Back comes the reply: “Greater good? I am your wife. “We are talking about the greater good!” he cries. (The one who merits it best is Frozone, from “ The Incredibles,” who has to miss dinner to save the world. There have been black superheroes before, and Will Smith’s character in “ Hancock” (2008) was an unusual blend of potency and dysfunction, but none have been given dominion over a blockbuster. Hence the pressing need for this new film. We have already met him, in “ Captain America: Civil War” (2016), but there he was merely a part of the Avengers gang, and he made no more impact, to be honest, than the one with the bow and arrow whose name I can never remember. Sure, Bruce Wayne has the Batmobile, but T’Challa has a whole country to drive. His suit, at once bulletproof and clingy, makes Tony Stark’s outfit look like a deep-sea diver’s. Unlike Peter Parker, whose teasing, could-it-be-me act has worn thin, T’Challa is super and proud, turning at will into Black Panther.
Oh, and I almost forgot: he’s a superhero. He has a thing going with the wondrous Nakia (Lupita Nyong’o). His most trusted combatant, should trouble loom, is the shaven-headed Okoye (Danai Gurira), who can fell an aircraft with the toss of a spear. His mother is played by Angela Bassett, who rocks a ruff better than any queen since Elizabeth I. The old king is dead long live the new king, T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman), a princely sort who comes with many advantages. The map appears in “Black Panther,” most of which is set in present-day Wakanda, at a pivotal point. In short, Wakanda is blessed among nations, and there’s only one thing wrong with the place. Foreign marauders have never pillaged that wealth, because they know nothing about it. It is a kingdom, wisely ruled, and rich in a precious natural resource, vibranium, which is used for hyper-technology. Unlike those nations, however, which have been scalded by strife, Wakanda is a model of serenity. According to one map, it lies somewhere near Uganda-below South Sudan, above Rwanda, and abutting the Democratic Republic of the Congo. If you start in the center of Africa and head southeast, you arrive at Wakanda. Ryan Coogler’s blockbuster stars Chadwick Boseman as an African king who morphs at will into a bulletproof superhero.
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