probably because it require him to compromise and move towards T'Challa's utterly spineless lack of ideology or belief. Killmonger's main trait that makes him the villain is his actual belief in something.
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Replying to @SnowmanMcK @lawnerdbarak
Well, no, the part where he shot his girlfriend in the head also makes him a villain
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Yeah, I mean... they're both doing "My ideology justifies my personal ambitions," when it comes to it. Killmonger primarily cares about other Black people (and Wakanda ignoring them) insofar as they're projections of the same happening to HIM.
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Replying to @the_moviebob @arthur_affect and
One of the many ways the film signposts the fact that Killmonger is not a good guy is that he doesn't care about Wakanda at all. It's a means to an end to him, and despite claiming its throne he has no interest in protecting it. That's what the Nakia/Okoye argument is about.
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Replying to @NussbaumAbigail @the_moviebob and
He only even calls it the "Wakandan Empire" out of convenience, it's obviously really going to be a clean-slate situation where he builds a new civilization from scratch, the Empire of N'Jadaku -- really, to give it its most honest name, the Killmonger Empire
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Replying to @arthur_affect @NussbaumAbigail and
And honestly, yeah, that is more than a little resonant for real-life revolutionaries who ended up torching the civilizations they claimed to be liberating (sorry tankies)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @NussbaumAbigail and
You're invoking real world parallels while arguing that CIA intervention in an election process doesn't count because technically he only shot down some planes.
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Replying to @SnowmanMcK @NussbaumAbigail and
It's not "CIA intervention", he makes no effort to contact his superiors at any point, he's straight up taking orders from T'Challa and Shuri
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Replying to @arthur_affect @SnowmanMcK and
It's CIA intervention to the exact same degree that Killmonger's coup is CIA intervention After all he's also a CIA employee who just disappeared off the grid at some point and hasn't received any direct orders from his superiors re: the Wakanda situation
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Replying to @arthur_affect @NussbaumAbigail and
except that killmonger didn't go off the grid, he left the CIA and has been doing his own thing with his own goals for a long time. In fact, that's what he's doing when we meet him.
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He went off the grid pretty recently, Ross knew him as a CIA operative and didn't know he was associated with Klaue until the events of this movie (that's kind of the point)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @NussbaumAbigail and
Pretty recently as in...the last couple of days? Because otherwise I think I've spotted a difference.
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