8 More Movie Trailers That Blatantly Lied To You
2. Iron Man 3
What The Trailer Promised:
The Mandarin! One of the most anticipated MCU villains of all time and Iron Man’s most iconic foe to date. Finally, it seemed like the Iron Man trilogy would come to a close in an epic battle of Stark vs. his most powerful recurring adversary.
What We Got:
Well, we didn’t get the Mandarin. Not the Mandarin we knew at any rate, one of the most anticipated MCU villains of all time. Instead we got a washed up actor, Trevor Slattery, played by Ben Kingsley, who was a mere pawn in the machinations of Killian’s attempt to gain power.
It was actually a kind of cool twist, but the trailers did slightly too good a job of making The Mandarin seem awesome to be happy about him not really being the primary villain in the film. Iron Man 3 is good, but there will always be a collective sigh of regret among comic fans that it wasn’t quite the film they were promised it would be.