

The movie's soundtrack also includes "A Body, A Coffin," by Amaarae and "Soy" by Santa Fe Klan"-both of which, unlike the Tems and Rihanna tracks, move. The meteor that's theorized to have led to the extinction of the dinosaurs struck there about 65 million years ago.But it's not all tugging on the heart strings fare. It's notable that in the film, a second Vibranium meteorite hits the Yucatan. Namor's mutations earn him the status of the god K'uk'ulkan, which means feathered serpent god since he can inhabit the air, land, and sea. Namor's mother is hesitant since she's pregnant, and the mystical substance gives her son strange mutations like winged feet, pointed ears, long life, and the ability to get oxygen from air or water. Everyone else turns blue and must resort to life in the ocean. In Wakanda, only the monarch ingests the magic elixir. It's this entity that Namor's people pray to when they concoct their own version of the heart-shaped herb potion with their own Vibranium-laced plants.

In mythology, it's the realm of Tlālōc the rain god. Since Western oppression of indigenous people is a running theme in "Wakanda Forever," this callback works on two levels.Ītlantis becomes Talokan, which is a simplified spelling of Tlālōcān, an Aztec dream world. Okoye quips now that she's seen a colonizer in chains, she's seen everything. Later, Okoye and Shuri track Everett down and free him. When he isn't willing to help stage an offensive against Wakanda, he's presumably taken into custody. Here, he finds a bracelet of them at the crash site, which Valentina bugs. In "Black Panther," Everett becomes fascinated by the remote Kimoyo beads that the Wakandans use to stabilize injuries (including his own) and to communicate. When she sees Everett Ross again, she greets him with the same pet name and decides to exchange his debt with her for information about Riri Williams, who designed the Vibranium detector.

Upon their first meeting, Shuri called him a "colonizer." She used it as both a bit of cultural criticism and a cheeky term of endearment. But for now, the MCU is more concerned with his relationship with Shuri, to whom he owes an enormous debt.
