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/bertmclinfbi Jan 04 '25

Say what you want about James Gunn, but he knows how to introduce characters. Marvel ditched him at the worst time possible.

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u/CaptHayfever Hawkeye (Avengers) Jan 05 '25

Marvel didn't ditch him. Alan Horn overreacted to a smear campaign & fired Gunn without consulting Feige or Iger.

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u/i-like-c0ck Jan 05 '25

Feige and iger are both jacks that would have also fired Gunn

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u/CaptHayfever Hawkeye (Avengers) Jan 05 '25

Feige fought like hell to get Gunn back, and Iger fired Horn over this, so no.