

Nakia tells Shuri that she and T’Challa had the child secretly (and seemingly prior to Thanos’s snap), and that she fled to Haiti because they didn’t want their son to grow up with the pressure of the throne. Nakia then explains that Toussaint is T’Challa’s son, at which point the boy recites his Wakandan name and title as Prince T’Challa, son of King T’Challa, the late king of Wakanda. Nakia introduces the boy as her son, and he tells Shuri his name is Toussaint. As Shuri is grieving, Nakia approaches her with a 6-year-old boy in tow and asks if they can grieve with her.

The post-credits scene is a continuation of that scene. The movie’s final scene has Shuri finally visiting Nakia and performing a Wakandan ritual in which she says goodbye to her brother. In the movie, Nakia gives Shuri a standing offer to live with her in Haiti. Nakia moved to Haiti after Thanos’s snap turned T’Challa and half the Earth’s population into dust (T’Challa was brought back in Endgame but died sometime after his resurrection). At the same time, we learn her brother’s lover Nakia (Lupita Nyong’o) did not attend T’Challa’s funeral. She’s unable to give herself closure - something her mother Ramonda (Angela Bassett) urges her to do. Shuri wrestles with her anger and guilt at not being able to help him. In Wakanda Forever, his character dies offscreen. He kept his disease private and his death was a shock to his fans and colleagues. In real life, Boseman died in August 2020 at the age of 43 after his colon cancer had progressed to stage four. In the film, Shuri (Letitia Wright) is holding on to an immense amount of grief after losing her brother T’Challa (the late Chadwick Boseman) to an unknown disease.


One might assume that would happen with Wakanda Forever, especially with how the movie introduced the antihero sub-mariner Namor (Tenoch Huerta) and the underwater city of Talokan.īut Wakanda Forever did something different, using its post-credits scene to further one of the movie’s ongoing plots. Harry Styles, Charlize Theron, and Brett Goldstein all had cameos introducing new characters (Eros, Clea, and Hercules) who will be major players in those respective franchises. Over its last few movies - Eternals, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and Thor: Love and Thunder - Marvel has used its post-credits scenes to announce big new castings. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever has a post-credits scene that looks and feels a little different from other recent Marvel teasers.
