Marvel Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Comic book saviors get resurrected all the time. Chadwick Boseman's 2020 death made that impossible for the sequel to 'Black Panther.'

A whole swath of characters turned to dust at the end of Avengers: Infinity War, only to be snapped back to life in Endgame. It treats T’Challa’s passing with a permanence and respect that superhero stories struggle with, and it creates an emotional depth the genre often lacks. The path eventually chosen—to write Boseman’s death into Marvel canon by killing T’Challa off-screen—was, then, as unavoidable as it was brave. And pray for a resurrection.” He got his wish; the Manhunter was back in action two years later, after the events of the Blackest Night storyline, which involved a god of death resurrecting even more dead characters. Following actor Chadwick Boseman’s untimely and tragic passing in 2020, all plans for a sequel to 2018’s wildly successful and beloved [Black Panther](https://www.wired.com/story/black-panther-review/) featuring its title character were torn asunder. A funeral scene for the Martian Manhunter in 2008’s Final Crisis shows Superman ending his eulogy, “We’ll all miss him.