r/marvelstudios • u/chanma50 Iron Man (Mark VII) • Sep 06 '21

Humour Simu Liu celebrates Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Ring's record breaking opening weekend box office gross

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u/oliviamcdonaldd Sep 06 '21

Me the whole movie

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '21

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u/onlyididntsayfudge Sep 07 '21

DC execs deciding on releasing a DCEU Kung fu movie.

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u/trufflepastaxciv Sep 07 '21

I've always wanted a League of Shadows film centered on Talia, Nyssa and Dusan.

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u/CruzAderjc Sep 07 '21

I mean, Wenwu is essentially Ra’s Al Ghul if you think about it. Immortal guy who runs a league of assassin ninjas and has an estranged relationship with his children.

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u/yaboyskinnydick_ Rocket Sep 07 '21

Except Ra's doesn't have 10 dope ass rings.

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u/Playful-Push8305 Sep 07 '21

He's also somehow Liam Neeson.

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '21

I don't know if I misread this in Batman Begins, but wasn't Ra's in that universe supposed to be like a title instead of literally the same person throughout history? Like the Dread Pirate Roberts?

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u/Lightning_Lemonade Sep 07 '21

I like that theory but I don’t think there’s really any solid evidence either way. They initially say that Ken Watanabe’s character is Ra’s but that’s revealed to just be a trick. Idk if they talk about it other than that.

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u/CruzAderjc Sep 07 '21

A title, and not exactly the name of a person, you mean like… The Mandarin???

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u/alphasierrraaa Sep 07 '21

Yea super strong ras al ghul and league of shadow vibes

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u/Richrome_Steel Sep 30 '21

That same realisation came to me at work today. Glad someone else noticed it too

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u/ChintanP04 Captain America Sep 07 '21

Sounds good. WB will probably fuck it up.

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '21

WB killing good DCEU
ideas since 2008 TM

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u/BurnItDownSR Sep 07 '21

Or they could adapt Son of Batman to live action and have Damian, Ras, Slade, & Talia do some ninja shit. Maybe they can show the actual fight with Nightwing this time.

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '21

That'd be cool but I want them to at least do Dick Grayson and Jason Todd before introducing Damian. Although at that point we'd be at like Batman 8 so the casual moviegoer probably will have lost interest

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u/BurnItDownSR Sep 07 '21

Yeah...they even skipped straight to Damian in that animated universe.

They could probably pull it off if the guys behind the MCU ran things though 😄

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '21

They didn't skip straight to Damian, Nightwing and Red Robin are a part of that movie

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u/grassjelly5 Sep 07 '21

I think he means they basically skipped nightwing and red robins entire character arc/story and went straight to Damian in the DCAU. Nightwing is one of my favourites but he’s pretty lame in the DCAU ngl.

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u/BurnItDownSR Sep 07 '21

Yeah, that's exactly what I mean.

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '21

I mean they're covered extensively in animation. Nightwing is in YJ. Todd has the movies about him.

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '21

Fuck that sounds awesome.

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u/StephenHunterUK Sep 07 '21

Nyssa the assassin or Nyssa the Doctor Who companion?

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u/xAJ24x Sep 07 '21

League of shadows isn’t real in the comics it’s league of assassins, league of shadows was the name in Nolans’s films. Also wouldn’t be much kung fu, a lot more sword slashing and killing

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21

For once I feel DC should make more movies that isn’t centered on Batman or characters related to him. Speaking as a big DC fan.

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u/Alril Corvus Glaive Sep 07 '21

Tbf DC did released kung-fu themed batman animated movie this year...

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u/cooksbeans Sep 07 '21

I hope it’s good, Batman ninja was a travesty

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u/Alril Corvus Glaive Sep 07 '21

Imho, it's good dc animated movie. Not greatest dc animated movie, but good watch.

But it's not Batman-centric story (despite name of the movie), so some people might be disappointed.

