Munteanu and the film’s director Destin Daniel Cretton did the same thing. By which I mean they came up with a backstory for Razor Fist, not that they did Muppet porn. (Although, hey, I don’t know what they do in their free time.) They both envisioned him as a one-armed Romanian orphan whom Wenwu (The Mandarin) picked up, Inspector Gadget’ed, and turned into a faithful soldier. Over time, Razor Fist became something like a stepson to Wenwu, replacing his biological son Shang-Chi who rejected his father’s guidance. None of that made it into the movie, even though it really, REALLY should have.
As we mentioned before, the whole of MCU can be summed up in one image:
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As in, the entire franchise is about paternal relationships, and holy crap, wouldn’t it make so much sense to explore that just a little bit with Razor Fist? Shang-Chi sees his father as a monster forcing him to become a killer, but Razor Fist looks at Wenwu as a savior who is just really good at surviving in a world that he knows is incredibly crappy from first- (and one-) hand experiences. A Razor Fist with a fleshed-out backstory would have a personal reason to hate his stepbrother Shang-Chi for his perceived weakness and lack of gratitude to a man he owes his life to. Add to that the jealousy and insecurity that Ra-Fi must have felt about not being Wenwu’s biological son and therefore always second in the guy’s eyes, and you would get a really tragic villain whose arc would fit perfectly into the MCU.
It’s like … yeah, it was cool and all when he cut a bus in half, but it would’ve been more interesting if we knew that the entire time he was screaming, “He’s my daddy, jerk!” inside his head.
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