Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1971498-20140219002039/@comment-1971498-20140219003802

Actually no, if anything the words "claim" makes it worse. Drew Pearce said that Killian WASN'T claiming to be the "Mandarin" and he wanted to be very clear about this because it gives the wrong idea. The whole point of using the word "adopted" means he took the name and used it for his plans (i.e. taking the name for Trevor to act out). Killian might not have known that the Mandarin exists in the current timeline, but Drew Pearce is very clear that wasn't claiming to be a "true" Mandarin after all, and he just adopted the mantle for his own schemes. This doesn't mean he was the Mandarin, if anything this actually proves the point that Killian wasn't the Mandarin even better than before.

Again, it's practically false information now to say that Killian was claiming to be the "true" Mandarin (if anything this actually proves my original point wrong) because Drew Pearce was very clear that he only adopted the name and that what Killian meant was that he was just behind it all along (hence his speech).