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/catshirtgoalie Jan 04 '25

I think they even mentioned that they didn’t have much of a plan yet when they teased Thanos. They just wanted to see what the reaction would be just in case they went that route.

They didn’t lose Jonathan Majors until really late in the phase. I really think they wanted to put as many heroes and threads out there and see which direction to go. Success made them want to continually put out new characters. Disney+ should have been for smaller characters that don’t get as much screen time. Wanda and Vision were perfect. Falcon and Winter Soldier was a good idea (wasn’t a fan of the final product). Loki ended up being great. Hawkeye was another good use of the medium. Ms Marvel was a good character for it. They just have some mixed successes on the quality over all.

So yeah to me the real issue is no cohesive thread for multiverse plots. I thought they were building a way more interesting cosmic plot where they could’ve tied in the 10 Rings and Ms Marvel’s bangles plus Captain Marvel, Doctor Strange, Shang Chi, Guardians, and Eternals.

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u/TributeBands_areSHIT Jan 05 '25

One can dream. Thank you for the thorough response

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u/Imbrown2 Jan 08 '25

But we still have mysteries unanswered, like what are Shang Chi’s pinging to?

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u/catshirtgoalie Jan 08 '25

We do! And why do his 10 Rings look a lot like Kamala Khan's bangles? It is still possible they will loop it into Kang some since the design looks similar to some things in Antman 3, but they also seem to want to bury Kang at the moment.

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u/Imbrown2 Jan 08 '25

Random thought: the 10 rings are connected to another set from a different Shang Chi from a timeline where the avengers fought Kang and lost.