10 Most Inappropriate Marvel Comics Storylines Ever

10. Shang-Chi's Racist Backstory

In 2018, Marvel Studios took huge, long overdue strides in black representation not only in the superhero genre, but in the film industry overall. Three years later, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings did the same thing for the Asian community, though it had a lot of history and lore to rewrite to achieve this.

On the big screen, Shang-Chi's father was Wenwu, a compelling villain played by Tony Leung. In this he was the dreaded leader of the Ten Rings and the holder of the artifacts for which his army was named, but in the source material, Shang-Chi's father was nothing like this.

Instead of someone who enjoyed development and real motivation, Shang-Chi's father was Fu Manchu, a character for whom Marvel acquired the license for that was essentially the embodiment of just about every negative Asian stereotype possible.

Originally created as a generic villain, with no other traits than the obviously stereotypical, Fu Manchu was no different when he came into the Marvel Universe. He wished to conquer Western civilisation for seemingly absolutely no reason, and the main reason he was really seen as a villain was essentially because he was Asian. There was little more to him than that, and it is no surprise Marvel Studios have moved as far away from him as possible.