Okoye

Cinematic and Comics

Fresh Start, Comics: T'Challa asks Okoye to screen recruits for the Agents of Wakanda and she becomes its director.

Cinematic

Wakanda's top warrior, general of the Dora Milaje and head of its armed forces. She served T'Challa, hunted Ulysses Klaue, bent to Killmonger's rule before rebelling against him, and defended Wakanda from Thanos's army. She led for Natasha Romanoff's Avengers during the Blip years and killed Corvus Glaive in 2023. After T'Challa's death Ramonda stripped her rank, and she later fought Talokanil as a Midnight Angel.

Comics

Wakandan warrior chosen in childhood, with her friend Nakia, to serve in the Dora Milaje, the king's bodyguard corps. She stayed loyal to T'Challa while Nakia turned villain as Malice, accompanied him into hiding, helped test Kasper Cole, and later screened recruits for the Agents of Wakanda, which she came to direct.

Timeline 17 events

1. Modern · Comics: Okoye and Nakia are selected as children to join the Dora Milaje.
2. Modern · Comics: Nakia abandons the Dora Milaje after her obsession with the king turns violent and becomes the villain Malice.
3. Modern · Comics: Okoye works alongside Queen Divine Justice, a new Dora Milaje recruit.
4. Modern · Comics: Okoye accompanies the hidden T'Challa and takes part in a character test of Kasper Cole.
5. Fresh Start · Comics: Okoye leads Dora Milaje to New York City to capture Malice, meeting Spider-Man and fighting Hydro-Man.
6. Fresh Start · Comics: T'Challa asks Okoye to screen recruits for the Agents of Wakanda and she becomes its director.
7. 2008 · Cinematic: On T'Chaka's orders Okoye accompanies T'Challa to rescue Wakandan hostages from Zanda and Douglas Scott, then pursues the mercenaries to a yacht.
8. 2016 · Cinematic: Okoye flies T'Challa to Nigeria to retrieve Nakia, then attends his coronation at Warrior Falls.
9. 2016 · Cinematic: Okoye joins T'Challa and Nakia in Busan to arrest Ulysses Klaue and later brings the wounded Everett Ross to Wakanda for treatment.
10. 2016 · Cinematic: Killmonger defeats T'Challa in ritual combat and Okoye reluctantly serves the new king out of loyalty to the throne.
11. 2016 · Cinematic: At the Battle of Mount Bashenga the Dora Milaje rebel and Okoye confronts Killmonger, then arrests her husband W'Kabi.
12. 2018 · Cinematic: Okoye leads the Dora Milaje in the Battle of Wakanda and sees Thanos's Snap turn T'Challa to dust.
13. 2023 · Cinematic: Serving under Natasha Romanoff, Okoye joins the Battle of Earth after the Blip and kills Corvus Glaive.
14. 2024 · Cinematic: T'Challa dies of illness and Okoye helps carry his casket at the funeral.
15. 2025 · Cinematic: Okoye and Shuri find Riri Williams in Cambridge, but the Talokanil capture Shuri and Ramonda strips Okoye of her rank.
16. 2025 · Cinematic: A Talokanil flood hits Birnin Zana and Ramonda dies despite Okoye's attempts to revive her.
17. 2025 · Cinematic: As a Midnight Angel, Okoye defeats Attuma aboard the Sea Leopard, then frees Everett Ross and leaves Wakanda for good.

allied with

T'Challa, Shuri, Nakia, Ramonda, Everett Ross, Spider-Man (Peter Parker), M'Baku, Ironheart

enemy of

Ulysses Klaue, Erik Killmonger, Thanos, Corvus Glaive, Attuma, Proxima Midnight

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