Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is the 482nd episode of the Screen Junkies comedy series Honest Trailers. It was written by Spencer Gilbert, Danielle Radford, Lon Harris, and Bailey Meyers. It was narrated by Jon Bailey as Epic Voice Guy. It parodies the 2022 superhero film Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. It was published on February 7, 2023. It is 7 minutes and 26 seconds long. It has been viewed over 100,000 times.
Script[]
In a universe full of characters past their prime, gone for good, or just... no, the MCU will beautifully and respectfully mourn the loss of a real-life hero... between setting up Ironheart on Disney+; Thunderbolts* in theaters next year; Black Panther III coming soon; and screw it, why not? Black Panther IV: Son of Black Panther. (shows Divine Love Konadu-Sun as Toussaint/T'Challa II) You can't be sure of anything in this life, except for death and Disney sequels.
Wakanda Forever
Return to Wakanda, or at least that one street in Wakanda where everything happens. (montage of events in the film happening around a single street, such as a funeral procession and the Talokani attack) In the wake of Black Panther I, T'Challa opened up his country to the outside world, but Mom's put an end to that foolishness real quick. (shows Ramonda staring daggers at the French and American ambassadors at the U.N.) Now, this insular nation is under attack from the Talokan, in a film that pits Black and Brown people against each other, while the CIA takes the week off because someone else is doing their jobs for them.
De Fontaine: --your olive oil's about to go bad.
Agent Ross: ...
Watch Letitia Wright overcome on-set injury (a BBC News article with the title "Letitia Wright returns to Black Panther II set months after accident" pops up), and online clownery (a Variety article with the title "Letitia Wright Deletes Social Media Accounts After Posting Anti-Vax Video" pops up), to shine as the new Black Panther... eventually. (the film fast-forwards to Shuri donning her Black Panther costume at 01:58:22:00) Before she earns her claws, Shuri has to deal with all of Wakanda's problems herself: the High Council is giving her major lip...
River Tribe Elder: --his only crime was intimidation.
...she doesn't fit in at school, and her baaaaalls keep turning red. She'll lead her people to victory by doing every important job in the country, till she resorts to performance-enhancing drugs and learns her lesson the hard way: natural purple herb from the earth, all good; synthetic purple drink from the lab, you're going to have a bad time. (shows Shuri wincing in pain after awakening from her spirit quest) At least mix it with Sprite and a Jolly Rancher...
Journey to the only place more moisturized than Wakanda: the literal ocean. The Talokani are just as advanced as the surface world, complete with tactical water balloons (montage of characters getting hit with water grenades), and even without Macklemore, have songs that make you want to drown yourself. (shows the crew of a research lab being hypnotized into falling to their deaths by the Talokani's song) Meet their powerful leader Namor; Tenoch Huerta fills out the role so well, they had to shrink his cojones in post. (a The Direct article with the title "Yes, Marvel Edited Out Namor's Bulge In Black Panther 2 (Photos)" pops up) His only weaknesses are Wakandan ashy technology...
Williams: If we could find a way to dry his a*s out, he won't be as strong.
...and overworked Marvel effects teams. (shows a young Namor flying via the wings attached to his feet) This noble warrior is fighting to protect his people from invasion, but since he's also the bad guy in a Marvel movie, his methods take things "too far", so we can all cheer while the heroes pound his a*s into the sand. Say it with me, Avengers: "STA-TUS QUO! STA-TUS QUO! STA-TUS QUO! STA-TUS QUO!"
(in the voice of a pitchman) And that's not all, folks! When you act now and watch Wakanda Forever, Marvel will throw in 45 minutes of Phase 5 place-setting at no extra charge! (normally) Like human MacGuffin Riri Williams; she's here purely to get chased around and imprisoned by other characters...
Okoye: (to Williams) You can come to Wakanda, conscious or unconscious.
...in a thankless role that would remind you of America Chavez, if America Chavez had any character development to remember. She made... portals or something, and liked... pizza balls...? This Marvelous Miss Riri is super-quippy...
Williams: So y'all stopped having Black Panthers when I get kidnapped?
...loves attention...
Williams: There's an entire YouTube channel dedicated to sightings of me.
...and gives a lot of helmet-cam, so you'd think she's being set up to be the next Iron Man...
SWAT: Oh, sh*t! She got an Iron Man suit!
