T'Challa
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King of Wakanda and its Black Panther from 2008. After his father died in a bombing in 2016 he hunted Bucky Barnes, joined the Avengers' civil war, then spared the true culprit Zemo. Crowned king, he defeated his cousin Killmonger, opened Wakanda to the world at the United Nations, and fought Thanos' army at home. Dusted in the Snap and restored in 2023, he died of an illness in 2024.
Comics
T'Challa is the Wakandan king and Black Panther, a scientist-ruler of a hidden, vibranium-rich African nation. After his father's death he took the throne, joined the Fantastic Four and Avengers, married Storm, and sat with the Illuminati during the incursions. He later lost his crown, wandered as a vigilante, and returned to rule Wakanda and its Intergalactic Empire, which joined the Galactic Union.
Timeline 27 events
- Silver · Comics: T'Challa invites the Fantastic Four to Wakanda and, with their help, defeats Klaw, the killer of his father.
- Silver · Comics: After teaming with Captain America against Baron Zemo, T'Challa is invited to join the Avengers.
- Bronze · Comics: Doctor Doom tunnels into Wakanda for its vibranium, and T'Challa threatens to blast the Great Mound until Doom retreats to Latveria.
- Bronze · Comics: Back in Wakanda, T'Challa fights a war against Erik Killmonger and a string of new enemies.
- Bronze · Comics: T'Challa is killed by Korvac and then resurrected by him.
- Modern · Comics: T'Challa marries Ororo Munroe in Wakanda and the couple begin a diplomatic world tour that includes the Blue Area of the Moon, Latveria and Atlantis.
- Modern · Comics: Storm and T'Challa side with Captain America in the Civil War, and after the Wakandan Embassy is destroyed they join the Fantastic Four in the Baxter Building.
- Modern · Comics: Left comatose by Doctor Doom's forces, T'Challa sees his sister Shuri take up the Black Panther mantle.
- Modern · Comics: Bast names T'Challa King of the Dead, giving him rule over Necropolis beneath Wakanda while Shuri governs above.
- Modern · Comics: Thanos's armies, led by the Black Order, invade Wakanda; T'Challa fights the Black Dwarf as Thanos finds the Illuminati's hidden Necropolis stockpile.
- Secret Wars · Comics: T'Challa and Black Bolt cast Namor onto a doomed Earth during an incursion, destroying the Cabal.
- Secret Wars · Comics: At the end of Battleworld, T'Challa grips the Reality Gem and is carried to the rebuilt Wakanda of the restored universe.
- Fresh Start · Comics: Captured by the Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda and made one of its Nameless slaves, T'Challa is broken out by the Maroons and joins their rebellion.
- Fresh Start · Comics: Wakanda forms a peace treaty with Atlantis that banishes T'Challa, and he leaves the country as a vigilante.
- Fresh Start · Comics: T'Challa retakes the throne of Wakanda and its Intergalactic Empire, which joins the Galactic Union after the Imperial war.
- 2008 · Cinematic: T'Chaka passes the Black Panther mantle to T'Challa, who soon rescues Wakandan hostages from mercenaries with Okoye.
- 2016 · Cinematic: T'Chaka is killed in the bombing of the Vienna conference, and T'Challa takes his ring and vows to kill the Winter Soldier.
- 2016 · Cinematic: T'Challa tracks Barnes to Bucharest and fights him through a tunnel before he and Captain America are arrested and he reveals himself as Wakanda's king.
- 2016 · Cinematic: T'Challa joins Stark's team and fights at the Leipzig-Halle airport, then follows Stark to Siberia and learns Zemo framed Barnes.
- 2016 · Cinematic: T'Challa spares Zemo, hands him to Everett Ross, and offers Barnes cure and asylum in Wakanda.
- 2016 · Cinematic: T'Challa rescues Nakia in Nigeria, wins the throne by defeating M'Baku at Warrior Falls, and is crowned king of Wakanda.
- 2016 · Cinematic: T'Challa pursues Ulysses Klaue to Busan, South Korea, captures him, and brings the wounded Everett Ross to Wakanda for treatment.
- 2016 · Cinematic: Erik Killmonger beats T'Challa in ritual combat and takes the throne; T'Challa is revived with help from the Jabari and later kills Killmonger on the Wakandan rail line.
- 2016 · Cinematic: T'Challa addresses the United Nations in Vienna and ends Wakanda's isolation, and buys the Oakland building where N'Jobu died for an outreach center.
- 2018 · Cinematic: T'Challa fights Thanos' Outriders and the Black Order in the Battle of Wakanda and is turned to dust in the Snap.
- 2023 · Cinematic: Restored by the Blip, T'Challa leads Wakandan forces through a portal to the Battle of Earth against Thanos' army.
- 2024 · Cinematic: T'Challa travels to Haiti to tell Nakia of his incurable illness and dies in Wakanda before Shuri can recreate the Heart-Shaped Herb.
allied with
Steve Rogers, Black Widow (Natasha Romanoff), Sam Wilson (Captain America), Winter Soldier, Okoye, Nakia, Shuri, Everett Ross, Iron Man, Daredevil, Storm, Black Bolt, Namor, Captain Marvel, M'Baku, Monica Rambeau
enemy of
Helmut Zemo, Ulysses Klaue, Thanos, Doctor Doom, Erik Killmonger, Mephisto, Namor, Proxima Midnight, Cull Obsidian, Red Skull
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