Now everyone would hopefully agree that Iron Man's most notorious villian is Mandarin. So, you would think that naturally the next villian in the sequel would be him--especially since Jon Favreau had already hinted that he would be early on.
Well, it looks like he was setting it up in the first movie, because there is a kinda hidden, I guess you would call it an easter egg, in the original Iron Man movie.
When Tony is sitting down watching tv about the chaos happening in Afganistan, he is messing with half of the iron man hand, and if you listen to the reporter she mentions that the local group of terroists is called the ten rings. She says it like it's on one word so it might just be a easter egg. Or that same terrorist group with a new leader (cough cough MANDARIN cough cough) could come back in the second one and find the TEN RINGS. Now if you already caught this and think that this whole thing was pointless... yea I kinda realize this.
But just comment on if you think this is a easter egg or a possible entrance for Mandarin into the franchise.
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