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Kunal Dudheker is an actor and editor who has appeared in TV shows such as Better Things, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Silicon Valley. He also has voice roles in upcoming projects such as Record of Ragnarok and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.
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Kunal Dudheker is a comedian and actor who grew up in Orange County, CA and performed at UCB and iO West. He has appeared in TV shows such as Better Things, Hacks and Silicon Valley, and in the 2021 movie Shang-Chi.
Kunal Dudheker is an actor who has appeared in Better Things, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Silicon Valley. Learn more about his career, roles and personal details on IMDb, the world's most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content.
Kunal Dudheker is an actor and editor who has appeared in various TV shows, movies and shorts. See his full list of credits, including upcoming projects, on IMDb.
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By Tom Power
published 3 September 2021
Spoilers follow for Shang-Chi
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Spoilers follow for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.
With Shang-Chi (Simu Liu) saving the day, although Katy (Awkwafina) and the Great Protector helped him to stop the interdimensional being known as the Dweller-in-Darkness.
Xu Wenwu (Tony Leung), who believes that his deceased wife Jiang Li (Fala Chan) is calling out to him in Ta Lo, destroys the dragon-scale barrier that had prevented the Dweller-in-Darkness from escaping its tomb.
With the entity freed from captivity, its bat-like minions start feeding it with the souls that they’ve acquired from Ta Lo’s and Wenwu’s armies. Having initially battled one another, both parties agree to join forces and prevent the Dweller-in-Darkness and its underlings from killing anyone else.
Their efforts, though, are in vain. The Dweller-in-Darkness consumes enough souls to grow larger and more powerful than the Great Protector, Ta Lo’s mystical dragon that has watched over the magical village for eons.
Unable to fight off its foe, the Great Protector is captured by the Dweller-in-Darkness, who begins to feast on its soul. Draining the dragon of its life force would make the Dweller-in-Darkness unstoppable and enable it to destroy the Earth.
As it absorbs the dragon’s soul, Shang-Chi’s sister Xialing (Meng’er Zhang), who’s riding on the Great Protector alongside her brother, loses her grip and begins to fall. Shang-Chi grabs her hand, but she tells him to let her go so that he can save the Great Protector using the 10 rings. Remembering how he left her alone at Wenwu’s compound years earlier, Shang-Chi tells her he “won’t let her go again”, even if it means that the Dweller-in-Darkness wins.
Wong inspects the rings alongside Shang-Chi and Katy. The trio, though, are not alone. The camera pans to the right and reveals that two Avengers are also present: Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo), who is surprisingly back in his human form, and Carol Danvers (Brie Larson), aka Captain Marvel.
Banner and Danvers, who are using the hologram technology seen in Avengers: Endgame, say they haven’t come across anything like the 10 rings before.
Wong adds that the rings aren’t part of the Sanctum’s codex either and, when Shang-Chi used them to defeat the Dweller-in-Darkness, they sent a signal out into the universe. When Shang-Chi and Katy ask where it was sent to, Banner and Danvers receive unexpected messages and leave.
Wong tells Shang-Chi and Katy that they’re part of a bigger universe now (i.e. the MCU) and that he’ll be in touch. However, in an amusing callback to earlier in the film, the duo invite Wong to karaoke night, where the trio end up drunkenly singing Hotel California.
So it seems that the 10 rings are of alien origin, and that they’re potentially calling out to their creators – but to who, exactly?
In the comics, the 10 rings were created by the Makluans, a shape-shifting cosmic race of space dragons (yes, you read that right). Born on the planet Kakaranthara, some Makluans became bored of how peaceful their world was, and set off to find new worlds to explore (or conquer) in the universe.
Shang-Chi’s post-credits scene is equally as intriguing as the mid-credits one. We find Xialing in her old bedroom at Wenwu’s compound. Razor Fist (Florian Munteanu) arrives and says “they’re here”.
The duo walk to Wenwu’s throne room, which overlooks the courtyard where he used to train his Ten Rings warriors. Surprisingly, Xialing sits on the throne as the camera pans back to reveal that a new generation of warriors are being trained. The Ten Rings banner is now red rather than black, too, while graffiti and other art has been daubed on the compound’s walls.
The screen turns black but, as it does so, a message appears: The Ten Rings will return.
So Xialing is the new leader of the Ten Rings. What does this mean for the organization moving forward? In our view, there are three major ways that the Ten Rings can show up in the future.
The first and most obvious is a Shang-Chi sequel. It’s too early to tell whether he’ll get a follow-up movie but, if he does, Shang-Chi may enlist his sister’s help with whatever problem arises.
Next, the Ten Rings could appear in a Marvel TV series. How about Armor Wars, the upcoming show that will star Don Cheadle as War Machine? Iron Man has a history with the Ten Rings thanks to Iron Man 3, so maybe Xialing’s forces steal some of Stark’s old technology and weapons for their own means. War Machine, then, could be tasked with recovering them for the US Government.
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