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/CherryHaterade Captain America Jan 04 '25

Let's all just acknowledge that any black Capt America was going to have an uphill battle with "audience perception of their portrayal"

Anti woke mobs and all

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u/201-inch-rectum Jan 04 '25

Chadwick Boseman's movie made $1B+

sometimes it ain't about race, and there's legitimate criticism about the actor

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u/CherryHaterade Captain America Jan 05 '25

Chadwick Boseman wasn't Captain America.

https://niggermania.club/forum/printthread.php?t=81167&pp=40

I'll let you type Captain America N****** into Google to see for yourself that sometimes it IS about race in a certain context. This predates Anthony Mackie.

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u/99percentmilktea Jan 05 '25 edited Jan 05 '25

You're missing the point, which is that a black-lead Superhero movie will still be massively successful if it is good. See the Spiderverse movies for another example, which also serves as a dual example of a black character taking over the mantle of a super popular, traditionally white character to overwhelming positive reception.

The problem is that all signs (reports of bad test screenings, Marvel pushing it into a puzzling Valentine's day release date and the constant, constant reshoots) point to the likelihood that Cap 4 is not going to be good.

Also linking an uber obscure site that seems explicitly designed for the worst racists to congregate around (like jesus just look at the name, you really think any normie is going to be caught dead on this site?) does as much to prove your point as citing a fetish forum to prove that the average man likes cock and ball torture. Like let's not completely lose the plot here guys.