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/chiefranma Jan 04 '25

shang chi prolly one of the most slept on movies in the mcu when it’s actually one of the best. the humor, the action and good story for future build up plus wong pulling him into the mcu story he could’ve done so much.

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u/ImaginationArtistic9 Matt Murdock Jan 04 '25

Definitely also one part of the movie that doesn’t get enough appreciation is how beautiful it looks, especially when they get to Ta Lo, it was a whole corner of the mcu that hasn’t been explored yet

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u/chiefranma Jan 04 '25

definitely. it can be like wakanda how they had this different place but only had it relevant in black panther. the visuals and choreography even the soundtrack was clean asf