119 Fun Facts About Black Panther

The Black Panther first appeared in 1966 as a guest star in which superhero team's comic?

The Fantastic Four met him in issue #52, where T'Challa lures the team to Wakanda and takes them on one by one to test himself; the debut made him mainstream American comics' first Black superhero.

Which writer and artist created the Black Panther?

Kirby later returned to write, pencil and edit a solo Black Panther series in 1977, but it lasted only 15 issues.

The Black Panther was mainstream comics' first Black superhero; which Marvel hero followed in 1969 as the first African American one?

The Falcon arrived in 1969; as a Marvel editor put it, the Panther 'preceded him, but wasn't American'. The two are tied together in the comics as well: T'Challa built the harness that lets the Falcon fly.

T'Challa gains his enhanced abilities by consuming the essence of what?

The heart-shaped herb is reserved for whoever holds the Black Panther title; in the comics T'Challa earned his dose by defeating his own uncle in ritual combat.

Which Marvel anthology title carried the 1970s Black Panther storyline "Panther's Rage"?

Jungle Action was reprinting 1950s strips about white jungle lords until proofreader Don McGregor told Marvel how dated that looked; the editors gave the book to T'Challa and let McGregor write it.

In a 1976 storyline, T'Challa went to Georgia to fight which group?

The Ku Klux Klan story, written by Don McGregor, was never finished as planned: Marvel cancelled the comic mid-arc in 1976 and relaunched the Panther in a new series.

To avoid echoing a political party, the Black Panther briefly took which name in 1972?

Black Leopard lasted only months: the switch was meant to steer clear of the Black Panther Party, but T'Challa was back under his own name before the year was out.

Christopher Priest's 1998 Black Panther series made which State Department attorney its viewpoint character?

Everett K. Ross, the self-proclaimed 'Emperor of Useless White Boys', was Priest's way of walking new readers into Wakanda; the films later remade him as a CIA agent.

The Dora Milaje, T'Challa's bodyguards and ceremonial brides-in-waiting in the comics, bear a name said to mean what?

Adored ones: each rival tribe supplied a daughter to guard the king as a ceremonial wife-in-training, a tie meant to keep Wakanda's tribes from civil war.

Which actress plays Okoye, general of the Dora Milaje, in the Black Panther films?

Danai Gurira is also a playwright: her drama Eclipsed reached Broadway in 2016 with her future Black Panther co-star Lupita Nyong'o in the lead.

In 2006, during Reginald Hudlin's run, T'Challa married which member of the X-Men?

Storm. Their wedding fell in the middle of Marvel's Civil War crossover, and the leaders of both warring camps came as guests but left still at odds.

Who plays Zuri, Wakanda's elder statesman and spiritual guide, in the 2018 film Black Panther?

Forest Whitaker. The young Zuri of the 1992 flashback is another Whitaker, Denzel, who had played Forest's son in The Great Debaters.

T'Challa and his bride replaced which two members of Marvel's first family?

Mister Fantastic and the Invisible Woman. Reed and Sue took time off to work on their own marriage after Civil War, so the newlyweds filled in on the team.

In the comics, which relative of T'Challa took over as the Black Panther in 2009?

His sister Shuri took the mantle in 2009 after a near-fatal attack by Doctor Doom left T'Challa in a coma, long before Wakanda Forever gave her the suit on screen.

Before writing Black Panther in 2016, Ta-Nehisi Coates was a national correspondent for which magazine?

The Atlantic. Coates was still its national correspondent when Marvel called, and his first Black Panther issue became the best-selling comic of April 2016.

What was the title of Coates's first Black Panther storyline, in which T'Challa faces a popular uprising?

A Nation Under Our Feet. Coates took the title from historian Steven Hahn's 2003 book on Black political struggle in the rural South, from slavery to the Great Migration.

After the popular uprising in Coates's first Black Panther storyline, Wakanda is reformed into what?

A constitutional democracy. T'Challa has a council draft a constitution and stays on as king, but only as a figurehead who represents Wakanda without ruling it.

What is Erik Killmonger's Wakandan birth name in the comics?

N'Jadaka. In the comics he is a Wakandan-born orphan who ends up in America; the 2018 film flips it, making him the American-born son of a Wakandan prince.

Killmonger ends his first fight with T'Challa by throwing him off what?

