RT @Ann_Howard: @Jon_Favreau PLEASE tell us the trailer is coming soon – w/Sherlock Holmes, perhaps??

I'm kinda glad, as his character didn't seem strong or scheming enough to be a Mandarin in the making.  That said, it wouldn't be the first time that the press has been lied to in order to fool fans away from the truth ;)

" I'm kinda glad, as his character didn't seem strong or scheming enough to be a Mandarin in the making.  That said, it wouldn't be the first time that the press has been lied to in order to fool fans away from the truth ;) "

didnt he die?

I figured he died when Stane blew him up in that tent.

they could just say the character raza works for mandarin 

Favreau has stated that mandarin will have a "presence" in all three movies and most likely be the badguy in the third movie. If you notice, in the pics for IRON MAN 2 Hammer wears a large ring. This might not mean anything, but I think mandarin might be the "emporor Palpatine" of the iron man movies and is always in the shadows pulling the strings but is never seen till the end. hammer has a ring, and the ten rings terrorist group could mean that The ring is a symbol for there secret organization led by The Mandarin, like the masons or something. thats my theroy i could be wrong.

When does Sherlok Holmes come out?

"When does Sherlok Holmes come out? "

"Favreau has stated that mandarin will have a "presence" in all three movies and most likely be the badguy in the third movie. If you notice, in the pics for IRON MAN 2 Hammer wears a large ring. This might not mean anything, but I think mandarin might be the "emporor Palpatine" of the iron man movies and is always in the shadows pulling the strings but is never seen till the end. hammer has a ring, and the ten rings terrorist group could mean that The ring is a symbol for there secret organization led by The Mandarin, like the masons or something. thats my theroy i could be wrong. "

So he isn't in it.

Dude this guy was in Star Trek....wow that was random, quit judging me!

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Dude this guy was in Star Trek....wow that was random, quit judging me!

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I really cannot wait for Mandarin! And I like that his mystique has been threaded and hinted at since the get-go. He’s far too large, powerful, and intelligently conniving a villain to just be thrown into the end of a trilogy. His presents should be made early and Favreau is totally doing that. I’m thrilled! I heard more hints at Mandarin are in the sequel and he’s planned to show up in the flesh for the third installment. The only problem is how exactly do you pull him off? If you make his rings technology based, you miss out on that pretty underlying theme of technology or science versus mysticism and spirituality. However, if you leave the rings as magic-based…that could definitely come off corny and out-of-place in this more grounded superhero film franchise. Either way, he's got to have rings of some kind or it's just not Mandarin.

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Wouldn't make any sense for a middle-eastern to play an asian anyways. Though it would be cool if say he became Whirlwind or someone like that. But the role of The Mandarin should obviously go to Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa . 
 

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because his character was killed in the first film duh