Marvel Fans Are Emotional Wrecks Over T'Challa After What If? Episode 6's Chadwick Boseman Cameo

Marvel What If Episode 6 Had Fans Emotional Over Chadwick Boseman's T'Challa.

By Kofi Outlaw - September 15, 2021 06:35 pm EDT

Marvel's What If...? Episode 6 examines the question of "What If... Killmonger Rescued Tony Stark?". However, what starts off as an alternate version of the original Iron Man movie's origin story quickly veers into an alternate take on Black Panther's saga in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Naturally, exploring a different take on how Wakanda enters the larger MCU had to include a look at where Chadwick Boseman's T'Challa ended up in this new world order - and that turned out to be a pretty traumatic reveal for Marvel fans.

(Mild Spoilers) Let's just say that What If...? Episode 6 hit way too close to home after the real-life death of Chadwick Boseman, including story twists and lines of dialogue that now hit with the impact of emotional wrecking balls:

It Just Hits Different Now

Seeing T’Challa in the Ancestral Plane just kinda hits different…#whatif #Killmonger #WhatIfMarvel pic.twitter.com/WXpv5MiwSD
— Smoked 2 Much (@Smoked2Much) September 15, 2021

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To see T'Challa say "Death is not the end"
and then right in the next episode to find him in the astral plane...
it just hits different. pic.twitter.com/TvkudKA1Ph
— Etwas 🕸 (@donttakeabreak) September 15, 2021

The lines that T'Challa has said in these What If...? episodes (especially this latest one) simply hit too close to home after the real-life death of Chadwick Boseman last fall.

Imagine How Chadwick Felt

I wonder how he felt saying lines like that knowing that he had cancer 😭 pic.twitter.com/LntV99PcOt
— The Sweetie Called Amphitrite 💙 🌊 (@SweetAmphitrite) September 15, 2021

Chadwick Boseman chose to battle his cancer privately, always believing he would conquer it. Still, you have to imagine what courage (and toll) it must've taken to deliver the dialogue in these What If? scenes, so close to the end.

How It Felt For Us

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Watching T’Challa die, a brief funeral, and him in the Wakanda realm while knowing Chadwick isn’t with us. pic.twitter.com/42MGLmdCNR
— SamGammaRays | What If Spoilers (@SamCrow8700) September 15, 2021

Yeah. That image pretty much sums it up. That's how we feel.

It Got Me

Man... #WhatIf #Episode6 really got me
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— Greg Alba (@TheGregAlba) September 15, 2021

So say we all.

Miss My King

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"for T'challa!!"

pls I miss my king pic.twitter.com/gqbZp6XW9s
— jessica_⎊ ⍟ || Rick Daryl stan ¦ what if...? era (@downeyjessevan) September 15, 2021

Chadwick Boseman was truly a king, on and offscreen. And he is definitely missed.

Rain On My Plane

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Seeing t'challa in the ancestral plane got me like: pic.twitter.com/ZWygj5dcyY
— Isaac Hodson (@I_Hodson) September 15, 2021

The Wakandan Ancestral Plane got too real in What If? Episode 6.

Why Are You Like This, What If?

Why does What-If have so much retroactively-sad, touching dialogue from T’Challa pic.twitter.com/Y05W04gFJB
— Kev ∞ 🐸🦉 (@AwestruckVox) September 15, 2021

Seriously though: is What If? going to deliver any happy episodes?

Need Emotional Support

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So you’re telling me not only did we have to watch T’Challa and Rhodey die BUT we had to watch Tony die AGAIN pic.twitter.com/Du10pFM9X1
— 💚ash🐒 (@Niallthemonkey_) September 15, 2021

Seriously though, Marvel may need a fund to pay for all the emotional trauma these What If? episodes are causing.

He Was Always The Best Part

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can we talk about how t'challa is literally the best part of each episode he's in pic.twitter.com/gRW1Ue3p4X
— ethan ψ | saw shang-chi (@wandapilots) September 15, 2021

The MCU (and the world) wouldn't be as good as it is without the contributions of Chadwick Boseman. 'Nuff said.

For T'Challa

Me hearing them yell “For T’Challa” in this weeks What If episode pic.twitter.com/6WoBw9INRW
— Tito (@Tito_Urriola) September 15, 2021

It just means so much more now.

Marvel's What If...? streams new episodes Wednesdays on Disney+.