Erik Killmonger
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Fresh Start, Comics: Killmonger is resurrected at the Resurrection Altar, bonded to the symbiote Emperor N'Jadaka of the Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda.
Cinematic
N'Jadaka, an Oakland-born son of the Wakandan prince N'Jobu, who grew up an orphan after T'Chaka killed his father in 1992. A Navy SEAL turned black-ops killer, he allied with and then killed Ulysses Klaue to reach Wakanda in 2016. He defeated T'Challa in ritual combat, burned the Heart-Shaped Herbs, planned to arm the War Dogs worldwide, and died fighting T'Challa. In 2025 he appears to Shuri in the Ancestral Plane.
Comics
A Wakandan orphan raised in exile by brigands, educated at M.I.T., who returns home resentful and sets out to topple the Black Panther. He schemes against T'Challa for decades, dies and is brought back repeatedly, briefly takes the throne, and later rules Niganda. His final return, merged with a symbiote emperor, ends when T'Challa kills him during a war against Wakanda.
Timeline 18 events
- Bronze · Comics: Killmonger debuts in Wakanda, attacking villages to draw out T'Challa and nearly drowning him at a waterfall.
- Bronze · Comics: Killmonger appears to be killed by T'Challa after allying with Salamander K'Ruel.
- Bronze · Comics: The Mandarin revives Killmonger with his rings, and he fights Iron Man and the Black Panther in Wakanda before collapsing to a skeleton.
- Modern · Comics: In New York, Killmonger plots with Klaw against T'Challa and dies when a ship's mast falls on him.
- Modern · Comics: Killmonger defeats T'Challa in ritual combat, rules Wakanda for a time, and falls into a coma after eating the Heart-Shaped Herb.
- Modern · Comics: Killmonger travels to New York to recruit the new Black Panther, Kasper Cole, to the Panther Cult.
- Modern · Comics: As ruler of Niganda, Killmonger holds Shuri and Monica Rambeau captive and is killed by Rambeau during the Wakandan assault.
- Fresh Start · Comics: As a boy, N'Jadaka is taken from Wakanda into exile by M'Demwe and later kills his captor.
- Fresh Start · Comics: Killmonger returns to Wakanda, murders fellow returnees to power his neural weapons, and escapes after T'Challa and Shuri stop the Koukou plot.
- Fresh Start · Comics: Killmonger is resurrected at the Resurrection Altar, bonded to the symbiote Emperor N'Jadaka of the Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda.
- Fresh Start · Comics: In the war on Earth and Wakanda Prime, the merged Killmonger and Emperor N'Jadaka are killed by T'Challa.
- 1992 · Cinematic: In Oakland, T'Chaka kills his brother N'Jobu after N'Jobu tries to kill Zuri, leaving the boy Erik orphaned; his mother later dies in prison.
- 2016 · Cinematic: Killmonger and Klaue rob the Museum of Great Britain of a vibranium axe, killing guards and a curator.
- 2016 · Cinematic: Killmonger breaks Klaue out of a CIA site in South Korea, wounding Everett Ross.
- 2016 · Cinematic: He kills Klaue and delivers the body to Wakanda, where he claims his bloodright and challenges T'Challa.
- 2016 · Cinematic: Killmonger kills Zuri, throws T'Challa over Warrior Falls, takes the throne and orders the Heart-Shaped Herb garden burned.
- 2016 · Cinematic: At the Battle of Mount Bashenga, T'Challa returns and defeats Killmonger, who refuses healing and dies.
- 2025 · Cinematic: Killmonger appears to Shuri in the Ancestral Plane and urges her toward revenge against Namor, but she spares him.
enemy of
T'Challa, Okoye, Ulysses Klaue, Everett Ross, Shuri, Nakia, Monica Rambeau, Iron Man, Kingpin, M'Baku, Uatu the Watcher
allied with
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