King T’Challa final appeared in live-action in 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame,” and final in animation through “What If…?” Season 1. Since then, Shuri (Letitia Wright) has develop into the Black Panther in “Black Panther: Wakanda Eternally,” and “What If…?” Season 2 and the upcoming online game “Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra” use the King T’Chaka model of the character. “X-Males ’97” creator Beau DeMayo acknowledged in a submit on X that he cannot converse on T’Chaka being chosen because the present’s Black Panther as a result of an NDA, although T’Challa held that mantle on “Incredible 4: The Animated Sequence,” which is ready in the identical continuity.
So, what precisely is occurring with T’Challa? Regardless of claims on-line that Marvel Studios has imposed a mandate stopping the usage of the character, no official sources have confirmed its existence. Essentially the most that has been stated relating to T’Challa comes from a 2022 Empire interview with Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige. “It simply felt prefer it was a lot too quickly to recast,” he stated on the dealing with of T’Challa following Chadwick Boseman’s demise. He defined that as a substitute of recasting the position, “Wakanda Eternally” director Ryan Coogler crafted a narrative meant to honor Boseman and his legacy.
Maybe there’s a motive for the shortage of T’Challa appearances as of late, but when that’s the case, it definitely hasn’t been made public. All followers can do is wait and see what the longer term holds for the character and the way Marvel Studios will strategy him.