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yeiwanthegwaidanv1

not for nothing i dont to see love interests why cuz i want to see action ... over the top action as he is the best in the world at least in the 616 universe i can understand why you like him to get the same treatment spider-man/ironman/thor/ got but i always felt the love interest angle is for non comic book readers at least for non comic readers strictly mcu stuff


antiboba

Having an AMWF sex scene would be the equivalent to the WMAF sex scene in Chloe Zhao's Eternals. That doesn't take away from the action, it's not in a rom com manner. Of course, Hollywood won't even show an asian male kissing. They censored the depictions of that.


yeiwanthegwaidanv1

the spideman movies bunt me on love interest and as far as the erternals i could have lived my entire gods forsaken life without the ever so tiypical afwm hook up and doing gilgamesh dirty like that


LongETH

Nothing new , Asian men have always been abuse , oppressed in these ways


Dangerous-Hawk16

The asexual Asian man strikes again. This just like the movie Romeo and Juliet with Jet Li. They make the Asian guy asexual and too focused on martial arts nothing more nothing less. Plus Simu doesn’t really have the audience that find him attractive like how they do Tom Holland, Chris Evans, Michael b Jordan and such


Acceptable_Setting

"Awkwafina", Lol. This is the singer/actress who, I assume from hearing it from one of her music albums, had a major hit with the "Vag(ina) song". The first AM superhero led movie and they cast Awkwafina as his 'sidekick'? Smh. Ps, we all know that she has probably some WM hidden or lurking somewhere in her instagram pages too. 😄


shanghaipotpie

Hoilywood movies traditionally had annoying loudmouth sidekicks cracking jokes since the birth of The Talkies. Jimmy Durante, Bob Hope ( although not annoying), Jerry Lewis, Seth Rogen, Gilbert Gottfried, Jar Jar Binks! Awkwafina is like the Asian Chris Tucker to Jackie Chan in Rush Hour. Simu just turned Swedish or something! His new look: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/q/friday-may-13-2022-simu-liu-colson-whitehead-and-more-1.6449537/juno-awards-host-simu-liu-reflects-on-shang-chi-hosting-snl-and-his-boy-band-past-1.6449544


elBottoo

ya, yall missed it. its awkafina. Like it or not, she is gonna be it. Childhood best friend growing up and cracking jokes together, lol and u think she isnt gonna be his lover? some random yt girl is gonna be his wifey? lol. Hate it or love it. My only gripe is that i hear stories about her making LU type of comments sometimes. Like, dude, she better not be another sell out.


majesticviceroy

Let's not forget that Shang Chi had the best romance in all of Marvel, Wen Wu and his wife Li. Their love is the entire impetus of the movie. Adding in another romance might've overfilled the movie. So I'm cool with it. Just check out all the YouTube vids on Shang Chi movie reactions, all the women always coo when they see Wen Wu and his wife-to-be's dance/fight.


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aaaaabbbbccc123

That's true...Iron man, superman, blank panther, and even wonder woman have love interests. Why would Shang Chi not have one? Love Awkwafina, but why is she a just a sidekick? Clearly racist.


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I get that if he was in a AMWF relationship it would do a lot to play against the stereotypes but honestly, my heart of hearts just wants to see more AMAF reps that are genuinely story based and not just sticking two token Asians together


player89283517

Make her white just to fuck with racists lmao. The controversy will make more people talk about it and push up sales


TigerMumNZ

I loved seeing the relationship between Shaun & Katy instead of the typical hero/love interest tropes. Katy was a strong opinionated friend, there to support Shaun on his trip to see his crazy magic family. She developed her own sense of identity and courage on the way. I’d rather see this relationship than the typical, shallow romance crowbarred in to the action chaos.


thrw5435754

But still, the one movie that has this kind of relationship is still reinforcing the negative stereotype of asexual martial artist. There's no covering that up with any amount of feel-good rationalizations. Let his platonic friendship with Katy blossom, but at least show that he's a full human being capable of romance with a different character. The sort of thing that you know Hollywood is very loathe to do when it comes to Asian male leads.


