The death of Shang-Chi's mom Ying Li is a crucial plot point in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. But how did this untimely tragedy happen?
The untimely death of Shang-Chi’s mom, Ying Li, is an integral plot point in the MCU's Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, and the way she dies is one of the most shocking moments in the movie. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings revolves around the eponymous superpowered martial artist returning to the home he fled and reconnecting with the family he left behind as malevolent forces conspire against them.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY Released in 2021 just as movie theaters were reopening in a post-pandemic world, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings managed to gross $432 million worldwide , launching Simu Liu and Awkwafina to new levels of stardom. The success of Shang-Chi, both critically and commercially, gave Marvel enough faith in director Destin Daniel Cretton to hire him for Avengers: The Kang Dynasty.
Parent deaths are a common MCU trope. Peter Quill lost his mother Meredith; T’Challa lost his father T’Chaka; Peter Parker lost the maternal figure who raised him, Aunt May. But Shang-Chi put a fresh spin on this. Shang-Chi’s mom’s death ended up creating a near-irreparable rift in the family as the loss corrupted Wenwu and sent him back to his old violent ways.
Li Is Why Shang-Chi Runs Away & Why He Returns Shang-Chi’s mom’s death ended up causing him to run away from home – and, ultimately, to return. After Li was murdered, Wenwu took Shang-Chi to identify the killers before exacting ruthless revenge. This sequence is shot beautifully; the action is reflected in a mirror behind young, impressionable Shang-Chi watching in horror as his father goes on a killing spree with the power of the Ten Rings.
When Ten Rings assassins came after the pendant that Shang-Chi’s mom gave him, he feared that they would similarly target his sister, who was given an identical pendant by Li. As it turned out, the whole thing was orchestrated by Wenwu, who thought that a mystical map revealed by the matching pendants would lead him to be reunited with Li. Just as Li’s death tore Shang-Chi’s family apart, the hope of bringing her back brought them all back together.
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