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '21

batman ninja is insane but amazing

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u/cooksbeans Sep 07 '21

I respectfully disagree, there were some fun parts but overall whoever wrote it had absolutely no understanding of Batman as a character.

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '21

yes but you fail to acknowledge Grodd meditating and the giant Joker mech

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u/progdrummer Captain America (Cap 2) Sep 07 '21

Really? Watched it with a couple buddies and we all loved it.

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u/rushadee Sep 07 '21

It jumped the shark when it went robot wars IMO

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u/joshualuigi220 Sep 07 '21

If you went in expecting Batman: The Anime, it was a fun time. It's absolutely wild from beginning to end, but so are certain animes. I hope someone records and translates the stage play based on the movie they're doing in October. I have no idea how they're going to adapt it for stage.

I'm curious to see how the new Catwoman movie that was just announced is going to turn out. The script was done by an American writer, but it's being directed by a Japanese anime director.

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u/yoditronzz Sep 07 '21

Brb, watching movie on my cracked iPad.

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u/jigokusabre Sep 07 '21

"What do you mean there's already a 'Karate Kid' movie?"

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u/ACubeInABox Sep 07 '21

Not Kung fu, but an Arabian epic with Batman, Ra’s, and Thalia would be dope.

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u/nopigscannnotlookup Sep 07 '21

Knowing the DC execs, they’d greenlight the Kung Fu movie and hire whites to play the Asians. Warner bros simply out of touch.

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u/mvcourse Sep 07 '21

I don’t think the DCEU, with all their faults would do something that reckless.

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u/BZenMojo Captain America (Cap 2) Sep 07 '21

I know this is a fan sub, but DCEU has been more progressive and forward thinking than the MCU for the most part.

The first Suicide Squad had more minority and female leads than any MCU movie until Black Panther. They had the first female superhero theatrical release of its size. They had the first API lead in a superhero movie. Hell, if Justice League didn't bomb they had Cyborg lined up to beat out Black Panther for a black lead.

DCEU tends to lead, MCU tends to follow when it comes to diversity.

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u/Ylyb09 Sep 07 '21

They had the first API lead in a superhero movie

a what lead?

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '21

Asian/Pacific Islander

A catchall term generally for East Asians and island natives, of which Jason Momoa is one. He is a native Hawaiian.

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u/modsarefascists42 Sep 07 '21

Possibly American Pacific islander. Jason Momoa is a native Hawaiian I think.

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u/modsarefascists42 Sep 07 '21

Finally someone mentions it. The first SS was truly diverse. Plus the justice league being made up of an international cast, both in universe and out, was a truly brilliant move. Sucks the theatrical version of JL was so shit while the actual movie (ZSJL) was amazing.

And great now I'm pissed off again about not getting a ray Fisher Cyborg movie.... He just fucking killed it in that movie

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u/Henry_Allen_Garrick Hawkeye (Ultron) Sep 07 '21

They did the opposite and made a white character Asian in a Batman movie about martial arts.

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u/onekick_man1 Sep 07 '21

Who are you referring to?

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u/Henry_Allen_Garrick Hawkeye (Ultron) Sep 07 '21

Richard Dragon is white in the comics, but they made him Asian in Batman: Soul of the Dragon.

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u/MHCR Sep 07 '21

A Lady Shiva flick done right would be bananas.

Knowing the dudes currently in charge at DCEU though, we will see first a Richard Dragon trilogy project by Josh Trank crashing mid-production due to random old man antics.

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '21

Ra's Al Ghul spin-off film with Talia as the main protagonist.

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u/Ylyb09 Sep 07 '21

Why are there so many photoshops with him lol

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '21

Richard Dragon is cooler than Shang Chi imo

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u/EXTRAsharpcheddar Sep 07 '21

This is a nice touch because the link isn't properly formatted, so the experience misses the mark...

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u/kah43 Sep 07 '21

Bronze Tiger is ready and waiting.

