Don’t forget about the heroines in ShangChi
Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photos: Disney Spoilers ahead for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
As a child, I used to spend my summers in Taiwan, and my diet included fresh, pillowy pineapple buns consumed while watching TV. Since our Mandarin wasn’t good enough to fully understand anything dialogue-driven, my brother and I watched a lot of Asian action movies. With the ’70s-era boom of Hong Kong kung fu cinema, there was always one playing on some channel.
It took almost two decades for me to see a powerful Asian female hero Stateside. Shang-Chi and the Legend Of The Ten Rings, as you might already know, features the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s first Asian superhero, Simu Liu. Despite watching and loving the movie, I’m still not sure what the Ten Rings are or what they do exactly. But I do know that the true force of the movie is an entire cast of not-so-secret women. Thanks to them, whole craggy mountains crack open.
Photo: Marvel/Disney/Jasin Boland Some critics of the Shang-Chi character have said that his backstory is undeveloped, with Vulture’s Alison Willmore calling him a protagonist who hasn’t “entirely decided on what he’s representing.” That’s not the case with Xiaoling, Shang-Chi’s sibling, the sister who would deck you for calling her little.
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