Summary

  • Storm and Black Panther's grandchildren are introduced in a new comic, hinting at a potential rekindling of their relationship.
  • Previous stories have explored the idea of Ororo and T'Challa having children in the future.
  • Despite their rocky past, the depiction of T'Fuma and Zalika as future grandchildren suggests a happy reunion for Storm and Black Panther.

Warning: Spoilers for Marvel Voices: Legends (2024) #1 ahead!Although may yet rekindle their connection. Despite the events of X of Swords making their reunion unlikely, this new story gives readers a glimpse at what Ororo and T'Challa's grandchildren might be like.

The final story in Marvel Voices: Legends (2024) #1 is "The World Is Not Ready" by Sheree Renée Thomas, Julian Shaw, and Carlos Lopez. Set in a future Wakanda, "The World Is Not Ready" introduces readers to siblings T'Fuma and Zalika, T'Challa and Ororo's rambunctious (and super-powered) grandchildren.

Four Dora Milaje women wielding spears and in ceremonial robes flank two small children (a boy and a girl), each pointing at the other. A broken widescreen television juts out of the wall between them, wrecked and smoking. Adebisi, the head of the Dora Milaje, apologizes, while T'challa (entering the ) comments on how the wall is made of Vibranium and Adamantium; shattering it like this shouldn't even be possible.

In an attempt to calm T'Fuma and Zalika down and spare the palace further destruction, T'Challa tells them stories of his and Ororo's adventures together in a full-page montage that references several key moments of their relationship. After T'Fuma and Zalika fall asleep, Storm arrives and lovingly embraces T'Challa.

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Storm and Black Panther's Grandchildren Put A New Spotlight On Their Relationship

Left: Storm, in a ragged shift, plows through a crowd of soldiers harassing a young T'challa. Top, Center: Storm and T'challa embrace in a ionate kiss, celebrating their marriage. Top, Right: the Avengers battle the X-Men as T'challa declares his marriage with Storm annulled. Bottom, center: T'challa, an old man, holds a girl in a pink shirt and a boy in a blue shirt in his lap.

This is hardly the first time Marvel has explored Ororo and T'Challa's potential progeny. Three years after their marriage in 2006, their children, Sh'ri and T'Chaka II, appeared in the alternate universe of Jeff Parker, Salva Espin, and Tony Washington's Exiles (2009). In Avengers Academy (2010) #12, the hero Finesse channels the skills of the future hero "Sky Panther" - a woman who carries both Storm and T'Challa's motifs in her costume. Shortly after, Wolverine & The X-Men (2013) #36 introduced Kymera, Ororo's daughter from an alternate future, whose animal powers imply T'Challa to be her father.

Avengers Academy (2010) #12 is by the team of Christos Gage, Tom Raney, Jeromy Cox, and Scott Hana; Wolverine & The X-Men (2013) #36 is by the team of Jason Aaron, Giuseppe Camuncoli, Andew Currie, Matt Milla, and Edgar Delgado.

Critically, however, T'Fuma and Zalika are not depicted as alternate universe characters, but Ororo and T'Challa's future grandchildren, implying a happy reunion for the couple. Things have been rocky between the pair ever since Ororo's pilfering of a sacred Wakandan relic during the X of Swords event, and Storm is quite happy with her current lover, astronaut Craig Marshall. Highlighting the past relationship between Ororo and T'Challa in such a romantic way frames their relationship as much more of a certainty than it would currently seem, setting the stage for a potential reunion.

Marvel Voices Predicts Storm and Black Panther Getting Back Together

An aged storm leans in a doorway, her black uniform accented by golden inlay. She approaches a white-beareded T'challa, who stands in a purple coat, and they embrace while marveling about what their grandchildren will do in the future.

Even if T'Fuma and Zalika are not Ororo and T'Challa's grandchildren by blood (though it seems they are, given their wind-and-electricity-based powers), "The World Is Not Ready" still frames them as being in a loving relationship in their old age. There is a lot of wiggle room here, and the future is anyone's guess, but Storm and Black Panther's relationship seems more likely to return now than it has in years.

Marvel Voices: Legends (2024) #1 is available now from Marvel Comics.

Marvel Voices: Legends #1 (2024)
Marvel's Voices Legends Cover featuring Sam Wilson as Captain America, Eli Bradley as Patriot, and other black heroes.
  • Writers: John Jennings, David F. Walker, Angélique Roché, Justina Ireland, Ezra Claytan Daniels, Sheree Renée Thomas
  • Artists: Eder Messias, Jonas Trindade, Karen S. Darboe, Sean Damien Hill, Oren Junior, Julian Shaw
  • Colorists: Andrew Dalhouse, Carlos Lopez, Espen Grundetjern
  • Letterer: Ariana Maher
  • Cover Artists: Canaan White, Frank D'Armata