Kevin Feige confirms Abomination is in Shang Chi – what does it mean for the MCU?
The fight we were all waiting for
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Thelatest trailerforShang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Ringsset the internet ablaze after it appeared to show Wong fromDoctor Strangefighting the Incredible Hulk villain Abomination.
Now, in an interview withRotten Tomatoes,MarvelStudios president Kevin Feige has confirmed that the characters we saw are indeed Wong and Abomination battling it out in a cage match.
“Some fans said, ‘This looks like a character they hadn’t seen in many years named The Abomination, fighting a character that looks like Wong',” Feige said. “And I can say that the reason it looks like that is because thatisAbomination fighting Wong.”
This makes Shang-Chi the first time we’ll have seen the villain since he made his first MCU appearance back in 2008.
Why and how the sorcerer and gamma-irradiated behemoth found themselves going toe-to-toe is yet to be revealed, but it has fans excited to see which other long-lost MCU characters could make a comeback. Given that we’ll finally see the real Mandarin in this film, a cameo from Iron Man 3’s Trevor Slattery cameo seems possible.
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is set to release on September 3, 2021.
Abomination shows that Marvel never forgets
We already knew that Abomination would be making a return in Phase 4 of the MCU. During last December’sDisney Investor Day, where the company shared its plans for upcoming projects, Kevin Feige announced that Tim Roth will be reprising his role as Abomination/Emil Blonsky in theDisney Plus seriesShe-Hulk (coming in 2022).
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This Shang-Chi reveal goes beyond pulling Abomination’s return forward by about a year, though – it affirms Marvel’s stance that it never forgets about older characters from the MCU, even if it can take more than a decade for them to re-emerge.
Phase 4 has so far spotlighted characters who deserved more attention, like Falcon and Wanda, but it’s introduced new characters likeMonica RambeauandJohn Walkertoo. As the world fills up with other new faces (like those seen in Shang-Chi and theEternals), fans might have wondered how much older characters figure into Marvel Studios' plans, especially after Avengers: Endgame seemed to put a capper on so many of their stories.
If anything, this reveal shows that no one ever really goes away in the MCU – 13 years later, the villain of an extremely mediocre Hulk movie is back in action. Who’d have thought that?
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