [[ComicBook/BlackPanther The Black Panther]]''
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!!!'''Species:''' Enhanced human
!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/ChadwickBoseman, Ashton Tyler (child)
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Manuel Campuzano (Latin-American Spanish dub), Miguel Ángel Garzón (European Spanish dub), Makoto Tamura (Japanese dub), Namakan Koné (French dub), Pierre-Yves Cardinal (Canadian French dub)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' | ''Film/{{Black Panther|2018}}'' | ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' | ''[[Film/Avengers4 Untitled Avengers Sequel]]''
-->''"Wakanda will no longer watch from the shadows. We cannot. We must not. We will work to be an example of how we, as brothers and sisters on this earth, should treat each other. Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis, the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another, as if we were one single tribe."''
A prince and diplomat from [[{{Bulungi}} Wakanda]]. After a terrorist attack on a UsefulNotes/UnitedNations summit in which his father King T'Chaka perishes, T'Challa finds himself grappling with how to best take on his father's mantle as the king and protector of Wakanda, the ComicBook/BlackPanther. T'Challa boasts strength and reflexes on the same level as Captain America, and a high tech suit made of the [[{{Phlebotinum}} rare metal known as vibranium]] that further enhances his abilities.
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* AbsurdlySharpClaws: Courtesy of his vibranium suit. They're strong enough to stop vehicles and leave permanent scratches on Captain America's shield (which is also made of vibranium).
* AchillesHeel: His vibranium-weave suit renders him [[ImmuneToBullets nearly impervious]] to gunfire. However, as it's a weave rather than fully solid a la Captain America's shield, he can still be harmed by various other threats, including poison, suffocation, punches (it stops kinetic ''energy'', not momentum), and electricity. [[spoiler: Black Widow takes advantage of the latter, holding him off with a simple stun gun to buy Bucky time to escape.]]
* AdaptationPersonalityChange:
** In the ''ComicBook/CivilWar'' comics, T'Challa was against registration and sided with Steve on the issue. In the MCU, because the triggering event of the Accords is the deaths of Wakandan emissaries and furthered by [[spoiler:Steve helping the man T'Challa thought killed his father]], T'Challa is for registration and assists Tony.
** He's also more impulsive and hotheaded than his comic book counterpart and other versions (particularly ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'' version), who's more of a [[TheChessmaster chessmaster]] and [[TheStrategist strategist]], [[spoiler:though he seems to be shifting more towards this characterization by the end.]]
** T'Challa in the comics has a reputation for being quite stoic, apart from being easily-detached with romantic partners--what with Nakia's [[AllLoveIsUnrequited unrequited crush]] and the fact that his marriage with Storm ended in divorce. In-film, however, T'Challa is visibly more emotionally open: to bantering with his sister, being full-on {{Adorkable}} / TheComicallySerious when Nakia and his friends are in the picture, or venting his rage at [[spoiler:Zuri's death and T'Chaka's mistakes when they meet at the astral plane the second time]].
* AdaptationalIntelligence: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] since T'Challa is still very intelligent, making some of his own gear and succesfully leading his country, but even so he isn't quite up to the level of his comics counterpart. In the comic books T'Challa is not only one of the most skilled martial artists in the Marvel Universe, but he's also TheChessmaster and among the 10 smartest characters in the universe. T'Challa in the film is far more down to Earth.
* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Wakandans believe that the panther goddess Bast was the one who led their ancestors to the heart shaped herb that grants each Ruler their superhuman powers. As such, it became tradition for each of King of Wakanda to be known as the "Black Panther", and use panther styled armor and weapons.
* ArrowCatch: He catches Hawkeye's explosive arrows, which explode directly in his face. [[NoSell He doesn't even flinch]].
* 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.
* AttackReflector: His upgraded suit in ''Black Panther'' is a variation on this, able to absorb and store up kinetic energy from physical attacks which can then be channeled into an energy shockwave.
* TheAtoner:
** Spends most of ''Civil War'' trying to kill Bucky, who he believes [[spoiler:killed his father]]. After discovering the truth, [[spoiler:he offers Bucky a hiding place and help in finding a way to get rid of HYDRA's programming.]]
** His CharacterArc in ''Black Panther'' involves coming to terms with the fact Wakanda and even the father he loved has failed people like the BigBad Killmonger for generations, and it's up to him to make things right.
--->'''T'Challa:''' All of you were wrong! For turning your backs on the rest of the world. We let the fear of our discovery stop us from what 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 mountain. I ''must'' right this wrong.
* 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.
* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: He beats the only challenger to his claim to the throne in single combat when he had the powers of the heart-shaped herb stripped from him, and is crowned king of Wakanda as a result.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Returns from his death in ''Infinity War''.]]
* BadassBaritone: Courtesy of Chadwick Boseman, T'Challa's voice carries weight and power in both diplomacy and in battle.
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* BadassBoast: Gets a couple of these:
** To Steve and Sam, regarding the Winter Soldier
--->'''T'Challa:''' The Black Panther has been the protector of Wakanda for generations, the mantle passed from warrior to warrior. And now, [...] I also wear the mantle of a king. So I ask you, as both warrior and king, how long do you think you can keep your friend safe from me?
** [[spoiler:During the end credits scene, Steve warns T'Challa that all sorts of foes will be coming to invade Wakanda for sheltering the Winter Soldier. His response? "Let them try."]]
** His in ''Infinity War'' to Proxima Midnight and Obsidian Cull when the former says Thanos ''will'' have Vision's Mind Stone?
--->'''T’Challa:''' You are in Wakanda now. Thanos will have nothing but ''dust and blood''.
* BerserkButton: T'Challa has a special vehemence for innocents being made to suffer, especially if done because of callous indifference for how it will hurt them. He explicitly calls Zemo for tricking him into targeting an innocent man and lays down the law with Okoye when she suggests just leaving Ross to suffer being shot in the spine after he saved Nakia from gunfire. [[spoiler: He even goes full BrokenPedestal on the spirit of his father, and the rest of his ancestors, upon finding out that T'Chaka left his own nephew behind after killing N'Jobu.]]
* BigBrotherInstinct: Threatening his little sister Shuri is a one-way ticket to an asskicking. Subtly done during [[spoiler:M'Baku's challenge; T'Challa tolerates it up until M'Baku shouts at Shuri and makes her flinch, at which point T'Challa is visibly pissed off and cuts M'Baku off mid-sentence to announce he accepts the challenge.]]
* BrainsAndBrawn: T'Challa is a fierce WarriorPrince while his sister Shuri is a TeenGenius scientist.
* BroughtDownToBadass: Losing the powers of the Heart-Shaped Herb hardly affects him. He still kicks ass without it. Case in point, he defeats M'Baku in a duel while de-powered despite the former's [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower nigh-inhuman strength.]]
* TheChainsOfCommanding: Examined more thoroughly in his feature film where he must succeed his slain father as king of Wakanda while holding on to the mantle of the Black Panther.
