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

Why change what I had written when my new edits are actually proving the point over my original one even better than before? Also seriously, removing edits without so much as an explanation is just becoming rude at this point. especially when I've been providing proper reasons and been editing in good faith to try and actually change a contradicting info that Drew Pearce wanted to be very clear about.

Drew Pearce (yes the same writer as the recent One-Shot) literally confirmed that Killian wasn't claiming to be the "true alter ego" of the Mandarin and that he just purposely adopted the mantle as his own during IM3. Yes, adopted. Borrowed. Taken. Stolen for himself. Basically he's said that Killian took the "Mandarin" mantle for himself and his plans. And yes he actually refers to the "Mandarin" name as a "mantle" or a title and not an actual name, and it's apparently one that's been used and passed down throughout the ages in the MCU. In this case Killian happened to adopt it as his own for his plans without realizing that there was an original user of the mantle who haappens to be the leader of the Ten Rings. I don't get why I needed to explain this when my new edits were clear enough about it all. 