Disney PlusBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Progressive
Viewer Rating
Rating: 7.2
Overview
Queen Ramonda, Shuri, M’Baku, Okoye and the Dora Milaje fight to protect their nation from intervening world powers in the wake of King T’Challa’s death. As the Wakandans strive to embrace their next chapter, the heroes must band together with the help of War Dog Nakia and Everett Ross and forge a new path for the kingdom of Wakanda.
Starring Cast
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Political: Leans Left
Diversity: High
LGBTQ: Neutral
Female Combat: Yes
Race Swap: Yes
Overview
Queen Ramonda, Shuri, M’Baku, Okoye and the Dora Milaje fight to protect their nation from intervening world powers in the wake of King T’Challa’s death. As the Wakandans strive to embrace their next chapter, the heroes must band together with the help of War Dog Nakia and Everett Ross and forge a new path for the kingdom of Wakanda.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
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Analyzing...
Progressive
Primary
The film's dominant themes align with left-leaning values, primarily through its critique of Western powers' attempts to exploit Wakanda's resources and its exploration of anti-colonialism, environmentalism, and the breaking of cycles of violence.
The movie demonstrates significant DEI through its casting, which centers Black and Indigenous characters and features multiple powerful women in lead roles. The narrative further reinforces this by explicitly critiquing colonial histories and Western interventionism, making these themes central to the conflict.
Secondary
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever includes a minor, respectfully depicted romantic relationship between two female Dora Milaje warriors, Aneka and Ayo. Their queer identity is present but incidental to the main narrative, neither significantly uplifting nor denigrating LGBTQ+ themes.
The film features multiple female characters who engage in and win close-quarters physical combat against male opponents. Okoye defeats armed soldiers using martial arts and a spear, while Shuri, as Black Panther, defeats a super-strong general in a physical confrontation.
Namor, a character canonically depicted in Marvel Comics with a Caucasian human father and appearance, is portrayed in the film by an Indigenous actor with a Mesoamerican cultural origin, constituting a race swap.
No established character from the comics or previous film installments has their gender changed. While the Black Panther mantle passes from a male character (T'Challa) to a female character (Shuri), this is a narrative succession within the story, not a gender swap of an existing character.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
7.2
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
User Ratings
6.6
7.0
Critic Ratings
8.4
6.7
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