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Immediately following Kendrick Lamar’s halftime performance at the college football championship game between Georgia and Alabama, a new song from Kendrick and Vince Staples ushered in one of the final looks at Marvel’s Black Panther before it drops on February 16th.
The “special look” was a mix of new and old. We’ve seen T’Challa returning home after his father’s death in Captain America: Civil War as the king of Wakanda multiple times, but now we’re seeing the internal struggles of his people jockeying for a new leader that might not be him. Amidst the new footage of T’Challa fighting in unarmed combat and getting a feel of his new digs, we see the big bads like Andy Serkis and Michael B. Jordan.
The new #BlackPanther trailer has arrived 🙌pic.twitter.com/9gHDxRD65z
— UPROXX (@UPROXX) January 9, 2018
Through a growing collection of trailers and teasers (with the international trailer still ranking among the best), Black Panther looks like everything people love about Marvel movies mixed with a story we haven’t seen twenty times over. It feels fresh, it feels new, and it feels important. This is not only culturally relevant right now, but it also marks the beginning of a new beginning in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Soon, Thanos will lay waste to the Avengers and the collected heroes around the galaxy, and Black Panther is expected to take up the banner in the coming years.