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Shang - Chi

I have never heard of this character. I played a lot of Marvel games, watched animated series, and read some of the big stories in the comics. I have no clue who he is and I am surprised they are giving him a movie. If he gets a movie any character is possible I guess. I will trust Marvel but they maybe putting some fandoms to the test with this one. I expect the movie to be slotted towards the end of the phase. They may drop hints of him in other movies maybe even have him be in another like Black Panther and Spider-Man were in Cap 3.
 
I have never heard of this character. I played a lot of Marvel games, watched animated series, and read some of the big stories in the comics. I have no clue who he is and I am surprised they are giving him a movie. If he gets a movie any character is possible I guess. I will trust Marvel but they maybe putting some fandoms to the test with this one. I expect the movie to be slotted towards the end of the phase. They may drop hints of him in other movies maybe even have him be in another like Black Panther and Spider-Man were in Cap 3.

I don't. I think most are expecting this to be one of the 2021 releases. Even fans never hearing of him isn't a big deal because the general audience never heard of Ant-Man, Captain Marvel, the Guardians and they definitely wouldn't have heard of the Eternals. As long as the character brings something fresh and fits the MCU. Which, he was an Avenger at one point in the comics
 
As an Asian American, I am happy to see this move forward. I was fine with Benedict Wong and Ming Na, but this is even better!
 
Also know nothing about this character, I see the director did that film with Michael B Jordan and Jamie Foxx, I'm looking forward to that so I'm definitely interested in what he does with this.
 
I have never heard of this character. I played a lot of Marvel games, watched animated series, and read some of the big stories in the comics. I have no clue who he is and I am surprised they are giving him a movie. If he gets a movie any character is possible I guess. I will trust Marvel but they maybe putting some fandoms to the test with this one. I expect the movie to be slotted towards the end of the phase. They may drop hints of him in other movies maybe even have him be in another like Black Panther and Spider-Man were in Cap 3.

It's like you haven't been paying attention to what the MCU has been doing all these years :hehe:
 
I don't. I think most are expecting this to be one of the 2021 releases. Even fans never hearing of him isn't a big deal because the general audience never heard of Ant-Man, Captain Marvel, the Guardians and they definitely wouldn't have heard of the Eternals. As long as the character brings something fresh and fits the MCU. Which, he was an Avenger at one point in the comics
It's like you haven't been paying attention to what the MCU has been doing all these years :hehe:
Yeah most GA have not heard of those. Even as a fan never heard of GOTG until it was announced.
I think it made it easier to get into those because of what phase 1 established, you knew after Avengers they were building towards Thanos and a big deal at the end of phase 3.

Like most things announced now a days I just don't get that excited for until I see something for it. Especially with them going in a different kind of direction after Endgame. We have no idea what they have planned. They will still have Spider-Man, BP, Strange, CM, Ant-Man sequels coming to keep the same feel from the past phases. They always introduced 1-2 new ones once phase 2 hit. That does not seem like it will change.

Even though at the moment I am meh towards Black Widow, Eternals, and this. I will probably end up seeing them on Thursday Preview night and get more interested when the trailers/teasers get out for them.
 
I hope they do something with Namor if Universal rights were released back or some deal was made.
Namor is supposedly like Hulk where he can pop up in other films but Universal has distribution rights
 
Great choice! Short Term 12 was fantastic! I'm even more excited for this movie now!
 
I wonder what the scale of the movie will be. Is it supposed to be Marvel’s take on a martial arts movie? Box office wise, I don’t see it being huge, and more similar to Ant-man.
 
I wonder what the scale of the movie will be. Is it supposed to be Marvel’s take on a martial arts movie? Box office wise, I don’t see it being huge, and more similar to Ant-man.
Yeah this and Widow seem like the smaller scale movies along with Ant-Man 3 when that comes out. Dr.Strange and BP are more likely the bigger impact movies. GOTG3 would have been too but who knows now.
 
Wow this is excellent news! I can’t wait for Shang to get his own board! I’m dying to know more, I wasn’t expecting this so soon. Honestly I thought the eternals casting news would happen first.

