T'Chaka was the father of T'Challa across all Marvel-related media. In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, he appears in Captain America: Civil War and again, posthumously, in Black Panther. He was portrayed by John Kani.
History[]
T'Chaka was the eldest of Wakandan King Azzuri's two sons. He married Ramonda, and the two eventually had a son, T'Challa, and later on a daughter named Shuri. When Azzuri died, T'Chaka and his brother N'Jobu received each of their father's two royal rings, and T'Chaka succeeded Azzuri as the King of Wakanda and the Black Panther while N'Jobu joined with the War Dogs and served Wakanda by traveling to the United States of America to ensure that all of their secrets were still being maintained right across the rest of the world.
Years later, Wakanda was attacked by Ulysses Klaue, a notorious criminal who held a grudge against the Golden Tribe. T'Chaka would learn that his brother N'Jobu had arranged the attack, and traveled to the US to confront his brother and confirm the truth. N'Jobu admitted what he had done, stating that he had done so because of the oppression that African descendants faced across the world, and he had planned to provide vibranium-based weapons to them in order to start a worldwide race revolution. T'Chaka offered to take his brother back to Wakanda to confess his misdeeds to their people, but N'Jobu would not come quietly and attempted to kill T'Chaka and Zuri. T'Chaka killed his brother with his Panther Habit's claws and left, unknowingly leaving behind N'Jobu's young son by himself.
In 2016, T'Chaka was accompanied by his son T'Challa when they traveled to Vienna where the United Nations were ratifying the Sokovia Accords, an international treaty intended to keep the Avengers and other superpowered persons in check. This came following a disaster that occurred in Lagos, Nigeria where the terrorist Crossbones blew himself up and the Avenger known as Scarlet Witch attempted to redirect the explosion, only for her to release the blast in proximity to a building. Twenty-six people, including twelve Wakandan relief workers, were killed in the event. In the speech he gave at the signing ceremony, T'Chaka vowed that Wakanda would no longer isolate itself as had done in the past and would join the world political stage.
Death[]
No sooner had King T'Chaka given his speech to the UN delegates, a bomb exploded outside the building. The bomb had been planted by Helmut Zemo as part of an elaborate plan to discredit and destroy the Avengers in revenge for the loss of his family during Ultron's offensive. T'Challa had tried to shield his father from the blast, but was too little too late. With his father gone, T'Challa took up the mantles of the Black Panther and King of Wakanda.