User blog comment:TheOne1000/Mandarin Twist/@comment-24308873-20131027192918/@comment-4651179-20131028230343

You're still confused. Killian didn't care about killing people, while Mallen did care. Those two things don't mirror each other. Just because two character commit murderer they're aren't similar, even more if they have different motives, views, and even different modus operandi. Stop trying to force an inexistent similitude.

And no, the Mandarin was never "more Sephiroth thAn Kefka" (whatever that reference to Final Fantasy means). The Mandarin's personality never fluctuated between mastermind and "chaotic". Specially from mastermind to "chaotic" and to mastermind once more.

And no. The tatoos were intended to express he was into oriental culture. And Shane Black knows it because he said it (can't find source right now), he even stated the tatoos were a reference to Fin Fang Foom. Unless you're Shane Black, then you can perfectly claim whatever he supposedly thinks he never claimed to think.