Erik Killmonger

Erik Killmonger is a Marvel Comics character that will appear in Black Panther, played by Michael B. Jordan.

He is a power-hungry ,arrogant, megalomaniacal and ruthless Wakandian warrior and citizen who was exiled with his family by Wakanda's former king, T'Chaka, and seeks not only vengeance but also to overthrow T'Challa and conquer Wakanda.

To that end, he has honed his body and mind to the peak, being an expert martial artist, an excellent hand-to-hand combatant, and a genius in a wide variety of fields. He is willing to team up with Ulysses Klaw, as they both have a common enemy in T'Challa.

Black Panther
Erik "Killmonger" Stevens was born many years ago in Wakanda with the name N'Jadaka. His father, N'Jobu ,was a great warrior in Wakanda.

One day, T'Chaka, the first king of Wakanda, had decided to banish N'Jadaka and his family from Wakanda. The thing caused them for years of pain, suffering and hunger, a thing that scarred N'Jadaka's soul, and motived him to vow to gain revenge.

Years later ,his father died, and the teenager N'Jadaka somehow arrived to USA. There, he adopted a new identity; Erik Stevens, and joined the American military forces, where he has served as a black ops soldier. Thanks to the military, Stevens has gained various skills in combat, martial arts, firearms, weapons and knowledge about explosives and psychological warfare.

In the field, Stevens gained a new name; Killmonger ,he gained that nickname due to Stevens slaughtering and defeating thousands of enemies for the US Army.

After the army, Killmonger went to lead a group of mercenaries and criminals, and uses them in order to free Ulysses Klaue from captive at the hands of his arch-nemesis; T'Challa, who has become the new king of Wakanda.

Together with Klaue with which he created an alliance, Killmonger seeks to gain his revenge ,to kill and break T'Challa, to dethrone him and later to take over Wakanda, and to ignite a world war.

The thing leads to an ongoing conflict between him and T'Challa, and Killmonger ,who has seen the Black Panther suit, had equipped himself with an advanced version of the Black Panther suit, but it has the looks of a jaguar and has golden painting. Using the Golden Jaguar suit, Killmonger goes out against T'Challa and to fulfill his goals.

Lego Marvel's Avengers
In this game, Killmonger appears as a playable character in the Black Panther DLC pack.

Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2
In this game, Killmonger appears as a playable character.

Personality
""Black Panther, you seem to be comfortable..." "What do you want?" "I want the throne, your secrets, your weapons. I'm gonna burn it all!""

- Killmonger and T'Challa Ever since that he was born, Erik Killmonger or rather N'Jadaka, was trained during his all young life to become a grand warrior like his father N'Jobu before him. Through the vast training from his father, N'Jadaka gained first skills of martial arts even if he wasn't ready enough.

In addition, N'Jadaka, like his father, was always a proud and loyal citizen for his homeland, Wakanda. He has done anything he can together with his father to make T'Chaka, the first king of Wakanda, to be proud of them more than that T'Chaka would be proud of his son, T'Challa. N'Jadaka was a citizen in Wakanda for many years, and shown real signs of loyalty and love towards his home and his king, but when he and his father were actually exiled from Wakanda forever ,N'Jadaka suffered in years of pain, coolness and hunger. This thing changed N'Jadaka's life forever ,and scarred N'Jadka's heart and mind, and caused him to vow to gain revenge upon Wakanda.

Prior to his exile ,N'Jadaka never shown signs of friendship for T'Challa as he never met him personally but he indeed saw him with his father, T'Chaka, walking through Wakanda.

After his exile and after vowing to gain revenge, N'Jadaka somehow arrived to USA, where he rejected his real name after adopting his identity which is Erik Stevens, and rejected where he came from after developing huge hatred for Wakanda, and later he has joined the army and gained skills of combat, martial arts and knowledge of weapons and more and allowed him to become powerful master strategist, tactican and much more advanced warrior. These days in the military allowed him to gain a new new nickname; Killmonger due to Erik slaying and defeating thousands of enemies for the American state. But, the true meaning of his nickname is that he is always seeks to kill people either his enemies, which means that he is a truly murderous individual.

Besides of being just a vengeful, murderous ,proud or arrogant individual, Killmonger is also an extremely power-hungry inidivudal, showing many signs of willing to dethrone T'Challa after killing him and to rule over Wakanda as a tyrant, which really means that he is a tyrannical and megalomaniacal individual, and it can be seen proven when he states that after "the world would start over" ,he would be on the top.

He proves himself to be truly destructive, violent, determined, hot-tempered, furious and highly vicious and ruthless individual when, for example, he uses his skills in combat and in the Golden Jaguar suit in order to defeat his enemies easily ,and wills to kill them all fastly which proves that Killmonger really murderous and psychopathic.

However ,it is very important to remember that Killmonger is not an egotistical or selfish individual, as he always want to fight T'Challa for the right to rule over Wakanda, out of belife that Wakanda is filled with hypocrisy much like Klaue's belife and out of complete loyalty to his homeland even if he has rejected it after his exile.

Killmonger is of course also an highly intelligent, wise, sophisticated, manipulative and cunning individual, who uses his knowledge of Wakanda, his considerable skills of combat and martial arts to be truly dangerous threat out of another willing to prove himself to be true threat.

Another thing that needs to be important to remember about Killmonger is that he is a truly fearless individual, showing no mercy or fear against his enemies.