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Shang-Chi: 2 Post-Credits Scenes, Explained
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Warning: major spoilers ahead for Shang-Chi. Proceed at your own risk.
Shang-Chi ending, explained
The new Marvel movie ends in a restaurant with Shang-Chi (Liu) and his best friend Katy (Awkwafina) describing their incredible adventures to their San Francisco friends — their high-school bud Soo (Stephanie Hsu) and her husband John (Kunal Dudheker) — who had asked them to live up to their potential earlier in the film. Given the craziness of what they went through (dragons and stuff), Soo thinks they are mocking her. Can you blame her? Shang-Chi‘s events are so fantastical after all. But just then, to prove Shang-Chi and Katy’s point, a magical portal opens up behind Soo and John.
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Standing there is the sorcerer Wong (Benedict Wong) who appeared earlier in the film during the Macau fight club sequences. Wong is looking for Shang-Chi, who puts his hand up and says “Present.” Wong then walks up to their table and says that Shang-Chi needs to come with him. He then points towards Katy too, hinting that there’s something special about Katy. There better be, otherwise Shang-Chi has a lot of explaining to do on how Katy essentially turned into Legolas (from The Lord of the Rings) midway through the climactic battle in Ta Lo.
Wong then walks through the portal back into the New York Sanctum, before Katy and Shang-Chi follow him through, waving goodbye to a stunned Soo and John.
Shang-Chi mid-credits scene, explained
That’s where the movie ends, with the Shang-Chi mid-credits scene picking up right where we left off — except on the other side of the portal. Wong is studying the Ten Rings, and says he has never seen an object like that before. But he’s not alone. Shang-Chi and Katy are in the room yes, but Bruce Banner/ Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) and Carol Danvers/ Captain Marvel (Brie Larson) are there too — not in person but via those holographic machines first seen in Avengers: Endgame. Interestingly, Bruce is back in human form, though he still has the sling from using the Infinity Gauntlet as Smart Hulk.
Simu Liu as Shang-Chi with the rings in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Photo Credit: Disney/Marvel Studios
Bruce wonders if the rings are Chitauri in origin, a reference to The Avengers, but Carol says she hasn’t seen any alien tech like it. They then wonder how long Shang-Chi’s father Wenwu (Tony Leung) had the Ten Rings before they came into his possession. Shang-Chi says that he must have had it for a thousand years, but Bruce notes that they are a lot older going by their “thermal luminescence.” Wong adds that the first time Shang-Chi used the Ten Rings, they felt it in Kamar-Taj. He then zooms into the rings’ visual representation, where they discover that there’s a beacon inside it.
It’s sending a message, prompting Shang-Chi to go: “A message to where?” Could this ancient weapon that’s thousands of years old and is communicating with someone be somehow tied to a group of immortal beings that have lived in secret on Earth for thousands of years? I mean, that is the next Marvel movie: Eternals, due November 5 in cinemas globally. We will have to wait a couple of months to find out, I suppose.
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Just then, Carol gets a notification and excuses herself because she has to go take care of it. She tells Shang-Chi and Katy to get her number from Bruce. As she leaves, Bruce says she does that a lot — and that he doesn’t actually have her number. Bruce too then departs with a parting note, “Welcome to the circus.” Wong reiterates that, noting that the trajectory of their new life will be like nothing they have witnessed before. And hence, they should get some rest.
“That’s a good idea,” Katy says, but as she looks at Shang-Chi, it’s clear they have other ideas too. Cut to all three karaoke singing Eagles’ “Hotel California,” a callback to two earlier moments: Katy once sang “Hotel California” in high school to confuse a bully who was about to beat Shang-Chi. And Shang-Chi previously showed us how Katy and Shang-Chi choose fun (also a karaoke night then) over their very adult responsibilities, which they are doing here again.
Shang-Chi post-credits scene, explained
The actual post-credits scene in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, the one that arrives after all the credits have actually rolled, is briefer than the Shang-Chi mid-credits scene. It centres on Shang-Chi’s sister Xialing (Meng’er Zhang), whom Shang-Chi mentioned at the end is off to tear down their father’s operations. But she doesn’t seem to be actually doing that. By the looks of it, Xialing seems to be just taking over the Ten Rings, with a bit of transformation.
Meng’er Zhang as Xialing in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Photo Credit: Jasin Boland/Marvel Studios
She’s recruited her fight club organiser and announcer Jon Jon (Ronny Chieng) though the blades-for-arms mercenary Razor Fist (Florian Munteanu) is still the head of the army. The biggest change is that women have an equal place in the Ten Rings now, in response to her father who always overlooked his daughter. Plus, there’s modern-style graffiti on the walls, for some added cool factor. The Ten Rings are a 21st-century operation, except they don’t have any rings (LOL).
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Still, Xialing has a lot of manpower and firepower at her disposal, which I’m sure will come handy for the MCU’s future villains. Shang-Chi‘s post-credits scene ends by saying “The Ten Rings will return,” which I suppose works for both Xialing’s outfit and Shang-Chi’s actual ten rings. It’s not clear where we will see either of them next — Marvel has yet to announce a sequel. All Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige has said on the topic is that “there is a direct line of where he heads to next.”
