The original King T'Chaka refused to sell Wakanda's Vibranium to Ullysses Klaue, so Klaue gunned him down in cold blood. 

In the films, T'Chaka is the highest-profile casualty of the truck

bomb Helmut Zemo sets off (to frame Bucky Barnes) at the United Nations meeting in "Captain America: Civil War."

In the film, T'Challa is in his 30s when he father dies and he becomes king. 

But in the original comic, King T'Chaka died when T'Challa was barely a teenager, forcing

T'Challa to take on the mantle of leadership much earlier in life (though a trusted adult did sub in as ruler until T'Challa finished school).

T'Challa's wardrobe in the film is tasteful, stylish, and elegant. 

Back in the day, not so much. Unless you consider slit-front shirts, massive medallions, and a shirt made of rope to

be stylish. In which case, T'Challa was totally on point.

When he was first given his own comic ("Jungle Action featuring the Black Panther"), T'Challa had an American girlfriend—a former singer and social worker named Monica Lynne. She says things

like "Why is it I get so many bad vibes from you?" and "T'Challa, your Issac Hayes 'get up' don't make you John Shaft." Which, to be fair, probably felt

a lot more current back in 1973. 

Regardless of vocabulary, Monica was wildly unpopular with the native Wakandans, who viewed her as an unworthy and unwelcome outsider. One palace servant

even went so far as to frame her for murder. 

Movie T'Challa only has eyes for Nakia. 

The movie version of Erik Killmonger lived in Oakland, California because that's where his Wakandan father worked as a spy and fell in love with Erik's mother (and, sadly, died). 

On the other hand, the Killmonger in the comic loses his parents when Klaw's mercenaries raid his village, killing most of its inhabitants but kidnapping a few, including Erik, to

use as slaves. Erik escapes their clutches in New York, but then finds himself stranded in Harlem, where he lives, brooding and plotting, until an unwitting T'Challa helps him return

home roughly a decade later.

In the film, Killmonger's father dies during a confrontation with T'Chaka and Zuri about stolen vibranium. 

But in the original comic, mercenaries slaughtered both his parents during Klaue's initial attack on

Wakanda.

Not in his comic days, he wasn't. He was a brutally effective combatant and eventually a warlord in Wakanda, but he never shipped out to basic training.

Modern Killmonger looks badass, plain and simple. 

Original Killmonger has white spandex with deliberate knee holes, a spiked bandolier he often uses as a weapon, and ... is that ...

a "mull-fro?" Or maybe an "afro-llet?"

The first version of Killmonger was Wakandan, but he came from a small village and had no relation at all to the royal family. 

In the film, Killmonger's dad is King

T'Chaka's younger brother. That means Killmonger has royal blood as well, which makes him a viable candidate to rule according to Wakandan law.

Original Killmonger felt that T'Challa's increasing interaction with the outside world was corrupting Wakanda's traditional way of life with Western influences. Many old-school Wakandans agreed, and fought alongside Killmonger to

preserve and restore the old ways. 

Movie Killmonger wants to supply vibranium-enabled weapons to disadvantaged people of African descent all over the world, so they can rise up and free

themselves from oppression in all its forms.

Ultimately, although their methods were far over the line, both versions of Killmonger had understandable, even relatable goals. That's one of the things

that makes them such interesting antagonists.

Movie Killmonger may be a charistmatic hunk of a fella, but he's a fairly awful boyfriend. When his partner in crime and significant other, Linda, gets herself grabbed by Klaue

in the film, Erik calmy assures her "Everything's gonna be okay," then shoots her without hesitation to get to Klaue. 

Comic Killmonger has an almost opposite situation going on. When

he dies in battle with T'Challa, his girlfriend sets out to avenge his death. Of course, his girlfriend is a psychotic serial killer who calls herself "Madam Slay," so it's

not a huge leap for her. But hey, no relationship is perfect.

In the film, T'Challa still has a crush on ex-girlfriend Nakia, and hopes to get back together with her. 

But back in the day (Black Panther Volume 3, issue 1, to

be exact), it was Nakia who was full-on crazy about T'Challa. (No joke, she was legitimately crazy. Keep reading....)

When Nakia was introduced to the comics in Black Panther Vol. 3, she was a member of the Dora Milaje, the elite all-female fighting force that protects the king. 

In contrast,

the Nakia in the film is clearly a well-trained warrior, but she's also a spy and flatly declares at one point that she is no Dora.

Both the film and comic versions of Nakia are kick-ass women, but they each have their own way of dealing with lost love. Movie Nakia is at peace with her

break-up, which she seems to have initiated, and is still a close friend of T'Challa. 

The original comic book Nakia (introduced in Black Panther Vol. 3) doesn't handle things quite

as gracefully. Which is to say, she never actually dates T'Challa, but she does develop a psychotic obsession with him so intense that she actually attempts to murder Monica.

