Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1971498-20140219002039/@comment-112155-20140219002657

In my opinion, when someone claims to be someone, that doesn't make him that someone. Killian didn't knew the "Mandarin" was real, therefore he cannot take a mantle.

He just created a proxy, calling him The Mandarin, and later revealed to Stark that he was The Mandarin, in other words, that he was the terrorist responsable of the bombings, of the destruction of Stark's Mansion, etc.

He could have claimed to be the Queen of England, but that doesn't make him "take the mantle" of the Queen, so the current words of "claiming" match better this particular situation.