“In many ways, the traditional superhero origin story of understanding that your difference is actually your superpower serves ShangChi in a way that perhaps only Asian Americans can truly understand,” writes Kim Thai
Photo: Courtesy of Marvel Studios In the first scene of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Simu Liu’s character “Shaun,” and Katy, his BFF played by Awkwafina, recount how they met — how Katy belted out “Hotel California” to stop a bully from picking on him. Though he didn’t explicitly say that it was because he was Asian, he didn’t have to. I knew.
What is she doing?, I remember thinking. Why did she have to come to school wearing that? And talk in Vietnamese? I couldn’t help but notice the irony — how my shame of my own culture made me push it away, and now, here I was, sitting with the shame of my aversion.
What Shang-Chi and the Ten Rings does so effectively is that it reflects the breadth AAPI experience onscreen — not just as faces and Simu Liu’s ripped body, but also in our very nuanced experiences of being different. In many ways, the traditional superhero origin story of understanding that your difference is actually your superpower serves Shang-Chi in a way that perhaps only Asian Americans can truly understand.
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