10 Burning Questions Upcoming Movies MUST Answer
6. What Happens To T'Challa? - Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
The Question
With Chadwick Boseman's untimely passing back in the summer of 2020, Kevin Feige and Marvel Studios were put in a tough position for the in-the-works Black Panther sequel, Wakanda Forever.
With Boseman unable to reprise the role of T'Challa, what will become of the character moving forward?
The Likely Answer
We already know that T'Challa won't be recast, so it's clear that the character will be "retired" in some fashion, yet given his importance as the King of Wakanda, there's no easy and obvious way for him to believably head off into the sunset.
It's therefore perhaps more likely that T'Challa will have died since we last saw him - a tricky narrative point in terms of taste, but one Feige can probably be trusted to handle with delicacy.
As for how T'Challa dies, there are several possibilities, either that the movie's villain is responsible, or perhaps more probably for the sake of taste that the nature of his demise is simply never explicitly stated.
Clearly the Black Panther mantle will pass onto another character and the film's treatment of T'Challa will be shaped as a tribute to Boseman, so fans will hopefully forgive a few rough storytelling edges considering the difficulty of the project.