T’Challa and Ramonda, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Wakanda Forever still seems like an impossible film to have made, even months after its release. Trying to balance a new story returning to one of Marvel’s most beloved movies and yet also handle the textual and meta-textual grief of the passing of Chadwick Boseman was a tumultuous prospect, but the Black Panther sequel put Boseman and T’Challa’s death at its heart to tell a cross-generational story about love and loss. If that wasn’t fitting enough, it twisted the emotional knife further for us and Shuri alike by giving Angela Bassett’s Queen Ramonda a shocking, beautiful exit too, as she sacrificed herself to save the young Riri Williams after Namor’s flooding of Birnin Zana.
