Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige has confirmed that the characters at the end of the Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings trailer are Wong (Benedict Wong) and Abomination from The Incredible Hulk.
"Yes, we just recently released the final trailer for Shang-Chi,” Feige told Rotten Tomatoes. "Some fans said, 'This looks like a character they hadn't seen in many years named The Abomination, fighting a character that looks like Wong.' And I can say that the reason it looks like that is because that is Abomination fighting Wong."
Feige also added that part of the fun in the connectivity of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is surprising fans by bringing back old characters. "[It's] a fun thing to have a character that we haven't had on screen in over a decade show up again in the MCU," he said. "And to see fans on that little tag of the trailer recognize that and embrace that is great fun."
The final trailer for Shang-Chi concluded with a stinger of Simu Liu's titular hero and Awkwafina's Katy attending some form of superpowered fight club. Viewers can clearly see the comics-accurate Abomination squaring off against an unknown sorcerer, who many speculated was Wong.
One theory that began spreading amongst fans was that the Abomination in the Shang-Chi trailer was not from Incredible Hulk, and instead was from a different Earth in the multiverse. This would have tied into the multiversal developments set up in Disney+'s WandaVision and Loki, as well as the feature films Spider-Man: No Way Home and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. However, confirmation that this Abomination is the same one that terrorized the Hulk in the 2008 film means Shang-Chi will include plenty of surprises for MCU fans.
Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton and written by Daniel Callaham, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings stars Simu Liu as Shang-Chi, Tony Leung as Wenwu/The Mandarin, Awkwafina as Katy, Michelle Yeoh as Jiang Nan, Meng'er Zhang as Xialing, Ronny Chieng as Jon Jon, Fala Chen as Jiang Li and Florian Munteanu as Razor Fist. The film arrives in theaters Sept. 3.
Source: Rotten Tomatoes