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Awkwafina’s Katy in “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” is An Unremarkable Badass
Spoilers Ahead: She is the real hero and here’s why
**Spoilers Below**
“When you aim for nothing, you hit nothing.”
And apparently, when you do aim for something, you’re likely to strike a giant supernatural lizard in the throat and help save the day.
Here’s the thing. I can sign up for 100 martial arts classes and commit my soul to become just like Shang-Chi — but the bar will always feel terrifyingly high. To be like Katy (Awkwafina’s character) however, seems much more attainable and therefore, more heroic in my eyes.
Katy, Shang-Chi’s best friend, is smart and charming. She is Berkeley-educated, level-headed and has a whip-sharp sense of humour. But she has no real ambition, according to mutual friends and family and doesn’t take life seriously enough.
She has a lot of potential, they complain, yet she flounders between jobs, wastes each night at karaoke bars, and takes each day as it comes.
At one point, even Katy jokingly admits that she “can’t commit to anything”, often picking something up in excitement one moment, then dropping it the next to find meaning somewhere else.
