InBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever(2022), Valentina was revealed as the new director of the CIA.
She tearfully apologizes to her father, admitting that she told someone their location.
Her father, calm but clearly afraid, tells her to hide.
Moments later, a man arrives at the door and speaks cryptically about Valentinas father expecting this result.
He then shoots Valentinas father,presumably killing him.
No further exposition is provided in the film, leavingthe moment deliberately ambiguous.
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However, this scene adds emotional weight to Valentinas otherwise cold and strategic demeanor.
It subtly links her past trauma to her present obsession with control, security, and secrecy.
In the comics, Valentinas parents were resistance fighters who were murdered for standing against authoritarian forces.
Still, without more answers, her full backstory remains one of the MCUs biggest question marks.
OXE acted as one of the Outer Circles scientific arms, dedicated to acquiring and weaponizing secrets.
The MCUs version of OXE appears to merge these elements with Valentinas shady recruitment practices.
Its government-adjacent butultimately loyal to Valentina herself.
Despite the chaos, Valentina is very much alive, and her position within the government seems intact.
This is largely thanks to herfrantic attempts to disguise her actionsby announcing a new Avengers team.
Its implied that OXEs operations may continue, though perhaps with a tie to the new superhero team.
Valentina, in this light, becomes the MCUs dark mirror to Nick Fury.
While Fury believed in assembling heroes to protect the world, Valentina is creating tools to control it.
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