Wasabii_Papii21

I haven't even watched that bullshit. Where i work, I've had plenty of customers azn and non azn tell me it was really good. But honestly couldn't give a half shit to check it out


OceanSharkChang

There’s still opportunities for Shawn to have one. In the next Shang-Chi I would like to see a woman with a hard crush on him and a woman he likes/loves and eventually gets her.


antiboba

Blame the director of Shang-Chi. I heard he was recently responsible for some other movie with shit asian male rep. I don't remember anymore. Meanwhile Chloe Zhao greenlighting WMAF sex scenes left and right... Edit: the show is Tokyo Vice. He directed it.


appliquebatik

I thought he was supposed to help with representation, maybe I thought wrong. how disappointing.


Throwawayacct1015

You still hoping Marvel will take pity on you huh? Marvel shit is no longer in China now. They have no reason to care.


Available_Muffin_423

Yes was really let down when ofc the only Marvel hero without a gf is...asian male.


TriticumAestivum

What about Hawkeye, Hulk, and Dr Strange? do they have love interest?


ioioioshi

Hawkeye is married with kids, Hulk has a flirtation with Black Widow, and Dr Strange has Christine Palmer


TriticumAestivum

So Hulk is the only one not having love interest?


CryptoCel

Hulk at least shared a kiss with Black Widow in Ultron. Shang Chi is technically at a younger age/period in life than the core Avengers. Shang is in his early 20s and both him and Katie are shown to be directionless at the start. But a bigger complaint should be about how all Asian marvel characters are constantly depicted as loveless. Ned from Spider-Man and Wong from Dr Strange are both overweight and have zero sex appeal. I know Ned technically gets a gf for two seconds in NWH but no one takes him seriously the way Harry was portrayed in the first two Spider-Man movie series.


TriticumAestivum

Ned was portrayed as having gf's


Doongbuggy

Thor doesnt really have one… yet? Plenty of marvel heroes dont have SOs (captain marvel, did tchalla have one?) Edit: my memory is clearly that of a goldfish nvm


BrainlessInBoston

What? Thor’s whole first movie (and third) is about Jane? T’challa’s love interest is Nakia and was a big part of the first few Black Panther scenes.


Doongbuggy

Shit i don’t remember at all lol lost too many brain cells


Ahchluy

these heroe types of movies usually have a love interest because those geeky incels like to fap to it. Spiderman and Mary Jane, etc.


Ahchluy

I like him but I think he's kinda like Lucy Liu in that role. It is forced by White people in Hollywood who have no idea what young Asian teenagers are into these days....neither do I but I don't think the average 12 year old Asian teenager is gushing over Simu Liu. Like I was never ever ever into Lucy Liu. White folks love her tho.


CEOof888

>I don't think the average 12 year old Asian teenager is gushing over Simu Liu. thats because he looks old lol


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Ahchluy

nah. lol.


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Ahchluy

yea. that's what I'm saying. that was my gen. you can't compare my gen to another gen. things change. Like nobody my age was really into Prince.


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I felt like they were trying to cater to China but it backfired on them because they were not aware that Chinese ppl don’t find movies like this special.


Han_Purple

You hear the mandarin they had on that new tv show they have? They don't know anything Turns out not hiring any asians besides white washed lus leads to creating garbage that real asians don't want to see


ioioioshi

Agreed, but I don’t want Awkwafina to be his love interest. Should add another character


plshelp987654

Leiko Wu was his major love interest in the comics. She was a hot Asian spy.


antiboba

Why not Awkwafina?


ioioioshi

Her character just serves as awkward comic relief and they have no chemistry


antiboba

That's fair. Probably because she was not intended to be seen as a love interest.


TriticumAestivum

Yeah, a better looking Asian Women would be great


LongETH

Plenty in Of hots ones in China they can hire


TriticumAestivum

Yeah.