A waterfall. The duel at Warrior Falls comes from the comics: the pair fight above the same falls in Killmonger's 1973 debut storyline, restaged on film 45 years later.

In the comics, at which university did Killmonger study while plotting revenge?

MIT. He left with an engineering doctorate, then approached T'Challa in the United States to arrange his own return to Wakanda, where he turned on him.

In the Black Panther films, most Wakandans worship which panther goddess?

Bast. She is borrowed from Bastet, the cat goddess of ancient Egypt, while M'Baku's Jabari tribe reject her and pray to the gorilla god Hanuman instead.

Which comedian voices Griot, a Wakandan ship's AI, in the 2018 film Black Panther?

Trevor Noah. The South African comedian, then host of The Daily Show, voices the AI that guides a CIA agent as he flies a Wakandan jet by remote control in the final battle.

T'Challa's father, King T'Chaka, is killed by a bomb at a UN conference in which European city?

Vienna. T'Chaka was there for the ratification of the Sokovia Accords, and the blast sent T'Challa after the wrong man in his first outing as the Black Panther.

In the comics, T'Challa was sent abroad to graduate from which university?

Oxford. He left with a doctorate in physics, then went home and won the Black Panther mantle by defeating his own uncle in ritual combat.

In the comics, Wakanda's secret police, the Hatut Zeraze, are known in English as what?

War Dogs. The comics' Hatut Zeraze are feared enforcers, but the 2018 film reuses the name for Wakanda's undercover spies abroad, Nakia among them.

Who voiced T'Challa in the 2010 animated Black Panther series on BET?

Djimon Hounsou. The series exists because Reginald Hudlin, who wrote the comic arc it adapts, was running entertainment at BET when it was developed.

Which Avenger's signature gear is made of vibranium, the rare metal mined in Wakanda?

Captain America. Vibranium soaks up the force of every blow on his shield, and the metal debuted in a 1966 Daredevil comic, five months before the Black Panther himself.

The Antarctic form of vibranium is nicknamed "Anti-Metal" because it does what?

Dissolves other metals. It gives off vibrations that break the bonds in nearby metal and turn it liquid, the reverse of Wakanda's vibranium, which soaks vibrations up.

According to the opening of the 2018 film Black Panther, what first brought vibranium to Wakanda?

A meteorite. The film's opening says it struck Africa millions of years ago, and that the five tribes who settled on it lived at war until the first Black Panther united four of them.

Who directed the 2018 film Black Panther?

Ryan Coogler. His talks with Marvel had cooled, then restarted after his boxing drama Creed opened strongly in late 2015, and he was confirmed that January.

Which actor plays Erik Killmonger in the 2018 film Black Panther?

Michael B. Jordan. It was his third film for the same director after Fruitvale Station and Creed, and he studied Malcolm X, Huey P. Newton and Tupac Shakur to play the part.

Which actor announced plans for a Black Panther film in 1992 that never got made?

Wesley Snipes. He says his first hurdle was explaining that the film was about a comic-book hero, not the 1960s Black Panther Party, to people who expected black berets.

The 2018 film Black Panther opens with a 1992 flashback set in which city?

Oakland. The director was born there, and the scenes were shot in Atlanta's Sweet Auburn neighborhood, with a real Oakland transit agency lending its logo.

Black Panther's big car chase, which used 150 cars and more than 700 people, was shot in which city?

Busan. Residents were warned to expect helicopters, blank gunfire and closed roads during the roughly two-week shoot, which began at the Jagalchi fish market.

The Wakandan language spoken in the films is based on which real language?

Xhosa. John Kani, who plays T'Chaka, speaks it and taught it to Chadwick Boseman on set, which is how it became the language of Wakanda.

Winston Duke spoke a version of which Nigerian language to set his mountain-tribe character apart?

Igbo. The film also dropped the character's comic-book name, Man-Ape, because Marvel felt a Black character dressed as an ape carried racial implications that would not sit well.

Which of these was one of the three Academy Awards Black Panther won?

Best Original Score. Marvel Studios had released 17 earlier films without winning a single Oscar; Black Panther took three in one night.

Black Panther was the first superhero film ever nominated for which Academy Award?

Best Picture. Months earlier the Academy had announced a separate Oscar for 'popular film', then shelved it within weeks; Black Panther made the main list anyway.

Who designed the costumes for the 2018 film Black Panther?

