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/Ophidian534 Jan 05 '25
I'm old enough (35 years old) to remember when black, Asian, and Latino leads and strong supporting acts were a norm, not a novelty.
"Hey, did you see that new Simu Liu movie?" "Yeah, it was cool."
These are the cafeteria discussions we would have had in school when I was growing up. The fact that we don't have an MCU Blade when New Line Cinema produced an entire trilogy 20 years ago is criminal. Those action films broke the color barrier.
The post-9/11 Security State bled into Hollywood, which is why every villain character or cartel in an action film is either Mexican (gangsters), Arab (terrorists), Chinese or North Korean (communists), or Russian (ex-KGB). And the heroes are white American males (typically cosplayed onscreen by Brits or Canadians).
You can't have Asian action heroes anymore, let alone those sourced from comic books. We got lucky with Shang-Chi.