Nakia is T’Challa’s girlfriend and a former member of the War Dogs. She was often sent on missions around the world, where she saw how hard life was for many people and became more convinced that Wakanda should help them. She was pulled away from a mission to attend T’Challa’s coronation and sent on a mission to catch the criminal Ulysses Klaue.
When Erik Killmonger became king of Wakanda, Nakia went into exile because they had not been able to catch him. She met T’Challa again in Jabari Land and helped him take the throne back from Killmonger. After T’Challa decided to let the rest of the world into Wakanda, Nakia would be in charge of Wakanda’s policy toward people in need. Nakia and T’Challa had a child, Toussaint, in secret. After the Snap, Nakia raised Toussaint in Haiti. Let’s discuss Nakia’s Powers and Abilities.
Nakia Powers and Abilities
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Master Spy
Nakia is a member of Wakanda’s spy group, the War Dogs. So, she was able to sneak into a kidnapping without a hitch. Only when Black Panther went looking for her and ruined the mission did her cover get blown. She can also find out which men are the most dangerous.
Nakia stopped T’Challa from killing one of the kidnappers by showing him that it was just a child. When Erik Killmonger became King, she could talk to M’Baku about getting protection. She then broke into the farm and stole a Heart-Shaped Herb for T’Challa. Nakia was able to gain the trust of a Yucatán woman when she was looking for Shuri.
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Expert Martial Artist
Nakia beat up several of Ulysses Klaue’s goons using different methods. She also held her own against Erik Killmonger and even disarmed him while he was using the Heart-Shaped Herb and the Golden Jaguar Habit.
She is one of the best warriors in the River Tribe. During T’Challa’s coronation, she stood next to the River Tribe Elder and held her weapons.
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Chakram Mastery
Nakia is very good at using her Ring Blades as chakrams. She was able to keep attacking Killmonger and then several members of the Border Tribe. She can use these as both projectiles and weapons for close combat. When she fought Talokanil again, she used these.
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Expert Marksman
Due to her training as a War Dog, Nakia is very good with guns and was able to kill two of Ulysses Klaue’s men at the casino fight.
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Multilingualism
Nakia speaks English, Korean, Spanish, and Haitian Creole as well as her native language, Xhosa.
Who Played the Role Of Nakia in Marvel?
American comic books made by Marvel Comics have a character named Nakia. The character, which was made by Christopher Priest and Mark Texeira, first showed up in Black Panther vol. 3 #1. (November 1998).
In the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies Black Panther (2018) and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2019), Lupita Nyong’o plays Nakia (2022).
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What Happened to Nakia?
In Wakanda Forever, Nakia says that she quit her job because she couldn’t stand being in the country while the King was gone. Because T’Challa was not only her ruler and brother at arms but also her lover. When their King died twice, the whole country was sad. But Nakia was sad because she had lost the man she loved.
During her time away, Nakia ran a school in Haiti. She helped shape a new generation by teaching them to be kind and to be able to take care of themselves. Nakia seems very happy in Haiti, and her work there couldn’t be more important. So, Nakia found a way to keep spreading T’Challa’s hope for the future to the rest of the world by leaving Wakanda.
She couldn’t do that, though, because she was still a War Dog for Wakanda. That sounds like a good reason for what happened to Nakia after Black Panther. But the scene at the end of Wakanda Forever tells us more about Nakia’s situation.
Why Did Nakia Quit Wakanda?
In the scene after the credits roll in Wakanda Forever, we meet Toussaint, who is Nakia and T’Challa’s son. Nakia tells Shuri (Letitia Wright) that T’Challa and Nakia decided to raise Toussaint far from Wakanda so that he could grow up knowing what the world is like without the protection of the African nation.
Nakia also talks about how T’Challa told her and their son that he was dying, which helped them get ready for the death of the King. Nakia and Toussaint even held a funeral for T’Challa by themselves.
Nakia had to be in the early stages of her pregnancy so that she wouldn’t be noticed when she left Wakanda. And because Thanos’s Snap kept T’Challa away for five years, Toussaint was born before Avengers: Infinity War. Since Nakia was already pregnant, it makes sense that she didn’t join the fight against Thanos.
That tells us not only what happened to Nakia since Black Panther, but also where Wakanda Forever fits in the MCU timeline. Lastly, Toussaint’s Wakandan name is also T’Challa, which means that the boy is destined to grow up and become the Black Panther in the future. This will keep Boseman’s legacy alive in the MCU.
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