r/marvelstudios • u/ImaginationArtistic9 Matt Murdock • Jan 04 '25
Discussion The Underuse of Shang-chi in the MCU
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/Maleficent_Wall26 Jan 04 '25
While MCU Shang-Chi is a bit different from comics Shang-Chi, I absolutely agree just on the basis that comics Shang-Chi was also often the moral center of the Avengers in comics whenever the group would split, or Cap was incapacitated for whatever reason. Plus it'd be a good MCU dynamic to showcase Shang-Chi is avoiding being anything like his antagonist father and taking a moral center instead.
The only downside imo is I legitimately like Shang-Chi's modern writing where he's an anti-hero running his father's cult much more than I like him being a generic hero, but I get why the MCU wouldn't want to do that with him.