* CharacterDevelopment:
** [[spoiler:He's initially obsessed with killing the murderer of his father. But after seeing how vengeance has consumed Zemo and torn the Avengers apart, and how it blinded him and caused him to attack an innocent on flimsy evidence, he decides to break the CycleOfRevenge and let Zemo live, taking him to prison to face justice for his crimes. From what's been seen of his solo film, the experience also made him considerably more cautious, less likely to charge into situations without full knowledge, an attribute which will serve him well.]]
** In his own film, he has the same isolationist policy as his own nation, and is set on keeping it that way whenever it's brought up. [[spoiler: Learning about T'Chaka and Zuri's hand creating Killmonger had shaken his beliefs and he calls out his father in the afterlife, pointing out how Wakanda's policies had resulted its worst enemy yet. By the end of the film, he announces his intention to unveil Wakanda's technology to the rest of the world, and had set up National Relation Centers in California.]]
* CombatParkour: His fighting style heavily incorporates jumping and clinging.
* TheComicallySerious: T'Challa has wit, but is almost always a serious and dignified warrior who nonetheless wears one of the most faithfully fantastic-looking costumes and set of armaments in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and entertainingly chafes against the more lighthearted characters therein.
* CoolBigBro: T'Challa's very close to his younger sister, sharing a SecretHandshake with her and relying on her science skills to design his suit and tech.
* CoolMask: T'Challa's costume has been near-universally acclaimed, thanks to its badass design.
** Shuri then criticizes said mask because it's a helmet separate from the Black Panther suit, [[AwesomeButImpractical so T'Challa will lose time having to put on the mask if he's ambushed.]]
* CoolPlane: [[spoiler:The stealth jet he uses to follow Tony and Steve to the Siberian base.]] There's also the [[http://ew.com/movies/black-panther-trailer-decoded-marvel-ryan-coogler-kevin-feige/black-panther-trailer-08 Royal Talon Fighter]] from the ''Black Panther'' teaser trailer.
* 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]] before calling her off.
* CycleOfRevenge: Deliberately seeks to defy this once he learns that [[spoiler:he and Zemo both lost loved ones and are thus NotSoDifferent by saving his life and sparing him.]]
-->'''T'Challa:''' Vengeance has consumed you. It's consuming them. I am done letting it consume me.
* DarkIsNotEvil: As the Black Panther. He wears a black and silver costume with a full-face mask and claws... and is one of the most noble characters in the whole MCU.
* DeadpanSnarker: A minor one, but he has his moments, such as his response to Hawkeye's introduction.
-->'''Black Panther:''' I don't care.
* DecompositeCharacter: Most of his role regarding the science and technology of Wakanda is given to his little sister Shuri.
* {{Determinator}}: When T'Challa believes in something, he ''commits''. His standout examples of this in ''Civil War'' is that he will stop at ''nothing'' to [[spoiler:kill the Winter Soldier and avenge his father's death, even yelling "Barnes is mine!" during the airport fight. When Cap and Bucky make their escape, he powers through several of Natasha's electric stings and resorts to clinging to the underside of the Quinjet before being shaken off. Of course, once he finds out Bucky is innocent, he's just as determined to protect Bucky, even hiding him in Wakanda.]]
* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Erik tossed him off a waterfall in ''Black Panther'' and T'Challa was explicitly stripped of the Heart-Shaped Herb's benefits at that point, but he was nonetheless found barely alive by a fisherman.]]
* DramaticUnmask: He takes his mask off in front of Captain America [[spoiler:during his arrest]], who at that point had no idea that T'Challa was the Black Panther.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: He has the same "peak human and then some" powerset as Steve, although his abilities come from the Heart-Shaped Herb rather than a Super Soldier Serum. Even without the Herb's power, T'Challa is a skilled warrior, successfully fighting off a challenge from M'Baku [[spoiler:and putting up a respectable, if losing fight against a similar challenge from Killmonger]].
* EnergyAbsorption: Not on his own, but rather through [[MySuitIsAlsoSuper his suit]]. Vibranium totally absorbs any kinetic energy exerted on it, and the Black Panther suit's technology allows that energy to be [[ShockwaveStomp violently released]], either by contact or into the surrounding air.
* FieldPromotion: He becomes King of Wakanda when his father is killed in a bombing on a United Nations summit, though his official crowning happens much later (and he already has the full Panther powerset).
* {{Foil}}:
** To Tony Stark. Like Stark, [[spoiler:he discovers the truth about who killed his father (Tony learns the Winter Soldier killed his parents, while T'Challa learns that Zemo was responsible for the explosion that killed T'Chaka). Unlike Stark, who immediately launches into a vicious attack on both Bucky and Steve, T'Challa decides to spare Zemo's life and bring him to justice, preferring to end the CycleOfRevenge which began the whole tragedy.]]
** To Steve. Both are CaptainPatriotic characters with similar power sets. In addition, they both use Vibranium equipment (the shield for Steve, the Panther Habit for T'Challa). However, there are some interesting differences. Steve grew up in a working-class neighborhood in Depression-era New York, while T'Challa grew up as the Crown Prince of a technologically advanced African nation. Furthermore, Captain America wears a [[LightIsGood bright]] [[PrimaryColorChampion red, white and blue]] [[WearingAFlagOnYourHead outfit]], while the Black Panther wears a [[CaptainObvious black]] [[DarkIsNotEvil outfit]]. Steve believes fervently in Bucky's innocence, while T'Challa is [[TheDeterminator determined]] to bring Bucky to justice [[spoiler:until the end of the movie. In addition, their new status quos at the end of ''Civil War'' are quite different: Steve ends up on the run from his own country, having renounced his Captain America persona. T'Challa, on the other hand, has now become King of Wakanda]].
** ''Captain America: Civil War'' frames him as a joint foil to both Steve Rogers and Tony Stark with him simultaneously being a patriotic super soldier idol of his people and a son of privilege who uses a suit of extraordinary armour to protect the weak and punish evil.
** To Peter Parker. Both are independent superheroes fighting on the behalf of the Pro-Registration forces. However, Peter constantly makes quips and jokes around while T'Challa is much more reserved and serious. Also, T'Challa wears a black and silver costume while Peter wear a blue and red one.
** He and Erik/Killmonger are both deadly warriors [[spoiler: and royalty]] of African descent who's goals are shaped by the past actions of their fathers and [[YouKilledMyFather sought vengeance for their deaths]], but are complete opposites in both the ways they handle it and in their backgrounds. T'Challa grew up well adjusted with a loving family in the nation he was born in. Killmonger, an outsider of mixed descent, had lost his father at a young age and lived through an unprivileged childhood. T'Challa has a strong moral compass and is devoted to doing what's best for the people around him, even beyond his status as King. Erik, despite his claims what wanting to help other people of African descent, is ultimately driven by his hatred and willing use or kill anyone in his way to achieve his goals. [[spoiler: By the climax of the film, T'Challa not only overcame his quest for vengeance for his father's death, but had realized that his father's abandonment of Erik and why was wrong and sought to open Wakanda to the rest of the world on beneficial terms. Erik, however, blindly followed his father's legacy and let his own need for vengeance consume him to the end by seeking to wage war against the rest of the world with Wakanda on top, never reconsidering his actions to be in the wrong at any point.]]
