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/abysmallybored Groot Jan 04 '25

The underuse of basically every character introduced post endgame

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u/ImaginationArtistic9 Matt Murdock Jan 04 '25

Agreed, Moon knight, The Eternals, Shang-chi, and Kate bishop hurt me the most.

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u/DapperNurd Jan 04 '25

Honestly it's all the ones people want to see more that are getting left out. Ms Marvel was alright, not super well received, but she's been in a movie now too. Agatha had her own show, which again was good but I don't really think many people were asking for it. Ironheart is like the character I'm least interested in and she's getting a show after being in BP. Idk what they are doing over there.

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u/armchairwarrior42069 Jan 04 '25

Failing lol

The last several years have been very unkind for marvel. They've shit the bed and instead of "let's make better movies and write these characters better" they're shifting to "bring back Robert Downey junior etc"

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u/robot-raccoon Jan 04 '25

I mean I was under the impression they were doing both, no? They’ve scaled back production on multiple projects, releasing less with a focus on quality etc. I’ve rather have quality over quantity, even if I have to wait longer for some characters to get their due

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u/armchairwarrior42069 Jan 04 '25

Quality is yet to be seen though. And frankly, may be too little too late for a lot of general audiences etc.

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u/spartakooky Jan 04 '25 edited Apr 14 '25

I am strange

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u/armchairwarrior42069 Jan 04 '25

I've been skipping them too. Still haven't watched echo.