Shang Chi Has Major Ties To Mcu Past And Future

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is the first Marvel Studios film that is both a part of Phase 4 and set in the post-Avengers: Endgame era of the MCU. Spider-Man: Far From Home is dubbed an epilogue to the Infinity Saga as the final Phase 3 movie and Phase 4’s Black Widow movie is a prequel set prior to Avengers: Infinity War. Despite this, the early fan expectation of Shang-Chi was that it would be a self-contained story in an unexplored pocket of the MCU. While that is largely true of the film in the sense that it tells a story centered around its own characters (excellent characters with or without the MCU backdrop, might I add), Shang-Chi is bringing in character cameos and story connections that make it an integral part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s past and future, with all roads seemingly leading to Doctor Strange.

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