Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Trailer

This new trailer for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is just stunning.

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It's not as exciting as a jaw-dropping teaser, but that's how it works.

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This gives rise to the narrative (in which T'Challa battles Namor as the outside world plots against a possibly weak Wakanda).

This offers Tenoch Huerta's main villain plenty of screen time.

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His sea master causing havoc on the surface world (yep, these comic book stories can't help but mix) follows in the footsteps of Disney's thirst-quenching villains.

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The entire palette appears to be a furious response to criticism that recent MCU films have gotten graphically filthy.

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I'm interested how much of a role that storyline will play in the overall 'grimmer, darker sequel' because the original Black Panther dabbled with it.

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