Wakanda Forever’s mid-credits scene is exactly the right kind of surprising
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever draws to a close with most everyone thinking that they have a solid understanding of the world’s balance of power following the passing of one Black Panther and the rise of a new one. But the movie’s solitary mid-credits sequence introduces a surprising new twist that could upend all that and set the stage for a very different kind of Black Panther story going forward.
This piece contains spoilers for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
Rather than picking up in a completely new location some time later, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever‘s mid-credits sequence opens right back up on Shuri (Letitia Wright) and Nakia (Lupita Nyong’o) on a Haitian beach. Though Wakanda Forever details how Nakia chose to become a teacher following the events of Avengers: Endgame, the movie doesn’t spend all that much time discussing why she chose Haiti or what she was doing in the country for all those years that kept her from contacting her people back home. Given what T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman) and Nakia meant to one another, it’s easy enough for people to believe that her years of not returning to Wakanda were due to her grief over his death.
While grief was certainly part of what kept Nakia away from Wakanda, she reveals to Shuri that it wasn’t her only reason or the most important one. She and T’Challa figured, Nakia explains, that it would be best for their son, Toussaint, to grow up away from all of the