When you watch the movie a second time, it's evident Ramonda was likely trying to tell Shuri about T'Challa's secret son with Nakia, Prince T'Challa, who is finally introduced in the film's mid-credits scene. Before Namor's arrival, Ramonda mentioned how T'Challa's presence is still with her.
What was the queen going to tell Shuri in Wakanda forever?
Nakia reveals that the youngster is her and T'Challa's son, which Ramonda knew about – this is what the queen meant to tell Shuri by the water before they were interrupted by Namor's arrival. Nakia explains that she and T'Challa agreed that their son Toussaint should grow up away from the pressure of the throne.
Despite Shuri's best efforts, Ramonda was next to T'Challa as he passed away. Shuri hastily rushed to bring a completed recreation of the herb to her brother, though Ramonda, who had entered the lab, despairingly confirmed his passing. Ramonda then took his place as the queen of Wakanda.
During Wakanda Forever's end-credit scene, Nakia reveals T'Challa's secret to Shuri during the latter's visit to her home of Haiti. Sometime before T'Challa's untimely passing, he had a child with Nakia named T'Challa.
She probably doesn't want to rule the country due to her other duties as Wakanda's greatest hero. She also likely never wanted to be the leader of a nation and instead put her focus on her scientific research. She doesn't seem to mind letting M'Baku take that position instead.
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Who does Shuri marry?
The daughter of Wakanda's Black Panther T'Chaka and his second wife Ramonda, Shuri is descended from the royal line along with her brother T'Challa. 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.
In secret, Nakia and T'Challa had a child, Toussaint, who Nakia raised in Haiti after the Snap. In 2025, one year after the death of T'Challa, Queen Ramonda had visited Nakia and recruited her into rescuing Shuri from the clutches of the Talokanil, an underwater civilization on the verge of waring with the Wakandans.
What secret does Nakia reveal to Shuri after the credits?
Nakia emerges and introduces "Auntie Shuri" to her young nephew Toussaint — the secret son Nakia had with T'Challa. She reveals that she and T'Challa had agreed that he would be raised away from the pressure of being Wakandan royalty.
Nakia comes up to her and says that there's something she hasn't been told. Something that nobody besides Ramonda knows – that she gave birth to a child conceived with T'Challa. While Shuri has assumed the title of Black Panther, the kid is the true heir to the throne.
Queen Ramonda's Death Was Necessary For Shuri's Wakanda Forever Story. After Boseman's death, Letitia Wright stepped up to assume the role of the main character for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, with Shuri's grief and relationship to her Wakandan heritage and technology being explored more than any other.
T'Challa's mother, Queen Ramonda, dies midway through “Wakanda Forever.” She drowns during Namor's (Tenoch Huerta) attack on Wakanda, which sets Shuri (Letitia Wright) on a path of revenge against him in the third act.
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.
Finally, Shuri sees her mother, Ramonda, in the ancestral realm, who urges Shuri to show the world who she really is. Shuri urges Namor to yield, to spare both their people. "Vengeance has consumed us," she says. "It will not consume our people."
But in his final scene, Namor reveals to his cousin Namora that his decision came from cunning more than pride. Now that he has a treaty with Wakanda, he has an ally, a nation that will help him when he returns to wage war on the surface world. Now that's the Namor I know and love.
Loosely translated from Latin, it means "Empire King." As such, the line serves as a dynamic reference to the anti-hero's comics origins while also giving him an epic counter to the classic Wakandan phrase in the MCU. Related: Black Panther 2's MCU Timeline: How Long After Endgame Is It Set?
Having achieved peace with Namor and allowed herself to truly feel, for the first time, the loss of T'Challa, new Black Panther Shuri (Letitia Wright) burns her funeral garb on a beach in Haiti, symbolizing the end of her grieving process.
The MCU has had great couples in the past, and they've told love stories within superhero films before. But ultimately, while there was clear chemistry between Shuri and Namor, it was for the best that Marvel Studios decided to do without their potential love line.
Why is there no end credit scene in Wakanda Forever?
Producer Nate Moore has explained why the film only has one post-credits scene. "This movie is a bit different and the tone of this movie is a bit different and it felt especially, once people see the film, we felt the ending was so kind of poetic.
While T'Challa was absent, his partner Nakia (Lupita Nyong'o) would have given birth to their son, Toussaint. "In the script, T'Challa was a dad who'd had this forced five-year absence from his son's life," Coogler told the Times. "The first scene was an animated sequence. You hear Nakia talking to Toussaint.
Boseman's T'Challa disappeared for five years during "The Blip," the time after Thanos' snap, so we can presume this child was conceived before that. But it's explained that T'Challa wanted to keep him hidden so he could grow up without the pressures of the throne, and he prepared Nakia and his son for his death.
What did Queen Rammonda want to tell Shuri about T-Challa?
When you watch the movie a second time, it's evident Ramonda was likely trying to tell Shuri about T'Challa's secret son with Nakia, Prince T'Challa, who is finally introduced in the film's mid-credits scene. Before Namor's arrival, Ramonda mentioned how T'Challa's presence is still with her.
When Wakanda is attacked by the Cabal during the "Time Runs Out" storyline, Shuri sacrifices herself by staying behind to hold off Proxima Midnight so T'Challa can escape. Her death is later confirmed when her spirit is seen among those of the past Black Panthers.
Shuri, as queen of Wakanda, was involved in treaty negotiations with Namor, who offered to end the bloodshed between their two nations in exchange for refuge in Wakanda whenever he desired.
Namor makes it clear to Shuri that he wants an alliance and will allow Riri sanctuary in Wakanda if they join together to wage war on the surface world.
