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6. Shuri Is The One Leading Bucky's Healing Process
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With Black Panther only a few short weeks away from its premier, excitement levels are pretty high. The fact that Chadwick Boseman's T'Challa is returning is now date a major reason for that hype, but there are a number of new faces that've gotten everyone talking as well.
Shuri, Wakanda's foremost scientist who yes, is also smarter than Tony Stark, is one of those faces. Portrayed by Letitia Wright in the upcoming film, Shuri is set to take a prominent role in its story and we now have an inkling of one of the reasons why. With Bucky having been left in cryo-stasis at the end of Civil War, Shuri is the one entrusted by T'Challa to lead the former assassin's recovery.
The comic shows that it's no small feat however, with Bucky's Soviet conditioning having left some lasting scars. If anyone's up to the task of helping the former Winter Soldier on his way however, it's Shuri, and while there are plenty of other supporting characters in Black Panther we can't wait to see - including Nakia, Okoye and Ayo - there are plenty of reasons to be excited for Shuri's cinematic debut.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
