He is surrounded by
women whose awe he must earn, among them Okoye (Danai Gurira), the leader of his
bald - pated, spear - wielding
warrior women bodyguards; his sometime love interest Nakia (a resplendent Lupita Nyong» o), a Wakandan spy who is first shown during a secret mission liberating captive Nigerian girls; his indomitable mother Ramonda (Angela Bassett); and his teasing, science - genius kid sister Shuri (Letitia Wright), who proudly shows off to him her latest techno - gadgets with all the sniffy aplomb of Q tolerating 007.