Black PantherPortraits: New Looks at the Heroes and Villains of Wakanda

Chadwick Boseman is photographed in T’Challa’s obsidian-colored, Vibranium-woven armor as the hero of this Marvel Studios movie.

But that doesn’t mean she blends in.

“I would say Nakia is very practical,” the Oscar-winner says.

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“She dresses for the job at hand, but she doesnt compromise her style.”

“She is also a genius and runs the entire Wakandan design group,” Feige says.

“She’s responsible for amazing technological advances that Vibranium has brought about from Wakanda.”

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Forests character, more than anything, is a major tie-back to TChallas father.

Zuri is someone he looks to for guidance.

Coogler says to think of him as the Wise Old Man Black Panthers version of Obi-Wan Kenobi.

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Erik Killmonger

Here’s one of those complications.

“Wakanda has a lot of citizens who have a lot of different ideas of Wakanda should be.

Killmonger is a voice of a different side of Wakanda.”

What the panther is to the royal family, the gorilla is to M’Baku’s mountain tribe.

In the comics, M’Baku wears white fur and an animal mask as the villain Man-Ape.

(Read more:How Marvel has modernized the character to avoid unintended racial sterotypes.)

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