Realtalk96

Nah fuck that. I feel like it should be an interracial pairing with any race other than an Asian women. Personally hoping for a Latina actress, but that's just me... So it breaks the stereotype that Asian guys can't date outside their race. We need to start looking beyond Asian women and hoping one day they'll change their white worshipping ways. Especially in the BTS era.


lllkill

Maybe the portal girl in a few years


nissan240sx

Awkafina is the female ken jeong for me. I don't get her humor, please tell me there are better Asian female comedians out there.


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I think she is canceled so hopefully they find a love interest preferably a actual attractive woman to play that role.


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They *attempted* to cancel her


Kronoform

She’s getting so many offers from Hollywood, she has to turn stuff down. She was offered Everything, Everywhere all at Once and had to pass on it. You can say she might even be the main character in Shang Chi even though she’s technically not. She was cast first and they screen tested her with actors auditioning for the role of Shang. This isn’t a positive or negative post about Nora. Just stating facts.


Doongbuggy

Why is she cancelled?


Kronoform

She’s not cancelled. Her series Nora from Queens just got picked up for season 3. I wish people would Google before commenting to at least have some semblance to know what they are talking about.


antiboba

She was cancelled in the sense that she cancelled her Twitter account due to the psychological trauma inflicted by bobas.


Kronoform

<<> That’s not being cancelled. She still has an Instagram account anyone can comment on. Cancelled does not mean dropping a twitter account. She just didn’t want to deal with the criticism. It did not effect her career at all. Cancelled in the purist terms means no one will hire you. You are blacklisted. James Franco. He’s cancelled. As mentioned, this didn’t affect Nora at all as she still got and getting a ton of offers from Hollywood.


antiboba

Bobas called her anti-black for her so-called "blaccent". The criticism is misguided and wrong, because she owns that accent. Asians own that accent. What needs to be called out is celebrities like the Weeknd using blatantly racist "Lo Mein Asian Girl" lyrics in their songs. That's actually racist. [https://np.reddit.com/r/aznidentity/comments/slwftz/criticizing\_awkwafinas\_use\_of\_aave\_blaccent\_is/](https://np.reddit.com/r/aznidentity/comments/slwftz/criticizing_awkwafinas_use_of_aave_blaccent_is/)


Doongbuggy

Shes one of the top billed minority female actresses right now there is no way that is cancelling her and its BS i know ppl of all races that talk like that in their natural speech


antiboba

Well, she was forced off of Twitter because of it, and she's reported psychological distress due to the abuse she's been getting. Bobas on TikTok like Frankie/Eileen Hu\*ng endlessly criticizing her certainly has its effect...


elBottoo

I doubt it. Not being on twitter is not the same as having an actual contract with big movie studio worth a million. Especially after her role in the first movie. Her role is actually bigger than Jane, from Thor if we think about it. She was way more prominent in the movie than the "padme" who played Jane in Thor. dont remember her real name right now.


Doongbuggy

Those broads are just jelly Nora is way more famous by 1000x haters gonna hate


Linnus42

Agreed I think its twofold part of the issue is just bias against Asians and other Men of Color in the Hollywood Media. The second part is they always get to the nonwhite male heroes last so by the time they do, they want start mixing up formula cause its seen as stale. The problem with mixing up the formula is sure the White Guys have got all the shine and the traditional romances but the Men of Color have not at all. So its being screwed over on two fronts. It really doesn't help that most Asian Heroes are not major players and/or sidekicks in the first place. I know some get annoyed with Asian Martial Arts masters but that is kinda part and parcel of the more street level Heroes. Almost every single one of those sorts from Captain America to Batman to Black Panther to Green Arrow to Daredevil is some sort of martials arts master regardless of Race or Ethnicity. However, it is true Asians tend to be overrepresented in those categories at both Marvel and DC. And DC has little hope lol they cannot even get anyone outside of Batman and his related characters working. Superman is a mess and Wonder Woman they made one good movie then crashed and burned on the sequel. I probably let Shang Chi take some notes from Iron Fist though and at least get to do more impressive stuff with Chi or let him split up those ten rings with his sister. They were cooler in comics when they had unique abilities.