Started calling him Killmonger.
They started calling Killmonger.
A mercenary nicknamed Killmonger.
One more thing about Killmonger's suit.
If Killmonger gains control of it,
Killmonger challenges T'Challa to ritual combat,
and gangster, who is allied with Killmonger.
Killmonger refuses to be healed, choosing to
Erik Killmonger, a representation of African American violence and vengeance?
If Killmonger controls, by whom do you think will come next?
We later learn that one of these boys was a young Killmonger.
If Killmonger gains control of it,
who do you think he will come for next?
Killmonger refuses to be healed, choosing to
die a free man rather than be incarcerated.
The racial symbolism of Killmonger is, for me, one of the more unsatisfying aspects of this film.
It is not so much justice and freedom that Killmonger wants as the power to dominate others.
When Killmonger dies at the end of the film,
there is, for many, little pleasure at his death.
Andy Serkis as Ulysses Klaue: A South African black-market arms dealer, smuggler
and gangster, who is allied with Killmonger.
Killmonger challenges T'Challa to ritual combat,
where he kills Zuri, defeats T'Challa, and hurls him over a waterfall to his presumed death.
Certainly, there are African Americans who hold such beliefs, but Killmonger is essentially the only representation of African Americans in the film.
We don't want Killmonger to unleash the power of Vibranium on an unsuspecting world,
but we recognize the need to end oppression and racialized poverty.
First of all, while Malcolm X shared Killmonger's concerns about black inequality, by the time
he was killed, he had come to realize that allies for the cause of liberation and equality exist across racial lines.