Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-61022-20160816205005/@comment-61022-20160817134743

Yeah, Wong-Chu was in a number of subsequent Iron Man stories (original ones including many retellings of Iron Man's origins) Also Ho Yinsen has always been an integral part of the origin story.

In terms of Yinsen, I don't think his ethnicity matters or needs to change. Just because the geographical region might be in flux doesn't mean that Yinsen's ethnicity should be either. His kidnapping could have happened anywhere in the world -- be it Yinsen being kidnapped in one country and being transported to another, or him visiting the country in which he is being held prisoner -- his position as a prisoner of his captors is not anymore different than Stark being kidnapped either.

As for the Wong Chu/Raza issues... again, I suspect that both villains could be considered part of Iron Man's origins. The omission of one and the inclusion of the other doesn't negate the existence of one or the other, particularly since Chu has been seen since. Ditto for Wong-Chu's ethnicity having anything to do with his allegiance to a terrorist organisation. We're living in a day and age where people of all different walks of life are "radicalized" into joining or sympathizing with a terrorist organisation that typically recruits out of one's ethnicity or birth religion or belief system. Likewise are there people in the world who profiteer from terrorist organisation, not out of mutual belief in ideals or goals, but because it is the most profitable thing for them.

The idea of both Wong-Chu and Raza both being primary antagonists to Stark during his imprisonment is entirely possible as there is precedence in "additions" being tacked onto characters early history that insert additional characters and situations to a characters early history. The best example of this is Spider-Man, he has had a TON of additional material inserted into his early days as a super-hero that exists in continuity alongside original stories. The best examples being the Untold Tales of Spider-Man series from the 90s and the more recent Learning to Crawl .1 story ark in Amazing Spider-Man Vol 3.