the mandarin brought killmonger back to life in the comics.
the mandarin brought killmonger back to life in the comics.
who brings killmonger back to life in the comics?
the mandarin
using his rings, the mandarin was able to amplify the resurrection altar and restore killmonger to life. killmonger returned to his lover and ally, madam slay, and the two plotted to kill the black panther and return wakanda to its ancient ways. while tony stark visited wakanda, madam slay drugged jim rhodes and took him prisoner. killmonger appeared to have killed the black panther, and blamed rhodes and stark, convincing the wakandans that he could lead them to vengeance. the black panther returned, revealing that he had faked his death using a life model decoy. the black panther defeated killmonger. the mandarin recalled his ring, and killmonger reverted to an inanimate skeleton. killmonger's followers resurrected him again and he would clash with t'challa on several other occasions.
erik killmonger
after hearing a musician in senegal named amadou ba playing a tambin, or fula flute, göransson told him the backstory of villain killmonger in the film and ba played some music in response to the story. göransson felt this music fit the character well, and it became the first element of killmonger's theme for the film. ba's performance revolved around a root note that göransson gave him, and included singing, screaming, and laughing into the flute as he played it, with one of the words screamed being "killmonger". göransson described the performance as "sad but also aggressive, energetic and impulsive". the composer sent his recordings of the fula flute to actor michael b. jordan to help him prepare for portraying killmonger in the film. the fula flute is used as a sample piece earlier in the film, but transitions to full performances of the flute as killmonger takes over wakanda, and represents the character's wakandan origin and aspirations. it is paired with a piano melody for killmonger that is mysterious at first, and accompanied by a harp to represent the character's intelligence. the piano then transitions to strings to show the suffering the character has endured, inspired by the works of johann sebastian bach. göransson also chose to use more modern production techniques, such as the 808 beats, for killmonger's music than the rest of the score, with a "trap beat vibe" since that character is american and represents modernity in the film. göransson used his experience with african-american music such as hip hop and rapping—which he gained as a producer for donald glover's "childish gambino" work—when developing the more modern elements of killmonger's theme, and noted that these elements were similar in sound to the traditional african drums in the score which allowed him to move between the sounds of killmonger and wakanda in the final battle scene without taking the audience out of the film. the final element of the character's theme is a four-note "punctuation" with brass and choir that adds mystery and drama.
black panther (soundtrack)