MCU: 12 Things You Learn Rewatching Black Panther
10. The Romance Adds Nothing To The Movie
The romantic woes of the MCU have been well-documented by this point, that the majority of these movies just can't seem to develop compelling love stories that are both interesting and feel like an organic consequence of the characters meeting.
Though Black Panther doesn't labour its romance too much, the mere fact that T'Challa and Nakia (Lupita Nyong'o) have to be fledgling lovers at all just feels like an executive-mandated demand and a box that has to be ticked.
The fact that they kiss at the very end of the movie was inevitable from the moment we heard about their strained prior relationship. While the potential for Nakia to become T'Challa's Queen is vaguely more interesting than other MCU love-ins, it still feels like a fairly lazy, arbitrary attempt at character development.