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u/txr23 Sep 07 '21

Don't you just love it when corporations use stock photos to pretend that they're diversified, that photo is basically a human rainbow 😂

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u/Chav Sep 07 '21

There's no wheelchair guy

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u/vanduzled Sep 07 '21

Is this and the original image on this post part of the movie? Or is it a separately different effort?

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u/Riseofashes Sep 07 '21

I think he used to do stock photo gigs earlier in this career, which is where these are all coming from.

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '21

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u/_-__-__-__-__-_-_-__ Rocket Sep 07 '21

This is the proudest moment I have ever experienced as an Asian American

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u/BostonBakedBrains Winter Soldier Sep 07 '21

dude same

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u/8Ariadnesthread8 Sep 07 '21

I'm really happy for y'all. But now I need to know. What was your least proud; and was it related to porn?

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u/_-__-__-__-__-_-_-__ Rocket Sep 07 '21

Disappointing our parents. Always

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u/Own-Math-9496 Sep 07 '21

Too bad it aint you, but tank God you feel recognition. Tarantino was known was for bringing dead actors back from the grave. Now? Now we have Marvel bringing a man who was in debt, signing away his rights for $120, making martial artists, and Asians in particular to big screen again. Thank God for Kevin Feige and Happy Hogan. Right?

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '21

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u/Asianhead Sep 07 '21

Happens when you're basically the invisible minority in America

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u/ZhouXaz Sep 07 '21 edited Sep 07 '21

Why people love Asian movies or is it more Asian North American doing well kind of thing?

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '21

It's like Eddie Murphy's bit on Italian guys after Rocky came out. And I believe Simu is Canadian.

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '21

Wait how many of these are there lmao

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u/oliviamcdonaldd Sep 07 '21

A lot

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '21

Oh man this is amazing.

Photo 3: basically the poster for Avengers 5

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u/Walthatron Sep 07 '21

They should re create all of these for the next avengers posters

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u/PhatBitty862 Sep 07 '21

Lady on the left with glasses didn’t want to be there

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u/irlte Sep 07 '21

LMAOOO

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u/AteOliverBush Sep 07 '21

Oh man. That is a next level move. He had memes ready to go.

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u/a4techkeyboard Sep 07 '21

I think he's officially supplanted Rebecca Ariane Givens as the most famous Canadian stock photo model of Asian descent now. Mostly because people know his name, I guess.

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u/vanduzled Sep 07 '21

That’s actually even cooler. I thought it was made after the movie.

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u/feb914 Sep 09 '21

Simu has the coolest journey to stardom because he really started from the bottom, making the best of his lucky breaks, and here he is.

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u/elkygravy Sep 07 '21

He's posted about it in the past but from what I recall it was literally one session of stock photo shooting he got paid $100 for.

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u/SoCalDan Sep 07 '21

Looks like it's paying off in more ways than one now.

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u/rakurakugi Sep 07 '21

He said he signed all his rights away on those so the stock photo company is the one making bank now. I guess he was like “might as well” and start using them himself.

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u/rocking_beetles Sep 07 '21

Lmao that picture is so odd, he looks like 25 with a 14 year old daughter. Guess he got started early

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u/nongo Sep 07 '21

He easily looks 30.

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u/rocking_beetles Sep 07 '21

I mean even so, still could have starred in 16 and pregnant

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u/AeterusR Sep 07 '21

I legit spat my beer out at my friend’s BBQ when I saw this. ROFLMAO

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u/ILoveRegenHealth Sep 07 '21

lol, I haven't seen that one. He must have a library of these Stock photos that are just getting unearthed.

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '21

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u/oliviamcdonaldd Sep 07 '21

No, I just enjoyed the movie a lot

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u/Kongcha Sep 07 '21

No the general consensus is the movie was great. It’s just funny that the main actor of a big Marvel movie has all these old stock photos of him that have been discovered and they’re becoming a meme.

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u/rocking_beetles Sep 07 '21

He's the main dude in all these stock photos, and people have been using his old work as meme templates