The Ten Rings have been an established part of the MCU from the beginning, as the terrorist cell that captured Tony Stark in Iron Man was one of them. A Nod To Simu Liu's Role In Kim's Convenience Some of them are easy to spot, others are a lot more subtle - here's every Marvel Easter egg and notable pop culture reference in the movie.Ĭlick here to watch Shang-Chi: 20 Things You Missed on YouTube. Like all MCU films, Shang-Chi is packed with Easter eggs and cameos. Related: Shang-Chi 2 News & Updates: Everything We Know Still, for all that's the case, there's a sense in which Shang-Chi answers mysteries that have been there in the MCU from the beginning it reveals the truth about the Ten Rings, a terrorist organization from the Iron Man films, and even features the real Mandarin after the fake version in Iron Man 3. He was one of the 10 properties Marvel originally planned to build the MCU upon, although he was dropped when the studio reacquired the film rights to Iron Man and headed in a very different direction. Marvel has toyed with introducing Shang-Chi to the big screen for over 20 years.

The MCU's Shang-Chi is very different from the comics, where he's not connected to the Mandarin at all, but rather to another crime lord, Fu Manchu, who Marvel don't have the rights to - and probably wouldn't use if they could, because he's a problematic racist trope. Rather, he's simply a martial artist so skilled he can go toe-to-toe with gods and monsters. Marvel's latest, Shang-Chi & the Legend of the Ten Rings, has dozens of MCU Easter eggs hidden throughout here they are broken down. Created as the 'Master of Kung Fu,' Shang-Chi is a somewhat unusual character in the Marvel Universe in that he traditionally doesn't possess any superpowers at all.

Warning: This article contains SPOILERS for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.

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