YMMV / Shang-Chi

• Base-Breaking Character: Shang-Chi seems to have a polarizing reception in China, as evidenced by their social media's responses to the announcement of a Shang-Chi movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Some expressed derision due to the character's link with the Yellow Peril stigma associated with Fu Manchu. Others seem to like him enough to eagerly discuss the potential of actors rumored for the role.
• Common Knowledge: It's often stated that Shang-Chi is Marvel Universe's answer to Bruce Lee, but that's not completely true. While Shang-Chi was created during the dawn of the 1970s martial arts craze popularized by Lee, his creators Jim Starlin and Steve Englehart loosely based him off Kwai-Chang Caine from the TV series Kung Fu (1972), after failing to obtain the rights to adapt the television show as a comic book series. It wasn't until Paul Gulacy joined as an illustrator several issues into Master of Kung Fu and long after Starlin and Englehart left the series that Shang-Chi was redrawn to resemble Lee. Gulacy himself was a noted film buff and many of his characters including Shang-Chi were modeled off film stars during his tenure. Since then, Depending on the Writer and Artist, Shang-Chi has been drawn to resemble Lee or at least paid homage to him.
• Fair for Its Day: Shang-Chi, in the original Master of Kung Fu comics, was a heroic Asian character who didn't need a white character to fight his battles and was shown to be exceptionally competent at his work. However, he was also the son of the original Yellow Peril villain Fu Manchu, would occasionally speak with Ice-Cream Koan littered monologues, boasted goldenrod skin in his earliest appearances, and his main ability is "being really good at martial arts". Later writers emphasized the former aspects of Shang, while giving him a more realistic-looking design, and downplaying his connections to Yellow Peril styled villains. As Marvel lost the rights to Fu Manchu, they renamed Shang-Chi's father Zheng Zu (during Ed Brubaker's Secret Avengers run) and kept his narrative function intact - but used him rarely until the Soft Reboot redefined him.