The Mandarin's Ten Rings To Appear In 'Iron Man 3'

@Jonny_Anonymous: the mandarin is that threat. If you noticed in the iron man 3 trailer, its a lot more darker and stark has realised that being a hero isn't just clear sailing so someone must be a threat. A big one.

I say even though I enjoyed Mandarin in some of the comic arcs I am not looking forward to this ,but I do like Kingsley in the role.If other armor were involved I'd rather see Red Dynamo and some post Cold War theme that brings the Soviet era Super armor out of mothballs and upgraded.Maybe we could see the abandoned Soviet space platform that was featured in the Black Widow mini about 2 yrs. ago.

Smart.

I always figured the Ten Rings was secretly led by the Mandarin and they were just his "hand of god" so to speak.

I continue to be surprised (in a good way) with just how far Marvel studios seems willing to take things. People claimed for years that comic book movies would never be able to get into the "cosmic" side of things and Marvel's doing just that. I suspect that yes, in some way, shape, or form, the Mandarin will have 10 "magic" rings, and they might not even be of Asgardian make or from Thanos, but instead another alien technology altogether. After all, Marvel's headed towards Guardians of the Galaxy, which will introduce tons more alien races than just the Chitauri and (effectively) Asgardians.

Heck, they might even leave the door open for Fin Fang Foom (who's simply another alien, if a big one). Or may even have him show up in Iron Man 3 for the climax (since he's been linked with the Mandarin in the past).

It's about time we got to Iron Man's ARCH NEMISIS.

Sweet

Very interesting to see how the terrorist group will tie in to the Mandarin in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

I want to see the Mandarin be the adversary in this film, very much so. Ten Rings though..that has such a terrorist organization RING to it (pardoning the pun) that I think that should be the route they take in the movie.

I want the 10 rings to be actual rings of power.

What if the leaders of each of the "Ten Ring Terrorists" keeps a ring with them, and Mandrin collects the rings from each of the leaders.... hmmmmm

Gotta be a reason their called the Ten Rings lol, why not have best of both worlds

He better do some armor busting with karate chops

I think the 10 rings symbolize the council of this organzation with each ring being a different member. That would be way cooler than actual 'magic' rings. Besides the LOTR films are still in recent enough memory, and what with "The Hobbit coming up", it's too blah to have more magic rings.

He better at least wear 10 rings, even if they aren't super powered, but seriously they've already introduced aliens and gods and shit, there is no legitimate reason they couldn't do it. say Thanos gave them to him and boom you tie it in to the next avengers movie just like that.

I've been waiting for the Mandarin since Iron Man so I'm excited to see him come to life, though I hope they retain the actual ten rings that he wears. I'm sure they have come up with some science based explanation for them so it'll be very interesting to see how they pull it off.

Of course they will, it's the Mandarin after all

My original thought was that the objects called The Ten Rings would have been the keys to a doomsday weapon (in this case the Extremis Plague), but with the introduction of magic (or some advanced alien science that LOOK like magic) in Thor, the Ten Rings could still retain the same basic origin as the comics.

Maybe the ten rings will be a terrorist group but with some magic rings (or do-dads since Iron Man movies seem be keeping with science instead of magic) Then call Tony out to get rid of Iron Man.

The Ten Rings terrorist organization probably worships the Mandarin and got there name because they worship it. Its all starting to come together....

did the ten ring group was in Iron Man 1?

Very nice indeed.

could possibly be like the league of shadows in the same sort of mission or they could just have both the rings and the armies.

or something different like mandarin gets some extremis in him.........or that whole ezeikiel stane turning people into bombs

This should pose a threat to Stark

O goody

cool

in the picture above, that fool looks like he has lucky charms stuck to his knuckles. Lol

maybe they're just referring to the terrorists from the first movie, the ten rings. He's probably the real leader.

@mr.obvious said:

thank god mandarin's finally in an iron man movie...

thank god mandarin's finally in an iron man movie...

Not too keen on Mandarin but this sounds like a different approach. Wonder how the "Ten Rings" will play out in the movie.

Cool, its good thing the avengers and thor set the Marvel cinematic universe for magic craziness, otherwise I don't think the mandarin would have worked in these movies

AWESOME

If they are keeping with the terrorist idea then they better come up with something that makes them an actual threat to Iron Man

I really dug the idea of the Ten Rings being a terrorist group. It was a cool way to contextualize the thing that gave Mandarin his power (his army in this case, as opposed to a bunch of magic jewelry) in a way that fit well within the MCU.