It makes absolutely no sense for that to happen though. Why would Bucky, who only came to Wakanda to get fixed up as penance for T'Challa being a vengeful idiot who only saw red and didn't try to get actual answers at first, and to help out his new buddy Cap, suddenly become the King and protector of the entirety of Wakanda? And "white wolf" isn't a persona, it's just what the Wakandan's(mainly children) who didn't know who he was called him.
And Cap didn't screw Bucky over, as Bucky never wanted the highly publicized and government overseen life of Captain America. He just wanted to be left alone and help his friends if they needed it. Sam was the one who was basically Cap's protege.
Bucky's time in Wakanda played a huge part in his reformation into a hero.
And I'm saying "White Wolf" could become his persona, because it was already set up(even T'Challa called him by that.)
Moreover, I'm not suggesting that Bucky becomes the King of Wakanda -- just that he fills the shoes of BP in the sense that he fights for the Wakandans and whatnot. He fills the hero/warrior role, while Shuri fills the King/scientist role.
I know it would never happen that way, though. Shuri *poofing* into the next BP is the obvious choice from Disney's POV.
You don't have to become the public figurehead that Cap was, to inherit his shield.
Cap giving it to Sam instead of Bucky never sat well with me, but that's neither here nor there.
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Chiwetel Ejifor would've been the logical choice to recast. Same age as Boseman and has real life martial arts ability. But he's already in Dr Strange.
The other possibility would've been Michael B Jordan...oops.
Hopefully they don't recast as we'd probably end up with John Boyega.
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At the end of the day, given the existence of Shuri, it would be a bizarre move to recast the character.
I could understand if they were in the middle of shooting the sequel, but that isn't the case.
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Yeah, I'm having some people over tonight for dinner and afterwards we've decided to get blitzed and rewatch Black Panther in his memory.
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In this day and age I am surprised he was able to keep his illness a secret.
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I also don’t think they’ll necessarily kill the character. Maybe he’ll just hang up the mantle and retire or something, citing the events of Infinity War and Endgame as being too much for him to handle. We will likely see some CGI recreations of him in the future.
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