Jiang Li

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Jiang Li
Publication information
Ta-Lo
Team affiliationsQilin Riders
Abilities

Jiang Li is a fictional character appearing in

Ying Li, played by Fala Chen in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
(2021).

Publication history

In the early 1970s, writer

kung fu-focused original comic. Editor-in-chief Roy Thomas agreed, but only if they would include the Sax Rohmer's pulp villain Dr. Fu Manchu, as Marvel had previously acquired the comic book rights to the character.[1][2] Englehart and Starlin developed Shang-Chi, a master of kung fu and a previously unknown son of Dr. Fu Manchu.[3][4]
Shang-Chi's mother was a white American woman, per mandate by then editor-in-chief Roy Thomas, who was genetically selected by Fu Manchu to be the mother of his progeny.

After Marvel's license with the Rohmer estate expired, Master of Kung Fu was cancelled in 1983.[5] Despite subsequent issues either mentioning characters from the novels cryptically or phased out entirely, the Si-Fan still kept its original name in its appearances.[6][7]

In 2010's Secret Avengers #6–10, writer

Chinese: 鄭祖)[8][9]

In 2020, Shang-Chi starred in a self-titled five issue miniseries written by American Born Chinese author Gene Luen Yang with art by Dike Ruan and Philip Tan.[10] Initially set for a June 2020 release, the first issue was delayed to September due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[11]

The film

Ying Li. When the cast for the film was announced by Kevin Feige, the character was originally named Jiang Li before being changed to Ying Li.[notes 1]

Shang-Chi starred in a new

Ta-Lo, which was previously introduced by writers Mark Gruenwald, Ralph Macchio and artist Keith Pollard in Thor #310 (1980);[17] and the Ten Rings weapons.[18]

Biography

Jiang Li was born into one of

Ta-Lo's few communities of mortals known as the Qilin Riders who were appointed by the Xian as guardians of the gateway connecting Ta-Lo to Qilin Island in the East China Sea. While on patrol, Jiang Li rescued a shipwrecked Zheng Zu from pirates. Jiang Li nursed Zu back to health and the two fell in love. However, Jiang Li's father, Chieftain Xin, was outraged over her harboring an outsider and ordered her to return to Ta-Lo with Zu's head. Instead, Jiang Li and Zu fled to Zu's House of the Deadly Hand in Hunan, where Jiang Li discovered Zu's true identity as the leader of the Five Weapons Society, a criminal organization. Jiang Li attempted to leave him, but Zu pleaded with her to stay, promising to change his dark ways. True to his word, Zu rediscovered his own humanity from Jiang Li and the two married and had two children: Shang-Chi and Shi-Hua.[19] However following an attack by Hydra against the House of the Deadly Hand, Zu became cold and distant towards his family, as he felt that his love for them made him weak. Out of loneliness, Jiang Li sent a letter to her father and a few weeks later was drawn to a confrontation between Xin and Zu in the latter's personal tower, where it was revealed that Zu had constructed a makeshift portal to Ta Lo to steal the realm's sacred weapons to bolster the Society. While Zu fought his wife and father-in-law, Shang-Chi happened upon the scene, just as the portal's connection to Ta Lo became disconnected and Jiang Li was accidentally pushed through to her presumed death.[20]

Instead, Jiang Li was sent to the

mantid creatures, who protected and sheltered her. Jiang Li resided in the Negative Zone for many years, occasionally using her psionic abilities to reach out to her children. After Shang-Chi took over the Five Weapons Society following Zu's death and began reforming it as a heroic organization, he began receiving Jiang Li's messages through his dreams and travelled to the Negative Zone with his half-siblings to rescue her. While she recuperated at the New House of the Deadly Hand in Chinatown, Manhattan, she is secretly visited by her father. Despite claiming to being overjoyed to see her again, Xin is consumed by his rage towards Zu and his bloodline since his earlier confrontation with them and believes Shang-Chi to be as evil as his father, vowing to put an end to his grandson.[21]

Due to being mentally linked to insects for many years, Jiang Li takes a while to recover her mental health but spends time with her son and his half-siblings.[22][23] After she fully recovers, Jiang Li begins telling Shang-Chi their family history but the two are attacked by several enemies of the Society. Jiang Li uses her psionic abelites to realize that they are being led by Xin.[19] Although Shang-Chi and the Society are able to defeat the would-be assassins, Jiang Li is taken hostage by them, forcing Shang-Chi to let them escape. Although Xin is outraged over their failure to kill Shang-Chi and for kidnapping his daughter, he allows his allies to escape with Jiang Li through a portal to Qilin Island and through the gateway to Ta Lo.[20] After failing to acquire Shang-Chi's corpse to complete his magic, Xin forcibly extracts Jiang Li's psionic energy to locate Shi-Hua for his ritual.[24] Xin returns with Shi-Hua's severed right hand, which he uses to create taotie masks for himself and the Qilin Riders. Jiang Li escapes by psionically bonding with a nearby qilin and travels back to Earth to help the Society defend the House of the Deadly Hand from the mask empowered Riders.[25] Jiang Li briefly faces off against her father, who is empowered by his own mask and several of the heavenly Ten Rings but helped by the arrival of Shang-Chi and his siblings. When Shang-Chi succumbs to his inner darkness to take the Ten Rings from Xin and defeats him and the Riders, he attempts to sever Xin's hand in retaliation for what he did to Shi-Hua but Jiang Li and his siblings talk him down, bringing him back to his senses. Jiang Li and Shang-Chi return to Ta Lo for Xin to face justice and to return the Ten Rings to the Jade Emperor, who appoints Jiang Li as the new Chieftain of the Qilin Riders, which requires her to remain in Ta Lo.[26]

