![]() ![]() ![]() Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther films aren’t just works of adaptation, but reinvention. And like the best villains in any fiction, he’s simply inevitable, the effect of causes that should not have been forgotten. Like the few other good villains in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, he is angry about something that matters, both to other characters in the film and to the real-world cultures he is a stand-in for. This is the first, powerful suggestion that there is an edge to Namor that is both different and familiar, one that, upon close examination, takes the cartoonish rage of the comic book character he’s based upon and roots it in something real. He is also, as he intones to Queen Ramonda, Namor to his enemies. He is K’uk’ulkan, as his people call him. In less than a minute, Tenoch Huerta’s performance adds to the myth, imbuing his first, brief monologue with wonder, curiosity, history, and menace. They call him K’uk’ulkan: the feathered serpent god.” It’s a level of mystique that Namor lives up to the first time he speaks for himself, sneaking into the hidden land of Wakanda. “His people,” Winston Duke’s M’Baku says in one of the film’s most memorable line readings, “do not call him General, or King. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever stresses this about its antagonist, a mysterious, superhuman man who emerges from the ocean’s depths to threaten the film’s heroes. They don’t have a word for what Namor is.
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