Black Panther: 20 WTF Moments

13. Killmonger Just Wanders Into Wakanda

Black Panther Erik Killmonger
Marvel Studios

Having killed Klaue (and allowed him casually to kill his completely pointless girlfriend), Killmonger takes his corpse as a peace offering to W'Kabi (who his father presumably predicted was going to be driven by the need for justice for his parents' death even though he was only a child at the time).

The question here is how he manages to get all the way to W'Kabi without anyone picking him up, when Wakanda is supposed to be the most secretive, cut-off country in the world. You can get around Killmonger's ability to find the place by saying his father left instructions (again, why, if he had no reason to think T'Chaka knew he has betrayed him?), but him just casually waltzing in is a different matter.

And if it was so easy to get there, why not just bring Klaue alive there rather than wasting time going through with a heist that ends with his girlfriend dead and his bargaining chip in custody. It's a bit idiotic, to be honest.

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