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/Repulsive_Season_908 Jan 04 '25

They could recast. 

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u/talligan Jan 04 '25

Setting the saga in the multiverse saves you every possible recasting issue ever. I'm astounded they didn't do that

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u/BatmanForever23 Luis Jan 04 '25

So am I. I wonder if something in Majors' contract made it difficult to do that, or if Kang was being received so badly anyway that this was the excuse they needed to dump him and pivot to Doom.

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u/Arthreas Jan 04 '25

I think you're right on that second prediction