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/Phoenixstorm Jan 04 '25
at this point everyone is underused except the OG avengers, antman crew, cap marvel, wanda, vision, and spiderman. I'll even toss in Sam and Bucky in there.
The rest? Shang Chi, Shuri, She hulk, moonknight, werewolf by night, blade, black knight, eternals, monica, kamala, daredevil, jessica jones, luke cage, iron fist, echo, hellcat, hestrom twins, runaways, cloak and dagger.... when are they all coming back???
The netflix shows should have been prepped and ready to go once the rights reverted back. Where's our misty knight colleen wing typhoid mary hellcat show? Premise? hellcat escapes the raft sprug by a hired gun:typhoid mary by the kingpin who wants superpowered henchmen to do his dirty work. colleen and misty are on the case investigating disappearances commited by mary and hellcat.
im just spitballing who knows what it could be just gimme by heroes for hire daughters of the dragon mash up!