* GeniusBruiser: T'Challa is an accomplished warrior and is also technologically savvy enough to have designed his own Black Panther suit, which is the one seen in Civil War. Shuri remarks that it's utilitarian but not as advanced as it could be.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: When Black Panther is first introduced in-costume in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', he jumps at a fleeing Winter Soldier from out of nowhere. For viewers unfamiliar with the comics, there's not any obvious indication that he's T'Challa until after the battle ends, even though T'Challa '''was''' shown going after Winter Soldier after the FrameUp. In the midst of battle, Captain America and Falcon (who were both chasing after Winter Soldier) mention that they have no clue who he is or where he came from.
* GibberishOfLove: Downplayed, but Okoye teases him for "freezing" in front of his ex Nakia, which mostly consists of him being unable to do much more than say "hi" and smile at her. He's able to articulate his feelings better later on.
* TheGoodKing: Wakanda’s most competent king who, unlike the previous rulers, is willing to show to the world Wakanda’s true nature in hopes that [[spoiler:the tragedy that happened to Erik will never repeat]]. As such, all of Wakanda’s love him for it.
* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: T'Challa prefers melee and CombatParkour while his sister Shuri fights using her [[GunsAkimbo dual]] {{Arm Cannon}}s.
* 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. [[spoiler:And then he finds himself [[FromBadToWorse erased from existence]] after they fail to stop him completing the Infinity Gauntlet.]]
* HeelRealization: When he finds out that Bucky didn’t kill his father, he realizes that vengeance blinded him and decides to spare his father’s true killer, Zemo.
* HeroAntagonist: Towards Captain America and his Anti-Registration team, but more on the personal level with Bucky, when he thinks he killed his father. Black Panther managed to realize Bucky was innocent, track down his father's actual killer and overcome his quest for vengeance to take him in alive.
* HighlyVisibleNinja: Averted and discussed. Of his two new suits, T'Challa chose the silver and purple one because it would supposedly provide more stealth.
* IGaveMyWord: He gives W'Kabi his word that he will kill or recapture Klaue (in this version, Klaue's actions have hurt W'Kabi far more personally than T'Challa). [[spoiler: When Klaue escapes, it's a BrokenPedestal moment that leads to W'Kabi siding against him.]]
* ImmuneToBullets: His suit, which has vibranium incorporated into it, can withstand gunfire from ''attack helicopters''. He later uses it to stop Zemo from shooting himself to prevent his capture by calmly placing a hand over the gun's barrel a second before it fires.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice:
** During his challenge with M'Baku for the crown, T'Challa gets stabbed in the shoulder by the sharp end of M'Baku's cudgel, but he shrugs it off like it was nothing.
** When [[spoiler:Killmonger duels with him]], T'Challa later gets stabbed in the mid-section by his spear.
* InspectorJavert: He spends most of ''Civil War'' trying to hunt down and kill Bucky, who's been framed for killing his father, taking Bucky running after being caught once as a sign of guilt. Once the truth comes out, he's shaken at how close he came to killing the wrong man and offers him asylum.
* InstantArmor: The upgraded Black Panther costume that Shuri designs for T'Challa incorporates {{Nanomachines}} that allow it to instantly form over his body at a moment's notice.
* ItsPersonal: The reason he fiercely targets Bucky is due to the death of [[spoiler:his father]] during an attack on the United Nations council, which the Winter Soldier is framed for. [[spoiler:Later, after T'Challa realizes that Bucky's innocent, he agrees to hide him in Wakanda until he can be freed from the remains of HYDRA's programming.]]
* LastOfHisKind: Of the [[spoiler:''mystically empowered'' Black Panthers]] as Killmonger [[spoiler:destroyed the sacred orchard where their SuperSerum is cultivated.]]
* LegacyCharacter: According to a FreezeFrameBonus in ''Age of Ultron'', there have been many Black Panthers throughout history. T'Challa is simply the latest one to use the name, as he confirms in ''Civil War.'' This is further explained in ''Black Panther'': the first Black Panther and leader of Wakanda was centuries, if not millennia ago, and every king since - including T'Chaka - has taken up the mantle.
* LightningBruiser: He is on the same level of strength as Captain America, and considerably faster.
* LoopholeAbuse: He tries to have a rematch with Killmonger and Killmonger alone during the climax to prevent unnecessary blood from being shed by pointing out that since he neither died nor yielded at the end of their succession battle, it's still technically in progress. [[spoiler:The gambit fails to convince the Border Tribe, but turns the Dora Milaje to his side.]]
* MadeOfIndestructium: T'Challa's suit is made of Vibranium, which allows him to be unfazed by attacks that would leave a normal person heavily injured if not outright dead. He doesn't even flinch when hit with machine gun fire or explosive arrows, and seems only mildly perturbed at almost getting hit with a flying bus. Zigzagged in that it ''can'' be overwhelmed by some attacks of sufficient power, and is specifically weak to being disrupted by sonic attacks.
* ModestRoyalty: When not in costume, he tends to dress casually. This also applies to his Black Panther suits when tend to be SimpleYetOpulent.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone:
** He has this reaction when he learns that Zemo framed Bucky and that as a result, T'Challa was trying to kill an innocent man. He's visibly shaken when he overhears Zemo's confession, and it's actually the ''first'' thing he confronts Zemo with when they finally meet.
** In his own movie, T'Challa realizes that Killmonger had a point [[JerkassHasAPoint when he pointed out how Wakanda was implicit in the suffering of their fellow Africans]], even if he went about it in completely the wrong way. Part of T'Challa's character development is getting over the isolationist thinking that could prevent Wakanda from helping those in need.
* MySuitIsAlsoSuper: His suit allows him to stand in the way of ''machine-gun fire'' with no visible damage whatsoever.
* {{Nanomachines}}: His new suit in ''Black Panther'' (along with the one Killmonger acquires) is composed of Vibranium nanomachines, which means the suit assembles on him in a nigh-instantaneous way that would make Tony Stark dead jealous. Even better, it's all contained in his collar, somehow.
* NiceGuy: T'Challa has a warm and kind heart matched only by Captain Steve Rogers', and a moral integrity matched only by Peter Parker's. Even though driven down the path of vengeance briefly by grief over his father's murder, having both qualities allowed him to forgive said murderer ''on his on accord.'' Said MomentOfWeakness aside, T'Challa consistently and selflessly places the needs of his people and the world first, and is torn with guilt and grief whenever the inevitable compromises one must make as a politician causes suffering and sadness in the few sacrificed for the greater good, such as [[spoiler: when he is confronted with the truth of how T'Chaka orphaned and destroyed the life of Erik Killmonger, his cousin]].
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: His adoption of ThouShaltNotKill bites him in ''Black Panther''. During his duel with [[spoiler:Killmonger]], he actually manages to knock him down first and has a chance to finish him for good. [[spoiler: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 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]].
* NighInvulnerability: His costume is made with Vibranium, which renders him ImmuneToBullets in ways not even this setting's version of The Hulk is.
* NoBadassToHisValet:
** T'Challa may have become king and the most physically gifted man in Wakanda, but his family and general entourage still treat him as a family member from Shuri constantly teasing him to Okoye acting like a big sister to him.
