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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Let's hope Shang-Chi is faster on the ball with his dad than the Nohr royal family.
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Granted usually it's more on the lines of finding out one or more of your parents is a bigot, an adulterer, a dishonest businessperson, or some combination of them. And that's if you don't already know your parent is a terrible person because they are physically and/or emotionally abusive.
It's usually not "parent is a murderous supervillain" level.
Disgusted, but not surprisedI'm hoping he actually kicks his dads ass & wins unlike Baki
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Edited by slimcoder on Oct 27th 2019 at 5:27:19 AM
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."My favorite part is Bruce unironically being such a rich white dude in that scene. He's chewing out the poor minimum wage kid taking orders for what is clearly a corporate decision. Leave the kid alone, Bruce! He didn't design the menu items!
And people say the obnoxious billionaire is an act.
It's usually not "parent is a murderous supervillain" level.
Has there ever been a time in superhero comics when someone found out there parents were a murderous supervillain as well as an adulterer and/or bigot?
Which comic/issue is that?
Also, goddammit DC, where the hell is Tim?
TBF, Shang Chi's plot is a little more specific than that.
IIRC, he knew he was being raised as an assassin/mercenary by a secret order, but thought his father was - like - the Big Good of the world. A venerable wise-man who was sending agents out like Kung Fu Solid Snake to covertly stop evil, fight injustice and kill horrible people and all that.
Then it turns out his father is actually a megalomaniac who was using him to victimize the innocent and further his own quest for national (in the original) / global (in this version, almost certainly) domination, breaking Shang's faith in who he is.
Basically, he thought he was Anakin and his father was Yoda. Turns out he was Vader and his father was Palpatine. He is not happy about this revelation.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Oct 27th 2019 at 9:41:24 AM
Not in this case. Luke never really did anything Yoda or Obi-Wan told him to do.
Anakin works because Anakin spent the entirety of the Clone Wars going out into the galaxy blowing stuff up, killing things occasionally, and generally being a proto-bloodthirsty ragemonster because he believed in the good of the Jedi and trusted that what he was doing to be the right thing - and to a degree he was right (for a while anyway). Some of the things Anakin does were nasty even in context, but he's definitively the good guy in the context of the Clone Wars.
This fits Shang Chi better - he believed he was raised by Fu Manchu / the Mandarin to be what Anakin was in the Clone Wars, only to find he was actually a mercenary and tool for the Big Bad.
Even after realizing this and changing sides, he was originally designed as a good guy who was trained by and sometimes behaved like a bad guy (something which as far as I know has been dropped since then), and the whole plot feeds into that.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Oct 27th 2019 at 9:45:40 AM
On a lighter note, someone recreated the whole mass assembling scene from Endgame in the style of the GBA Pokemon games.
It's pretty awesome. Also press F for Natasha, Loki and Vision.
Edited by AyyItsMidnight on Oct 28th 2019 at 2:42:08 AM
Self-serious autistic trans gal who loves rock/metal and animation with all her heart. (she/her)So, there's this line in Season two of Luke Cage where Misty and Claire are busy exercising. I think Claire says something among the lines of "I thought Matt was invincible too. Then a building fell on him."
Wait, when was he "invincible"? I haven't watched Daredevil seasons one and two so I have no idea where this line came from.
Trans rights are human rights. TV Tropes is not a place for bigotry, cruelty, or dickishness, no matter who or their position.I imagine their meaning is less "invincible" as in "ivulnerable" and more "absolutely fucking unkillable".
Or as the bards of yore put it...

I still have a soft spot for Rush Hour 1, where Chris Tucker was playing his character more as a discount Axel Foley, Jackie Chan's character has more heart and substance, and the plot and humor was actually pretty decent.
Then Rush Hour 2 came along with it's "what really makes this series great is all the racist jokes, so we'll spend half of it making racist jokes about Chinese people, but it'll be okay because the second half will have those same Chinese people making racist jokes about black people" crap.
But that's digressing.
If Rhodey plays any role, I figure it would either be the Hero of Another Story, or replace Nayland Smith (from the Fu Manchu universe) as the character from Shang Chi's origin who fights against Shang's father (here the Mandarin) and investigates/battles Shang when he's unwittingly working for the bad guys, only to recognize that he's a hero deep down and reveal his father's true nature.
The latter seems more likely, and would be really awesome to boot.
Speaking of which, looks like we're definitely getting the "Shang's father is evil and everyone but Shang knows"
plot, not that it was in any way unlikely.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Oct 26th 2019 at 11:52:50 AM