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The Unsung Heart of <em>Black Panther: Wakanda Forever</em>

Angela Bassett’s character models a trait that’s rare amid superhero chaos and violence: self-restraint.
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This story contains major spoilers for the film Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.

is a film forged under immense pressure. As my colleague David Sims , the Marvel movie had to set up the franchise’s many future story lines and also serve as a memorial to the late star Chadwick Boseman and his character, T’Challa. For the most part, the movie juggles these divergent aims well. It establishes Shuri (played by Letitia Wright) as the new Black Panther, tracing her maturation from the goofy and gifted little sister to

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