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is now playing in cinemas worldwide. In India, Shang-Chi is available in English, Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, and Telugu.
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Microsoft Partners With Inworld to Bring AI Game Development Tools to Xbox
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“At Xbox, we believe that with better tools, creators can make even more extraordinary games,” Haiyan Zhang, GM, Xbox Gaming AI, said in a blog post. “This partnership will bring together: Inworld’s expertise in working with generative AI models for character development, Microsoft’s cutting-edge cloud-based AI solutions including Azure OpenAI Service, Microsoft Research’s technical insights into the future of play, and Team Xbox’s strengths in revolutionizing accessible and responsible creator tools for all developers.”
The aforementioned AI design copilot is a toolset that will help game designers turn prompts into scripts and dialogue trees. In contrast, the character runtime will enable dynamically generated plot beats and quests. We’ve already seen heavy AI integration in games by way of procedural generation — a more recent example being the 1000+ planets in Starfield. Not to mention, enemy AI has been around for way longer.
Inworld made headlines in August when it launched a modded story mode for Grand Theft Auto V, Sentient Streets, in which players had to investigate the rise of a bizarre AI-worshipping cult — a segment loaded with characters that spoke in AI-generated dialogue, on the fly. The mod was later taken down by publisher Take-Two, leaving a permanent strike on the creator Bloc’s YouTube channel. As per The Verge, Inworld’s AI technology can also be used for narration in top-down RPGs to warn players about any events awaiting off-screen and respond to questions like we’ve seen in the past year with AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Bing Chat. Microsoft has also been heavily banking on artificial intelligence, having made a $10 billion (about Rs. 83,254 crore) investment in OpenAI. The company has also integrated AI tools into its popular suite of services and also added an AI copilot to Windows.
Despite being a Microsoft-affiliated AI toolset, it would be interesting to see whether titles using them will be allowed to thrive on other platforms. In July, Valve claimed that it would be cracking down on games that included AI-generated assets if the developer didn’t own the copyright to the piece of art. For the uninitiated, when you insert a prompt to create something in AI, the software simply repurposes existing assets found online and mushes them together — basically stealing from other artists and writers without appropriate commercial licenses. Infringing them would lead to the game not being distributed on Steam, forcing the developers to seek proper licenses for the asset by reaching out to the AI companies involved. It’s unclear how Microsoft’s partnership will play out — as long as AI content is being used as a catalyst to innovate and create something new, it should be fine.
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BSNL Offers Free 4G SIM Upgrade: Here’s How to Get It
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In a post on X shared by BSNL’s Andhra Pradesh (@bsnl_ap_circle) unit, the company confirmed that BSNL users can upgrade their older 2G or 3G SIMs to a 4G SIM for free. Not only will the upgrade be free, but a promotional image shared with the post suggests that users who opt for the upgrade will also receive 4GB of free data that will be valid for three months. It is speculated that BSNL is aiming to boost its upcoming 4G services with this offer. The announcement was first spotted by Telecom Talk.
To access the free data offer and the free upgrade, BSNL users are requested to get in touch with executives at BSNL’s Customer Service Centre, franchisee or retailer stores, or contact one of their Direct Selling Agents (DSA). The promo image also adds in a finer print that the offer is available with certain terms and conditions, but hasn’t detailed any, so far.
Reliance’s Jio recently launched the 4G-supported Bharat B1 feature phone in India. The handset is priced at Rs. 1,299 in India. Alongside 4G connectivity, the phone comes with JioCinema and JioSaavn applications pre-installed.
The Jio Bharat B1 is equipped with the JioPay application, which is said to allow users to make UPI payments. Aiming to increase accessibility, the phone supports 23 languages overall, including multiple regional languages.
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Realme GT 5 Pro Teased to Feature 3,000 Nits Display; More Details Revealed
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Realme, via Weibo, announced the arrival of the Realme GT 5 Pro in China. The display of the handset is confirmed to offer 3000 nits peak brightness. It has also been teased to offer heat dissipation with a surface area of around 10,000mm2. It is confirmed to ship with Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC. The post doesn’t specify the exact launch date of the smartphone, however, given the release of the teasers, the launch could be just around the corner.
The Realme GT 5 Pro has been in the news a lot lately. It is expected to feature a 6.78-inch (1,264×2,780 pixels) AMOLED display and is tipped to come in 8GB, 12GB, and 16GB RAM options along with 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB inbuilt storage options.
For optics, the Realme GT 5 Pro is said to have a triple rear camera unit comprising two 50-megapixel sensors and an 8-megapixel shooter at the rear. The camera setup might include a Sony LYTIA LYT808 sensor, an OmniVision OV08D10 secondary sensor, and a Sony IMX890 telephoto sensor. For selfies, there could be a 32-megapixel sensor at the front. It is said to carry a 5,400mAh battery with support for 100W wired charging and 50W wireless charging.
The Realme GT 5 Pro is expected to come with upgrades over Realme GT 5. The latter was launched in China in August with a price tag of CNY 2,999 for the base model with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage.
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