How cavalierly Marvel films have dealt with death over the years

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This is a franchise that notoriously murdered off and then resurrected half its cast—Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever explores problems of loss and mortality in a stunning way.

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The very first scene informs us that T'Challa, the king of the African nation of Wakanda

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He passed away from an unknown sickness

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While the news is heartbreaking, it doesn't come as a surprise to those of us watching because T'Challa, a.k.a. the Black Panther

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He was also going to be laid to rest sometime after Chadwick Boseman's passing.

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Wakanda Forever merges on- and off-screen tragedies to create a work of both entertaining and elegy.

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