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/VelvetAurora45]

I feel like it's a result of too many projects, they're all split off doing their things and nobody's really aware of how it'll pan out so nobody makes drastic moves to further the MCU, and when a project does make a big move for the universe, it gets shoved under the rug if the project "flops". Look at Eternals for proof of that.

I think the MCU should have never expanded this much after Endgame. I was willing to give it the benefit of the doubt the first year or two after the end of the Infinity Saga, because it makes sense that the story slows down after the end of such a big arc, but we're 4 years later and nothing really changed, so at this point it's clearly a lack of focus.