Who knows, maybe Mr. and Mrs. Nakia will pop up in Black Panther 2.
At least Coogler had the foresight to realize what he did and didn’t need for Black Panther.
Just because they didn’t appear in the first movie, it doesn’t necessarily mean the franchise will never visit them again.
Alongside Nakia’s parents, we already know that a romance between Okoye and Ayo was cut from the finished product, leading us to question what else was scrapped in the early stages of Black Panther.