‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’: Namor won’t exactly be a villain in the film, which has a new trailer

One of the highlights of the latest San Diego Comic-Con was the first teaser of the long-awaited “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”, which dealt an emotional blow to us with the first images of the return to Wakanda after Chadwick’s death. Boseman. The film will be released in theaters next November and Marvel Studios just released a new trailer full of action, epic and feeling on the surfaceas well as a new poster that pits the two leading nations.

In addition to giving way to a new Black Panther, which from what we see in the trailer, everything indicates that it will be a woman (it has long been rumored that Letitia Wright’s Shuri is the main candidate), and give us an official look with Ironheart armor, the heroine played by Dominique Thorne, the new trailer shows us Namor showing his powers in all their glory. Ever since we learned that Marvel’s Sub-Sailor would be joining the MCU with this film, his appearance is one of the most curious elements of “Wakanda Forever”.

We recently received confirmation that the character played by Mexican Tenoch Huerta will be a mutant in the Marvel Universe and now, thanks to the actor, we have more details about him. Namor was introduced as the official villain of the film, but we already know that not everything is as black and white with the Marvel antagonists, as we have seen with Michael B. Jordan’s Erik Killmonger. As Huerta specified to Empire magazine (via ComicBook.com), Namor won’t be an old-fashioned villain: “Latin Americans are always the bad guys in Hollywood movies”He says. “And now we are the heroes, or the anti-heroes, as in this case. Latin Americans are doing something to be proud of in Hollywood “.

As we have learned, Namor of the MCU will distance himself from the Atlantean origins of comics to lean on Mayan culture and mythology. Thanks to the anticipations of the ‘Black Panther’ sequel, we know that Namor and his kingdom are at war with Wakanda, although his motives are not entirely clear. Of course, if we look at Marvel’s modus operandi, at the history of comics, and as Huerta anticipates, it is to be expected that Namor is not just a simple antagonist, but behind his actions there will certainly be a more complex story. As he himself says in the trailer, “Only those who have suffered the most can be a great leader”.

Will another key Marvel villain show up?

Although Namor has existed in comics since 1939, his relationship with Wakanda is more recent, starting in the late 1990s with the “Black Panther” era led by Christopher Priest, which developed the rivalry between Atlantis and Wakanda. In the trailer for “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” you can see several elements of those comics, such as the flooding of Wakanda, which has led some to speculate with the possible appearance of a second antagonist who is also part of that same scene: Doctor Death himself.

In the comics, the iconic Victor von Doom declared war on the two kingdoms as the monarch of Latveria, and so his presence would fit the film’s theme, which is about dealing with the leadership of a destroyed nation. That’s why it’s worth wondering if, since, as Huerta anticipates, Namor won’t exactly be a villain, Marvel has an ace up its sleeve and ‘Wakanda Forever’ will be the film that will finally introduce Doctor Death into the UCM. For now it’s just a theory, but we will know for sure. 11 Novemberwhen “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” hits theaters excessively.