Take your best shot. I will offer no resistance. Then it will be my turn.
— T'Challa, Christopher Priest's run
Klaw: (holding T'Challa's mother hostage) I told you -
T'Challa: That you will kill my mother? You will anyway. That you will destroy my kingdom? You would do that, too. It doesn't really matter what you do - I'm still going to kill you. So what's your leverage?
Ramonda: That's my son.
Klaw: You mean the one who just sentenced you to death?
Ramonda: No. The one that just sentenced you to death.
T'Challa: By the way, Klaw - a common criminal like yourself has no right to use my proper name. Refer to me by my title...
—>- Black Panther (2010), adapted from the "Who is the Black Panther?" comic arc
T'Challa: That you will kill my mother? You will anyway. That you will destroy my kingdom? You would do that, too. It doesn't really matter what you do - I'm still going to kill you. So what's your leverage?
Ramonda: That's my son.
Klaw: You mean the one who just sentenced you to death?
Ramonda: No. The one that just sentenced you to death.
T'Challa: By the way, Klaw - a common criminal like yourself has no right to use my proper name. Refer to me by my title...
—>- Black Panther (2010), adapted from the "Who is the Black Panther?" comic arc
Today, we are all the Black Panther! And today, we will fight as one! For Wakanda!
- T'Challa, Secret Invasion (2008) tie-in
Black Panther: Captain.
Captain America: Your Highness.
Captain America: Your Highness.
Colonel, please...do not pretend you truly know me. And do not imagine you know what I would sacrifice - what I am sacrificing even now - for Wakanda. For if you did...you would not sleep soundly in the knowledge. I promise you that.
- T'Challa, The Ultimates (2015)
You are in Wakanda now, Crossbones - which means you do not even get to die without my permission.
— T'Challa, Marvel's Avengers: Black Panther's Quest
"Once I began researching Panther as a comics pro (whatever that means), I tended to agree more with McGregor’s Panther than others. His obvious investment in logically thinking through the basic realties of the African continent and his fleshing-out of Wakanda are amazing and valuable assets to the Marvel Universe. His Jungle Action mega-arcs, what has been lauded as 'Marvel's first graphic novel,' were a real gift, and I saw no need to retcon, ignore or otherwise do away with what he or subsequent writer Peter McGillis created...Denys Cowan and Dwayne Turner’s visions of Wakanda, as an ersatz African Epcot Center, opened my eyes to the unexploited possibilities; these men, both of whom are African American, together with writer Peter B. Gillis, created an African Asgard of sorts, and I just went, “Oh, my.”...Where paths diverge between my vision of Panther and those previous is the character of T’Challa himself. I can’t speak for Mr. McGregor (whom I do not know), but my impression was he saw Panther as the ultimate realization of human potential whose bravery was exemplified in his willingness to risk his life in the service of others. I see T’Challa that way as well, but I defer to Stan Lee, whose bedrock for this character was he was a man who outsmarted Reed Richards and out-fought the Thing. Those key notes seemed missing from McGregor’s Panther, and to me Stan (whom I do know) is Moses; his original concepts are the stone tablets of modern comics. Thus, it made absolutely no sense to me that Panther wouldn’t at least nominally protect himself from things like small arms fire or stabbing weapons, and that, at the very least, he’d carry an iPhone (which is what his Kimoyo card essentially is)."
— Christopher Priest (comics), Interview by Zack Smith, Newsarma, February 18, 2018. Priest on Black Panther, Pt. 1: 'Everyone Kind Of Forgot Who PANTHER Was'
"I think one of the things that Priest did...I’ve been thinking a lot about this, mostly about him, Hudlin, and I know Hickman isn’t a Black Panther or writer but he kind of was and kind of made a contribution to the character...Priest had the responsibility to get people to take this guy seriously. The whole reason you have a movie right now is because of Priest. He had the challenge of getting a mostly white readership to take the guy seriously. Then I feel like the next thing Hudlin was trying to do was almost like trying to write this character for black folks. I was like not only is he badass but you know he is going to tell these white folks what time it is...He is like the dream that we wish we had. That’s what he is. And then Hickman just kind of deconstructed all of that. This is the year before I started writing and I was like, “What’s my place? Where am I going? What am I supposed to be doing here? What is this?” That was one of the big questions I had."
— Ta-Nehisi Coates, interview with Evan Narcisse, Kotaku, 04/06/2016.
