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Why doesn't Marvel make Shang Chi Iron Fist? It's actually a popular idea going around the web and having Iron Fist actually BE Asian would work wonders. Picture Kun Lun being to Asians what Wakanda is to Wakandans. It'd be diverse. I have trouble picturing people accepting the fact that a non-Asian is A) essentially trying to be *them* and B) Kicking the crap out of the *them*. There's no doubt Asian fans are left behind comic wise. Pushing Shang or making him IF would solve things QUICKLY.
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I see your point. But I don’t know that I’d try to solve it by making Shang Chi Iron Fist. On a purely mathematical level, that gives me one character rather than two, and has the potential of alienating fans of both.
dayinknight liked this leviathan0999 said: Chris Claremont, in the defining years of “Iron Fist,” considered that K'un-Lun was an alien outpost on the world of the Hylthrii (sp?) So, in the Marvel continuity, it’s not an “Asian” thing in the first place. His “definitive” Danny Rand was essentially Heinlein’s…
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