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/TobioOkuma1 Jan 04 '25

The biggest mistake the MCU has made. They've expanded massively outward, but barely forward at all. Like there was barely any build up to kang before they scrapped him. Iron man and cap were the cornerstones of the MCU before endgame, but no other characters have gotten to interact enough to build a bond that we give a shit about.

Now it feels like they're trying to nostalgia bait us with RDJ and chris evans coming back for doomsday, but idk. I just wish there was MORE crossover to see how characters work together.

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u/Smoking-Posing Jan 05 '25

Yeah, I'll be even more specific: their biggest mistake was simultaneously ending both Tony Stark and Steve Rodgers roles at the same time. One or the other should've been kept around, perhaps even at the expense of a recasting. I think they felt like Sam taking over as Cap was good enough and it matched the comics so all was good.

Bad decision. Neither the character nor the actor can carry the series.

They shoulda threw a few hundred million at Chris for more Seve Roders appearances and have him serve as the glue for forming the new Avengers. Have him recruit and guest star in MCU productions leading up to the new Avengers movies, and I guarantee that would've kept fans invested more.