...but Shuri's the one making armor (shows the Midnight Angel armor and the Iron Man Mk. II suit), losing parents (shows Ramonda and Howard Stark's death scenes), drafting teenagers into war (shows Shuri working with Williams and Tony working with Peter), and having an A.I. do all the work (shows the Griot and J.A.R.V.I.S. A.I.s), so I guess she took the Iron Man job, too! Riri's not even the best RiRi in their universe!
Shuri: (to Okoye) It's the right shade. Fenty 440. You look good.
Suit up with returning favorites like Okoye, in a thrilling episode of Wacky Races (shows Okoye flipping over a police car with her spear jammed through her car's trunk); Nakia, who goes undercover as "Nakia, with glasses"; Queen Ramonda, who gives an Oscar-worthy performance mourning her son, because practice makes perfect (shows T'Challa turning into dust, being thrown over a waterfall, and having his casket lifted into the sky at his funeral); M'Baku, protector of Wakanda's greenscreen district...
Soldiers: (in front of a roughly-composited cityscape) Glory to Hanuman.
M'Baku: Mm. (reacts to the Talokani flooding the city with water)
...Aneka, in the biggest waste of Michaela Coel since Last Jedi's "unidentified tactical officer" (pulls up the Wookieepedia page for "Unidentified tactical officer"); Everett Ross, whose ex-wife finds out about the beads he's been hiding up his butt all those years...
De Fontaine: What about the Beads?
Agent Ross: (scoffs)
...and Val de Fontaine, still a half-baked character no one cares about after three MCU appearances. You know, it's a really long movie, but you can take a pee break whenever they try to make Val happen; it's not gonna happen.
Williams: I'm gonna go to the bathroom.
(montage comparing scenes from the film to Avatar: The Way of Water) So if you only see one sequel full of beautiful underwater photography, about the evils of colonialism from an indigenous perspective, fighting for control of a natural resource that enhances human potential, set among a blue-skinned race who's friends with whales, that introduces the children of the heroes from the first film, and brings back some legendary dead warriors, then... dang, you've got a tough choice on your hands; I guess it depends on how much cry-face you want to look at. (montage of characters tearing up and crying) Pfft! Not gonna get me to cry, though. (shows Shuri's memories of T'Challa) (sobbing) Aw, dang it...!
Starring: Princess Slaya (Letitia Wright as Shuri/Black Panther); Nak'd Up (Lupita Nyong'o as Nakia); Waiting to Impale (Angela Bassett as Ramonda); Maya Man! (Tenoch Huerta as Namor); They Hate Us For Our Freeman (Martin Freeman as Agent Everett K. Ross); Julia Louis-Typecast (Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine); M'Bak in Action (Winston Duke as M'Baku); We Have Robert Downey Jr. at Home (Dominique Thorne as Riri Williams/Ironheart); What Movies Think a College Dorm Room Looks Like (shows Williams' overstuffed dorm room); Blue Meanie (Alex Livinalli as Attuma); Ah, Namor's Female Counterpart "Namora", Very Clever Marvel Comics Writers. You Did It Again (Mabel Cadena as Namora); and The Incredible Restraint to Not Deepfake Chadwick Boseman Here. (Michael B. Jordan as N'Jadaka/Erik "Killmonger" Stevens) Truly the First Time Disney's Let the Dead Rest in Peace. (shows the Tarkin and Leia deepfakes used in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story)
The honest title for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever was ‘Catwoman vs. Aguaman’. Titles designed by Robert Holtby.
Ramonda: I think that one day, artificial intelligence is going to kill us all.
Shuri: My A.I. isn't like the movies, Mother.
Shuri, the threat of A.I. is like the movies to the audience, but to you, it should be way more real. (shows Ultron's assault on Sokovia)
Viewer's Comments[]
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Trivia[]
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Production Credits[]
Voice Narration: Jon Bailey aka Epic Voice Guy
Title Design: Robert Holtby
Written by: Spencer Gilbert, Danielle Radford, Lon Harris, Bailey Meyers
Produced by: Spencer Gilbert
Edited by: Kevin Williamsen
Post-Production Supervisor: Emin Bassavand
Post-Production Coordinator: Mikołaj Kossakowski
Assistant Editor: Rebecca Castaneda
Director of Video Production: Max Dionne