** Subverted when T'Challa asks Zuri to reveal what he knows about Killmonger. Zuri says the king has sworn him to secrecy, but T'Challa loudly reminds him that ''he'' is now the king of Wakanda and orders him to reveal everything.
* NoBodyLeftBehind: [[spoiler:Is disintegrated along with half the universe after Thanos completes the Infinity Gauntlet.]]
* NotSoDifferent: He realizes that he and Zemo are both men who lost their loved ones and were consumed by their thirst for vengeance. Thus, he decides to break the CycleOfRevenge by stopping his attempted suicide before turning him into prison.
* NotSoStoic: T'Challa usually has an AngstWhatAngst attitude and is TheStoic to show that he can be introverted and quiet, but there are intense moments where he finally breaks character.
** He’s seen crying over his father’s death when the Vienna Bombing occurred and constantly called out his name while holding his cadaver.
** The Ancestral Plane has two dramatic moments. [[spoiler:Him breaking down after seeing his father, and him [[BrokenPedestal calling out his father and ancestors over the consequences of their isolationalism]].]]
* OneManArmy: Takes down over a dozen rifle-toting slavers with ease, defeats Bucky in hand to hand combat, and matches Captain America and the Winter Soldier in separate (inconclusive) fights.
* OutsideRide: Seems fond of this, as he's seen riding atop cars both in ''Civil War'' and ''Black Panther''.
* PantheraAwesome: His animal totem is the panther, which dates back to the kings who founded the kingdom.
* PowerIncontinence: The suits Shuri gives him in his movie give him the ability to absorb and redirect kinetic energy. However, the process is not instantaneous and there is only a finite amount he can store at a time. Once a certain threshold is breached, the suit's reserves will be purged all at once, blowing him back with the detonation.
* TheQuietOne: As noted under TheStoic, he's probably the single least-quippy superhero in the setting, even beating out Groot and the Hulk.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Despite earlier proclaiming to Black Widow in the the wake of his [[spoiler:father's death]] that he's not his father, [[spoiler:at the end of ''Civil War'', this trope has been passed down from his father to him when he gives asylum to Bucky in Wakanda and promises to help undo his brainwashing to atone for almost killing him in the mistaken belief Bucky was behind the UN bombing]]. Then in his solo film, he then shows himself as a NiceGuy and TheGoodKing in his position as the King of Wakanda.
* RedHerring: With his success at staying his hand while defeating Zemo, Klaue, and M'Baku, it looks like that he'll be able to vanquish Killmonger without having to kill him. [[spoiler:His cousin chooses death over the indignity of imprisonment and lets himself bleed out in front of T'Challa.]]
* RedOniBlueOni: The stoic and regal blue to extroverted and energetic Shuri's red.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: He is a member of the Wakandan royal family, first as a WarriorPrince and then as the king, but is also tasked with defending the country and eliminating threats to his people, and appears to serve as Wakanda's emissary to the United Nations as well, despite not enjoying diplomacy.
* ScaryBlackMan: A heroic version. As the Black Panther, it becomes a MookHorrorShow for any unlucky punk who dares opposes him. However, he's still a good-hearted ReasonableAuthorityFigure who protects the innocent.
* ScienceHero: Downplayed. He designed his own suit and is dangerously intelligent, but his inventiveness pales in comparison to his sister's.
* SplashOfColor: ** At the beginning of ''Film/BlackPanther'', he is dressed in black, white, and gray symbolizing both his mourning for his father and his discomfort in his new role as king. At the end of the film, when he's truly ready to step up and be King of Wakanda, his clothing begins incorporating bits of bright color.
* StealthExpert: He's able to track Tony, Bucky, and Steve to the Siberian Compound, sneak around the base and observe them. He somehow avoids the destruction when all three start fighting and even manages to find and apprehend Zemo. All without any of them noticing that he was even there at all.
* TheStoic: Rather serious and introverted compared to the [[DeadpanSnarker rest of the cast.]] At most he gets this PreAsskickingOneLiner at Clint:
-->'''Clint Barton:''' We haven't met yet. I'm Clint.\\
'''T'Challa:''' [[BrutalHonesty I don't care]].
* TheStrategist: In addition to being a skilled combatant and athlete, he is a gifted tactician who takes a cerebral approach to fighting.
* StrongAndSkilled: In order to ''become'' the Black Panther, T'Challa has to earn that right by being a very skilled warrior in case he's challenged for his title. He's capable of fighting on par with Captain America for an extended period of time, and is considered one of Wakanda's greatest warriors [[labelnote: Note ]] Okoye is considered to be Wakanda's absolute best warrior in terms of pure skill, but only compared to a non-superpowered T'Challa. [[/labelnote]] It is mentoined he has trained for the royal title his entire life.
* SuperReflexes: Catches two arrows Hawkeye fires at him from only a few meters away and negotiates climbing over a moving truck and jumping onto a speeding motorcycle without difficulty.
* SuperSpeed: He's able to run at speeds in excess of 40 mph (he's outpacing cars on the highway while chasing Bucky), and manages to climb two flights of stairs before the Winter Soldier has managed even one.
* SuperStrength: Holds his own against Cap and Bucky, ''nearly'' forcing the former to bring down his shield and overpowering the latter, thanks to his suit. His solo film further shows his Cap-level strength, with him kicking a mook hard enough to send him flying several meters and into a car hard enough to dent it.
* SuperToughness: Even ''without'' his Nigh Invulnerable suit of Vibranium, he's considerably tougher than the average human. A large explosion that [[spoiler:killed his father, who was not too much closer]] only sent him flying, after which he gets back up more or less unharmed. He can also take a direct punch from Bucky's road-cracking metal arm and is barely even winded. Plus, he was able to shrug off several shots from Black Widow's stun gun with only a few seconds of paralysis each and some pain, while normal humans hit by it are usually immediately incapacitated and drop like a ton of bricks, similar to a real taser.
* SympathyForTheDevil:[[spoiler:Has this for Erik "Kilmonger" Stevens AKA N'Jadaka, his cousin.]]
* ThouShallNotKill: After ''Civil War'' T'Challa has adopted this mentality when it comes to his enemies, something that doesn't exactly endear him to some of his more conservative people. [[spoiler:Though he drops it in the end of ''Black Panther'' and lethally wounds Erik, though he offers to save Erik Wakandan medicine to no avail.]]
* VengeanceFeelsEmpty: {{Averted|Trope}}. T'Challa realizes that Zemo has been completely consumed by vengeance and that he's going down the same path, prompting him to deliver him to the authorities instead.
* WarriorPrince: He's the prince of Wakanda, and this title comes packaged with another, "Black Panther".
* WolverineClaws: In addition to his 2nd suit's regular claws, he has a set of retractable spikes on his in his gloves, [[MythologyGag much like his Ultimate Universe counterpart]]. Though he only briefly pops them out to intimidate Klaue before settling on his typical claws.
* YouAreInCommandNow: Ascended to the throne after his father was killed.
* YouKilledMyFather: His father dies at the UN conference in Vienna, which triggers his quest for vengeance in ''Captain America: Civil War''.
* YoungerAndHipper: This version is a bit younger than he usually is when he sides with the Avengers.
