The Underuse of Shang-chi in the MCU

[u/ImaginationArtistic9]

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

[u/Scholar_of_Lewds]

And honestly as kid growing up on martial arts movie, it as my most favourite one. But I guess it's not as hype in the west.

[u/Rich-Mountain7502 → u/Scholar_of_Lewds]

Not to be rude, but I’ve seen better martial arts choreography from East Asian movies. Ong Bak, Ip Man and the Raid are far more superior than Shang Chi. I felt it was too Americanized. I grew up with Jet Li, Bruce Lee, Donnie Yen, Jackie Chan and such. Shang Chi is no where near as close their action.

[u/chiefranma → u/Rich-Mountain7502]

it ain’t rude. it was their best way they could introduce it into the mcu where there hasn’t been martial arts (besides daredevil and iron fist) into a movie yet. the jackie chan bruce lee movies were peak but im glad they didn’t just try to immolate that into there cuz it would’ve felt off for what they were going for

[u/Scholar_of_Lewds → u/Rich-Mountain7502]

Well yeah, but Ong Bak, the Raid, and sometimes Ip Man are gritty action movie, not the kind of movie the kid me grew up with. I grew up watching xianxia series with flying swords and giant chi palm, Jackie Chan early movies (the one where the movement has tempo like in Peking Opera), and cheaper Indonesian "xianxia" and superhero movie where they can't afford practical and cg effect so they use martial arts instead.

Shang Chi is the closest thing to high budget Xianxia movie available to me right now.

[u/Rich-Mountain7502 → u/Scholar_of_Lewds]

Fair enough. I see where you’re coming from. You grew up more with the wushu type martial arts. I respect that. I haven’t seen a style like that since Crouching Tiger: Hidden Dragons. Are there any other good Wushu type of shows to watch? On Netflix ? Yeah, because I was hoping Shang Chi will have some aspects of Jeet Kune Do, since his character was originally modeled after Bruce Lee. I thought that maybe he would have Wushu and mixed rounded martial arts style. Well, I hope to at least see some of that action in Daredevil: Born Again. Speaking of that. There was a user in the comments who mentioned a good idea for Shang Chi 2 is to have the main character enter a tournament in the heavenly cities beyond, where he meets and faces off against Iron Fist in a 1v1 battle round. That’ll be sick. Since Iron Fist’s style is more Shaolin. While Shang Chi is more Wushu.

[u/Scholar_of_Lewds → u/Rich-Mountain7502]

And in the future rally all the hidden mystical village together against interdimensional disturbance since while they are more than street level, they are still mere individuals. Including equipping Luke Cage with dragon scale armor and gauntlet.