Birnin Zana
Honorary Wakandan
The zombies felt strongly compelled to follow his orders. And if they don't kneel before him, their bodies are ravaged with extreme itching until they do. Plus any hesitation on their part doesn't take much convincing to override b/c they're free will is already compromised to submit to BP... or else the thousands of em would've just said fukk em and attacked before BP could utter a sentence.
So his control over them isn't like Prof X hijacking your brain but it's not like you could've swapped him out with Obama on his most charismatic day and gotten the same result...
Still got 2 issues to go, so we don't know if these abilities will even last or what the full scope/range are, but so far getting a buncha mindless feral zombies to fall in line and go against their very nature and cannibalistic urges to instead go to war with you... that's a good amount of control or influence or whatever we want to call it from T'Challa da Gawd.
The bold is what I was alluding to. However, he is the King of the Dead, it's good to see that the title is carrying some weight / influence.
I'm hoping for a big payoff for T'Challa, cuz he went through a whole lot of bullshyt in this story.