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!!!'''Species:''' Enhanced human
!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/ChadwickBoseman, Ashton Tyler (child)
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Manuel Campuzano (Latin-American Spanish dub), Miguel Ángel Garzón (European Spanish dub), Makoto Tamura (Japanese dub), Namakan Koné (French dub), Pierre-Yves Cardinal (Canadian French dub)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' | ''Film/{{Black Panther|2018}}'' | ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' | ''[[Film/Avengers4 Untitled Avengers Sequel]]''
-->''"Wakanda will no longer watch from the shadows. We cannot. We must not. We will work to be an example of how we, as brothers and sisters on this earth, should treat each other. Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis, the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another, as if we were one single tribe."''
A prince and diplomat from [[{{Bulungi}} Wakanda]]. After a terrorist attack on a UsefulNotes/UnitedNations summit in which his father King T'Chaka perishes, T'Challa finds himself grappling with how to best take on his father's mantle as the king and protector of Wakanda, the ComicBook/BlackPanther. T'Challa boasts strength and reflexes on the same level as Captain America, and a high tech suit made of the [[{{Phlebotinum}} rare metal known as vibranium]] that further enhances his abilities.
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* AbsurdlySharpClaws: Courtesy of his vibranium suit. They're strong enough to stop vehicles and leave permanent scratches on Captain America's shield (which is also made of vibranium).
* AchillesHeel: His vibranium-weave suit renders him [[ImmuneToBullets nearly impervious]] to gunfire. However, as it's a weave rather than fully solid a la Captain America's shield, he can still be harmed by various other threats, including poison, suffocation, punches (it stops kinetic ''energy'', not momentum), and electricity. [[spoiler: Black Widow takes advantage of the latter, holding him off with a simple stun gun to buy Bucky time to escape.]]
* AdaptationPersonalityChange:
** In the ''ComicBook/CivilWar'' comics, T'Challa was against registration and sided with Steve on the issue. In the MCU, because the triggering event of the Accords is the deaths of Wakandan emissaries and furthered by [[spoiler:Steve helping the man T'Challa thought killed his father]], T'Challa is for registration and assists Tony.
** He's also more impulsive and hotheaded than his comic book counterpart and other versions (particularly ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'' version), who's more of a [[TheChessmaster chessmaster]] and [[TheStrategist strategist]], [[spoiler:though he seems to be shifting more towards this characterization by the end.]]
** T'Challa in the comics has a reputation for being quite stoic, apart from being easily-detached with romantic partners--what with Nakia's [[AllLoveIsUnrequited unrequited crush]] and the fact that his marriage with Storm ended in divorce. In-film, however, T'Challa is visibly more emotionally open: to bantering with his sister, being full-on {{Adorkable}} / TheComicallySerious when Nakia and his friends are in the picture, or venting his rage at [[spoiler:Zuri's death and T'Chaka's mistakes when they meet at the astral plane the second time]].
* AdaptationalIntelligence: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] since T'Challa is still very intelligent, making some of his own gear and succesfully leading his country, but even so he isn't quite up to the level of his comics counterpart. In the comic books T'Challa is not only one of the most skilled martial artists in the Marvel Universe, but he's also TheChessmaster and among the 10 smartest characters in the universe. T'Challa in the film is far more down to Earth.
* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Wakandans believe that the panther goddess Bast was the one who led their ancestors to the heart shaped herb that grants each Ruler their superhuman powers. As such, it became tradition for each of King of Wakanda to be known as the "Black Panther", and use panther styled armor and weapons.
* ArrowCatch: He catches Hawkeye's explosive arrows, which explode directly in his face. [[NoSell He doesn't even flinch]].
* 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.
* AttackReflector: His upgraded suit in ''Black Panther'' is a variation on this, able to absorb and store up kinetic energy from physical attacks which can then be channeled into an energy shockwave.
* TheAtoner:
** Spends most of ''Civil War'' trying to kill Bucky, who he believes [[spoiler:killed his father]]. After discovering the truth, [[spoiler:he offers Bucky a hiding place and help in finding a way to get rid of HYDRA's programming.]]
** His CharacterArc in ''Black Panther'' involves coming to terms with the fact Wakanda and even the father he loved has failed people like the BigBad Killmonger for generations, and it's up to him to make things right.
--->'''T'Challa:''' All of you were wrong! For turning your backs on the rest of the world. We let the fear of our discovery stop us from what 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 mountain. I ''must'' right this wrong.
* 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.
* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: He beats the only challenger to his claim to the throne in single combat when he had the powers of the heart-shaped herb stripped from him, and is crowned king of Wakanda as a result.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Returns from his death in ''Infinity War''.]]
* BadassBaritone: Courtesy of Chadwick Boseman, T'Challa's voice carries weight and power in both diplomacy and in battle.
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* BadassBoast: Gets a couple of these:
** To Steve and Sam, regarding the Winter Soldier
--->'''T'Challa:''' The Black Panther has been the protector of Wakanda for generations, the mantle passed from warrior to warrior. And now, [...] I also wear the mantle of a king. So I ask you, as both warrior and king, how long do you think you can keep your friend safe from me?
** [[spoiler:During the end credits scene, Steve warns T'Challa that all sorts of foes will be coming to invade Wakanda for sheltering the Winter Soldier. His response? "Let them try."]]
** His in ''Infinity War'' to Proxima Midnight and Obsidian Cull when the former says Thanos ''will'' have Vision's Mind Stone?
--->'''T’Challa:''' You are in Wakanda now. Thanos will have nothing but ''dust and blood''.
* BerserkButton: T'Challa has a special vehemence for innocents being made to suffer, especially if done because of callous indifference for how it will hurt them. He explicitly calls Zemo for tricking him into targeting an innocent man and lays down the law with Okoye when she suggests just leaving Ross to suffer being shot in the spine after he saved Nakia from gunfire. [[spoiler: He even goes full BrokenPedestal on the spirit of his father, and the rest of his ancestors, upon finding out that T'Chaka left his own nephew behind after killing N'Jobu.]]
* BigBrotherInstinct: Threatening his little sister Shuri is a one-way ticket to an asskicking. Subtly done during [[spoiler:M'Baku's challenge; T'Challa tolerates it up until M'Baku shouts at Shuri and makes her flinch, at which point T'Challa is visibly pissed off and cuts M'Baku off mid-sentence to announce he accepts the challenge.]]
* BrainsAndBrawn: T'Challa is a fierce WarriorPrince while his sister Shuri is a TeenGenius scientist.
* BroughtDownToBadass: Losing the powers of the Heart-Shaped Herb hardly affects him. He still kicks ass without it. Case in point, he defeats M'Baku in a duel while de-powered despite the former's [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower nigh-inhuman strength.]]
* TheChainsOfCommanding: Examined more thoroughly in his feature film where he must succeed his slain father as king of Wakanda while holding on to the mantle of the Black Panther.
