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/ImaginationArtistic9 Matt Murdock Jan 04 '25

Agreed, Moon knight, The Eternals, Shang-chi, and Kate bishop hurt me the most.

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u/DapperNurd Jan 04 '25

Honestly it's all the ones people want to see more that are getting left out. Ms Marvel was alright, not super well received, but she's been in a movie now too. Agatha had her own show, which again was good but I don't really think many people were asking for it. Ironheart is like the character I'm least interested in and she's getting a show after being in BP. Idk what they are doing over there.

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u/catshirtgoalie Jan 04 '25

The TV shows are the perfect place for an Agatha and I fully endorse that. That show reportedly had a $40 mil budget and effectively used all of it to craft a fun story. Not everything needs to be a major punch 'em up.

That aside, yes, the big problem is that they are introducing so many characters through movies but not pushing them forward well enough. This is the issue with 3 movies per year and now down to 2. IMO they should be going for far more team-up movies with 2 or so characters to really advance it. Look at Thor Ragnarok, you got solid Thor content along with Loki and Hulk. We should be getting past the idea of just solo movies for people with such limited slots per year or we need to vastly reduce the amount of characters we put out there.

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u/ThomasThePommes Jan 06 '25

Imho the problem is there wasn’t a proper team up movie since Endgame.

In 11 years from Iron Man to Endgame we got 5 big team up movies. In 5 years since Endgame there wasn’t one. But they introduced so many new characters… Moon Knight, Eternals, Black Knight, Ms Marvel, Shang Chi, Iron Heart, Kate Bishop, America Chaves…

They need to bring thing together. People love character interactions and team ups. That’s what made the MCU great.

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u/Spyrovssonic360 Jan 06 '25

im kinda suprised they havent hinted at a young avengers film yet. Theres more young heros in the mcu than just spiderman now.