User blog comment:TheOne1000/Mandarin Twist/@comment-1895174-20131028180307/@comment-1895174-20131029025753

In the analysis? The analysis sticks mostly to pre-production materials like character sketches and at best tenuous information (he got his hand cut off, he wears rings, etc) while ignoring most counterarguments and sweeping others under the rug under the ruse of "it's just a change".

Having ties to Fin Fang Foom? Aldrich Killian in Iron Man 3 has no connections to that Makluan.

Wanting to expand the war on terror and start WWIII? Killian wanted to do it strictly for profit, not for any ideological purpose. You know, the same goal AIM usually has.

A skilled martial artist? Now that's just making things up. Killian didn't show any particular martial arts skills, his competence in hand-to-hand combat came from his Extremis powers.