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It should be also noted that Iron Man 3 is set six months after The Avengers. But, do we know when the first "Mandarin bombing" happened? James Rhodes says there were nine bombings, but if the first bombing happened two, three, or four months before the events of Iron Man 3, that means that the Mandarin who leads the Ten Rings in the Iron Man 3 Prelude comic chronologically appears at least a month or two before Aldrich Killian had to create his own Mandarin.