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3. What Happened With The Wakandan Succession?
And on a more mundane level, T’Challa certainly shouldn’t be King of Wakanda anymore for exactly the same reason.
Given the Wakandan traditions surrounding succession to the throne - laid out in brutal fashion in the MCU’s own Black Panther movie - and that both T’Challa and Shuri died childless in the snap, there’s no way in the world that their mother Ramonda can hold onto the throne alone (even if she is played by Angela Bassett).
No, without a true successor to T’Challa, one of the other tribes would have seized power, or there would have been some other very brief internal strife to set a new family at the head of the table. As with Strange, no one would have expected the Black Panther to return from the grave when so many were lost, and the stability of the nation would have been paramount.
When T’Challa and Shuri returned in 2023, they should have come back to a Wakanda under someone else’s rule… but, as with Doctor Strange, 2022’s Black Panther sequel isn’t going to waste the first act fannying about with politics and the regaining of the throne.
For a start, it’ll be released three years after Endgame, which in-universe could easily be as much as eight years after the events of Infinity War. For Wakanda, that would be old news. No, this is yet another plot hole they’ll paper over in the name of expedience.