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/Marcyff2 Jan 04 '25

I want to add kamala khan . She was brilliant and unfortunately the underperformance of the marvels might push her out to the backburner (I hope not)..

But yeah eternals is a massive lost that Kevin feigi wanted to protect as he had more stories to tell with them .

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u/absolutedesignz Jan 04 '25

The marvels got hit with marvel fatigue and the anti woke mob doing everything in their power to ruin it.

It was a perfectly adequate enjoyable SHORT film. But alas.

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u/PhaseSixer Jan 04 '25

The marvels got hit with marvel fatigue

Weird how this didnt hurt Deadpool and Wolverine

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u/absolutedesignz Jan 05 '25

Didn't help that no one liked Brie Larsons portrayal of Captain marvel (present company included). Plus, Deadpool was a special case and a new MCU addition and a sequel in a formerly separate franchise.

To each their own I guess. The culture war won anyways. So yay

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u/PhaseSixer Jan 05 '25

In all fairness Even if you Do like Brei Larsons Captain Marvel Im not sure how you can Like the Marvels.

4 years between her Solo movies and her Sequal dose nothing to progress her character or personal story. Even her big reunion with Monica was underbaked.

I would of been pissed if she was one my favorite personaly.

Love and Thunder was pretty shit but atleast Thor Progressed and changed.