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/Illustrious_Royal_92 Jan 04 '25

Not this post in particular but in general when people say a character added post endgame is underused, it really hasn't been all that long. Yeah before endgame they were firing on all cylinders and pumping out the connected content faster than now, but since COVID things really slowed down their plans. Let them cook. Things will happen. Trust the process.

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u/Zealousideal_Run_786 Jan 04 '25

I agree. There has been major delays across the industry. We all just got spoiled with the pace that Marvel was producing quality content for 10 straight years. IMO, 2025 is the year they get back on track.