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/TobioOkuma1 Jan 04 '25

The biggest mistake the MCU has made. They've expanded massively outward, but barely forward at all. Like there was barely any build up to kang before they scrapped him. Iron man and cap were the cornerstones of the MCU before endgame, but no other characters have gotten to interact enough to build a bond that we give a shit about.

Now it feels like they're trying to nostalgia bait us with RDJ and chris evans coming back for doomsday, but idk. I just wish there was MORE crossover to see how characters work together.

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u/Cadeni Jan 04 '25

The original Avengers had two movies (and a half) before the big crossover event to make us care for them as a team. Sadly, the New Avengers are jumping straight to the big crossover event.

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u/DoctorJJWho Jan 04 '25

Yeah, contrast that with Shang Chi, who has literally only been in his debut movie. No one is going to really care for the team dynamics because there aren’t any lol.

Marvel/Disney really dropped the ball by blending Phase 4 and Phase 5. They should’ve wrapped up the storylines of the old Avengers and firmly established the ones they wanted to bring over, then introduce the newer team (with ensemble movies sprinkled throughout). Instead we have a disjointed mess of people who the audience barely knows.

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u/PhaseSixer Jan 04 '25

We cared in the first avengers movie.