Shang-Chi: Every Main Character Ranked From Worst To Best

8. Death Dealer

Shang Chi
Marvel Studios

If we were ranking characters purely by their aesthetic design alone, Death Dealer (Andy Le) would be an easy #1 with a bullet. But alas, as cool as the character looks, his placement in the film is a tad underwhelming.

The masked member of the Ten Rings appears only sporadically throughout, most notably as one of Shang-Chi's childhood trainers who also ends up fighting him outside the Golden Daggers Club.

It's an electrifying fight scene for sure, and martial artist Andy Le does a fantastic job with the lightning-fast fight choreography, but Death Dealer in this movie is a character who leaves you wanting so, so much more.

In many respects he feels like the movie's Boba Fett - an insanely badass, mostly silent soldier who ends up dying a most unsatisfying death at the hands of a grotesque creature.

And unlike Boba Fett, Death Dealer's demise - having his soul sucked out by a dragon-critter - is unlike to be retconned.

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