User blog comment:LoveWaffle/We Didn't See It Coming - Iron Man 3 and the Future of the MCU/@comment-5977347-20130514020426/@comment-1895174-20130514213315

How? Because Aldrich Killian in Iron Man 3 is basically Mallen if he was the scientist supreme of AIM. Absorbing Man, on the other hand, has no connection to the Hulk's origin story.