Shang-Chi #7

[cyberghostface]

Shang-Chi's mother tells him about how she met his father.

Comments

[tinygaylaura]

Both the comics and the film did a very good job updating Shang-Chi's origin story I think :)

[cyberghostface]

Yeah imo the movie was one of the best solo films in the MCU. I’d like it if Awkwafina’s character were to be introduced in the comics.

[tinygaylaura]

She was such a joy to watch :)

And it was great that the script treated her as a character and not just as the love interest

[bravest_spinja]

I do wonder to what extent that's legally possible. Like, Coulson was introduced as a SHIELD grunt played by a character actor who gradually became more and more important, so lot of generic, non-descript traits. It's harder to see where Katy the character created for Marvel Studios ends, and Akwafina the already pretty famous person begins.

[cyberghostface]

Legally the only real issue would be (I’m assuming) using Awkwafina’s likeness. But as far as introducing “Katy, Shang-Chi’s childhood friend” into the comics there’d be no issue because it’s all owned by Disney/Marvel.

[sadoeuphemist]

I wonder how much of an issue likeness would actually be, considering that Sam Jackson Nick Fury was in the comics well before he ever made it to screen.

[cyberghostface]

Jackson was cool with it because he was a comic fan and Marvel promised him the role if it was ever made when he found out.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/how-samuel-l-jackson-became-hollywoods-bankable-star-1174613/

It could go either way. A while back there was an official Psycho comic adaptation based off the film. They didn’t ask Anthony Perkins and it later turned out he didn’t want his likeness to be used so they had to redo it to make Norman look different. So even though it was otherwise a direct replication of the film Norman is now middle aged with a receding hairline.

Awkwafina probably wouldn’t care either way in this instance but there are similar situations that could end differently.

If it was an issue

[chortles81]

Marvel Comics might instead base a 616 version of her on the Marvel Future Fight game, where both Katy and Wenwu were added as characters in their own right. (Wenwu was also added to Marvel Super War as a character in his own right.)

[lbd_nytetrayn]

I never heard of her until now. Only thing more amusing than noting that her name sounds like the water is find that's where it came from!

[bravest_spinja]

I haven't been keeping up, but when and how did this more movie compatible version enter the picture (His mother was originally a fairly normal American woman, albeit sort of unscrupulous and ambitious in her own right)?

[cyberghostface]

#4 of this series. She was trapped in the Negative Zone.