Avengers: Doomsday - Character Breakdown
21. Shuri
Following the tragic passing of Chadwick Boseman in 2020, Ryan Coogler and Marvel Studios had s tough decision to make surrounding the future of the Black Panther in the MCU. There was never any question of recasting T'Challa, and in 2022 Shuri stepped into the role of the legendary Wakandan warrior.
Letitia Wright carried the story as Shuri fantastically well, and while there is certainly inspiration taken from T'Challa in her Black Panther, they are not the same. There is more than a little fire in her, as proven by Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan) on the Astral Plane.
Though T'Challa was never officially an Avenger, as he was almost thrown into the ring with them by happenstance during Civil War, he supported and helped them throughout Infinity War. There will likely be a similar dynamic with Shuri in Doomsday.
She will not be the only Wakandan to appear in the fifth Avengers film however (to be explored further on in this list), and so it would be fair to assume that audiences will see the magical and once reclusive nation on the big screen once again.