Marvel Fans Are Not Happy About How One Character’s ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Death Was Confirmed

Black Panther is the Marvel Cinematic Universe‘s crowning achievement. It has the most Oscars (three), the highest Rotten Tomatoes score (97 percent), and it made the most money at the domestic box office ($700 million). Much of Black Panther‘s success must be credited to Shuri (played by Letitia Wright), T’Challa’s genius scene-stealing sister who gets the film’s best joke. Shuri appeared again in Avengers: Infinity War, where she’s attacked by Corvus Glaive before she can finish extracting the Mind Stone from Vision. The last time we see her, she’s unconscious in her lab — it’s unclear whether she survived the Snap, or it was until Marvel released her Avengers: Endgame poster.

— Fandom (@getFANDOM) March 26, 2019

It’s sad but true: Shuri was a victim of the Decimation. (Black and white posters mean dead; color posters equal alive.) This isn’t a total shock after it was hinted in an earlier Endgame trailer, but it’s still odd that Marvel would choose to confirm her death, however (hopefully) temporary, through social media.

This did not sit well with a lot of folks.

— Ash Crossan (@AshCrossan) March 26, 2019

You’re telling me I’ve been thinking Shuri survived the snap for almost a year when really she got dusted Disrespectful pic.twitter.com/kkYlTTkY4c

— caro (@carxlinv) March 26, 2019

you know what’s terrible: we only find out shuri got dusted because of a fucking millisecond in the endgame trailer and now this poster. i-

— OKOYE IS HERE (@avntmay) March 26, 2019

SHURI REALLY IS FUCKING DUSTED MARVEL YOU ARE DEAD TO ME YOU'LL BE HEARING FROM MY LAWYERS pic.twitter.com/L4l9wQiAZk

— gabi (@harleivy) March 26, 2019

I didn't need this news about Shuri.

I need her to save the world! https://t.co/gAcKHb88CW

— Geek "I have nothing to prove to you."Girl Diva (@geekgirldiva) March 26, 2019

DID SHURI NOT SURVIVE THE SNAP!!!! OH MY GOD WHAT pic.twitter.com/D91uZORnBy

— anshe | 30 (@valkyrieIoki) March 26, 2019

They snapped Shuri pic.twitter.com/9NKeXzw6xw

— Victoria Aveyard (@VictoriaAveyard) March 26, 2019

shuri really dusted and they didnt tell us for a full year pic.twitter.com/SsK5YhhqyU

— rey (@incorrectmarvel) March 26, 2019

NOOOOOOO SHURI GOT DUSTED TOOOO WTF #AvengersEndgame #AvengeTheFallen I HOPE CAPTAIN MARVEL BEATS THANOS’ RAISIN ASS WTF pic.twitter.com/aFKTCP8Wb1

— zrhueiao (@zrhueiao) March 26, 2019

It’s possible that Shuri will appear in Endgame, though (and Black Panther 2, one would think). She has a poster, and last year, when Angela Bassett was asked if her character Queen Ramonda died after the snap, she replied, “No. Neither did my daughter. Shuri, she’s a bright girl there in Wakanda. So…” Maybe Marvel is saving her reintroduction for when she asks “what are those!” about Thanos’ Infinity Stones before kicking him back to his space-chair.

— payel (@msmrveI) March 26, 2019

Good ending, imo.