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Wednesday, May 21 2025

In the last of our three-part series on “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” we talk about the two feather serpent gods of Mexico — Quetzalcoatl and Kukulkan — and close out by having our panelists provide their cross-cultural perspectives on the film as a whole and where how they suggest Marvel go next as a follow up to this film.

Panelist Diana Vega loved the representation of her native Yucatan province in Mexico, and would love a future Marvel movie with Tenoch Huerta as the main character with more Indigenous Mexican actors.

Isis Asare looks forward to seeing how Marvel incorporates T’challa’s son in future movies, while John Liang loved how the Mayan language was used in the film. Doni Aldine eagerly anticipates more Wakenda-Talocan interactions, and Hayden Greene loved how the movie made certain statements about world cultures.

This topic was so good it merited three episodes! From cultural perspectives, to discussing strategic alliances and culture vs. canon, Episode 5 keeps the conversation going.

Check out the audio podcast below, and the video version here.

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John Liang

John Liang is an Adult Third Culture Kid who grew up in Guatemala, Costa Rica, the United States, Morocco and Egypt before graduating high school. He has a bachelor's degree in languages from Georgetown University and a master's in International Policy Studies from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. Liang has covered the U.S. military for two decades as a writer and editor for InsideDefense.com, and is also editor-in-chief of Culturs Magazine. He lives in Arlington, Va., U.S.A.

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