Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-69.57.43.25-20130828001049/@comment-1971498-20140205171757

"Real" is purely subjective at this point given how Drew Pearce openly admitted that the "Mandarin" is but a title that everyone can use (in the case of IM3, he said Killian used it for himself). Essentially what we have here ourselves are now different versions of the Mandarin in the MCU (quality writing be damned because everyone loves retcons amirite?) It should be mentioned that the One-Shot is written by Drew Pearce and Pearce alone, so obviously Black and Pearce didn't have the same idea about the Mandarin when they were writing him for IM3 (especially since Black outright said that Killian is the MCU's Mandarin and how "gives the real" one through Killian and his dragon tattoos). Still I'm glad that you kept the info on how Killian claimed himself to be the Mandarin, because I feel that omitting such an info would have screwed up the point of his character.