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Originally Posted by pseudoreality

So I just watched Shang-Chi on Disney+. I'd rate it as a mid, maybe lower mid-tier Marvel Movie. It was better than the first two Thor movies, that's for sure. One thing had me very confused, minor spoiler.

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Why was Wong hustling for money with the Abomination? I mean didn't he have some moral code about not carrying money? And why would they be working together? Also, if the Hulk or Abomination "didn't pull his punch" while hitting a human, the human would die.

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Perhaps we can attribute it to Dr. Strange's effect on him. Wong started off as the stoic monk-like librarian without a sense of humour and then laughed at Strange's joke at the end of the movie. Maybe recognizing that Dr. Strange was indeed the "best of them" as The Ancient One predicted, he realized he did not need to follow all of his teachings and even in Infinity War he had a bit of cash on him (just not sure how much). Maybe after 5 years after the snap he became more westernized hanging out with the other heroes. I mean he even did karaoke at the end.

Or it's just MCU flanderizing Wong into a comic relief character and we don't need to look into it so much.

Also spoilers for Black Widow, Falcon and Winter Soldier, Wandavision, Loki and Shang-Chi

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With discount Captain America guy, Black Widow's sister, Agatha, Abomination and maybe Loki, maybe an anti-Hawkeye in the new series, looks like Elaine could pull together a discount grey/evil-Avengers soon