Shuri (Black Panther)

* Black Panther
* Shuri

### Relatives

Bashenga † (ancestor), Azzuri † (grandfather), T'Chaka † (father), Ramonda † (mother), T'Challa † (older brother) ,N'Jobu † (uncle), N'Jadaka † (cousin), T'Challa II (nephew)

## Physical description

### Eye color

black

I'm the Black Panther, and I'm here for retribution.—Shuri, *Black Panther: Wakanda Forever*

## Comic History

### Background

Shuri was born in the kingdom of Wakanda to T'Chaka and Ramonda, the king's third wife, and is the half-sister to T'Challa and Jakarra. During her youth, she was overshadowed by the men in her family, and developed a resentment towards T'Challa due to him being next in line for the title of Black Panther. Wanting to claim the title for herself, Shuri traveled to the arena to fight her uncle S'Yan for it, but T'Challa claimed after beating him. Despite the setback, Shuri went on to study in the field of physics as T'Challa became Wakanda's new king.

When noticing something was wrong at the great mound, Shuri disobeyed her half-brother and traveled there, discovering that Klaw was planning an insurrection. Encountering Radioactive Man, Shuri battled him until she killed him with the Ebony Blade, much to her shock. Following the attack, the princess was left traumatized from committing murder, but was able to cope with T'Challa's help in teaching her martial arts. T'Chlla intended to teach Shuri in combat for the chance she could one day take on the mantle of Black Panther and lead Wakanda, and Shuri managed to learn from her half-brother.

After becoming queen, Shuri spoke with the mutant Namor peace treaties between the two nations, but rejected it alongside T'Challa. She then sent her forces to attack Atlantis while Namor celebrated the false treaty, and later returned home to find it in ruins.

### Becoming Black Panther

After T'Challa was wounded by Doctor Doom after being rejected for the Cabal, Storm was positioned as queen, but wanted Shuri to become the next Black Panther. Speaking to the Panther God, it rejected Shuri due to her arrogance and jealousy towards T'Challa, believing she wasn't fit to take on the mantle. Despite this, Shuri donned the panther habit to fight against Morlun, thus proving herself worthy. During her debut as the Black Panther, she worked with numerous heroes, such as the Fantastic Four to stop Doctor Doom's plans to attack Wakanda. She later left Wakanda to stop Klaw from obtaining vibranium across the globe, teaming up with Wolverine, Spider-Man, Black Widow and Shanna the She-Devil.

At some point, T'Challa received the mantle of Black Panther once again, but instead of being the protector of Wakanda, become the champion of the city of the dead. This allowed Shuri to maintain the mantle, as she had to focus on several threats happening, such as the Avengers' war against the X-Men and the Cabal performing an incursion. During the siege of Wakanda, the Cabal managed to take over and started to kill civilians. Shuri worked with T'Challa to stop them, but the former sacrificed herself to allow T'Challa to escape.

### Resurrection

Following her death, Shuri was brought to the realm of the Djalia, where she learned of her ancestor's plane of memories and her culture's history and music. However, she was resurrected by the combine efforts of T'Challa and Manifold, thus developing powers from the plane. After helping T'Challa reform the Dora Milaje, she participated in stopping Tetu's rebellions and was given a seat at the Wakandan council.

## MCU History

Princess Shuri is the daughter of King T'Chaka and Queen Ramonda, sister to T'Challa, and a member of the Golden Tribe. Due to her genius-level intelligence and engineering skills, Shuri led the Wakandan Design Group, who made weapons and equipment from vibranium. Shuri would work on creating many advanced technology for Wakanda, notably the Wakandan Maglev Train.

She also worked on upgrading the Panther Habit, using it to absorb or release energy in battles. Despite the advancements, most tribes looked own about it, seeing it as scoffing Wakandan traditions. The most notable tribe was the Jabari, led by M'Baku, who would later challenge the Golden Tribe. In 2016, T'Chaka was killed in a terrorist attack orchestrated by Helmut Zemo, a former soldier who wanted revenge against the Avengers.

### Black Panther

Shrui attended the return of her brother alongside Ramonda, with T'Challa returning with Nakia and Okoye. She also attended T'Challa's coronation, jokingly raising her hand to challenge him for the crown. The ceremony was interrupted by the Jabari Tribe, with M'Baku challenging T'Challa, and her brother winning the duel.

