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Zheng Zu may be dead, but his legacy and conflict with Shang-Chi is back on center stage.

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Eventually averted when the Soft Reboot replaced Fu Manchu with Zheng Zu and the 2020 series introduced the Five Weapons Society.

Aborted Arc: In the decades since Marvel lost the rights to Sax Rohmer's work, Shang-Chi's connection to his father has been downplayed.

Always Someone Better: He's considered the best martial artist on Earth, but for most of his career he's only been human, with no powers or special weapons, and some superhumans who are both Strong and Skilled have been able to easily defeat him (such as the mutant Gorgon and a demon-possessed Daredevil).

When his younger sister Shi-Hua (aka Sister Hammer") reappeared and pronounced herself Zheng-Zu's true successor, Shang-Chi was pulled back towards his father's legacy, discovering more of his father's history, meeting a powerful extended family and uncovering the true scale of his father's centuries-old secret society. Later, after his father's defeat and death, Shang-Chi became much more involved with the world of superheroes - joining The Avengers and Heroes for Hire, and mentoring heroes such as Spider-Man and Domino when they needed martial arts training. Eventually, he lost faith in MI6 and, along with many of his allies, quit to form his own independent team.

Raised in his father's Hunan base, the House of the Deadly Hand, he was intended to become one of his father's most trusted lieutenants, but rebelled when he realised how corrupted his father had become.Īllying with the British intelligence service MI6, he opposed his father, his malevolent half-sister and many other villains. However, when Marvel lost the rights to the Sax Rohmer stories and characters, those names were changed) (Originally, prior to the Soft Reboot, his father was Fu Manchu and the organisation of assassins was the Si-Fan. The plush toy is now available for sale.Shang-Chi (which, literally translated into English, means "the rising of the spirit") is the son of Zheng Zu, a Long-Lived Chinese supervillain who was head of the Five Weapons Society. While it appears that Marvel Studios made up this creature for the story, some accounts suggest it could actually be a DiJiang, a mythical beast in Chinese text.įamous voice actor Dee Bradley Baker is said to have given the voiceover for Morris.īefore the release of the movie, Marvel released a batch of photos showing off a host of new toys. Morris does not have a face, but makes these sounds to communicate, and ends up helping Shang-Chi enter Ta-Lo. Ying Li had left the village to be with Wenwu, and it appears she might have brought Morris as a pet.Īlso READ | Spider-Man: No Way Home Trailer Has Some Hidden Details. He is a creature from Ta-Lo, where Shang-Chi's mother Ying Li (Fala Chen) lived before she met Wenwu. Morris is Trevor’s companion in the prison cell and talks only to him.

#SHANG CHI FACELESS CREATURE MOVIE#

Six-legged Morris makes a dramatic entry in the film when the characters of Shang-Chi, his sister Xu Xialing (Meng’er Zhang) and Katy (Awkwafina), taken hostage by Wenwu, meet another prisoner Trevor Slattery, played by Ben Kingsley who is reprising his role after 2013 movie 'Iron Man 3'.