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Don't scare me like that, colonizer!
— Black Panther · 2018
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Shuri's jab is the film's joke about an outsider who walks into the most advanced country on Earth and assumes he is in charge. She is a teenager with her whole lab behind her, and the word colonizer lands as an everyday taunt rather than a speech. It reverses the usual order of who explains the world to whom, which is why fans like it.
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In context
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In Black Panther (2018), CIA agent Everett Ross is badly wounded in Korea and brought back to Wakanda. He wakes up there with Shuri beside him, having been healed overnight by Wakandan technology. He starts awake, Shuri is startled in turn, and she tells him not to scare her like that, colonizer. Ross asks whether this is Wakanda, and when he asks how long ago Korea was, she tells him it was yesterday. He does not believe her, since bullet wounds do not heal in a night.
Sources (2)
- Black Panther (2018) script transcriptRoss wakes in WakandaReference checked
- Black Panther (film), WikipediaCastReference checked
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