10 Unanswered Questions From 2022's Biggest Movies

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever opens with T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman) dying off-screen of what's later described as an unspecified illness he largely kept secret from those outside of his inner circle, rather unexpectedly mirroring Chadwick Boseman's own untimely death.

But what exactly was the cause of T'Challa's death?

Now, there's a very clear reason why this wasn't answered - it's ultimately not that important and lingering on the particulars of T'Challa's death could come off as tacky - but that doesn't magically make fan curiosity go away.

The realistic answer is that T'Challa probably passed away from colon cancer just as Boseman himself did, though given the heightened world the MCU exists within and the specific nature of Shuri's (Letitia Wright) attempts to cure him, it may simply be a condition that hasn't yet emerged in our own reality.