within the last year or two, I've become more and more of a Marvel movie fan, but I didn't quite follow the significance of the last post credit scene in Black Panther (not the one poking Trumps build walls), but the last one. Any help?
2) Shuri wakes up Bucky Barnes, the Winter Soldier, and introduces him to Wakanda
Black Panther’s post-credits scene opens with a few kids staring right at us. It’s filmed from a first-person point of view, but we won’t find out whose eyes we’re looking through until later in the scene. The person is just waking up, and these kids are the first things they see. We watch through this mystery person’s eyes as the kids run out of the room.
Then the camera quickly shifts from the first-person point of view to a wide shot of T’Challa’s sister Shuri, standing outside by a lake. The kids we just saw come running out of a house to greet Shuri. Bucky Barnes, the Winter Soldier, follows them out — we were seeing his point of view all along — and introduces himself. She informs him that he’s in Wakanda, and the scene cuts away as they set out together, presumably so she can teach him about the country.
What it means:
This scene is actually a major callback to one of the credits scenes from Captain America: Civil War. In that scene, T’Challa promised to take care of Bucky and rehabilitate him after Bucky had his metal arm shot off. Bucky told Cap that until they figured out how to counteract the brainwashing he’d been exposed to, putting him into some sort of hibernation or stasis pod was the best way forward.
The Black Panther credits scene suggests that Shuri — the genius behind all of Wakanda’s most impressive technological advancements — has since figured out how to fix Bucky’s brainwashing. In the movie, we see Shuri heal bullet wounds in a matter of a few days, so removing Cold War brainwashing seems like something that she’s fully capable of.
The scene also functions as a preview of Avengers: Infinity War and hints at a new mystery. As the first trailer for Infinity War revealed, Captain America, Bucky, Falcon, and Black Widow are all in Wakanda, but it’s still not entirely clear why.
Originally, the Captain America credits scene had made it seem like Cap was leaving Bucky in Wakanda for treatment, then heading somewhere else. But it’s explained in Black Panther that Wakanda is capable of concealing itself from the outside world. So the Black Panther credits scene suggests that, since Captain America, Falcon, and Black Widow are on the run from the US government and probably the UN as well, they might have found a prime hiding place in the one country on Earth that can make itself invisible.
I've been wanting to see that again. When I was younger, I took a fly fishing trip out west and visited a lot of the spots in the movie. Absolutely breathtaking scenery!