Ruth E. Carter. She pinned real African dress to her mood boards, from Maasai to Tuareg, and needed what she called an army of illustrators, dyers and jewelry makers.

Queen Ramonda's costumes in Black Panther drew inspiration from which real woman?

Winnie Mandela. The designer worked from video of her arriving at a South African birthday party in a Zulu woman's ceremonial dress and headdress.

Who composed the score for the 2018 film Black Panther?

Ludwig Göransson. He met the film's director when both were students at USC and has scored his features ever since; here he built the themes on talking drums and a Fula flute.

Black Panther's composer toured with musician Baaba Maal while researching the score in which African country?

Senegal. Baaba Maal introduced him to local musicians, and the hours of recordings they made there, led by talking drums, became the base of the score.

Which rapper produced the film's curated soundtrack, Black Panther: The Album?

Kendrick Lamar. He was asked for only a few songs, but after watching much of the film he booked a studio and made a whole album.

Which song from Black Panther was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song?

All the Stars. It plays over the end credits, and its video drew a copyright suit from artist Lina Iris Viktor over her gold-patterned paintings, settled in late 2018.

Black Panther set a record for the biggest February opening weekend, surpassing which 2016 film?

Deadpool. Disney had projected about $150 million, but Black Panther took $202 million in three days and $242 million over the four-day Presidents' Day weekend.

Black Panther narrowly outgrossed which 2018 film in North America?

Avengers: Infinity War. It won worldwide with over $2 billion, but at home Black Panther's $700 million edged it by about $21 million.

Stan Lee's cameo in Black Panther casts him as what?

A casino patron. Stan Lee's gambler helps himself to the chips T'Challa leaves behind on the gaming table.

In Black Panther's post-credits scene, Bucky Barnes has been given which Wakandan name?

The White Wolf. Shuri has been helping him recover from his brainwashing; in the comics the name belongs to Hunter, T'Challa's adopted brother and head of the secret police.

Which actor from The Hobbit plays the CIA agent who ends up in Shuri's lab in Black Panther?

Martin Freeman. His CIA agent is shot protecting Nakia, so T'Challa breaks with Wakanda's secrecy and brings an outsider home to be healed.

Which actor plays the arms dealer Ulysses Klaue in Black Panther?

Andy Serkis. He first played Klaue in Avengers: Age of Ultron, where Ultron cuts off the arm that Klaue here replaces with a sonic cannon.

Nakia, played by Lupita Nyong'o, comes from which of Wakanda's tribes?

River Tribe. Dressed in green and shells after the Suri people, its elder is among those who decline to challenge T'Challa at his coronation.

Where did Chadwick Boseman study directing before starting out in theatre?

Howard University. He chose it over offers to play college basketball, and one of his teachers there, Phylicia Rashad, became his mentor.

Chadwick Boseman's breakthrough film role was playing which historical figure?

Jackie Robinson. For 42, coaches filmed Boseman's batting and base running and played it split-screen beside Robinson's own so he could copy his moves.

Chadwick Boseman kept which illness private until his death?

Colon cancer. Diagnosed in 2016, he worked through surgeries and chemotherapy for four years, and even Marvel's chiefs learned of it only when he died in August 2020.

Chadwick Boseman's final film role earned him a posthumous Oscar nomination for which movie?

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. He won the Golden Globe and the SAG award for it, but on Oscar night Anthony Hopkins took Best Actor in an upset.

In Wakanda Forever, Namor rules not the comics' Atlantis but which hidden underwater kingdom?

Talokan. The film dropped Atlantis to avoid comparisons with Aquaman and named its Mesoamerican kingdom after Tlalocan, a paradise of Aztec myth.

Namor's people in Wakanda Forever call him by the name of which Maya god?

K'uk'ulkan. He is the feathered serpent god of the Maya, a fit for a king with winged ankles, and actor Tenoch Huerta Mejía learned Yucatec Maya to play him.

Which Wakanda Forever star earned the first Oscar acting nomination for a Marvel Studios film?

Angela Bassett. Her Queen Ramonda was nominated for Best Supporting Actress and had already won the Golden Globe, but the Oscar went to Jamie Lee Curtis.

Which artist performed "Lift Me Up", the lead single from Wakanda Forever?

Rihanna. Lift Me Up was her first solo release in six years, and it was written as a tribute to Chadwick Boseman.