* CharacterDevelopment:
** [[spoiler:He's initially obsessed with killing the murderer of his father. But after seeing how vengeance has consumed Zemo and torn the Avengers apart, and how it blinded him and caused him to attack an innocent on flimsy evidence, he decides to break the CycleOfRevenge and let Zemo live, taking him to prison to face justice for his crimes. From what's been seen of his solo film, the experience also made him considerably more cautious, less likely to charge into situations without full knowledge, an attribute which will serve him well.]]
** In his own film, he has the same isolationist policy as his own nation, and is set on keeping it that way whenever it's brought up. [[spoiler: Learning about T'Chaka and Zuri's hand creating Killmonger had shaken his beliefs and he calls out his father in the afterlife, pointing out how Wakanda's policies had resulted its worst enemy yet. By the end of the film, he announces his intention to unveil Wakanda's technology to the rest of the world, and had set up National Relation Centers in California.]]
* CombatParkour: His fighting style heavily incorporates jumping and clinging.
* TheComicallySerious: T'Challa has wit, but is almost always a serious and dignified warrior who nonetheless wears one of the most faithfully fantastic-looking costumes and set of armaments in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and entertainingly chafes against the more lighthearted characters therein.
* CoolBigBro: T'Challa's very close to his younger sister, sharing a SecretHandshake with her and relying on her science skills to design his suit and tech.
* CoolMask: T'Challa's costume has been near-universally acclaimed, thanks to its badass design.
** Shuri then criticizes said mask because it's a helmet separate from the Black Panther suit, [[AwesomeButImpractical so T'Challa will lose time having to put on the mask if he's ambushed.]]
* CoolPlane: [[spoiler:The stealth jet he uses to follow Tony and Steve to the Siberian base.]] There's also the [[http://ew.com/movies/black-panther-trailer-decoded-marvel-ryan-coogler-kevin-feige/black-panther-trailer-08 Royal Talon Fighter]] from the ''Black Panther'' teaser trailer.
* 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]] before calling her off.
* CycleOfRevenge: Deliberately seeks to defy this once he learns that [[spoiler:he and Zemo both lost loved ones and are thus NotSoDifferent by saving his life and sparing him.]]
-->'''T'Challa:''' Vengeance has consumed you. It's consuming them. I am done letting it consume me.
* DarkIsNotEvil: As the Black Panther. He wears a black and silver costume with a full-face mask and claws... and is one of the most noble characters in the whole MCU.
* DeadpanSnarker: A minor one, but he has his moments, such as his response to Hawkeye's introduction.
-->'''Black Panther:''' I don't care.
* DecompositeCharacter: Most of his role regarding the science and technology of Wakanda is given to his little sister Shuri.
* {{Determinator}}: When T'Challa believes in something, he ''commits''. His standout examples of this in ''Civil War'' is that he will stop at ''nothing'' to [[spoiler:kill the Winter Soldier and avenge his father's death, even yelling "Barnes is mine!" during the airport fight. When Cap and Bucky make their escape, he powers through several of Natasha's electric stings and resorts to clinging to the underside of the Quinjet before being shaken off. Of course, once he finds out Bucky is innocent, he's just as determined to protect Bucky, even hiding him in Wakanda.]]
* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Erik tossed him off a waterfall in ''Black Panther'' and T'Challa was explicitly stripped of the Heart-Shaped Herb's benefits at that point, but he was nonetheless found barely alive by a fisherman.]]
* DramaticUnmask: He takes his mask off in front of Captain America [[spoiler:during his arrest]], who at that point had no idea that T'Challa was the Black Panther.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: He has the same "peak human and then some" powerset as Steve, although his abilities come from the Heart-Shaped Herb rather than a Super Soldier Serum. Even without the Herb's power, T'Challa is a skilled warrior, successfully fighting off a challenge from M'Baku [[spoiler:and putting up a respectable, if losing fight against a similar challenge from Killmonger]].
* EnergyAbsorption: Not on his own, but rather through [[MySuitIsAlsoSuper his suit]]. Vibranium totally absorbs any kinetic energy exerted on it, and the Black Panther suit's technology allows that energy to be [[ShockwaveStomp violently released]], either by contact or into the surrounding air.
* FieldPromotion: He becomes King of Wakanda when his father is killed in a bombing on a United Nations summit, though his official crowning happens much later (and he already has the full Panther powerset).
* {{Foil}}:
** To Tony Stark. Like Stark, [[spoiler:he discovers the truth about who killed his father (Tony learns the Winter Soldier killed his parents, while T'Challa learns that Zemo was responsible for the explosion that killed T'Chaka). Unlike Stark, who immediately launches into a vicious attack on both Bucky and Steve, T'Challa decides to spare Zemo's life and bring him to justice, preferring to end the CycleOfRevenge which began the whole tragedy.]]
** To Steve. Both are CaptainPatriotic characters with similar power sets. In addition, they both use Vibranium equipment (the shield for Steve, the Panther Habit for T'Challa). However, there are some interesting differences. Steve grew up in a working-class neighborhood in Depression-era New York, while T'Challa grew up as the Crown Prince of a technologically advanced African nation. Furthermore, Captain America wears a [[LightIsGood bright]] [[PrimaryColorChampion red, white and blue]] [[WearingAFlagOnYourHead outfit]], while the Black Panther wears a [[CaptainObvious black]] [[DarkIsNotEvil outfit]]. Steve believes fervently in Bucky's innocence, while T'Challa is [[TheDeterminator determined]] to bring Bucky to justice [[spoiler:until the end of the movie. In addition, their new status quos at the end of ''Civil War'' are quite different: Steve ends up on the run from his own country, having renounced his Captain America persona. T'Challa, on the other hand, has now become King of Wakanda]].
** ''Captain America: Civil War'' frames him as a joint foil to both Steve Rogers and Tony Stark with him simultaneously being a patriotic super soldier idol of his people and a son of privilege who uses a suit of extraordinary armour to protect the weak and punish evil.
** To Peter Parker. Both are independent superheroes fighting on the behalf of the Pro-Registration forces. However, Peter constantly makes quips and jokes around while T'Challa is much more reserved and serious. Also, T'Challa wears a black and silver costume while Peter wear a blue and red one.
** He and Erik/Killmonger are both deadly warriors [[spoiler: and royalty]] of African descent who's goals are shaped by the past actions of their fathers and [[YouKilledMyFather sought vengeance for their deaths]], but are complete opposites in both the ways they handle it and in their backgrounds. T'Challa grew up well adjusted with a loving family in the nation he was born in. Killmonger, an outsider of mixed descent, had lost his father at a young age and lived through an unprivileged childhood. T'Challa has a strong moral compass and is devoted to doing what's best for the people around him, even beyond his status as King. Erik, despite his claims what wanting to help other people of African descent, is ultimately driven by his hatred and willing use or kill anyone in his way to achieve his goals. [[spoiler: By the climax of the film, T'Challa not only overcame his quest for vengeance for his father's death, but had realized that his father's abandonment of Erik and why was wrong and sought to open Wakanda to the rest of the world on beneficial terms. Erik, however, blindly followed his father's legacy and let his own need for vengeance consume him to the end by seeking to wage war against the rest of the world with Wakanda on top, never reconsidering his actions to be in the wrong at any point.]]
