User blog comment:TheOne1000/Mandarin Twist/@comment-24308873-20131027192918/@comment-4652104-20131029200541

OK, putting the oriental theme aside.

Killian has features taken from many characters, but I think the least important are from Mallen. OK, so he has extremis powers. There are about two dozen people with those powers in the film. Yes, he's a killer. So are the other enhanciles. Yes, he fights Iron Man. So does Savin. Everything he has from Mallen is repeated in a dozen lesser characters in the film. Maybe one of them is Mallen?