There’s so many great candidates to play Shang
 
I have never heard of this character. I played a lot of Marvel games, watched animated series, and read some of the big stories in the comics. I have no clue who he is and I am surprised they are giving him a movie. If he gets a movie any character is possible I guess. I will trust Marvel but they maybe putting some fandoms to the test with this one. I expect the movie to be slotted towards the end of the phase. They may drop hints of him in other movies maybe even have him be in another like Black Panther and Spider-Man were in Cap 3.
Shang Chi is a badass character. His basically Bruce Lee with superpowers and a immortal supervillain dad that controls a army of ninjas and assassins.

Shang's dad Zheng Zu did try to marry off one of his daughters to Black Panther in the comics in the hopes of gaining power over Wakanda/Africa. Not sure if that will feature in the movies.

Shang Chi's Powers and abilities

Shang's father had his son trained by the best fight instructors in the world expert in all known forms of terrestrial martial arts. Shang is able to equal or even beat superhumans despite the fact he technically doesn't have superpowers although he sort of does (more on that later).

Shang is formidably with martial arts weapon and is skilled at improvising weapons out of ordinary objects in his environment. Like Jason Bourne he can use anything in his surroundings as a weapon. His weapon of choice in the comics are usually nunchucks and Tony Stark gave him a pair that discharging electricity when he joined the Avengers. He used to use throwing stars and knives back in the old comics.

So on the whole powers thing. Shang Chi doesn't have powers besides the ability to create duplicates of himself which developed in the recent comics and probably won't feature in the movies.

Shang didn't take a super serum or get blasted by Gamma rays or bitten by a radioactive spider but Shang Chi's abilities and skills do put him on a level that is pretty much superhuman.

Shang-Chi is a master of meditation and relaxation techniques. He is capable of receive psychic premonitions, limit the spread of toxins in his blood stream, and render his pain receptors insensitive. Mastery of chi allows him to disperse physical trauma across his entire body (as opposed to accumulating at any single point) and strike with enough force to break through reinforced steel. On many occasions, he has also demonstrated the ability to dodge and deflect bullets from automatic weapons after they've been fired, and he is quick and agile enough to keep up with the likes of Spider-Man. Shang trained Spider-Man in martial arts in the comics.

Shang Chi doesn't have super senses like Daredevil but his senses are fine tuned enough that they border on superhuman. Shang-Chi is highly attuned to his surroundings thanks to years of training. He can pinpoint the breathing sounds and heart beats of silent attackers, he can hear the distant loading of firearms by gunmen and even detect the precise location of people being shielded with psionic powers. He has also demonstrated the ability to sense small changes in the environment that would be unnoticed by most people. He is also resistant to mental attacks.
 
Lau is also 57. Maybe plays shang chi's father.
I said he was my choice for Zheng Zu (Shang Chi's father) in my post ;)

It was unlikely they would pick Gareth Evans since Marvel wanted a Asian director for the film.
 
I said he was my choice for Zheng Zu (Shang Chi's father) in my post ;)

It was unlikely they would pick Gareth Evans since Marvel wanted a Asian director for the film.

Sorry my bad.

If they wanted an asian director they should have gone for one rather than an american. Not like there aren't plenty of directors from china. He seems like a good director though so look forward to it.
 
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I'm all for diversity card, but this is no-no.
we all know the only reason they're doing this random asian character is to.. get asian representation, diversity hype. just like they're doing with BP,CM, eternals.

chinesse character with kung Fu, so stereotypical character. I'm sure it's full of orientalism too.
and I hope there's no ninja, wtf. and they better pronounce his name properly, not americanized way.

this is just another rich asian case where americans are so full of themselves with "we're not racist, I watched this and support asians, we love asians", and forcing the westeren idea of asian.
fake diversity with fake love.

rich asian to asian in asia was just "rich chinesse/singaporean", not the rich "asian". nothing special and empowered or represented at all.
(real asian diversity/represent was Searching which was released at the same time as CRA and didn't get hollywood's fake love attention, or henry goulding in a simple favor)

I guess asian american would love it. but to asian in asia, nothing.
in fact having this "stereotypical kung fu chinesse" is boring and dated, uninspiring to asian audience.
so it's more negative than positive unlike marvel's intention.
and I'm not making this up, already saw the local reaction with full of negative.

