We the followers of the MCU are continuously fascinated with which of our favourite comedian e-book characters are going to make it onto the massive display. And apparently, we’re not alone – the of us who deliver these characters to life are themselves toying with the thought of their most well-liked Marvel superheroes (or supervillains) making their means into the sprawling Marvel Cinematic Universe, and at New York Comedian Con 2025, we bought queued in on a type of actors’ nerdiest needs.
Particularly, that actor was Simu Liu, who appeared alongside onscreen sibling Meng’er Zhang at the NYCC ’25 Shang-Chi panel hosted by Popverse’s personal (devastatingly witty) Grant DeArmitt. At about the midway mark of the panel, the MCU’s Shang-Chi himself began taking questions from the assembled crowd of MCU followers in the viewers, and a type of followers inquired about which beforehand unseen MCU character Liu thinks deserves the massive display therapy. His reply did not take lengthy.
“Amadeus Cho,” mentioned The Copenhagen Check star. Then, for anybody in the viewers who did not know, “He is a brand new technology Hulk, Korean-American. Very cool.”
OK certain, loyal Popverse reader, neither Simu Liu or yours actually most likely has to elucidate who Amadeus Cho is to you. The truth is, not solely are you probably conscious of the Completely Superior Hulk’s exploits in Marvel Comics, you’re additionally most likely conscious of the reality that Cho has form of entered the MCU already, showing as a personality in the first season of Disney+’s animated Your Pleasant Neighborhood Spider-Man.
Granted, YFNSM is considerably tangential to the Sacred Timeline, technically happening in a actuality other than the one Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings was set in. However from a production-only standpoint, the present that makes Cho an intern at Oscorp was touted by Marvel itself as a part of Section 5.
However hey, if you actually wish to get all nit-picky with Marvel fan-favorite and Hollywood A-Lister Simu Liu, be our visitor.
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings s is streaming on Disney+ now. Simu Liu will return as Marvel’s Martial Arts Maven in Avengers: Doomsday December 18, 2026.