I never, ever, would that thought of Eric the Cavalier as having anything in common with T'Challa. But now that you've said it...

Yeah, Eric sooo was the only sensible one on that show. He certainly regularly called Dungeon Master on all his manipulative BS. (Sigh!) I really wish that show had got a proper ending.( I know there was script written for it, and I have read it, but it's just not the same..) If they had any sense the makers of the films should have based them on the cartoon. That would have been fun.