re: San Diego Comic-Con Mega-Thread: Updates and Discussion

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Red Skull was seemingly zapped into space after touching the Tesseract, while the Mandarin was revealed to not be the “real” Mandarin at all, but an actor pretending to be him. In the Marvel One-Shot All Hail The King, it was teased that the “real” Mandarin was still out there somewhere. So, with these two iconic baddies still alive and well in the Marvel-verse, could they re-appear at some point?

Marvel president of production Kevin Feige was asked this very question by IGN, and left the possibilities wild open. As far as the Mandarin goes, Feige said:

“There have been [talks]. That’s one of the reasons we wanted to do the fun short [All Hail the King] that Drew Pearce wrote and directed. That was to clarify, ‘Hey, just because we did this thing doesn’t mean this other thing doesn’t exist.’ And as we were making Iron Man 3 - and I think Drew’s spoken about this – that was always our intention, was that Aldrich Killian was perverting the notion of these things he’s heard.

There’s a little bit of that when he’s doing his detective work in his lab after Happy’s been injured outside the Chinese Theater. He’s talking about, ‘Okay, the Mandarin is taken from various iconographies and mythologies from across the world.’ The idea was always there was somebody like this. There had been rumors of somebody like this, and Aldrich Killian just built on that, to make his version.”

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