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4. A Comics Accurate Mandarin
Finally.
The Mandarin of Iron Man 3 was rather disappointing, with Guy Pearce's take on the character being a bland attempt at creating a twist on the villain and Ben Kingsley's decoy version providing some amusement but being a highly inaccurate adaptation of the classic Marvel villain.
In 2021 though, Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings seems set to rectify this error by bringing a much more comics accurate depiction of the character to the big screen.
The 'Ten Rings' of course refer to both the ten rings terrorist organisation seen across the Iron Man films as well as the ten rings that the Mandarin famously uses to get his abilities from, meaning that the main antagonist of this movie will likely be the Mandarin, the character perhaps even filling the role of Fu Manchu and being Shang-Chi's father.
If Marvel delivers on this promise well, then fans will have a lot to be happy about come this film's release.