“its version of the Mandarin never sat well with fans. Trevor felt like a throwaway character—one of the many reasons fans rejected him.”

Be interesting to see how they may explore them in the future. 

lol stop plugging your shitty website and bad takes

I like this take. The way he kind of resigns himself to kicking the shit out of the Ten Rings in the bus. He doesn’t do any goofy shit. He goes *straight* into murder machine mode. It’s a great way to introduce his fighting ability. We get the training montage, but it’s in a different context. It’s AFTER we see how…

Oh wow, thank you for this perspective. =) 

I don’t like IM3, it left me incredibly cold and I hate the third act. But I LOOOOOOVE the Trevor twist. I also loved the Last Jedi. I very much enjoyed ShangChi. Tony Leung ruled in it. ;) 

Are you me? =D 

“The Mandarin was no Joker, or Lex Luthor, or Darkseid. He was a questionable 2nd-3rd teir villain. And as such, he could be developed in modernized in a lot of viable ways. The one they chose for Iron Man 3 just happens to be the most interesting.” I fully agree with you on this. The article’s thrust of “WHAT IF THEY…

“its version of the Mandarin never sat well with fans.  Trevor felt like a throwaway character—one of the many reasons fans rejected him.”

Great call. It’s bottom tier MCU for me BUT I can still recognize it is so clearly a Shane Black film. 

IT’S PROBABLY MEPHISTO

Yes, 100%. They failed to follow-up the Trevor twist with a good villain/third act. I’ve read the same piece about Maya, that Ikkke vetoed her as the villain. Which would have been much stronger, because Killian was lame.

Well, on that particular score, I am not a fan of IM3. But it’s *not* because of the Mandarin twist. That is one of the best damn things in the MCU. “its version of the Mandarin never sat well with fans. Trevor felt like a throwaway character—one of the many reasons fans rejected him.” I don’t buy this line of…

Shren came after what's your point

Thank you! I was meh on this movie then and I’ve been puzzled by some of the love it’s gotten in recent years.

Nah, the Trevor twist was awesome.

also thou and verily are olde english, not exactly... scandinavian/norse. 

Absolutely. Tony and Strange bickering and sniping each other was one of the highlights of Infinity War. 

Because Mephisto, probably. 

It's hardly the worst part about all of this, but that fucking header --- these smug, smiling, clapping fucks, so PROUD of the evil they are committing.