Before T'Challa's mission in South Korea, Shuri showed him the advances she made to the Panther Habit. She also showed T'Challa new designs, such as the sneakers, and gave him Kimoyo Beads so that she could assist the mission. Shuri proceeded to show the advancements of his suit, such as it being made from nanotechnology, and be put into a necklace.

Shuri assisted T'Challa, Nakia, and Okoye in chasing down Ulysses Klaue in South Korea with her remote car. Despite Klaue destroying it with his prosthetic arm, Black Panther succeeded in apprehending the criminal. When the group returned to Shuri, she was tasked with healing Everett K. Ross, which she succeeding in doing so with their Vibranium technology.

Shuri witnessed the arrival of Erik Killmonger, a Black Ops operative who killed Klaue and challenged T'Challa for the crown. He was revealed to be the son of N'Jobu, Shuri and T'Challa's uncle, and wants revenge for his death at the hands of T'Chaka. She tearfully witnessed the death of Zuri and the defeat and apparent death of T'Challa, and was forced into exile. Once reuniting with T'Challa with the aid of Nakia and the Jabari Tribe, the group decided to take down Killmonger.

Shuri participated in the fight against Killmonger with the help of the Dora Milaje and the Jabari Tribe. T'Challa succeeded in defeating Killmonger with the aid of Shuri activating the train system, causing their Panther Habit's to shut down. She was then tasked with helping build a Wakandan International Outreach Centre in California, as T'Challa would reveal Wakanda to the world.

When T'Challa returned to Wakanda after the Avengers' clash, Shuri was tasked with helping Steve Rogers' friend, Bucky Barnes. Shuri used an algorithm to "rest" Barnes' programming from HYDRA, destroying every code word that would activate him. In addition, she explained to T'Challa that she could use the algorithm to improve Wakandan technology through artificial intelligence, even better than Ultron.

### Avenger: Infinity War/Endgame

When Wakanda was warned of Thanos' invasion for the Mind Stone, going on a crusade to collect the Infinity Stones to wipe out half the universe. When Bruce Banner believed that Vison could survive if the stone was extracted from his head, Steve Rogers decided that Shuri could do so. While the Avengers and the Wankandan military fought off Thanos' army, Shuri was attempting to take out the stone, but was attacked by Corvus Glaive when Scarlet Witch decided to aid her allies in the battle.

Despite attacking Glaive with her gauntlets, she was quickly incapacitated, and failed to extract the stone from Vision's head. After collecting the Time Stone from Doctor Strange on Titan, Thanos came to Wakanda, and succeeded in collecting the Mind Stone by killing the Vision. He wiped out half of the universe, starting the decimation, and Shuri was part of the many who were turned to dust (alongside her brother, T'Challa).

Along with every one who were erased, she was revived along with her brother, Bucky Barnes, Sam Wilson, Wanda Maximoff, and Groot by Bruce Banner with a makeshift infinity gauntlet. Upon her return, she aided her brother, the Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy, and their allies in fighting Thanos and getting the stones back to their times. She was last seen at Tony Stark's funeral, honoring his sacrifice to save the world from the Mad Titan.

### Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Sometime after Thanos' defeat, T'Challa suddenly suffers from a mysterious illness which Shuri believes can still be cured by the heart-shaped herb. She attempts to synthetically recreate the herb after it was previously destroyed by Killmonger, but fails as T'Challa dies peacefully, leaving Shuri heartbroken.

In 2025, while still grieving her brother's death, Shuri had to face a aquatic mutant named Namor and his underwater army called the Talokanil, who wanted to wage war on the surface world and protect their home. As Shuri was trying to protect a student named Riri Williams, Namor proposed her a military alliance, but in the end, the Talokanil declared a massive war on Wakanda, eventually leading to Namor killing Ramonda. Devastated, Shuri yearned for vengeance and managed to synthesize a heart-shaped herb, taking on the mantle of Black Panther. Shuri led the Wakandan army in the final battle against Namor and his army, during which she managed to defeat Namor, but decided to spare his life instead of killing him to avenge her mother's death. As the war ended, Shuri resolved to leave Wakanda, allowing M'Baku to challenge for the throne. She stayed in Haiti, where she is introduced to her nephew T'Challa II by Nakia.

## Trivia

* She is portrayed by Letitia Wright in the Marvel Cinematic Universe