Eyes of Wakanda Reveals a Surprising Truth About Marvel's Best Villain

Eyes of Wakanda reveals a surprising truth about Marvel's best villain

In a 2018 interview, Chadwick Boseman made a surprising claim. He argued that the real villain of Black Panther was his character, Prince T’Challa, who represents the desire to hold onto power and privilege above all else. Conversely, the film’s hero was its highly sympathetic antagonist Erik Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan). Killmonger’s father was a Wakandan prince and a War Dog —a member of the isolationist nation’s intelligence service, who be…

Is Another Killmonger Inevitable?: Why Eyes of Wakanda Exposes a Hypocritical Nation

Eyes of Wakanda has brought fans back into the most powerful place in the MCU. At the same time, the series highlights something that fans have speculated for a very long time: that Wakanda’s rules are too rigid. This showcased some very interesting villains, specifically through the character of the Lion. Having very interesting motivations for his actions, he drew quite a lot of parallels to Killmonger from Black Panther. While they are both v…

Eyes of Wakanda feels like fanfiction turned into Marvel history

Ryan Coogler's first Black Panther feature set itself apart by pushing audiences to think about how comic book heroes and villains would fit into a world shaped by horrors like the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Black Panther and its 2022 sequel, Wakanda Forever, used their characters to comment on our reality's complicated and oftentimes ugly history as it relates to race and geopolitical conquest. And the films were so successful at the box offic…