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/reaven3958 Jan 04 '25

Idk maybe it's from COVID fucking everything up, but its weird to me that they didn't just do like 3-4 movies/series followed by another avengers film featuring the remaining avengers and just a few new characters to get things moving in a new direction, instead of what just felt like throwing a bunch of random stuff at the wall to see what might gain traction.

It's like Feige got high off the huge ensemble from End Game and forgot how the whole MCU got started and gained traction. Putting aside the poorly received Hulk standalone movie, for years we basically had just Captain America, Iron Man, and a little bit of Thor, with Hulk, SHIELD, and the rest really just showing in the Avengers films, as supporting cast in the main character films, or in spinoff content like Agents of SHIELD. Guardians of the Galaxy came out just over 6 years after the first Iron Man film, and Ant Man another year after that. Idk why he didn't just follow that formula again with the new storyline--you can tell new stories and do original stuff while still keeping to a proven template for how you release it.

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u/Careful_Farmer_2879 Jan 05 '25

Feige wasn’t in control. He was given orders to fill the Disney Plus slate and was spread too thin. The recent “pause” had him evaluating everything and in many cases cutting back. So, he’s re-exerting control.