In Wakanda Forever's mid-credits scene, Shuri meets T'Challa's secret son, who goes by which name?

Toussaint. His parents hid him to spare him the pressures of the throne, and he ends the scene by telling Shuri his Wakandan name: T'Challa.

In Wakanda Forever, Ramonda seeks out Nakia, who has been living in which country since the Blip?

Haiti. Nakia has been raising her son there in secret, and the film ends on its shore when she introduces the boy to Shuri.

Wakanda Forever was the final film of which chapter of the Marvel Cinematic Universe?

Phase Four. Kevin Feige named it the Phase's closing film at Comic-Con in July 2022, though a Guardians of the Galaxy holiday special followed on Disney+ as what its director called the epilogue.

Riri Williams, the student inventor Shuri befriends in Wakanda Forever, is from which US city?

Chicago. Her vibranium detector is what lets an American expedition find the metal under the sea, and Namor demands Wakanda hand her over for building it.

In Wakanda Forever, Shuri gives Okoye a new set of armor that makes her one of what?

The Midnight Angels. Okoye puts on the armor only after being stripped of her rank as general, and recruits fellow warrior Aneka to fly alongside her.

Under what working title was Black Panther filmed in the Atlanta area in 2017?

Motherland. The cover name also appeared on the notices that warned residents about road closures and blank gunfire for the film's big car chase.

Which director held talks with Marvel about Black Panther in 2015 but turned the job down?

Ava DuVernay. She met Marvel's executives but walked away, saying they had different ideas about the story and did not see eye to eye.

Which viral catchphrase does Shuri use to mock T'Challa in her lab in Black Panther?

"What are those?" was a 2015 meme for mocking ugly shoes, and Shuri aims it at T'Challa's sandals; the man who started it said he wasn't happy to hear it in the film.

Which real country's designs inspired the sigils and look of Wakanda's Border Tribe?

Lesotho. The Border Tribe's sigil shows the horsemen of that mountain kingdom and its villages copy Lesotho's traditional huts, the humble front Wakanda shows outsiders.

Which visual-effects house was chiefly responsible for building the digital cityscapes of Wakanda?

ILM. Its artists filled Wakanda's capital with nearly 60,000 digital buildings, and the city was both the first job the studio started and the last it finished.

Black Panther opened the first new commercial cinema in which country after a decades-long ban on movie theaters ended?

Saudi Arabia ended the ban in December 2017, and the Riyadh premiere the following April drew diplomats and cinema executives but nobody from the film's cast.

Black Panther led the US box office five weekends running, the first film to do so since which blockbuster?

Avatar had managed it over the winter of 2009–10, and no February release had stayed on top that long since Wayne's World in 1992.

Ulysses Klaue wears a sonic cannon in Black Panther after losing an arm to which earlier film villain?

Ultron took the arm in the 2015 film named after him, and Klaue replaced it with Wakandan mining equipment reworked into a weapon.

Dying at the end of Black Panther, Killmonger refuses to be healed and is shown what by T'Challa?

A Wakandan sunset is his last sight: Killmonger chooses to die a free man rather than be healed and locked up, and he dies peacefully beside T'Challa.

In Black Panther's final battle, W'Kabi and his Border Tribe guards ride into the fight on which animals?

Rhinos serve as the tribe's shock cavalry because it guards Wakanda's borders, and every one seen in the battle was a digital creation.

Lupita Nyong'o, Black Panther's spy Nakia, won an Oscar for her role in which historical drama?

12 Years a Slave was her breakthrough, landed just as she graduated from Yale, and it won her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Which sitcom star plays the new CIA director, Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, in Wakanda Forever?

Julia Louis-Dreyfus was reprising a role from earlier Marvel stories, and the sequel reveals her character is the ex-wife of the CIA agent who helps Wakanda.

Namor, the sea king of Wakanda Forever, can fly thanks to small wings on which part of his body?

His ankles carry the wings, and the sound editors gave them the rattle of real rattlesnakes, an idea that arrived two weeks before the sound work was finished.

M'Baku's mountain tribe in Black Panther worships gods in the form of which animal instead of a panther?

Gorilla gods stand in for the comics' Man-Ape, a name Marvel dropped because of its racial implications, though M'Baku's chest-plate hints at the animal.

