Please note, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is rated to PG-13. Post-Credits Spoilers!!! One of the most powerful moments, and perhaps the most loving tribute to Chadwick Boseman in the film, comes after the credits have rolled. It is at this time that Nakia reveals her son to Shuri. Her son then discloses his true name. He is T'Challa son of T'Challa son of T'Chaka. There's a sense of resurrection here, at least of the character T'Challa. We will get another T'Challa as Black Panther in the MCU while still preserving the legacy of Chadwick Boseman's performance. This new T'Challa will also be truer to T'Challa's comic origins as having been raised outside Wakanda. Further, we will get to live with him as he attempts to live into his father's example of being a good man. T'Challa son of T'Challa also reminds us of what we see in Scripture, specifically in the writings of Luke. While the Gospel Luke gives to Theophilus is focused on Jesus, his second letter to Theophilus is concerned with those that bore the Good News after Jesus' Ascension to Heaven. The story of Jesus is tied with those who followed after Him, and it continues with us who follow after them. There is the sense of legacy tied into our Faith and how we tell. That feeling of legacy is present in T'Challa son of T'Challa. He will continue not only his father's story, but that of the Black Panther as well. We too are following in the story: the story of Jesus. Let us therefore be like T'Challa son of T'Challa and strive to do our best to be good people, even though that is very difficult in this world.
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Please note, Captain America: Civil War and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever are rated PG-13. After Shuri's vision of her mother in the Ancestral Plane when she decides to have mercy on Namor, she demands he yield, saying: Vengeance has consumed us, we cannot let it consume our people. Marvel superfans and longtime readers of this site will remember that at the end of Captain America: Civil War, Shuri's brother T'Challa said to Zemo, the man who killed their father: Vengeance has consumed you. It's consuming them. I am done letting it consume me. While Shuri wasn't there when T'Challa said this, he must have talked about his actions and why he spared Nemo after he killed their father T'Chaka. Shuri, by mirroring these words, is showing she is following her brother's example. The example T'Challa gave to Shuri is exactly the reason we continue to preach the Gospel to this day. Ultimately, our hope is that others will hear God's Word and listen to it as they go through this world. This is the same Word we first heard and followed. Yet sometimes our lives can be such that it points others to what God has to say to us in Scripture. This is why Jesus sent out the original Disciples to share the Good News with others. We can be lights to others bringing them to what Jesus first showed us. Don't discount your impact on others because it can be as powerful as T'Challa's impact on Shuri. Continue to be a light and an example to others of the Good News of our Lord Jesus Christ! |
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