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On the November 14, 2022 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editorial director Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film editor Ben Pearson to have a spoiler discussion about Black Panther Wakanda Forever.

Opening Banter: Peter’s birthday was over the weekend. He went to the Wakanda Forever celebration at Disneyland.

In The News:

• Black Panther Spoiler Discussion
  • The opening
    • Opening scene with T’challa dying
    • Opening marvel logo
    • Use of silence
  • Handling the grief
  • Wakanda
    • Other nations want their vibranium and using the death of their king as a time to strike
  • Shuri
    • Unable to cure t’challa 
    • Believes the black panther is the past
  • Namor
    • expedition is attacked and killed by a group of blue-skinned water-breathing superhumans led by Namor, with the CIA believing Wakanda to be responsible.
    • Blames wakanda for the vibranium race and gives ultimatum to deliver scientist responsible to him
    • underwater kingdom of Talokan
    • Namor proposes an alliance with Wakanda against the rest of the world but threatens to destroy Wakanda first if they refuse. 
  • Iron Heart
    • Riri williams, mit student
    • . Nakia helps Shuri and Williams escape, and Namor retaliates with an attack against the capital of Wakanda, during which Ramonda drowns saving Riri.
    • Williams creates an Iron Man-esque powered exoskeleton to aid the Wakandans.
  • Queen’s death
  • Everett Ross
    • Ross is arrested by his ex-wife and director of the CIA, Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, for secretly exchanging classified intelligence with the Wakandans.
  • Shuri becomes Black Panther
    •  Shuri reconstructs the heart-shaped herb and ingests it, gaining superhuman abilities and seeing a vision of Killmonger in the Ancestral Plane, who urges her to seek revenge. Shuri becomes new Black Panther.
  • M’Baku
    • In Shuri's absence, M'Baku steps forward to challenge for the throne.
  • Okoye
    • Will the Okoye show be about her and Aneka as the Midnight Angels?
  • Nakia
    • Shuri visits Nakia in Haiti where she burns her funeral ceremonial robe in accordance with Ramonda's wishes, allowing herself to finally grieve T'Challa. In a mid-credits scene, Shuri learns that Nakia had a son with T'Challa, named Toussaint, who Nakia has been raising in secret far from the pressure of the throne. Toussaint reveals his Wakandan name is T'Challa.
  • Don’t need to talk about these things but putting them here:
  • The Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Cameo You Never Saw, But Definitely Heard
  • Why Does Namor Say Imperius Rex In Black Panther: Wakanda Forever?
  • Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Ending Explained: All Things Must Pass
  • Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Credits Scene Explained: The Ones You Love Are Never Truly Gone
  • How Okoye's Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Journey Sets Up Her Disney+ Series
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