Who really planted the bomb that killed T'Challa's father, King T'Chaka, and framed Bucky Barnes for it?

Helmut Zemo wanted revenge for the family he lost in Sokovia, and T'Challa, after hunting the wrong man, stops him from taking his own life.

Which actress plays Shuri, the 16-year-old princess who designs Wakanda's technology in Black Panther?

Letitia Wright was born in Guyana, and Wakanda Forever moves her character Shuri to the center of the story.

Which British actor plays W'Kabi, the friend of T'Challa who backs Killmonger's takeover in Black Panther?

Daniel Kaluuya missed the sequel because its shoot clashed with the film Nope, so Wakanda Forever explains that W'Kabi was banished.

Killmonger and Klaue steal a Wakandan artifact in Black Panther from a museum in which city?

London was faked in Georgia: the fictional Museum of Great Britain was really the High Museum of Art in Atlanta.

Before reaching Wakanda in Black Panther, Killmonger was a black-ops soldier in which US military force?

Navy SEALs service led Erik Stevens into covert black-ops work, where he took on the nickname Killmonger.

Black Panther's big car chase shows off a coupe from which luxury brand, a promotional partner of Marvel?

Lexus featured its LC coupe in the chase and built a campaign around it, including a Super Bowl commercial and a tie-in graphic novel.

Hannah Beachler became the first African American to win which Oscar for building Black Panther's Wakanda?

Best Production Design went to Beachler, the first female production designer on a Marvel film and the second person hired for it after the director.

Black Panther's cast won the top prize for an acting ensemble at which ceremony in 2019?

SAG Awards voters also honored the film's stunt ensemble that night, so it won both of the categories it was nominated in.

The red uniforms of the Dora Milaje in Black Panther were based mostly on the dress of which African people?

Maasai dress supplied about 80 percent of the look, one of the film's illustrators said, with the rest drawn from samurai, ninjas and the Ifugao of the Philippines.

Which Mexican actor plays Namor, the ruler of an undersea kingdom, in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever?

Tenoch Huerta had to learn to swim for the part, and he trained hard because the comics dress Namor in nothing but green swim briefs.

Each raised scar on Killmonger's chest and torso in Black Panther is self-inflicted to mark what?

A person he killed earns one dot each, and the look required 90 hand-sculpted silicone pieces that took about two and a half hours to apply.

T'Challa's upgraded suit in Black Panther absorbs which kind of energy and fires it back as a shockwave?

Kinetic energy shows up as glowing highlights across the suit's vibranium weave, which can also shrug off heavy machine-gun fire.

A Black Panther producer called Shuri the smartest person in the world, ahead of even which Marvel genius?

Tony Stark was the benchmark that producer Nate Moore chose, a bold claim given that Shuri is only 16 in the film.

Black Panther's director compared Zuri, Wakanda's spiritual elder, to which mentor from the Star Wars films?

Obi-Wan Kenobi was the comparison because Zuri is a religious and spiritual figure, and T'Challa's main tie back to his late father, T'Chaka.

Black Panther's world premiere in Los Angeles swapped the usual red carpet for one in which color?

Purple carpet was lined with women dressed as the Dora Milaje, and guests were asked to come in royal attire to honor the film's African setting.

Riri Williams, the young inventor played by Dominique Thorne in Wakanda Forever, takes which hero name?

Ironheart went on to lead her own Disney+ series, and Thorne had already crossed paths with Wakanda by trying out for Shuri in the first film.

Which comic-book film villain did the actor behind Killmonger cite as an influence on his Black Panther role?

Heath Ledger's Joker was his touchstone, and he also prepared by studying figures such as Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey and Tupac Shakur.

Which Spider-Man villain did Black Panther's director want to include before learning Sony held the rights?

Kraven the Hunter fights T'Challa in a scene from Christopher Priest's comics that the director hoped to adapt, but Sony controls every Spider-Man character on film.

Which actor and rapper worked on an early Black Panther script, building up T'Challa and Shuri's relationship?

Donald Glover worked on that draft with his brother Stephen, though the pair's contributions were minor and the screenplay is credited to two other writers.

Which architect, famed for sweeping curves, helped inspire the look of Wakanda in Black Panther?

Zaha Hadid's designs were blended with far older African sources, including the architecture of the Mali Empire and the city of Timbuktu.

A Black Panther producer pitched the film as a cross between The Godfather and which spy movie series?

