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Originally Posted by Greenskar

There is absolutely no way the Mandarin as he exists in comics would have ever worked in a movie in today's modern society. Shane Black said it himself, that the Mandarin in today's era is a racist caricature of a villain and would not put him in the movie unless he was reimagined.

I thought the Mandarin, prior to the reveal, was way too overly theatrical with his terrorism trailers that kept popping up on TV and was worried this was going to feel extremely cliche. Then the reveal made it all make sense as to why and kept the movie grounded and not just another TDKR Bane type character.

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Originally Posted by Greenskar

I was very disappointed to hear that of all the great reviews and positive word of mouth that this movie has received, it's once again my fellow Comic Book fans that are spewing the most vitriol in the comments section, although I'm certainly not surprised.

I am a huge Iron Man comic book fan, but was not disappointed in how this Mandarin was executed in the least bit. Mostly because I'd rather have an Iron Man movie that doesn't piss off the rest of the world and is instead embraced as this one was.

You basically said everything I would have. The people I've seen complaining are nearly all the comics fans that wanted Mandarin with his rings and Foom flying around, never mind most fans have a different idea of how that should play out. I never believed that the Mandarin would work and couldn't imagine how they would do it without it being terrible. I was so worried when A.I.M. seemed to be taking center stage and the Mandarin was still there was I thought there would not be enough time to do both justice in one movie. I was relieved when Ben Kingsley went all Shakespeare on us. The Mandarin was just the marketing campaign for this movie just as he was there to cover up for A.I.M. in the story. I think that's kind of a nice parallel and maybe helps the audience connect to the universe a bit because we thought we knew what he was all about just like the people in the movie did.