If marvel want asian representation, there's character like Namor or Amadeus Cho.
afterall this is marvel, no flop. but marvel won't get the reaction they want from asia or around world.
 
I'm all for diversity card, but this is no-no.
we all know the only reason they're doing this random asian character is to.. get asian representation, diversity hype. just like they're doing with BP,CM, eternals.

chinesse character with kung Fu, so stereotypical character. I'm sure it's full of orientalism too.
and I hope there's no ninja, wtf. and they better pronounce his name properly, not americanized way.

this is just another rich asian case where americans are so full of themselves with "we're not racist, I watched this and support asians, we love asians", and forcing the westeren idea of asian.
fake diversity with fake love.

rich asian to asian in asia was just "rich chinesse/singaporean", not the rich "asian". nothing special and empowered or represented at all.
(real asian diversity/represent was Searching which was released at the same time as CRA and didn't get hollywood's fake love attention, or henry goulding in a simple favor)

I guess asian american would love it. but to asian in asia, nothing.
in fact having this "stereotypical kung fu chinesse" is boring and dated, uninspiring to asian audience.
so it's more negative than positive unlike marvel's intention.
and I'm not making this up, already saw the local reaction with full of negative.

If marvel want asian representation, there's character like Namor or Amadeus Cho.
afterall this is marvel, no flop. but marvel won't get the reaction they want from asia or around world.

Would you be more accepting if they had a chinese director/script writer?
 
And maybe even an Immortal Weapon like Bride of Nine Spiders or Fat Cobra.
Hell yeah to the Bride. I heard the Iron Fist version was a complete bastardization of the character.

I guess asian american would love it. but to asian in asia, nothing.
I think that's the point. China already has its own movie industry, Disney is not making this film specifically for the Chinese. They're making it for Asian-Americans.

Well... the real reason they're making it is for money, but hopefully you get what I mean. :o
 
If BP was merely “forced diversity” then by all means, let’s force some more diversity. As a white male, I’m a little sick of seeing only white males as superhero leads.
 
Would you be more accepting if they had a chinese director/script writer?
the biggest problem is the stereotypical kung fu character is just boring and uninspring to asian audience.
then I don't trust marvel to really nail the character without orientalism.

btw again I'm all for diversity and love disney's angle but just not agree with choice of this "character".
 
I doubt he’ll be just a stereotypical kung-fu character. They’re bringing in Asian film-makers to tell the story. Does that make you less skeptical?
 
the biggest problem is the stereotypical kung fu character is just boring and uninspring to asian audience.
then I don't trust marvel to really nail the character without orientalism.

btw again I'm all for diversity and love disney's angle but just not agree with choice of this "character".

Depends what they do with him. The koreans, indonesians (well garth evans) and chinese make some fantastic martial arts films. I doubt they are going to make him a bruce lee rip off. The raid, i saw the devil, old boy etc...
 
I'm part of this Asian audience and I'm quite excited with this idea. If done right ( and hopefully nothing like that terrible Crazy Rich Asians ) it will find an audience. The only problem for me is the execution especially the martial art choreography. Hollywood has not been very impressive in this regard in my opinion.
 
I don't understand why this character's circumstances automatically make him stereotypical. He grew up in China(?) and has been trained in various forms of martial arts by different masters. He should be lethal and quick with heightened senses. Make him a complicated character, but keep the qualities that make him a badass. Wasn't Shang-Chi's mother a white woman? Explore that and how it affects the character. I also like the idea of his father being a ruthless crime-lord who has assassins in his employ. Imagine the different assassins we could see coming after Shang, or the crazy and crowded "ninja" fights(Let's have a character call them ninjas, in a joking tone. Have fun with this stuff too.) The last fight of the film might even be a close one-on-one duel between Shang and his father, to the death. That would set it apart from a lot of the huge cbm final acts while keeping the emotions strong. The movie could be a sprawling martial arts epic, similar to John Wick but grander in scale.
 

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