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KillRoy231 wrote: To the Mandarin thing: When was this said? It wasn't in the film. I don't follow the TV series

Also, any particular names on the Masters of Evil?

There is a 15-minute One-Shot called All Hail the King on the Thor: The Dark World Blu-ray which show Trevor Slattery in Seagate Prison following the events of Iron Man 3. He is interviewed about his involvement in Aldrich Killian's Mandarin plot by a documentary filmmaker named Jackson Norriss. However, at the end of the One-Shot Norriss reveals that he is a member of the Ten Rings and that there is in fact a real Mandarin who is very angry at Trevor for sullying his name. He then smuggles Trevor out of the prison to bring him to the Mandarin for punishment.

Predictably, after this One-Shot's release, Kevin Feige claimed that they had been planning this the entire time, but only the very gullible believed him. The rest of this recognised it for exactly what it was, a reaction to the backlash over the Mandarin twist in Iron Man 3, which Shane Black confirmed in an interview earlier this year.