Have you seen BP yet? If so, does MCU Killmonger’s motivations line up with 616 Killmonger’s?
For the most part….yea.
Obviously Killmonger’s origins were tweaked a bit (he isn’t T'Challa’s cousin in the comics. Killmonger’s parents in the comics were killed by Klaw) and how he got to America was tweaked as well (he became a child slave of Klaw and escaped to Harlem when Klaw’s army was in the U.S.).
However, that extreme bitterness and anger that Killmonger has towards the monarchy? It was absolutely there in both the comics and the film. Both Killmongers feel that the monarchy has failed them. Both felt abandoned by their nation. Both blamed T'Chaka for what happened to their parents (Comic Killmonger felt T'Chaka was weak and didn’t push back harder against Klaw). Both trained all their life as a response in order to ultimately fight and defeat T'Challa. Both did defeat T'Challa. Both demanded a new order and status quo in Wakanda and were very ruthless, willing to do almost anything to make it so. And should they become king, both would’ve very likely resulted in Wakanda’s doom down the line.
The MCU obviously deviated here and there, as it usually does. That said, one could argue that out of all the major political figures in modern-day Wakanda in the comics (T'Challa, Killmonger, M'Baku, Shuri), it is Killmonger who one could argue would’ve been the most pan-african of them all, although his version ultimately would’ve been quite twisted and very self-serving.
The comic book world works in mysterious ways.
I went into that movie a fan albeit casual of BP and left completely disliking Wakanda and T'Challa
