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The second credit scene! Little kids
creeping around to stare at him and run giggling away! White Wolf! I wonder if Steve ever goes to sit next to him to sketch the view.
More after I've read all the spoiler font.
edit: re: the economy, if
they've got spies across the world, I bet the merchant tribe has holding companies that filter out useful small things that bring in some money and resources. I wonder if the people grinding grain by hand might appreciate some mechanical aid with that.
I think Tony and Shuri would be babbling at each other and trash talking each other's work with Shuri being fascinated by Tony's AI's and Tony being thrilled by her maglevs.
Very cool.
Agent Ross did say
something about textiles when he was giving a rundown of Wakanda to Klaue. I assume that Wakanda maintains unofficial trade of the sort of items expected of a small "Third World" African nation in order to have capital they can use abroad. Even an allegedly poor African nation can probably buy some condemned apartment buildings in the ghetto without much difficulty.
Jess,
M'Baku did say they were vegetarians, but he also said that a fisherman rescued T'Challa.
WRT economy, I betcha vibranium is not the only natural resource Wakanda is rich in, and if unethical rich people and countries can use layers of shell companies and off-shore accounts to protect their nefarious evil, Wakanda had been using their considerable intelligence and political savvy to have a booming secret trade set up for centuries.
...guys I loved it so so so much. I cried I was so excited.
M'Baku is a troll.
M'Baku is the BIGGEST troll.
And Shuri is a memelord.
I haven't seen Black Panther yet but Civil War is on tv and I have been switching between that and Olympics and Mom is getting into it.
She really needs to watch it but at one point she was got kinda upset "doesn't he have a name?" (Meaning Sam). When I said Sam she was like...no does he have a special name too? I told her Falcon she was happy.
It's interesting to me that for all that we've had multiple movies with Asgard's cosmology plus the other dimensions in Dr. Strange, this is the first movie that actually showed a spiritual afterlife in the MCU. It makes me wonder what Bast is in relation to "gods" like the Asgardians. (Also Hanuman I guess; isn't he supposed to be a south Asian deity from Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism rather than an African one? Or are they using Robert E. Howard's version from the Conan stories?)
Was there anything in the movie itself that said Shuri was T'Challa's half-sister?
Hanuman is definitely a monkey god, so I can see done kind of cross-cultural theology going on there.
I do not recall Shuri being specifically mentioned as a half-sister in the film, no.
