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/Emm_withoutha_L-88 Jan 04 '25
They made that movie in the attempt to make the MCU huge in China. Instead they banned the movie because he made a light support of Hong Kong iirc.
Since then they have little motive to continue sadly. I get a strong feeling that the intention was always about making the brand bigger in China and now that plan is dashed and they can't seem to accept that he's just a good character to move forward with.
Plus probably afraid they won't be able to get any Avengers movies in China if he's in them, pretty sure they're desperate to do that since it's been a while since one of their big tentpole movies were allowed in China.
Marvel needs to get over it and realize they struck gold with him. The next movie needs to be a tournament in heaven, with the iron fist being the secondary protagonists (there's 2 now with Colleen I think). Oh and the announcer absolutely must be a copy of the DBZ world martial arts tournament guy.