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Simu Liu as Shang-Chi in ‘Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.’ (©Marvel Studios 2021. All Rights Reserved.)

I’m not gonna lie – as details about Phase Four of Marvel’s Cinematic Universe started leaking, I was nervous.

Sure, ‘Black Widow’ was kicking things off, but given Natasha’s fate, that really felt like an oddly placed epilogue to the Infinity Saga. But Shang-Chi? The Eternals? I might not be a top-tier comic nerd, but I know a fair amount, and both seemed to be odd (obscure) choices to kick off the next phase of a franchise that’s putting some of its most popular (lucrative) out to pasture.

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(L-R): Katy (Awkwafina), Jon Jon (Ronny Chieng) and Shang-Chi (Simu Liu) in Marvel Studios' ‘Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.’ (Photo by Jasin Boland. ©Marvel Studios 2021. All Rights Reserved.)
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Wenwu (Tony Leung) and Shang-Chi (Simu Liu) in Marvel Studios' ‘Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.’ (Photo courtesy of Marvel Studios. ©Marvel Studios 2021.)
  

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