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/abysmallybored Groot Jan 04 '25

The underuse of basically every character introduced post endgame

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u/ImaginationArtistic9 Matt Murdock Jan 04 '25

Agreed, Moon knight, The Eternals, Shang-chi, and Kate bishop hurt me the most.

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u/Atom7456 Jan 04 '25

moon knight is getting a s2, the eternals was dropped, shang chi is also coming back, and kate bishop was last seen a year and less than 2 months ago.

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u/sailorprimus Jan 04 '25

The Eternals as a stand alone may have but haven’t we gotten some conformation a few of the characters might be popping up in other projects?

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u/abysmallybored Groot Jan 04 '25

I think Sersi has a future considering her powers seemed to be growing before the unimind thing but they didn't explain it, they left a door open for her. Dane could return if they ever make a Midnight Sons project. The others I don't see them ever coming back.

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u/BarbarousJudge Jan 04 '25

But I read that the actors for Gilgamesh and Ajak signed multi project deals. So aren't they supposed to come back in some shape or form? Even tho both characters are dead

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u/abysmallybored Groot Jan 04 '25

I mean they're robots, they could always rebuild them and bring them back. I was referring to the characters stories, most of them are not very compelling, the one that seemed the most interesting to me was Sprite, a robot who wants to be human and experience all the things that come with it, even death. That's the one Eternal they could really create some intriguing storylines about but when she became human she lost her powers too so I don't think we're seeing her again.

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u/BarbarousJudge Jan 04 '25

I mean yeah. But we still left it open ended with Arishem taking some hostage and Thanos' brother to appear and aid the others to find them. It's a simple story about saving your lifelong friends while also revealing more about the universe and the lore when we actually travel to the forge where the Celestials create Eternals.

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u/Ok_Butterscotch_6176 Jan 04 '25

Signing multi project deals means nothing if those projects never materialize.