* GeniusBruiser: T'Challa is an accomplished warrior and is also technologically savvy enough to have designed his own Black Panther suit, which is the one seen in Civil War. Shuri remarks that it's utilitarian but not as advanced as it could be.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: When Black Panther is first introduced in-costume in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', he jumps at a fleeing Winter Soldier from out of nowhere. For viewers unfamiliar with the comics, there's not any obvious indication that he's T'Challa until after the battle ends, even though T'Challa '''was''' shown going after Winter Soldier after the FrameUp. In the midst of battle, Captain America and Falcon (who were both chasing after Winter Soldier) mention that they have no clue who he is or where he came from.
* GibberishOfLove: Downplayed, but Okoye teases him for "freezing" in front of his ex Nakia, which mostly consists of him being unable to do much more than say "hi" and smile at her. He's able to articulate his feelings better later on.
* TheGoodKing: Wakanda’s most competent king who, unlike the previous rulers, is willing to show to the world Wakanda’s true nature in hopes that [[spoiler:the tragedy that happened to Erik will never repeat]]. As such, all of Wakanda’s love him for it.
* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: T'Challa prefers melee and CombatParkour while his sister Shuri fights using her [[GunsAkimbo dual]] {{Arm Cannon}}s.
* 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. [[spoiler:And then he finds himself [[FromBadToWorse erased from existence]] after they fail to stop him completing the Infinity Gauntlet.]]
* HeelRealization: When he finds out that Bucky didn’t kill his father, he realizes that vengeance blinded him and decides to spare his father’s true killer, Zemo.
* HeroAntagonist: Towards Captain America and his Anti-Registration team, but more on the personal level with Bucky, when he thinks he killed his father. Black Panther managed to realize Bucky was innocent, track down his father's actual killer and overcome his quest for vengeance to take him in alive.
* HighlyVisibleNinja: Averted and discussed. Of his two new suits, T'Challa chose the silver and purple one because it would supposedly provide more stealth.
* IGaveMyWord: He gives W'Kabi his word that he will kill or recapture Klaue (in this version, Klaue's actions have hurt W'Kabi far more personally than T'Challa). [[spoiler: When Klaue escapes, it's a BrokenPedestal moment that leads to W'Kabi siding against him.]]
* ImmuneToBullets: His suit, which has vibranium incorporated into it, can withstand gunfire from ''attack helicopters''. He later uses it to stop Zemo from shooting himself to prevent his capture by calmly placing a hand over the gun's barrel a second before it fires.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice:
** During his challenge with M'Baku for the crown, T'Challa gets stabbed in the shoulder by the sharp end of M'Baku's cudgel, but he shrugs it off like it was nothing.
** When [[spoiler:Killmonger duels with him]], T'Challa later gets stabbed in the mid-section by his spear.
* InspectorJavert: He spends most of ''Civil War'' trying to hunt down and kill Bucky, who's been framed for killing his father, taking Bucky running after being caught once as a sign of guilt. Once the truth comes out, he's shaken at how close he came to killing the wrong man and offers him asylum.
* InstantArmor: The upgraded Black Panther costume that Shuri designs for T'Challa incorporates {{Nanomachines}} that allow it to instantly form over his body at a moment's notice.
* ItsPersonal: The reason he fiercely targets Bucky is due to the death of [[spoiler:his father]] during an attack on the United Nations council, which the Winter Soldier is framed for. [[spoiler:Later, after T'Challa realizes that Bucky's innocent, he agrees to hide him in Wakanda until he can be freed from the remains of HYDRA's programming.]]
* LastOfHisKind: Of the [[spoiler:''mystically empowered'' Black Panthers]] as Killmonger [[spoiler:destroyed the sacred orchard where their SuperSerum is cultivated.]]
* LegacyCharacter: According to a FreezeFrameBonus in ''Age of Ultron'', there have been many Black Panthers throughout history. T'Challa is simply the latest one to use the name, as he confirms in ''Civil War.'' This is further explained in ''Black Panther'': the first Black Panther and leader of Wakanda was centuries, if not millennia ago, and every king since - including T'Chaka - has taken up the mantle.
* LightningBruiser: He is on the same level of strength as Captain America, and considerably faster.
* LoopholeAbuse: He tries to have a rematch with Killmonger and Killmonger alone during the climax to prevent unnecessary blood from being shed by pointing out that since he neither died nor yielded at the end of their succession battle, it's still technically in progress. [[spoiler:The gambit fails to convince the Border Tribe, but turns the Dora Milaje to his side.]]
* MadeOfIndestructium: T'Challa's suit is made of Vibranium, which allows him to be unfazed by attacks that would leave a normal person heavily injured if not outright dead. He doesn't even flinch when hit with machine gun fire or explosive arrows, and seems only mildly perturbed at almost getting hit with a flying bus. Zigzagged in that it ''can'' be overwhelmed by some attacks of sufficient power, and is specifically weak to being disrupted by sonic attacks.
* ModestRoyalty: When not in costume, he tends to dress casually. This also applies to his Black Panther suits when tend to be SimpleYetOpulent.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone:
** He has this reaction when he learns that Zemo framed Bucky and that as a result, T'Challa was trying to kill an innocent man. He's visibly shaken when he overhears Zemo's confession, and it's actually the ''first'' thing he confronts Zemo with when they finally meet.
** In his own movie, T'Challa realizes that Killmonger had a point [[JerkassHasAPoint when he pointed out how Wakanda was implicit in the suffering of their fellow Africans]], even if he went about it in completely the wrong way. Part of T'Challa's character development is getting over the isolationist thinking that could prevent Wakanda from helping those in need.
* MySuitIsAlsoSuper: His suit allows him to stand in the way of ''machine-gun fire'' with no visible damage whatsoever.
* {{Nanomachines}}: His new suit in ''Black Panther'' (along with the one Killmonger acquires) is composed of Vibranium nanomachines, which means the suit assembles on him in a nigh-instantaneous way that would make Tony Stark dead jealous. Even better, it's all contained in his collar, somehow.
* NiceGuy: T'Challa has a warm and kind heart matched only by Captain Steve Rogers', and a moral integrity matched only by Peter Parker's. Even though driven down the path of vengeance briefly by grief over his father's murder, having both qualities allowed him to forgive said murderer ''on his on accord.'' Said MomentOfWeakness aside, T'Challa consistently and selflessly places the needs of his people and the world first, and is torn with guilt and grief whenever the inevitable compromises one must make as a politician causes suffering and sadness in the few sacrificed for the greater good, such as [[spoiler: when he is confronted with the truth of how T'Chaka orphaned and destroyed the life of Erik Killmonger, his cousin]].
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: His adoption of ThouShaltNotKill bites him in ''Black Panther''. During his duel with [[spoiler:Killmonger]], he actually manages to knock him down first and has a chance to finish him for good. [[spoiler: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 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]].
* NighInvulnerability: His costume is made with Vibranium, which renders him ImmuneToBullets in ways not even this setting's version of The Hulk is.
* NoBadassToHisValet:
** T'Challa may have become king and the most physically gifted man in Wakanda, but his family and general entourage still treat him as a family member from Shuri constantly teasing him to Okoye acting like a big sister to him.
