User blog comment:LoveWaffle/We Didn't See It Coming - Iron Man 3 and the Future of the MCU/@comment-5977347-20130513205536/@comment-5977347-20130514015555

That's the thing we get no exposition on how the mandarin came to be or what inspired Aldrich to use asian motiff and dress it up like a middle-eastern terrorist. He could have stayed up one night and watched a movie and that inspired him to model hsi decoy that way we'll never know. i just don't buy he had the tattos because he was the mandarin. It just dosn't make sense. Which is my biggest complaint the villain(s) was handled sloppy Between the variyng extremis,Aldrich's horrible motivations and the mandarin plot twist. Plus when did Aldrich develop a thing for Pepper? he met her like once when he was a guy who was in desperate need of a toothbrush! And i just talked to a guy some guys and they got the impression That Aldrich is the leader of the ten rings from Im1 and he arranged tony's capture. So now i'm confused on that again!!!

But.. Over still a good movie.