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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is the twenty-fifth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe that follows Shang-Chi battling the Ten Rings and their leader, his father Wenwu.
Plot[]
Thousands of years ago, Xu Wenwu discovered ten mysterious rings which gifted him with immortality, mystical powers and using the rings, he becomes one of the world's most powerful warlords being the founder and supreme leader of The Ten Rings which he named after the rings. He met Ying Li while attempting to find the ancient city of Ta Lo. He instead married her and she birthed a son Shang-Chi, and a daughter Xialing. Li was murdered by the Iron Gang and Wenwu revived his criminal empire by training his son to inherit it, only for him to run away at fourteen.
In the present day, Shang-Chi, has been living his life in San Francisco, under the name of Shaun, and happily working as a hotel valet with his high school friend Katy Chen. Despite their rather measly life, they are happy simply hanging out with one another. While heading to work by bus, Shang-Chi is attacked by men who are after his pendant including the mysterious Razorfist. While Shang-Chi and Katy manage to rescue the civilians, Shang-Chi's pendant is stolen. He comes clean about his past to Katy and tells her that he needs to head to Macau to see his sister, whom he believes is also in danger. Katy tags along.
They arrive at a club called the Golden Daggers Club where they witness a fight between the Abomination and Wong, with the latter victorious. Shang-Chi is sent in to fight against Xialing, who is revealed to be the owner of the club. Angered over being left behind with Wenwu, she defeats Shang-Chi and takes him and Katy back to her office. He warns her about their father coming for her pendant, only for their arrival to have been planned by the Ten Rings. Xialing's pendant is taken and Shang-Chi battles Death Dealer, Wenwu's cruel subordinate. Wenwu himself appears and takes everyone back to their home.
Wenwu reveals his reasoning for wanting to acquire their pendants. Despite seeing Li getting murdered, he is convinced that Ta Lo is actually hiding her behind a gate in their land. The pendants reveal a map that shows a passage that only opens once a year to the city. When he announces his intent to burn Ta Lo down for hiding Li, he imprisons Shang-Chi, Xialing and Katy in the dungeon. While down there, they run into Trevor Slattery, who was spared for impersonating Wenwu as the Mandarin and became his "fool", and befriended a strange creature he named Morris and only he can communicate with. Norris knows how to access Ta Lo without having to wait and Xialing breaks the group out and steal Razorfist's car.
The group arrives at a forest and manage to navigate it and enter Ta Lo. While there, they meet Ying Nan, Li's sister and Shang-Chi and Xialing's aunt. It turns out that the gate hides the Dweller-in-Darkness and has been impersonating Li's voice to beckon Wenwu to release his army with the ten rings. The inhabitants train Shang-Chi, Xialing an Katy how to defend themselves to protect Ta Lo. Eventually, Wenwu and the Ten Rings arrive and a battle takes place with Shang-Chi and Wenwu fighting; ending with the former getting tossed into the lake. Wenwu arrives at the gate and proceeds to break it open, releasing the soul suckers who immediately kill Death Dealer, forcing the rest of the Ten Rings to team up with Ta Lo.
Shang-Chi encounters the Guardian Dragon who revives him and he confronts his father resulting in Shang-Chi taking the rings from Wenwu, but he refuses to use them against him; telling him that his family needs him. When the Queen Soul Sucker escapes the cave, Wenwu sacrifices himself to save Shang-Chi who acquires the ten rings and he, Xialing and Katy work together to defeat the creature once and for all. Ta Lo holds a funeral for all the lives lost. Shang-Chi and Katy return to San Francisco to tell their friends what occurred. When they do not believe them, Wong suddenly appears and asks for the two to come with him, which they reluctantly do.
In a mid-credits scene, Wong, along with Bruce Banner and Carol Danvers via hologram, reveal that the ten rings act as a beacon of sorts and is sending a message. None of them know what it means, but Wong informs Shang-Chi and Katy that their lives will change. They then invite him to do karaoke.
In a post-credits scene, Xialing is revealed to have taken over the Ten Rings organization, with Razorfist at her side, and has made it more inclusive.
Cast[]
- Simu Liu as Xu Shang-Chi/Shaun
- Jayden Zhang as Young Shang-Chi
- Arnold Sun as Teen Shang-Chi
- Tony Leung as Xu Wenwu
- Awkwafina as Katy Chen
- Meng'er Zhang as Xu Xialing
- Elodie Fong as Young Xialing
- Harmonie He as Teen Xialing
- Fala Chen as Ying Li
- Florian Munteanu as Razor Fist
- Michelle Yeoh as Ying Nan
- Ben Kingsley as Trevor Slattery
- Benedict Wong as Wong
- Ronny Chieng as Jon Jon
- Wah Yuen as Guang Bo
- Andy Le as Death Dealer
- Paul He as Hui
- Stephanie Hsu as Soo
- Kunal Dudheker as John
- Tsai Chin as Waipo
- Jodi Long as Mrs. Chen
- Dallas Liu as Ruihua Chen
- Stella Ye as Yuchen
- Fernando Chien as Gao Lei
- Michael-Anthony Taylor as Bus Driver
- Zach Cherry as Klev
- Raymond Ma as Iron Gang Leader
- Shelley Xu as Jie
- Tim Roth as Emil Blonsky/Abomination
- Jade Xu as Helen
- Dee Bradley Baker as Morris
- Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner
- Brie Larson as Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel
Continuity and References to the Marvel Cinematic Universe[]
- Shang-Chi is introduced.
- Wenwu is introduced.
- Katy Chen is introduced.
- Ying Nan is introduced.
- Ying Li is introduced.
- Razor Fist is introduced.
- Xialing is introduced.
- Jon Jon is introduced.
- Death Dealer is introduced.
- The Ten Rings artifacts are introduced.
- Ta Lo is introduced.
- Great Protector is introduced.
- Dweller-in-Darkness is introduced.
- Soul Eaters are introduced.
- Dijiang are introduced.
- Fenghuang are introduced.
- Shishi are introduced.
- Jiu Wei Hu are introduced.
- Qilin are introduced.
- Iron Gang is introduced.
- The Ten Rings appears.
- Abomination appears.
- Wong appears.
- Trevor Slattery appears.
- Helen, a former Black Widow, appears.
- A person using Extremis appears.
- Kamar-Taj appears.
- Decimation is mentioned.
- Aldrich Killian is mentioned.
- Iron Man is mentioned.
- Vibranium is mentioned.
- Chitauri are mentioned.
Taglines[]
- Witness the Rise of a Marvel Legend.
- A Marvel Legend Will Rise.
- A New Legend Begins.
Production[]
The film was shot in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California and New South Wales and Sydney, Australia.
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