15 Supporting Comic Book Movie Characters Who Stole The Show
5. The Mandarin
When it was hinted in Iron Man's first burst on screen that uber baddie The Mandarin was possibly lurking in the background, not many could have predicted the version of this character that we would eventually receive.
But come Iron Man 3, expectations were flipped on their head by way of a neat little midway plot twist where the man that was seemingly making Tony Stark's life harder, was nothing other than a garish stooge - he was, in fact, Trevor the actor. Once the credits were rolling and the film's loud finale over with, all people wanted to talk about after the obligatory post credit sequence was this character and Ben Kingsley's fun performance
Ask the next guy in the pub about this new incarnation of The Mandarin and he'll undoubtedly bleat on about the absurdity of it all, when, in fact, this was one of the smartest pieces of character work yet seen in the MCU.