Let’s Talk About Those Shang-Chi Post-Credit Scenes

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is a rousing, fantasy journey crammed with nice characters, tales, battle, and extra. If it wasn’t a Marvel film, it will be one of many coolest superhero films you’ve ever seen full cease. And but, it is a Marvel film. It’s set within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and meaning it has post-credit scenes that tease the place all of it suits.

If you haven’t seen Shang-Chi, run away now. Below, we’re going to debate the top credit score sequences and what they might imply for the way forward for the MCU.

Okay, so Shang-Chi has two scenes within the credit, one within the center, and one on the finish—par for the Marvel course. The one within the center picks up proper the place the film left off, with Shang-Chi (Simu Liu) and Katy (Awkwafina) leaving dinner with mates as a result of Wong (Benedict Wong) asks them to return someplace. He inquires about when and the place Shang’s father received the Ten Rings, to which he says a couple of thousand years in the past however doesn’t know the place. Meanwhile, holograms of Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo) nonetheless recovering from his Infinity Gauntlet snap and Carol Danvers (Brie Larson) watch alongside, every representing a distinct faculty of scientific experience. Banner explains the molecular make up of the Ten Rings makes them look a lot, a lot older than 1,000 years. Not simply that, they’re additionally not made from any substance recognized to folks on Earth. Carol says she’s additionally by no means encountered something like them in her time with aliens in her area travels. Wong explains that after Shang used them, a sign was despatched out from Earth. To the place? We don’t know. “Welcome to the circus,” Bruce says as he and Carol exit. Wong tells the brand new Marvel heroes to go get some relaxation, they as a substitute go for karaoke.

The second post-credit scene performs off a line from late within the movie. Shang mentions that his sister Xialing (Meng’er Zhang) is off dismantling their father’s felony group, additionally referred to as the Ten Rings. The scene begins with Xialing again in her room on the compound and also you’d assume she was in the midst of that work. But then Razor Fist (Florian Munteanu) tells her individuals are ready and she or he sits down on what seems like a throne saying they’ve a number of work to do. As the digicam pulls again we see Xialing along with her most trusted associates, together with Jon Jon (Ronny Chieng). The digicam then continues to drag again revealing a complete new Ten Rings. Now girls are coaching alongside the lads, the whole lot is being upgraded with new expertise, and Xialing’s distinct creative fashion may be seen all over the place. “The Ten Rings Will Return” a remaining card tells us besides, this time, they’ll be new and improved.

Let’s talk about the second scene first, which appears somewhat apparent. Xialing all the time aspired to have the highly effective empire her father had—and brother was destined to inherit. Now that they’re and not using a chief, she’s determined to take cost and reshape it in her trendy picture. Whether or not she makes use of it for good or evil is the large query however one has to imagine, since she lied to Shang-Chi about it, she may find yourself being his adversary in a future solo journey.

The first scene is clearly extra sophisticated. The viewers is just not purported to know but what the Rings are calling to or the place/when they’re from however there are some prospects—however the comics might give us a clue. There, the rings are from beings referred to as the Makluan, an historical, shape-shifting race from a distant galaxy. If the rings are certainly calling to them that would, hypothetically, result in a model new set of MCU villains (together with essentially the most well-known Makluan character, Fin Fang Foom). One may additionally think about that the Dark Dwellers, the eons-old beings trapped in Ta Lo and which share some dragon-y traits with the Makluan, may have some connection to the Rings. However, the movie closely implies that the chief of the Dark Dwellers is looking out to the Rings as a result of he can merely sense their energy, not as a result of there’s any direct connection.

So whereas there are definitely a number of prospects, we’d enterprise to guess regardless of the Rings are calling out to is one thing new to the Marvel Cinematic Universe and, very similar to post-credits scenes from earlier movies, may not repay till a few years later. What do you suppose the Rings are calling out to? Where are they from? And what does Xialing have deliberate for the Ten Rings group? Let us know under.

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