User blog comment:LoveWaffle/We Didn't See It Coming - Iron Man 3 and the Future of the MCU/@comment-5977347-20130513205536/@comment-1895174-20130523001938

''Yeah, but you admitted that it wasn't useless. Therefore, it's not crap.''

I admitted it was useless for analysis. You may need to read things again.

''It's totally transferable. At least transferable from an actor Killian hired to the creator of the Mandarin himself. The Mandarin is symbolic. And Killian, having created those symbols, gets to wear them.''

Not at all transferable. It's not as if Larry David can just start calling himself George Costanza.

''It still makes sense to assume that though. And authorial intent is not crap. See above.''

Doesn't make sense to assume that since he can breathe fire. A much more logical reason to get a dragon tattoo. Or maybe he just wants a dragon tattoo. Occam's Razor this.

''The Mandarin was going to broadcast the President's death. Tell me how that had nothing to do with the Patriot armour, and kidnapping the President.''

Because you don't know what his audience would see.

Does it really matter, though? Mandarin or not, Killian's the bad guy.