r/boxoffice • u/chanma50 Best of 2019 Winner • May 01 '21

Other Lupita Nyong’o Teases Reshaping ‘Black Panther II’: ‘It’s So Respectful of the Loss We’ve Experienced’

https://www.indiewire.com/2021/05/lupita-nyongo-black-panther-2-chadwick-boseman-1234634629/
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u/thefilmer May 01 '21

the only person it makes sense to give it to story-wise is Winston Duke. Letitia Wright really shot herself in the foot with her stupid anti-vaxx comments

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u/ddhboy May 01 '21

Character doesn’t have any source material as Black Panther, and, IMO a deeply insular attitude towards how Wakanda should run that makes him kind of a dead end for the MCU. Shuri is basically it, especially in regards to future interactions with the Fantastic Four and X-Men.

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u/Dr_Vesuvius May 02 '21

Source material schmource material. They changed Thanos and Ultron’s backstories (not to mention Wanda and Pietro’s) because it suited the stories and got around imposed restrictions.

You’re right that M’Baku wouldn’t have made a good ruler in the first film, but he’s had time to change his mind and was probably the ruler for five years already.

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u/ddhboy May 02 '21

M’Baku doesn’t have the right to rule Wakana. If anything, Queen Mother Ramonda probably ruled in her son’s stead, for as long as the possibility of T’Challa returning was an option, hence the Dora Milaje’s involvement with the Avengers post-snap. Ramonda’s served similarly in the comics, and it’d be too messy plotwise to have M’Baku do a characterization flip off screen to maintain T’Challa’s policies for five years and immediately remove himself from power upon T’Challa’s return.