Actor and boxer Florian Munteanu is about to play the villain Razor Fist within the upcoming Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, however he won’t be a baddie you have heard of up till now. Razor Fist, like most of the heroes and villains within the Marvel comics, is not a title held by only one individual. The one factor all Razor Fists have in frequent? They’re enemies of Shang-Chi. Marvel hasn’t revealed which incarnation of the supervillain would be the baddie within the upcoming movie (though we have now a guess), however he is virtually definitely one in all these guys.
The unique Razor Fist was William Younger, a mercenary, murderer, and guard employed by bold crime lord Carlton Velcro. Velcro mutilated Younger to make him a extra formidable foe, surgically changing his fingers with “fingers” fabricated from metal blades. Younger fought in opposition to Shangi-Chi at Velcro’s command, however he misplaced and ended up dying when he was unintentionally shot by one other of Velcro’s guards. Physician Doom, the nemesis of the Improbable 4 and different Marvel heroes, later made two robotic variations of Younger to assault Shang-Chi.
The second backstory for Razor Fist gave the story a brand new twist: he is really a pair of brothers, Douglas and William Scott, who faux to be one individual. Their origin story hews fairly carefully to Younger’s: they turn out to be Velcro’s murderer, they every have a hand changed by metal blades, they usually’re assigned to assault Shang-Chi. Even the accidental-death a part of the backstory stays intact: on this model, Douglas is unintentionally shot and killed by Velcro himself. His brother William, nonetheless, continues on, and on condition that he has the largest story out of the Razor Fists within the comics, we’re fairly positive he may be the model we see on display screen.
William later crosses paths with a number of main heroes, together with Wolverine and Hawkeye. Within the comics, his encounters with each of them look like deadly earlier than he reappears in later storylines, however his survival isn’t actually defined in both case. Earlier than he faces off in opposition to Shang-Chi once more, intriguingly, William performs a task within the Secret Invasion storyline, during which he joins the supervillain Hood to assault the Skrull and New Avengers alike. As a reminder, Marvel is adapting Secret Invasion into one in all its upcoming Disney+ TV reveals, with Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury within the lead.
Ultimately, Razor Fist is employed by crime lord White Dragon, the place he’s once more despatched up in opposition to Shang-Chi. Though he is a frequent enemy of Shang-Chi, he does not really appear to play a task within the Mandarin/Ten Rings storyline that is speculated to be the principle battle of the upcoming movie. We’re very to see how the film ties all the pieces collectively, and we have now lower than a yr to attend: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings continues to be scheduled to be launched on July 9, 2021!