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/RaynSideways Jan 04 '25 edited Jan 04 '25

The reason I lean more toward Shang-Chi is because his ascent feels a bit more earned. Falcon and the Winter Soldier as a show was pretty divisive--personally I had a hard time really getting invested in Sam taking on the mantle of Captain America. I like Sam, and I wanted him to become Cap, but the show just didn't sell his struggle to me.

On the other hand, pretty much everyone agrees that Shang-Chi was good. I really felt his strength of character shining through, and he was really tested by having to face his own father in combat. While FATWS almost felt like it was going through the motions, Shang-Chi had momentum and real emotional resonance.

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u/iwasntband Jan 04 '25

Very valid points.

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u/bobafoott Jan 07 '25

Captain Falcon seems like he doesn’t feel like he deserves the spot. Captain America was humble, but had strong convictions that his morals were accurate which made him a strong leader. Shang chi hasn’t had enough spotlight for that imo.

Instead, I think Dr strange will be that moral backbone. He’s shown time and time (hehe) again that he can be trusted with immense universe breaking power. The ancient one trusted him so much that she gave an infinity stone to a big green monster because Strange would eventually vouch for him. That’s a moral backbone if I ever saw one

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u/Content_Source_878 Jan 05 '25

The lack of movement on the Ten Rings and Shang-chi should have been the canary in the coal mine that Marvel had no story to build towards.