‘Marvel’s Avengers’ Wakanda update reckons with colonialism, Black Panther’s legacy.

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‘Marvel’s Avengers’ Wakanda update reckons with colonialism, Black Panther’s legacy.
“It’s about them allying with Wakanda,” Judge said.
“Once you become a character, you take ownership of that character.
So I went into it knowing that, at every instance, I would be argumentative.
Because I still thought it was going to be the Avengers coming to save Wakanda.
I had a ton of different iterations ready where I’d say, ‘T’Challa would never say that.'”

But then he heard whom developer Crystal Dynamics brought in as narrative consultant for “War for Wakanda,” the long-awaited next chapter for last year’s Avengers game.
It was Evan Narcisse, the writer behind the popular and celebrated “Rise of the Black Panther” comic series and a former video game journalist.
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“See, they didn’t tell me Evan was on it!” Judge said, laughing.
“So needless to say, I never got an opportunity to say that.”

Indeed, Narcisse tells The Post that he was very conscious of the image of the mostly White Avengers team (plus Kamala Khan a.k.a.

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