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Shang-Chi is not even the best fighter in his family?


Loses to his both his sister and his aunt. Beats his dad though (who lost to him mom) I think there is a pattern somewhere, but I can't quite see it.
So out of his 4 closest living family members, he is the third best fighter.

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that woke, huh?

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Other than that, no. But it seems to be obligatory now in every single Marvel property to show the women to always be better than the men at everything. Shuri is smarter than Bruce and Tony, Captain Marvel can beat up Thanos without the power stone(who beat up Iron Man, Captain America and Thor all at the same time)Wanda is more powerful than Doctor Strange, Sylvie is the superior Loki, the Dora Milaje are more dangerous than The Winter Soldier. And every woman in this movie is better than every man (except Akwafina I guess).
Considering Shang-Chi's only "super power" is being a really good fighter, they nerfed him to oblivion in his own debut movie. Without the 10 rings, is he any use at all??

I swear to god that Spider Gwen is going to turn up in Spider-man No Way Home and be better than all 3 Spider-men combined.

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OP didn't pay attention to the movie.

He didn't try to fight his sister. The movie explicitly shows him pulling his punches during their "match". In fact, it's implied throughout the movie that he is a superior fighter to her. Ostensibly, he looks like a better fighter than her if you look at his feats compared to hers.

He didn't even fight his aunt. His aunt was teaching him the wind magic shit that he wanted to know. Yeah, he struggled against, but that's cause it's new to him. And given that the wind magic shit outclasses the ten rings (which he himself uses to beat his father later), it's not surprising that he wouldn't do well that fight. There's no indication at all that his aunt is stronger than him. In all likelihood, she probably isn't given their feats.

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He didn't lose to his sister. He refused to fight her because he wasn't going to hit his sister, so he stood still and let her win. That's called "chivalry," not "wokeness."

He never fought his aunt in any true sense. He asked her to train him, because she knew his mother's magical style of fighting, which was the only style that had ever proven effective against the 10 rings.

In summation-- you're grasping for something that isn't there.

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He didn't lose to his sister. He refused to fight her because he wasn't going to hit his sister

He doesn't refuse to hit his sister. He's so inferior that he's barely able to hold against her. She dominates him completely. When it comes to woke points, Vagina beats Asian.

In case somebody wants to check by himself, the fight is here:
https://youtu.be/XacowQx7AFw?t=15

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He pins her down and stops his punch an inch from her face, showing that he could have hit her but chose not to. Other than that, he literally says he's not gonna fight her.

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That excerpt is lacking in context. He refuses to fight, and only tries to defend himself. As AP points out below, he is demonstrably the better fighter, but refuses to hit her. He then stands still and lets her strike him down to win the fight. It is never shown, or even implied, that she is able to defeat him in a fair fight. Had you seen the movie before spouting off, you'd have known this.

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Everyone knows that the smaller, slower, weaker fighter generally wins fights, so. . .

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