Gut-wrenching 'Black Panther' deleted scene shows T'Challa's grief

As always, you can find us obsessing over every new morsel of Black Panther we can get our hands on. And the latest is sure to elicit a somber "Wakanda forever" from fans.

Yesterday we shared a deleted scene between Okoye and W'Kabi. This new deleted scene is shorter, but equally as riveting and revealing.

Taking place right after T'Challa wakes up from his heart-shaped herb slumber and first visit to the ancestral plane, it provides some beautiful backstory for T'Challa, his late father T'Chaka, and long-time advisor Zuri.

T'Challa is processing his emotions, not only as the newly crowned King of Wakanda, but as a grieving son coping with the legacy and loss of his father (via Entertainment Weekly).

At first, he shares loving memories of his King-father at his prime. "My whole life I would watch him, wearing the suit. He could pick up a grown man with one hand, run as fast as a zebra,” he reminiscences.

Meanwhile, Zuri adds much-needed comic relief. "He told me he was too fat to fit the suit."

The scene also explains exactly how T'Challa took up his father's mantle as the Black Panther, in events that preceded Captain America: Civil War.

But T'Challa continues to wrestle with how he could not save his father from the attack at the UN. He asks Zuri why T'Chaka, who always raised his son to protect Wakanda and not trust the outside world, changed his mind -- which ultimately lead to his death.

"Time," Zuri answers. "It has a way of making you look back on the things that you have done."

Like everything in Black Panther, the scene has so many layers. It's not only establishing character relationship, emotional arcs, and backstory -- but also foreshadowing to what we learn later.

T'Challa asks Zuri if he ever thinks back to his days as a "War Dog." Zuri evades the question, probably because this was when he made the grave mistake of killing N'Jobu, Killmonger's father and T'Challa's uncle.

It's understandable why the scene was ultimately cut, but for Black Panther obsessives (hi hello that's us), it's more of what we love and can't wait to get more of in the sequel.

You can rewatch Black Panther and more extras when it's released on digital download May 8.