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But by the end of the third Iron Man, we learn that Slattery is actually a British actor hired by Dr. Kingsley is introduced as the villain who commanded the string of attacks against Tony Stark. Backing up a bit, the name Mandarin had been teased in Iron Man, but the character was never shown onscreen until 2013 - or so we thought. His character was fairly confusing to begin with. It’s been a while, so we get your confusion. The slightly loony older man trapped in a dimly lit dressing room is the original, albeit fake Mandarin you probably recall from several Marvel movies ago.Īctor Ben Kingsley plays fictional actor Trevor Slattery, who plays the Mandarin in Iron Man 3. America was afraid of an orange.”Īt this point, some audience members might be thinking, Wait, yeah, I thought I remembered meeting someone named the Mandarin, and he was not Tony Leung? Enter Trevor Slattery, played by Ben Kingsley, whom Shang-Chi (Simu Liu), his sister Xialing (Meng’er Zhang), and his friend Katy (Awkwafina) meet in an underground prison. Aldrich Killian (Guy Pearce) from Iron Man 3.
He invented a new one,” Wenwu says, the “he” being another character you’ve probably forgotten - Dr. In fact, midway through, Wenwu rips into the bizarre origins of his character, also known as the Mandarin. This Ten Rings storyline arrives, noticeably, with far fewer racial stereotypes than its predecessor. He’s firm, slightly terrifying, and the wielder of the mystical ring weapons. In Shang-Chi, we meet the man in charge of the Ten Rings, Tony Leung’s Wenwu. Here, we learn more about the group introduced in 2008’s Iron Man - they’re the people who kidnapped Tony Stark and forced him to build the armored suit as a weapon in the first place. In Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, the story of the titular Ten Rings organization that has been brewing since the earliest stage of the MCU is finally fleshed out.
If there’s room for a cameo that connects one corner of its massive universe to the other, Marvel will make it happen. More recently, characters like Kat Dennings’s Darcy Lewis from Thor and Randall Park’s FBI agent Jimmy Woo from Ant-Man and the Wasp made surprising returns in WandaVision. The Marvel Cinematic Universe is known for never letting a character or story line slip through the cracks (unless you’re The Incredible Hulk, though even that seems poised for an MCU renaissance). Spoilers for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings below.