James Bond supplied the world of international espionage, while The Godfather lent the feel of a big, operatic family drama.

When T'Challa is not wearing it, his nanotech Black Panther suit folds away into which piece of jewelry?

A necklace in silver stores the whole suit, retractable claws included, and Killmonger later turns up in a rival version of his own.

General Okoye's neck rings and armbands in Black Panther are which color, marking her rank above the other Dora Milaje?

Gold bands set the general apart, and the rings themselves are a nod to the Southern Ndebele people, among whom they denote stature.

Chadwick Boseman was born and raised in which US state, where his hometown held a public memorial in 2020?

South Carolina was where, as a high-school junior, he wrote and staged his first play, Crossroads, after a classmate was shot and killed.

Chadwick Boseman's final performance as T'Challa was a voice role in which animated Disney+ series?

What If...? cast him as alternate versions of T'Challa, including one who becomes Star-Lord, and the role won him a posthumous Emmy.

The post announcing Chadwick Boseman's death in 2020 became the most-liked ever on which social platform?

Twitter recorded more than six million likes on the family's announcement in under 24 hours, far beyond the previous record.

Black Panther's first teaser trailer premiered during a game of which sports championship?

The NBA Finals slot paid off: the teaser drew 89 million views in 24 hours and dominated social media talk over Game 4 itself.

Namor's wings and pointed ears in Wakanda Forever are explained by his being which kind of Marvel being?

A mutant, as in the comics, is how his actor described him, and the director said that near water Namor can match both Thor and the Hulk for strength.

The all-female Dora Milaje resemble the real women soldiers of which historic West African kingdom?

Dahomey fielded an all-female regiment known as the Agoji, often called the Dahomey Amazons, in what is now the Republic of Benin.

Which British actress plays Aneka, a rebellious Dora Milaje warrior, in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever?

Michaela Coel, the creator of I May Destroy You, said she was drawn to the part because Aneka is queer, as she is in the comics.

Which Nigerian singer's cover of a Bob Marley classic played over the first teaser for Wakanda Forever?

Tems sang it for the teaser and then co-wrote the film's lead single, which was written as a tribute to Chadwick Boseman.

Winston Duke, who plays M'Baku in the Black Panther films, was born on which Caribbean island?

Tobago was his home until he was nine, when he moved with his family to Brooklyn, where they shared a studio apartment.

The written Wakandan script seen in the Black Panther films is based on which old Nigerian system of symbols?

Nsibidi supplied the base for a complete Wakandan alphabet invented for the first film, with further borrowings from Tifinagh and Bamum script.

Which African instrument, layered six at a time, drives T'Challa's theme in the Black Panther score?

Talking drum rhythms can carry messages as well as music, and the composer had one mimic the word T'Challa as a recurring motif.

Black Panther's director likened vibranium to which real mineral, saying it is found almost only in Congo?

Coltan was his real-world parallel for a prized resource concentrated in one country; on screen, raw vibranium appears as glowing blue rock before it is refined.

In Wakanda Forever, the warrior Attuma wears a headdress modeled on the skull of which sea creature?

Hammerhead shark bone crowns Attuma, while Namora's headdress copies the fins of a lionfish, and many of the costumes had to be tested in water before filming.

Black Panther's crew shot scenery in the Rwenzori Mountains and Bwindi park of which East African country?

Uganda supplied the mountain footage, and aerial units also filmed South Africa and Zambia to build up Wakanda's landscapes.

Which country's government objected to Wakanda Forever showing its mercenaries raid a Wakandan outpost?

France's armed forces minister called the portrayal false and misleading, since the captives wore uniforms like those of French soldiers in the real Operation Barkhane.

Queen Ramonda's metal-look collar in Wakanda Forever was actually made using which manufacturing technique?

3D printing produced the collar, which was then painted to look like metal, one of more than 2,000 outfits designed for the sequel.

Queen Ramonda's silver, waist-length wig in Black Panther was built from 120 pieces of hair in which style?

Dreadlocks made up the whole wig, in keeping with the film's preference for natural hairstyles such as braids, locs and twists.

Which CNN anchor appears as himself in Wakanda Forever, reporting on Wakanda's activities for the news?

Anderson Cooper reports on Wakanda as himself, while Richard Schiff appears as the U.S. Secretary of State.