When comic Nakia's whole "kill the girlfriend to get the boy" plan doesn't work, she literally BECOMES A SUPERVILLAIN and doubles down on her murderous plan. So, that's a bit

different from the film.

Movie Klaue is a South African arms dealer who is jovial and friendly to allies, apparently dabbles in music, and gets excited by a good fight the way a star

athlete gets pumped by a big game. In fact, if he wasn't so homicidal, he'd probably be fun to hang with for a night or two. 

Comic Klaue is a

sinister scientist, calls himself "Klaw" in third-person, and is an utterly humorless egomaniac you wouldn't even want to stand next to in a bank line.

Ultron forcefully amputates movie Klaue's entire left arm from the bicep down (Bucky Barnes style! That's a thing, right?) after Klaue insults him in "Avengers: Age of Ultron". 

In the comic,

T'Challa himself costs Klaue the use of his right hand by turning one of the villain's own sonic weapons against him.

Movie Klaue is a reasonable, grounded villain, so he replaces his lost limb with a simple sonic cannon (of Wakandan design, apparently). 

Comic Klaue, on the other hand (pun absolutely intended),

is a full-bore mad scientist who replaces his ruined hand with a device that can literally create anything he can imagine—even if that thing is a giant red gorilla—out of

NOTHING BUT SOUND. Which is quite a bit different.

With the exception of his metal hand, movie Klaue is made of flesh and bone, just like all humans. 

Comic Klaue starts out that way, but eventually climbs into one of

his sci-fi sonic weapons and becomes a being composed of actual sound made solid. Don't you just love comic book physics?

Movie Klaue is a regular human. Sure, he has the robo-arm and all, but he can't fly, see through walls, or melt police cars with his mind. 

Comic Klaue has

superhuman strength, is made of psionically solidified sound (three words that really don't go together), and can construct solid objects out of sound—including controllable animals and bonds that get tougher

to break the more the user struggles to escape them [because that creates more sound, which reinforces them]. Oh, and because he's become a being of pure sound, he also

learns how to transmit himself over telephone wires and upload himself to the internet cloud. So there's that.

The Andy Serkis version of Klaue looks grubby and blue-collar, but fairly normal overall—especially for an international weapons dealer with a cyborg hand. 

The original Klaue has had several looks, ranging

from "mad scientist" to "disco spandex robot man."

Without getting too spoiler-y, when the movie's credits roll, we know exactly where Klaue is and what he's planning. And comic Klaue is up to something else entirely.

In the comics, T'Challa is one of the eight most brilliant geniuses on the planet—and keep in mind, this is the same planet inhabited by Tony Stark, Reed Richards, Bruce

Banner, and Henry Pym (all of whom are also on the list, BTW). 

In the film? T'Challa has typical brain power and it's little sister Shuri who knows a thing or

two about a thing or two.

The original Zuri was a warrior through and through—a bare-chested mountain of muscle with wild dreadlocks and a tendency to charge into battle if there was even a chance of

harm befalling a companion. 

The film's Zuri is a shamanistic man of peace and tradition. 

Both Zuris share an absolute devotion to their king, though, which is their most important characteristic.

The movie Black Panther wears a black, vibranium-lined, bulletproof body suit with glowing highlights. 

The original Black Panther wore a black, easily torn, nothing-proof body suit and a tiny, ridiculous

cape that would be perfect for an eight-year-old.

Later volumes discard the cape, or give it the ability to change size, but the baby cape was the original design. And

don't even think about blaming it on weird art angles because those comics were drawn by the godfather of comic artists, the immortal Jack Kirby.

The movie's first battle between Killmonger and T'Challa ends with Killmonger throwing T'Challa off a waterfall. This moment arguably pays tribute to their very first battle in the comics, clear

back in issues 6-7 of "Jungle Action featuring the Black Panther" in 1973. But there are some key differences. 

For starters, in the comics, T'Challa spends most of the fight

getting mauled by Preyy, Killmonger's pet attack leopard. When T'Challa gets the upper hand, Killmonger steps in and hucks T'Challa over the falls rather than let him defeat the savage

cat. Also, M'Baku's people do not find T'Challa's body in the comics, his girlfriend Monica does. Finally, T'Challa does not require the heart-shaped herb to heal, as the battle was

not ritual combat so he didn't have to give up his Black Panther powers to fight it. 

Panther and Killmonger have a rematch at another waterfall several issues later. Panther

nearly loses, but a timely assist from a young boy sends Killmonger plunging to his death instead. 

They have another rematch in Volume 3. Killmonger wins, but T'Challa eventually reclaims

the throne.

In the film, Killmonger is able to successfully injest the mystical heart-shaped herb that grants many of the Black Panther's abilities, and suffers no ill effects. 

In the comic, the herb—which

can only be consumed by members of the royal family—poisons Killmonger instantly. T'Challa's quick intervention saves Killmonger's life, but he still falls into a years-long coma.

In the film, Killmonger eats the heart-shaped herb, then orders his minions to incinerate every last bit that remains—which you have to admit is a pretty savvy way to eliminate

potential competition. It would have worked, too, if not for that meddling Nakia. 

