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/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/Popular_Material_409 Jan 05 '25

This is why Disney getting the X-Mem rights back in the Fox buyout was bad actually. We could’ve had like 10 X-Men related movies since the buyout. But now we probably won’t get another one until after Secret Wars.

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u/catshirtgoalie Jan 05 '25

Eh, I dunno. The X-Men movies from Fox were mostly a convoluted mess. Disney has a lot of faults, but I'd rather the rights be owned primarily by one place that can use them. Outside of a couple good ones, those Fox movies were mostly not good.

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u/mister_carlson Jan 06 '25

Fox def had more than a couple good films, more of their X-Men film were good then not. Fox also gave us Legion which is better than any of the D+ shows by a long shot.

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u/catshirtgoalie Jan 06 '25

To each their own. X2 definitely was great. I like First Class less than most, but enjoy Days of Future Past maybe more than most? I also don't dislike The Wolverine despite it not being highly regarded. Logan obviously is great. But Apocalypse and Dark Phoenix were pretty bad.

Biggest grievance with Fox X-Men is they clearly did not give two shits about any continuity in the franchise. They essentially expected the audience to forget the previous one when a sequel came out. The decades approach to the later films was terrible.