“They trust each other,” Boseman says of Panther and Cap. The actor points to his gift of claw shields from Shuri (Letitia Wright,) forged from Wakanda’s sacred natural resource. “His shield was already made from vibranium anyway. So it’s just an extension of what he already had. This time, actually giving it to him, as opposed to…” Boseman shrugs. The materials for the old shield were likely taken, not offered. “Me actually giving it to him is a testament to our relationship and trust.” – Entertainment Weekly
Well…damn. I have a very real and very emotional connection to the Captain America shield. But this is important and this is the context that should have always been there and I’m so grateful that the MCU isn’t shying away from it.
Shuri shouting out the floor is lava and recording the confusion among the avengers wondering why tchalla king of Wakanda hopped up on a counter cause goddammit his little sister pulls this shit all the time and peter is stuck on the wall because he’s also a child of the internet and understands the meme life and now his fate is sealed there will never not be a time Shuri isn’t camera ready and yelling out the floor is lava to see the wackiest places she could get peter to stick on
T’Challa ignored her once so she developed synthetic deployable lava and the next time she yelled the floor is lava it actually was. T’Challa lives in fear now because he knows if he doesn’t pretend the floor is dangerous, it will be.
Once she got peter to stick onto T’Challa.
Her everything background is a picture of T’Challa desperately clinging to a Peter who’s stuck to the ceiling
before you take off on the fact that there are outdated memes in black panther (”what are those” and “whip my hair back and forth” are the two i noticed) consider that wakanda is an isolated nation which nevertheless has contact with the outside world. with what minimal contact they have, i really doubt that they would keep up to date on current pop culture. what i’m trying to say here is that black panther uses outdated memes as worldbuilding.
actually black panther is set in 2016 (a week after civil war) so ‘what are those’ was actually 100% topical. shuri is an advanced memelord
also movie executives have no idea how long memes last for and thought itd still be funny and interesting
Counterpoint: everything Shuri says is funny and interesting regardless of what it is