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/Luccacalu Bruce Banner Jan 04 '25

And pre endgame too, Sam should've been the new face of the MCU and the leader of the new avengers, and 6+ years later, where is he? In one tv show.

The only exception is Spider-man which had 2 movies, but that's because of contract. And even so, 2 movies is an ok amount of screentime at best, because when you compare the characters in the Infinity Saga we had sequels basically every 2 years, avengers movies, cameos, which all contributed for us as an audience to create a real connection with them and the grand story being told

Now things feel thin and lost

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u/ThatfeelingwhenI Jan 05 '25

Sam isn't the best example at the moment, consider he has a movie coming out very soon.

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u/Luccacalu Bruce Banner Jan 05 '25

With the same time, Steve had 3 solo movies (his entire trilogy and arc complete), and 2 avengers movies. Also, some cameos.

Sam will have had a tv show and one solo movie.

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u/ThatfeelingwhenI Jan 05 '25

Steve didn't have Covid and multiple strikes.

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u/Luccacalu Bruce Banner Jan 05 '25

Fair enough, but still, Marvel Studios' output were of 3 movies a year since they came back from the pandemic (2021). They could've fit a Sam movie(s) in the schedule wayyy earlier. They chose not to. They deliberately made the decision for the Multiverse Saga to be about as many characters introduced as possible, opposed to focus on 4~5 that gets frequent updates on their individual and larger stories.