Comic book Killmonger doesn't have time to order anything incinerated after he eats the herb because he's

far too busy dying from heart-shaped-herb poisoning.

Killmonger's super suit, a near-duplicate to T'Challa's, does not exist in the comics. Though there was a time when Killmonger wore a panther suit.

In one storyline, Killmonger beats T'Challa

in combat and becomes the Black Panther for a time, ruling over Wakanda and going on adventures with the Avengers. During that period, he does indeed wear a Black Panther

suit. But it does not have a spotted, golden motif.

We all know how the film's climactic battle between Erik and T'Challa ends (and if you don't, WHY ARE YOU READING THIS BEFORE SEEING THE MOVIE?). That particular battle never

takes place in the comics at all. But Killmonger and T'Challa have participated in several battles over the years. In the first, Killmonger was seemingly killed when he was knocked

over a cliff (but not by T'Challa). Since then, he has returned and been re-killed by the Mandarin, the heart-shaped herb (almost), falling debris, and most recently, Monica Rambeau (a.k.a.

Pulsar). 

Despite his numerous deaths, comic Killmonger has technically still never lost to T'Challa in a one-on-one battle. Which is another way he and his movie counterpart are different from

one another.

In the film, Jabari Tribe leader M'Baku challenges T'Challa for the kingship of Wakanda and loses, but T'Challa spares his life. This mercy is returned later in the film when

M'Baku's people pull an unconscious T'Challa from the water and keep him safe as he heals, then accompany him in battle against Killmonger and W'Kabi's army. 

In the comics, the

Jabari tribe remains staunchly disinterested in helping T'Challa in any way, and M'Baku becomes another recurring enemy for T'Challa.

Costumes tended to be a little more over the top in the fur-friendly days of yore—but even that only partially explains why dude preferred to roll with his entire upper

body sheathed in a real gorilla skin. Plus, who wears white to a throwdown? Fortunately, M'Baku's duds in the film are more subdued.

T'Challa's mom, Queen Ramonda, is alive and well in the film. In the comics, she has a rougher life. First off, she is actually his stepmother. But more importantly, she

is secretly kidnapped by a corrupt politician—but King T'Chaka is deceived into thinking she's deserted him, so he makes no attempt to rescue her. As a result, she spends more

than a decade in captivity before T'Challa discovers the truth, rescues her, and brings her back to Wakanda.

The original Ross, introduced to fans in 1998's relaunched Black Panther series (technically Black Panther Volume 3), was not the bold, confident, kind-of-badass former Air Force pilot turned CIA hotshot

we see in the film. 

Rather, comic Ross was a lowly, insecure State Department employee with a joke-first personality (inspired by Chandler from "Friends"...j/k). He also spends several issues of

Black Panther Volume 3 in his tighty-whities because someone stole his pants, but that's neither here nor there.

True, the Killmonger in the comics also sought to rule Wakanda, so that part checks out. But he was more of an isolationist than a conqueror, and really just wanted

to take T'Challa's place and rule, not use the position to incite a racially motivated revolution across the entire globe. 

All the other stuff? From the one-on-one deathmatch between two

panthers to the Dora/Jabari/army battles to the mag-lev train tracks...it's all just for the movie.

Yeah, you read that right. The original Dora Milaje from Black Panther Volume 3 were actually "concomitants," which is a fancy way to say they were teenage wives-in-training and T'Challa

was expected to one day choose one to marry. 

The film wisely discards this detail (as does the current comic series), which feels uncomfortably exploitative by today's standards (if not

ANY day's standards).

In the comics, teen T'Challa meets and rescues a young Ororo Munroe, who would eventually grow up to be Storm of the X-Men. And also his wife. That relationship does

not appear to exist in the film.

In Black Panther Vol. 3, T'Challa's family tree grafts on a new branch. That would be his adopted brother, Hunter, an orphan taken in by T'Challa's parents. As an adult,

Hunter earns "The White Wolf" and leads Wakanda's version of the secret police. T'Challa also has another native Wakandan brother, named Jakarra.

Onscreen, Shuri almost steals the show from T'Challa with her buoyant personality and seemingly limitless supply of cool toys. 

But at one point in the comic, Shuri truly does pull the

spotlight away from her big brother. She steps in and takes over as both the ruler of Wakanda and the Black Panther while T'Challa recovers from a particularly nasty coma.

Several issues into "Jungle Action starring the Black Panther," T'Challa's loyal guard, W'Kabi, replaces a lost arm with a metal arm whose hand can be removed to reveal a blaster

similar to Klaue's.

Having been around for 50 years, comic Black Panther has accumulated quite a few more war stories than his silver screen counterpart. And some of them have been downright trippy.

In one storyline, he vowed to serve the goddess Bast directly, became "King of the Dead," and ruled over an underground necropolis populated by the spirits of Wakanda's deceased.

Maybe

in the sequel?