The Perpetrator.

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is really good. So much of it was to honour T’Challa - and Chadwick - and to have Shuri’s journey mirror T’Challa’s from Civil War - his single minded vengeance only to realise how all consuming it is and choosing a better path - is beautiful. Even her speech about revenge consuming her and Namor is almost word for word what T’Challa said to Zemo.

The movie is a wonderful tribute and passing of the baton, while also introducing a great new character in Namor.

when the hot immortal villain wants to burn the world with you and he's also anti-colonialist

nothing made me feel so absolutely insane than using the siren song to lure the soldiers to their death in the opening scene of Wakanda forever

watching it be used multiple times and seeing the people jump into the water to die.. changed me as a person

Shuri is the moment

It’s true that it’s bare minimum stuff, but I still feel like giving props to Ryan Coogler for letting Black women shine/be so complex in these movies. That was one thing I wasn’t worried about at all with this sequel and he delivered on that again.

the silent chadwick scenes in wakanda forever we’re absolutely beautiful

The black panther movies are objectively the best marvel movies. You are allowed to have other personal favorites, but black panther is top tier. You can tell how much love Ryan Coogler has for the comics and absolute passion he put into those movies. As well as every actor.

Wakanda Forever was really emotional 

In the final battle between namor and shuri, when namor is fighting to win and shuri is fighting to kill, she’s about to end it when she stops. When her all consuming quest for vengeance fueled by an anger that’s turned from inward to outward (anger at herself for not noticing her brother’s illness, for being too slow, for not making the heart shaped herb fast enough, for not being able to save him, for not being there when he died).

And the shots reverse. The destruction is undone, everything goes back to normal. But not because she kills namor, but because she doesn’t. Because she puts an end to the cycle of destruction, of colonialism turning peoples against each other, of generational trauma, of grief. Because Queen Ramonda speaks to her, and namor’s mother reaches out to him.

She demands he yield but it’s more than that. He yields but it’s more than that. It’s ending the ceaseless grief that’s been haunting them both for so long, it’s ending the violence that would’ve haunted their people for eternity. Stopping the violence the oppressors who seek to exploit them want to see, and the violence they themselves want to inflict. Namor adds a new painting to his wall, imoritalizing the end of something ancient. Shuri burns her funeral robes, marking the beginning of something new. And while they’ve both loved and lost and lost so much more, death is of course, not an end. It’s a stepping off point into something new. Beyond grief and rage. Into healing.

Or at least, the start of it.

Royalty. Marvel Studios’ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is only in theaters November 11. Get tickets now: http://fandango.com/WakandaForever.

Art by: Nyanza

Brilliance at work. Marvel Studios’ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is only in theaters November 11. Get tickets now: http://fandango.com/WakandaForever. Art by: Lunares

#Iron Heart is coming 

Is it possible to win an Oscar based on trailer alone?

Asking for one Angela Bassett.

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new bp poster!!