In time-honoured Marvel tradition, Black Panther includes a couple of cool post-credits scenes
with teases for upcoming films.
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end-credits scenes to explain how they set up Avengers: Infinity War and I'll also be
revealing some Marvel easter eggs you might have missed.
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Quick spoiler warning, I will be discussing the end credit scenes in full, explaining
their link to the rest of the movie as well as talking connections to and potential speculation
on Avengers: Infinity War.
The mid-credits scene begins with T'Challa attending the UN in Vienna and delivering
a speech to the international community.
In the speech, T'Challa announces that, for the first time in his country's history, he's
opening up Wakanda to the world and offers to share their knowledge and resources.
Wakanda has, up until now, isolated itself, using its technology to hide its precious
vibranium resources "in plain sight", but at the UN, T'Challa implies that it's no longer
right for Wakanda or any country to hide itself way.
In fact, he wants Wakanda to be an example of how we should all treat each other, and
as he says, "in times of crisis, the wise build bridges while the foolish build barriers".
In response, one of the UN delegates asks what Wakanda can offer the rest of the world,
because in his eyes it's just a "nation of farmers".
The scene stops at this point, with Black Panther, Nakia, and Everett Ross all smiling
knowingly at the utter foolishness of that question – and Ross perhaps recognises too
just how wrong he was earlier in the film when he shared that delegate's attitude.
Still, we can assume that T'Challa would go on to reveal that Wakanda has reserves of
vibranium and has developed technology and medical treatments beyond what is available
anywhere else in the world.
By taking this step, T'Challa has acted on Nakia's very real concern that during her
time as a Wakandan spy abroad she has "seen too many in need to turn a blind eye."
It's clear from the film that opening up access to Wakandan medical technology, for instance,
has the potential to revolutionise how people recover from injuries as Everett Ross fully
recovers from being shot in the spine in just one day after being treated by Shuri.
Access to Wakandan vibranium could be a double-edged sword as although it will likely be useful
in the fight against Thanos, once the secret's out, it could attract other villains to try
and get their hands on it, as was the case with Ulysses Klaue.
And, along with Thanos's search for the still-to-be-uncovered Soul Stone, that could be another reason why
we see in the Infinity War trailer that the Mad Titan has sent his Outriders to invade
the country.
But this opening up of Wakanda also has huge implications beyond Avengers: Infinity War
as it means we're likely to see future Marvel movies cross over with Black Panther and Wakanda.
The world, characters, and tech of Wakanda are so rich and ripe with opportunities for
storytelling that it seems likely that Marvel will want to incorporate Black Panther's world
wherever it fits.
The mid-credits scene is also a call-back to the UN Sokovia Accords meeting in Vienna
in Captain America: Civil War where T'Challa's father, King T'Chaka, addressed the UN and
attempted to make a similar speech offering Wakandan co-operation and outreach to the
wider world.
T'Chaka was, of course, killed before he could finish his speech when Zemo orchestrated an
attack on the UN building in order to frame Bucky.
And this takes us to Black Panther's second and final post-credits scene that has an even
more direct lead-in to Avengers: Infinity War.
In this scene, we find someone waking up in a small hut in the Wakandan countryside surrounded
by some inquisitive children.
As the person steps outside, we discover it's Bucky, who we last saw being put on ice in
the mid-credits scene for Captain America: Civil War.
Bucky agreed to be put under so that Wakandan scientists could figure out what was wrong
with his mind, and in the Avengers: Infinity War prelude comic, we learn that it's Shuri
who's figured out how to remove trigger words that HYDRA inserted in Bucky's mental programming.
Shuri's treatment appears to have worked as Bucky seems calm and well.
He's also wearing a blue sling around his missing arm in the scene and at the end Shuri
tells him to come with her as there is "much more for [him] to learn", which likely means
they need to update him on what's been happening since he was in cryo-stasis and get him back
in full shape.
We know from the Avengers: Infinity War trailer that Bucky has his missing arm restored at
some point, so Shuri probably still has some more work to do on that and perhaps it'll
be made of vibranium too.
There's also a big hint to what Bucky's role might be next in the name "White Wolf" which
the children in the scene call out as they run off.
"White Wolf" is an interesting Marvel easter egg and a nod to the Black Panther comic-book
character Hunter who was adopted by T'Challa's father T'Chaka when his parents crash-landed
in Wakanda.
The white foreigner, Hunter, aka White Wolf, loved his adoptive country and eventually
became head of the secret police in Wakanda.
So, in this post-credits scene Marvel could be alluding to the MCU's Bucky taking on a
similar type of security role in Wakanda in the future.
Indeed, in the Avengers: Infinity War trailer, Bucky looks like he might be heading up a
group of Wakandan warriors on the battlefield.
And given his past activities, it would be a natural fit for Bucky to take on black ops-style
missions on behalf of Black Panther.
Wakanda already operates a network of spies, or War Dogs as they're called, and perhaps
Bucky could join them, maybe teaming up with Nakia on future missions.
It'll be interesting to see if Bucky does take on the new identity of White Wolf, leaving
behind his former alter ego of the Winter Soldier, or whether this is just simply a
nice nod to the comics.
By the way, given the importance of Shuri's tech genius, I want to point out another way
in which this could link in to the next Avengers team-up.
We know that Thanos pursues Vision in the Infinity War movie and that the Mad Titan's
Black Order are seen either attempting to extract or manipulate the Mind Stone in Vision's
forehead.
And it's been rumoured that Vision gets taken to Wakanda in the film so Shuri can extract
the Mind Stone from him and keep it safe.
In the Avengers: Infinity War prelude comic Shuri boasts that the tech she's developed
surpasses anything Tony Stark has done, specifically how Stark created Ultron, which seems like
another big hint that Shuri could be involved in removing the Mind Stone from Vision and
keeping him alive at the same time.
Now, if you've seen Black Panther, what did you think of the movie and the post-credit
scenes?
And have you got any theories on what the end credits will mean for Avengers: Infinity
War or future Marvel movies?
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