The Black Panther Premium Format figure captures every aspect of the tormented Wakanda leader with stunning realism. Each piece is individually painted and finished, each with its own unique quality and detail that is the trademark of a handcrafted Sideshow Collectibles product. The detailed fabric costume includes a wired cape for posability, and each piece comes complete with a switch-out unmasked head and additional switch-out left hands displaying either the open hand or holding the golden spear. The Black Panther Premium Format Figure is an outstanding addition to any comic or Marvel display.
T’Challa is heir to the centuries-old ruling dynasty of the African kingdom Wakanda and ritual leader of its Panther Clan. When T’Challa was a teenager, his father was murdered by Klaw, a Dutchman seeking to plunder the rare Vibranium metal unique to Wakanda, but T’Challa used Klaw’s own weapon to maim him and drive him off. T’Challa studied in Europe and America, then underwent ritual trials in Wakanda – including defeating his uncle S’yan, the existing Black Panther, to win the heart-shaped herb, enhancing his abilities and spiritually linking him to the Panther God, Bast. Now Wakanda’s ruler as the Black Panther, he disbanded and exiled the Hatut Zaraze, Wakanda’s subversive secret police, and continued transforming his country into a high-tech wonderland.
Taught by his father to think two steps ahead of enemies and three steps ahead of friends, T’Challa saw the world’s super-beings as potential threats to Wakanda. He invited the Fantastic Four to visit him and forced them into a series of tests, but ultimately, T’Challa allied with them against a returning Klaw. He also joined the American-based Avengers to spy on them from within but soon came to regard them as true friends and staunch allies.
T’Challa adopted the identity of teacher Luke Charles while in America, and dividing his time between Wakanda and America, he battled foes such as Wakandan tribe malcontent M’Baku, the Man-Ape, and rebel leader Erik Killmonger. He came up against the snake-charmer, Venomm, with whom he later allied, voodoo charlatan Barom Macabre, and even fought Kiber the Cruel during a quest for the mystic time-shifting artifacts known as King Solomon’s Frogs.
