Iron Man 3 might just be the most controversial Marvel Studios movie to date. That's down to how The Mandarin was handled, and the majority of fans weren't remotely happy about him being revealed as a drug addled English actor called "Trevor". A One-Shot short later revealed that there is a real Mandarin out there, but it remains to be see when he'll appear. However, had things played out a little differently, The Mandarin would have appeared in Iron Man. The iconic villain was actually in the script (and every draft which preceded it) until three months before the movie started shooting, but based on comments from both Kevin Feige and Jon Favreau, they could never get him quite right as they struggled to come up with a believable version of the dated and slightly racist character in the present day. However, had he appeared in Iron Man, Favreau has said it would have been in a similar way to The Emperor in the Star Wars movies. They would have teased him in Iron Man, and then had The Mandarin unleash his powers somewhere a little further down the line.
