3) Meet The Dora Milaje
Next, we seemingly travel away from Wakanda as another couple of key players in the movie are introduced. In what looks to be an Asian casino, we see Oscar winning Lupita Nyong’o as Nakia and The Walking Dead‘s Danai Gurira as Okoye kicking ass. Who knows what’s going on here, but the MCU can never have too many action heroines.
These two characters are the greatest fighters in the Dora Milaje, the king’s all-female royal guard and traditionally his wives-in-training. In the comics, however, T’Challa waves away this tradition and doesn’t force them to marry him, which earns him their respect. It’s likely the movie will include this as well.
While Okoye looks to be portrayed like her comic book self, the film could take a lot of liberties with Nakia. In the comics, she’s an antagonist who goes by the name of Malice. She’s obsessed with marrying T’Challa and has teamed up with Killmonger in the past. Will the character go down the same route here, or remain a good guy?
We later see the full force of the Dora Milaje back home in Wakanda. The women are decked out in their ceremonial red robes in the Wakandan royal court and are seen battling Killmonger. In this scene, we can also briefly see Angela Basset in a white wig as Ramonda, T’Challa’s mother.