Powers and abilities

As a Qilin Rider, Jiang Li is blessed by the Xian with the power of innate archery and to psionically link with qilin. Jiang Li can also extend her psionic abilities to other individuals, including humans and aliens. She is also proficient in martial arts.

In other media

Films

Ying Nan
. After the battle, Shang-Chi and Xialing light paper lanterns in memory of Li and Wenwu, who was killed by the Dweller.

Notes

  1. ^ The character's name in the film was initially announced as Jiang Li, even used on licensed products, however, it was changed to Ying Li.[15][16]
  1. ^ The character's name in the film was initially announced as Jiang Li, even used on licensed products, however, it was changed to Ying Li.[12][13]

References

  1. ^ "Inside Shang-Chi's evolution from forgotten comic book character to big-screen superhero".
  2. ^ "A success written in the stars". Universo HQ. March 3, 2001. Retrieved September 8, 2021.
  3. ISBN 978-0-7566-4123-8
    . Capitalizing on the popularity of martial arts movies, writer Steve Englehart and artist/co-plotter Jim Starlin created Marvel's Master of Kung Fu series. The title character, Shang-Chi, was the son of novelist Sax Rohmer's criminal mastermind Dr. Fu Manchu.
  4. ISBN 978-1-4165-3141-8
    .
  5. ^ "Here's Why Marvel Doesn't Own Movie Rights to Shang-Chi's Biggest Villain". Screen Rant. August 26, 2019.
  6. ^ "Kingpin Always Could Have Killed Daredevil, and Shang-Chi Proves It". ScreenRant. 2022-04-12. Retrieved 2022-05-23.
  7. ^ "Celestial Order of the Si-Fan". The Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
  8. ^ "Benson Unleashes Shang-Chi's "Deadly Hands of Kung Fu"". CBR. April 4, 2014.
  9. ^ "Shang-Chi: How the MCU's New Hero Was First Connected to the Ten Rings". CBR. August 29, 2021. Retrieved September 3, 2021.
  10. ^ Gustines, George Gene (March 12, 2020). "A Shang-Chi Comic for Summer, Ahead of the Hero's Marvel Film". The New York Times.
  11. ^ June 2020, George Marston 16 (June 16, 2020). "Marvel re-schedules new Black Widow, Shang-Chi, Juggernaut, Marvel Zombies: Resurrection titles for September". Newsarama.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  12. ^ "Michelle Yeoh's role in Marvel's first Asian superhero film finally confirmed". sg.style.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2022-03-31.
  13. ^ "Funko Jiang Li Pop! Vinyl Figure, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings | shopDisney". shopDisney.co.uk. Retrieved 2022-03-31.
  14. ^ "Shang-Chi Vs. The Marvel Universe". Marvel Entertainment.
  15. ^ "Michelle Yeoh's role in Marvel's first Asian superhero film finally confirmed". sg.style.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2022-03-31.
  16. ^ "Funko Jiang Li Pop! Vinyl Figure, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings | shopDisney". shopDisney.co.uk. Retrieved 2022-03-31.
  17. ^ "An MCU Icon's Tragic Origin is Bringing Back a Mystical Marvel Location". CBR. 2022-02-05. Retrieved 2022-03-31.
  18. ^ "The True Power of the Ten Rings Is Unleashed on the Marvel Universe in Gene Luen Yang & Marcus To's New 'Shang-Chi and the Ten Rings' #1". Marvel. March 29, 2022. Retrieved March 29, 2022.
  19. ^ a b Shang-Chi (vol. 2) #7 Marvel Comics
  20. ^ a b Shang-Chi (vol. 2) #8 Marvel Comics
  21. ^ Shang-Chi (vol. 2) #4 Marvel Comics
  22. ^ Shang-Chi (vol. 2) #5 Marvel Comics
  23. ^ Shang-Chi (vol. 2) #6 Marvel Comics
  24. ^ Shang-Chi (vol. 2) #9 Marvel Comics
  25. ^ Shang-Chi vol. 2 #11 Marvel Comics
  26. ^ Shang-Chi (vol. 2) #12 Marvel Comics

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