‘Marvel’s Avengers’ Wakanda update reckons with colonialism and 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.’”