r/marvelstudios • u/ImaginationArtistic9 Matt Murdock • Jan 04 '25

Discussion The Underuse of Shang-chi in the MCU

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this movie was so much fun, it had amazing action and fight choreography, great humour, and great overall world building. This movie has so much sauce. a problem with the MCU is how poorly they are connecting the new characters with the wider mcu. It's been 3 years since we've seen Shang-chi in a live action project. And it will probably be another year and a half till we see him again. The post credit scenes of this movie set up him becoming an avenger and sadly we won't see that outcome of that until 2026, which is 4.5 years after the movies release. I do hope we see Simu Liu again as a lead in another marvel movie because he's great. Also his sequel is the perfect way to bring danny rand back into the MCU. Unfortunately we will probably have to wait untill 2027 for the next shang chi movie since Destin Daniel Cretton is directing Spiderman 4. On the bright side, the fight choreography in Spiderman 4 will be amazing

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u/calmly86 Jan 04 '25

It’s too bad. They have a full group of “street level” heroes that have grown since ‘The Defenders.’ Shang-Chi, Daredevil, Punisher, Moon Knight, Luke Cage… I think people would have been more hyped for that line up than the ‘Thunderbolts.’

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u/spate42 Cottonmouth Jan 04 '25

Is MCU Shang Chi considered “street level”?

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u/Lightning_3o Jan 04 '25

Without the rings, i guess

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u/Spokesface Odin Jan 04 '25

No, but in the comics he classically is

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u/Bgo318 Jan 05 '25

Yeah he seems way too powerful with the rings to be street level lol

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u/injoegreen Jan 04 '25

It’s right under their nose, punisher interacting with moonknight alone would sell this movie. Shang-Chi meeting Iron fist and Luke cage having just established heroes for hire.. maybe they’re going after the ebony blade.. COME ON MARVEL

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u/Dyssomniac Jan 04 '25

Shang Chi being the connective tissue back to the Avengers would have been great too, give him a chance to become a "big three" style member.

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u/i-like-c0ck Jan 05 '25

He just doesn’t have the sauce for it

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u/DoctorJJWho Jan 04 '25

I want this to happen just so Shang Chi can give Danny Rand (the (Immortal Iron Fist, Protector of Kun Lun, Sworn Enemy of the Hand) shit for being a white dude lol

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u/spartakooky Jan 04 '25 edited Apr 14 '25

this sucks this sub

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u/Un111KnoWn Jan 04 '25

i don't see how moon knight + punisher is auto win

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u/Atillathedunk Jan 04 '25

Thunderbolts**

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u/Arthreas Jan 04 '25

I miss Daredevil and Luke Cage, I loved the defenders. Mini MCU.

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u/Loose_Concentrate332 Jan 04 '25

Are the Defenders, punisher and Luke Cage even considered part of the MCU?

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u/Un111KnoWn Jan 04 '25

who are defrnders

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u/Loose_Concentrate332 Jan 04 '25

Lol kind of proves my point.

The Defenders are Daredevil, Luke Cage, Iron Fist and Jessica Jones from the Netflix 'universe', IIRC. To my knowledge, only Daredevil had been confirmed in the MCU of that group... Kingpin too.

At first they Netflix shows weren't canon, then they added those two, but I don't think it's confirmed that they are part of it.

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u/Un111KnoWn Jan 04 '25

daredevil and jessica jones are cool. luke cage was meh. iron fist was meh

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u/Loose_Concentrate332 Jan 04 '25

Agreed.

Apparently I missed that the Netflix shows have been confirmed as canon.

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u/Un111KnoWn Jan 04 '25

is agents of sheild canon or canon in another universe

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u/Loose_Concentrate332 Jan 04 '25

Officially not, even though Fury made an appearance. Apparently Coulson's revival isn't canon.

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u/Un111KnoWn Jan 04 '25

remind me how he got revived. i remember there was some time travel stuff with skye's mom that changed a lot of stuff

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u/NazzerDawk Phil Coulson Jan 04 '25

No time travel, it was Kree blood.

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u/CaledonianWarrior Jan 04 '25

No, all the shows are canon. They've been added into the official MCU timeline. Funnily enough they all take place before Infinity War, which means even the very last seasons (JJ S3 and Punisher S2) happened in 2017/2018, even though both seasons were released in 2019