Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings director Destin Daniel Cretton has said he wants to see the film's post-credits scene properly resolved, describing it as "frustrating when these things are left out in the open". The 2021 Marvel film ended with two teaser scenes, including one showing Wong, Captain Marvel and Bruce Banner examining the mysterious Ten Rings and detecting an unknown signal, a thread that has yet to be followed up on elsewhere in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Cretton's comments suggest an ongoing appetite among Marvel filmmakers to tie up dangling plot threads left by post-credits sequences, which are often used to tease future projects that do not always materialise on schedule. No confirmed details of when or how the Shang-Chi thread might be addressed were given, but the remarks point to continued behind-the-scenes discussion about the character's future within the wider franchise.