Excuse me if i have grammar or spelling mistakes, i don't live in an english speaking country.
Could this be the return of the Mandarin? Maybe not, but it’s a hell of a good opportunity for him to come back! Let me explain. First of all, i have to say i enjoyed Iron Man 3. I’ve done some articles complaining about this movie but in the end, i’ve... learnt how to enjoy it. I’ve watched it with other eyes and understood that it’s a good movie.
But i still think that the Mandarin twist was such a great opportunity that was missed because of Ben kingsley and the fine job they were doing with the character. I see these scenes in which he records the videos to president Ellis or this scene in which he arrives to the Mansion with the costume and he says: “What are we waiting for?” All of his quotes were awesome. The thing is: They were doing such a good job with him. And then we got Trevor Slattery. But i have to say: In the end, he is super funny. I’ve watched the ten minutes one-shot all hail the king and just like i said up there: All of his quotes are awesome. “When an actor says that he has done some research he just means that he has googled his name and had a quick wank”. He is histerical.
And then in the one-shot we get to learn that there is actually another Mandarin out there so all the people in the internet now speculate that he will appear in another Marvel film like Iron Man 4 or even in Avengers Age of Ultron who Andy Serkis would supossedly be portraying given that his role in the film is unknown. I think that doing another Mandarin doesn’t make any sense because honestly, the great thing about the Mandarin (and i think lots of people are gonna agree with me on this one) was Ben Kingsley and the way he was portraying the character. You don’t care about the Mandarin, you care about (as i already said) the fine job they were doing with him.I don’t even have a single Mandarin comic. I was excited to see him because he was scary, and dark, and menacing. You were excited because of THE ADAPTATION. If now they did a movie with a levitating chinese guy that shoots lasers out of his rings i would not be as excited. You wouldn’t be as excited. You don’t care about the Mandarin.
What i’m trying to say is that the way they were doing the character is awesome and if they want to give a second chance to the Mandarin it has to be with Ben Kingsley. It’s either with Ben or with no one, then i think it wouldn’t make any sense. If Kingsley portrayed the Mandarin again, it would have to be the same Mandarin that he portrayed in iron Man 3, not another one who coincidentially has the same face. “But the Mandarin he portrayed in Iron Man 3 was an actor called Trevor Slattery.”
Well, in my fantasy Trevor is just a double, a decoy, a back-up plan. If everything goes south, we make it look like i’m a lie and make this british drug addict guy say that the Mandarin is not real and we mess with everyone’s head. Ha! Double twist! After all, Trevor is an actor and he’s supposed to make things believable. Can you imagine a scene with Trevor and the mandarin at the same time? I personally think that this solution is not as unlikely as other like: “Trevor reveals himself as the Mandarin” or “Trevor actually turns into the Mandarin”. I think it would be mind-blowing. I’m not saying this because i’m desperate to see the mandarin but because i think it’s a great idea.
Here is the solution my friends, now we can see the Mandarin on screen again and the double twist would be mind blowing. In which movie would this twist take place? Here comes the second part of the fun. They are doing a little film called Civil War in 2016. Rumours say that it will just be a set up for Avengers 3, i don’t care, the thing is Iron Man is in it, which is the important thing. There shouldn’t be another Iron Man film just to repair the things that were done in Iron Man 3, that would be a mistake with both Osama Bin Kingsley and especially with a new Mandarin. This shouldn’t happen on an avengers film because i prefear to save to avengers films for bigger things (Thanos, Skrulls, Red Skull... etc). But there is this special film in which Iron man is one of the main characters but it’s not Avengers but it’s not Iron Man. It’s cap and Iron Man. So i think it’s the perfect movie for the Mandarin to come back.
Maybe he could be the one pulling some strings in the shadows to make the registration act happen (just an idea). And also, in the comics, at the beggining, there was a huge accident in Stamford that killed lots of people. It was an explosion created by a supervillain called Nitro that was the final push that made the registration act happen. Who is the only character in the Marvel Universe who has the power to explode? Extremis soldiers. So in Civil War Cap and iron man fight and then team up to take down the Mandarin? Similar to what’s gonna happen in BvS? That’s not what Civil War is about. But i think that somehow, they can make this work.
Anyways, i can still dream, right? What did you think of this? Did you enjoy reading about the Mandarin? Thank you for reading, i am BaronZemo.