10 Bold Predictions About 2018’s Biggest Movies

There's one more Marvel Cinematic Universe movie to go until Avengers: Infinity War puts 10 years of superhero adaptations on course for an epic endgame, and that's Ryan Coogler's Black Panther.

T’Challa's solo debut has a couple of loose ends to tie up before Thanos arrives, namely the location of the missing Infinity Stone and the fleshing out of Wakandan lore, and its post-credits stinger is almost certain to lead directly into Infinity War.

There are a number of ways it could set up the conflict with Thanos, and the most likely would be having the Mad Titan's invading forces arrive in Wakanda in search of the cosmic gem it's concealing.

Infinity War's trailer confirmed that the Black Order will arrive in the secretive African nation at some point and the locals will be assisted by the Avengers in their efforts to fight them off. If the invasion was to begin in Black Panther's post-credits, it would set the scene for the war to come.

Thor: Ragnarok's big stinger already teased the arrival of Thanos in Earth's orbit, and Black Panther's will likely go one further by depicting his minions with their boots on terra firma, ready to raise hell.