Early in the film, Queen Ramonda tells Shuri, "There's something I need to tell you about your brother." Before she can, Ramonda's cut off by Namor's entrance and mother and daughter never return to this discussion.
The film ends with Shuri traveling to Haiti to visit Nakia. Calling back to a scene from earlier in the film, Shuri goes to the beach to burn her ceremonial clothing from T'Challa's funeral at the beginning of the film.
Grief is the central element of a movie that mourns the loss of star Chadwick Boseman, a real-life tragedy that makes the blockbuster action film the most downbeat Marvel adventure yet. But the ending, in which Shuri faces her grief for her lost brother T'Challa, suggests the hope of renewal.
Part of the reason, narratively, that Ramonda "banishes" Okoye is to set up her climactic moment. She risks her life to save a troublesome girl who isn't even Wakandan. Even after all the loss she suffered, her instinct was to do the right thing and be a hero. Ramonda's focus was on her family.
Marvel's latest blockbuster Black Panther: Wakanda Forever begins with Shuri (Letitia Wright) desperately attempting to recreate a synthetic version of one of her country's most vital and now-lost resources - the heart-shaped herb.
Shuri does eventually see her mother in the Plane, but this is in the final act of the film.
How didn't she bleed out? It's actually shown in the movie if you look closely. As Shuri pulls herself off of the spear, the insanely high-tech Black Panther suit rapidly closes the wound almost instantly, stopping Shuri from bleeding out and allowing her Black Panther powers to kick in and heal the wound faster.
Though she's technically a prisoner, Namor speaks to Shuri as an equal. He gives her the bracelet worn by his mother, and shows her his capital city. Shuri witnesses a people much like her own, who respect their natural wealth and work together.
There were many rumors, hopes, and insinuations made by fans about her potential relationships, but the truth is, nothing ever happened, really. Just like in the comics, Shuri didn't have any significant romantic relationship or encounter so far in the MCU.
Nakia revealed that sometime after the events of Black Panther and before Avengers: Infinity War, she and T'Challa had a son. They may even have been secretly married. As it stands, this doesn't make much narrative sense since T'Challa was openly asking Nakia to be his queen in the first film.
At the end of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Nakia reveals to Shuri that she became pregnant with T'Challa's baby before he died and had his child, whom she raised in secret in Haiti.
But the shocker was Shuri, the princess who is more comfortable in a lab than a throne room, played by Letitia Wright, sadly did not. She, like her brother, Black Panther/T'Challa, were snapped out of the universe.
Shuri is not the queen at the end of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Despite having the best claim, she decided to hold onto her title of princess of Wakanda.
The boy reveals that Toussaint is his Haitian name and his Wakandan name is T'Challa, son of T'Challa. The scene works as both a tribute to Chadwick Boseman and a means to allow for a T'Challa to continue to exist in the MCU. It also hits on the core importance of Boseman's character beyond the mantle of Black Panther.
At the end of Wakanda Forever, Coogler sets up the future by once again reflecting on the past in the film's mid-credits scene, in which Nakia, at her home in Haiti, reveals to Shuri that she and T'Challa have a son whose Wakandan name is T'Challa and whose Haitian name is Toussaint.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever doesn't include a post-credits scene but does include a message to assure us that we haven't seen the last of these characters. "Black Panther will return," it reads as the credits reach their conclusion. Shuri will likely remain as Black Panther for the foreseeable future.
She is close with high-ranking officials Zuri and W'Kabi, as well as her uncle S'Yan. Shuri also takes a shine to her sister-in-law Storm while she was wed to T'Challa.
While an early version of the film may have featured a romance between Namor and Shuri, Huerta himself has shot down the idea that there is anything romantic between the characters.
The only other relative who knew that pain and anger was Killmonger. Without meaning to, Shuri subconsciously summoned her devious cousin because he was the only one who could recognize what she was feeling, and he could push her in the direction she wanted to go.
Namor's ulterior motives behind his attack on Wakanda
He aims to manipulate Shuri and is sure that once the surface world brings war to Wakanda, he will be ready to retaliate and take up the war directly with the surface world.
Marvel. However, Namor's mutation does not seem to be associated with the X-gene as it is in the comics. Rather, at least according to Namor, his pointed ears, winged feet, and speed are the result of his mother ingesting the vibranium infused aquatic plant that transformed his people while she was pregnant.
Although Shuri forgives Namor by the time of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever's ending, the weight of her decision had been eating at her since the beginning of the movie. Wakanda Forever takes Shuri on a journey of acceptance and forgiveness.
However, Nehanda is not the only Black Panther Queen to precede Shuri canonically. Queen Turkana, a character created by award-wining author Nnedi Okorafor, was also a Black Panther.
As fans watched the fight scene in the movie, they realized that Shuri had taken the synthetic herb that has healing properties. Even though it might not have healed the wound completely, the herb might have given her the stamina to endure the pain and carry on with the fight.
However, in Black Panther, fans were officially introduced to Shuri, T'Challa's younger sister. Shortly after her introduction, she was confirmed to be the smartest character in the MCU, even more so than Tony.