Shang-Chi Trailer Shows The MCU Is Removing His Biggest Comic Story

 Not only is Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings rewriting the villain’s identity, but it’s also removing the hero’s biggest story from Marvel Comics. In the original comics, Shang-Chi was a master of martial arts forced to work with British intelligence to bring down his father’s criminal empire.

Easily the most talked-about change to Shang-Chi for the MCU is what it’s doing with his father. In the original comics, this character was Fu Manchu, an immortal villain from pulp novels published in the early part of the 20th century. Due to rights issues and a racial controversy related to the character, Marvel retconned him into someone else. As for the MCU version of the story, they’ve chosen to go with the Mandarin, who is Iron Man’s greatest enemy and a villain whose existence has been teased for years. So rather than being tied to Fu Manchu, the MCU’s Master of Kung Fu will be depicted as a weapon of the Mandarin (Tony Leung).