** Subverted when T'Challa asks Zuri to reveal what he knows about Killmonger. Zuri says the king has sworn him to secrecy, but T'Challa loudly reminds him that ''he'' is now the king of Wakanda and orders him to reveal everything.
* NoBodyLeftBehind: [[spoiler:Is disintegrated along with half the universe after Thanos completes the Infinity Gauntlet.]]
* NotSoDifferent: He realizes that he and Zemo are both men who lost their loved ones and were consumed by their thirst for vengeance. Thus, he decides to break the CycleOfRevenge by stopping his attempted suicide before turning him into prison.
* NotSoStoic: T'Challa usually has an AngstWhatAngst attitude and is TheStoic to show that he can be introverted and quiet, but there are intense moments where he finally breaks character.
** He’s seen crying over his father’s death when the Vienna Bombing occurred and constantly called out his name while holding his cadaver.
** The Ancestral Plane has two dramatic moments. [[spoiler:Him breaking down after seeing his father, and him [[BrokenPedestal calling out his father and ancestors over the consequences of their isolationalism]].]]
* OneManArmy: Takes down over a dozen rifle-toting slavers with ease, defeats Bucky in hand to hand combat, and matches Captain America and the Winter Soldier in separate (inconclusive) fights.
* OutsideRide: Seems fond of this, as he's seen riding atop cars both in ''Civil War'' and ''Black Panther''.
* PantheraAwesome: His animal totem is the panther, which dates back to the kings who founded the kingdom.
* PowerIncontinence: The suits Shuri gives him in his movie give him the ability to absorb and redirect kinetic energy. However, the process is not instantaneous and there is only a finite amount he can store at a time. Once a certain threshold is breached, the suit's reserves will be purged all at once, blowing him back with the detonation.
* TheQuietOne: As noted under TheStoic, he's probably the single least-quippy superhero in the setting, even beating out Groot and the Hulk.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Despite earlier proclaiming to Black Widow in the the wake of his [[spoiler:father's death]] that he's not his father, [[spoiler:at the end of ''Civil War'', this trope has been passed down from his father to him when he gives asylum to Bucky in Wakanda and promises to help undo his brainwashing to atone for almost killing him in the mistaken belief Bucky was behind the UN bombing]]. Then in his solo film, he then shows himself as a NiceGuy and TheGoodKing in his position as the King of Wakanda.
* RedHerring: With his success at staying his hand while defeating Zemo, Klaue, and M'Baku, it looks like that he'll be able to vanquish Killmonger without having to kill him. [[spoiler:His cousin chooses death over the indignity of imprisonment and lets himself bleed out in front of T'Challa.]]
* RedOniBlueOni: The stoic and regal blue to extroverted and energetic Shuri's red.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: He is a member of the Wakandan royal family, first as a WarriorPrince and then as the king, but is also tasked with defending the country and eliminating threats to his people, and appears to serve as Wakanda's emissary to the United Nations as well, despite not enjoying diplomacy.
* ScaryBlackMan: A heroic version. As the Black Panther, it becomes a MookHorrorShow for any unlucky punk who dares opposes him. However, he's still a good-hearted ReasonableAuthorityFigure who protects the innocent.
* ScienceHero: Downplayed. He designed his own suit and is dangerously intelligent, but his inventiveness pales in comparison to his sister's.
* SplashOfColor: ** At the beginning of ''Film/BlackPanther'', he is dressed in black, white, and gray symbolizing both his mourning for his father and his discomfort in his new role as king. At the end of the film, when he's truly ready to step up and be King of Wakanda, his clothing begins incorporating bits of bright color.
* StealthExpert: He's able to track Tony, Bucky, and Steve to the Siberian Compound, sneak around the base and observe them. He somehow avoids the destruction when all three start fighting and even manages to find and apprehend Zemo. All without any of them noticing that he was even there at all.
* TheStoic: Rather serious and introverted compared to the [[DeadpanSnarker rest of the cast.]] At most he gets this PreAsskickingOneLiner at Clint:
-->'''Clint Barton:''' We haven't met yet. I'm Clint.\\
'''T'Challa:''' [[BrutalHonesty I don't care]].
* TheStrategist: In addition to being a skilled combatant and athlete, he is a gifted tactician who takes a cerebral approach to fighting.
* StrongAndSkilled: In order to ''become'' the Black Panther, T'Challa has to earn that right by being a very skilled warrior in case he's challenged for his title. He's capable of fighting on par with Captain America for an extended period of time, and is considered one of Wakanda's greatest warriors [[labelnote: Note ]] Okoye is considered to be Wakanda's absolute best warrior in terms of pure skill, but only compared to a non-superpowered T'Challa. [[/labelnote]] It is mentoined he has trained for the royal title his entire life.
* SuperReflexes: Catches two arrows Hawkeye fires at him from only a few meters away and negotiates climbing over a moving truck and jumping onto a speeding motorcycle without difficulty.
* SuperSpeed: He's able to run at speeds in excess of 40 mph (he's outpacing cars on the highway while chasing Bucky), and manages to climb two flights of stairs before the Winter Soldier has managed even one.
* SuperStrength: Holds his own against Cap and Bucky, ''nearly'' forcing the former to bring down his shield and overpowering the latter, thanks to his suit. His solo film further shows his Cap-level strength, with him kicking a mook hard enough to send him flying several meters and into a car hard enough to dent it.
* SuperToughness: Even ''without'' his Nigh Invulnerable suit of Vibranium, he's considerably tougher than the average human. A large explosion that [[spoiler:killed his father, who was not too much closer]] only sent him flying, after which he gets back up more or less unharmed. He can also take a direct punch from Bucky's road-cracking metal arm and is barely even winded. Plus, he was able to shrug off several shots from Black Widow's stun gun with only a few seconds of paralysis each and some pain, while normal humans hit by it are usually immediately incapacitated and drop like a ton of bricks, similar to a real taser.
* SympathyForTheDevil:[[spoiler:Has this for Erik "Kilmonger" Stevens AKA N'Jadaka, his cousin.]]
* ThouShallNotKill: After ''Civil War'' T'Challa has adopted this mentality when it comes to his enemies, something that doesn't exactly endear him to some of his more conservative people. [[spoiler:Though he drops it in the end of ''Black Panther'' and lethally wounds Erik, though he offers to save Erik Wakandan medicine to no avail.]]
* VengeanceFeelsEmpty: {{Averted|Trope}}. T'Challa realizes that Zemo has been completely consumed by vengeance and that he's going down the same path, prompting him to deliver him to the authorities instead.
* WarriorPrince: He's the prince of Wakanda, and this title comes packaged with another, "Black Panther".
* WolverineClaws: In addition to his 2nd suit's regular claws, he has a set of retractable spikes on his in his gloves, [[MythologyGag much like his Ultimate Universe counterpart]]. Though he only briefly pops them out to intimidate Klaue before settling on his typical claws.
* YouAreInCommandNow: Ascended to the throne after his father was killed.
* YouKilledMyFather: His father dies at the UN conference in Vienna, which triggers his quest for vengeance in ''Captain America: Civil War''.
* YoungerAndHipper: This version is a bit younger than he usually is when he sides with the Avengers.
