User blog comment:LoveWaffle/We Didn't See It Coming - Iron Man 3 and the Future of the MCU/@comment-5977347-20130513205536/@comment-5977347-20130514010120

1) In the trailers it looked like it was on a wider scale. Tony Vs Mandarin the greatest challenge of his life emotionally and physically. A true menace. I mean this guy is causing trouble he's promising to destroy america in fail swoop. I mean Aldrich's plot just seemed generic compared to the mandarin everyone thought we were gonna get. Now the extremis was big but not as big as what was promised. But maybe that's just me. I still LOVED Im3 so don't get me wrong

2) A TON of people would disagree. I'm one of many who didn't buy that Killian was the Mandarin. If people did then the twist wouldn't have pissed them off so much. It's not like that Ra's al ghul thing in batman begins. Mandarin was just a fictional character Aldrich created a concept like Santa claus to cover his tracks. He never really saw himself as the Mandarin and he himself never really was unlike Ducard who was actually Ra's. When he said I am the Mandarin i don't think he meant oh hey comic fans i'm the mandarin of this universe. he meant Well you wanted the mandarin? My plan my company my extremis i guess i'm technically him. So the hell that's been raised take it up with me