User blog comment:LoveWaffle/We Didn't See It Coming - Iron Man 3 and the Future of the MCU/@comment-5977347-20130513205536/@comment-3317214-20130515100911

It's actually all about a lot of that Fu Manchu stuff I mentioned above.

Well, true, but still. Killian is an adaptation of the Mandarin though. Shane Black said so. And the adaptation is all about symbolism. Much like all of the Superhero movies nowadays.

''It had to do with him manufacturing a need to escalate the War on Terror. His vision of the future had nothing to do with the Mandarin's goals. Unless Aldrich Killian is actually an Islamist.''

How were the "Mandarin's" goals any different to Killian's? Was the "Mandarin" an Islamist? Are you saying that he wasn't searching for power, in escalating the War on Terror?