HYDRA, Protector of Earth!
As soon as Eric Killmonger finished speaking, everyone present was taken aback.
They never expected that their seemingly fierce king would actually spare T'Chaka and Zuri.
The two men had clearly confessed and were willing to die. Everyone thought he would kill them to avenge his father. Unexpectedly, he planned to hand them over to the Elder Council for trial.
Looking at Eric Killmonger's tall and imposing figure and his strong and resolute face, everyone present couldn't help but admire his magnanimity and fair handling of the situation. Perhaps, this was their true king, a worthy Black Panther!
Despite having killed countless people over the years and even earning the nickname "Demon of Killing," Eric Killmonger has never actually harmed a single civilian.
All those who died at his hands were enemy soldiers, ruthless terrorists, and criminals. Even when he was ordered to infiltrate and steal Vibranium weapons with Ulysses Klaue, he always tried to stop Ulysses Klaue and his men from killing people indiscriminately, under the pretext of not wanting to provoke a full-scale national crackdown.
Given his infamous reputation as a "Demon of Killing" and his ruthless treatment of his enemies, no one would doubt that he was actually a pacifist!
As a loyal HYDRA warrior, Eric Killmonger naturally shared HYDRA's principles wholeheartedly.
HYDRA are the guardians of Earth. They don't need to rule the entire planet because they are already secretly controlling the situation on Earth.
What they need to do is monitor the development of various forces on Earth, eliminate threats to Earth's security, protect Earth's security, and deal with threats from other planets.
Therefore, Eric Killmonger, who grew up under HYDRA's tutelage, was not as brutal and murderous as depicted in the film, although he still inherited his father N'Jobu's ideals and wanted to help hundreds of millions of Black people on Earth escape poverty and backwardness.
However, Eric was not as radical as N'Jobu, who attempted to overthrow governments by force and establish world rule by Black people.
As a member of HYDRA, his vision was no longer so narrow. In his eyes, all the people on Earth were his compatriots and needed his protection. It was just that, relatively speaking, those black people living in poverty needed his help more. Not only black people, but there were as many as 2 billion people living in poverty in the world, and all of them needed his help.
And now Chen Mo has given him such an opportunity.
He returned to his homeland, Wakanda, and became Wakanda king. Thereafter, he could use Wakanda's power to help those in need according to his own will.
He also learned in detail about the circumstances of his father's murder from Chen Mo. As the god they worshipped, an omniscient and omnipotent being, he naturally had no doubts about what Chen Mo said. He also had his own understanding of his father, N'Jobu, King T'Chaka, and High Priest Zuri.
They all have their own ideals and principles, and they strive for their respective goals. Unfortunately, their goals are contradictory, and this contradiction ultimately puts them on opposite sides.
Their own weaknesses, cowardice, and extremism further intensified this conflict, ultimately leading to the tragic outcome.
His father's initial intentions were good; he wanted to save his fellow Black people from suffering. Unfortunately, he chose the wrong method. Due to his own prejudice and radicalism, he betrayed his homeland to achieve his goals, sending Ulysses Klaue into Wakanda, causing immense destruction and casualties. This was his father's mistake, Wakanda he was guilty!
As a spy sent by the king to monitor N'Jobu, Zuri simply reported what he had discovered. Although he betrayed his trusted leader N'Jobu, he was not wrong from the perspective of national righteousness!
T'Chaka, the murderer who killed his father, abandoned his mother and son, leaving them to fend for themselves in a foreign slum.
To be honest, Eric hated him, but according to Chen Mo, he originally intended to bring N'Jobu had betrayed his people, back to Wakanda to be judged by the Elder Council and given a fair verdict.
However, his father, N'Jobu, hated Zuri's betrayal and tried to kill him with a gun. T'Chaka killed him by mistake while trying to save Zuri.
As for the remorse he felt for abandoning them both and killing his own brother, he simply didn't have the courage to face them, so he chose to run away.
He was wrong in this matter, but not deserving of death. If it were Eric Killmonger in the movie, he wouldn't care who was right or wrong; all he wanted was revenge.
But Eric Killmonger at this time is different from the one in the movie. Although to outsiders he also struggled to climb out of the slums and must have suffered a lot, and must hate T'Chaka and others to the core.
In reality, after his father's death, he was recruited by HYDRA and carefully trained. His mother was also well taken care of. Therefore, he did not suffer much in the more than 20 years after his father's death. His hatred for T'Chaka was only because Tchaka killed his father.
Despite being trained by HYDRA and subjected to over two decades of subtle influence and brainwashing, Eric Killmonger's Mind Stone was not as twisted as depicted in the film. He was not as bloodthirsty and ruthless as he appeared. On the contrary, he had his own calm and wise views on many things.
Although T'Chaka killed his father, his new values and beliefs prevented him from actually killing him to avenge his father. Just like Black Panther in the movie who spared Baron Zemo, who killed his father, he did not want the hatred to continue.
He believes in fairness and justice, and he himself is a member of the force that upholds justice on Earth. Therefore, he will seize King T'Chaka's throne and give him a just trial, just as he once wanted to give his father, Prince N'Jobu. The Elder Council make a just judgment on him according to Wakanda's traditions and rules. Whatever the outcome, he will accept it and completely let go of this hatred.
This is the change that HYDRA has brought about in him over the past twenty years. Eric is still Eric, but his heart and mind are completely different. Paranoia, radicalism, brutality, and murder have all disappeared from him. On the contrary, HYDRA has shaped him into a calm, wise, meticulous, and compassionate person.
He is more suitable T'Chaka to be the king of Wakanda, and he will surely lead Wakanda out of its passive retreat and stand tall on the world stage as a powerful nation, showing the world their strength.
Use their power to benefit the whole world and achieve the true rise of Wakanda!