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[Aardor]

I feel like this story is getting a great deal of press for minor character being changed (unless his role was going to be a great deal bigger in iron man 2, but that's all speculation at this point).

Him playing the War Machine role is what made it a bigger story IMO.

Yeah, I know he's War Machine, but were they going to bring it into the next movie?

[Show]

I remember him saying "maybe next time", but still nothing concrete

It would have been like them changing Harvey Dents actor between Batman movies...oh wait they did that (not the new franchise, the 1989 one, and they went from a black guy to a white guy).

[Boogahz]

Well, most of the info "leaked" about the second movie had War Machine involved in the story.

[Kwonryu DragonFist]

Iron Man 1 sure didn't disappoint.

Was one of the best movies based on a Marvel comic so far.

Much more true to the story and character behavior than let's say Peter Parker and his jazzdancing / Topher as Brock/Venom in Spiderman 3.

I have faith in Iron Man 2. Rhodey will own as War Machine.

Maybe Crimson Dynamo or the Mandarin will make an appearance?

[Ashur]

I would think it would have to be The Mandarin.

[Keverian FireCry]

Mandarin would work and I think is what they're already planning for. In the first movie he was captured by terrorists of the organization, The Ten Rings (Mandarin wears 10 rings). The movie could have Fin Fang Foom involved if they could do it without making the movie into Godzirra vs Iron Man!

[Ashur]

Kev - I missed (or forgot) about the name of the organization. Yeah, they were definitely laying the seeds for The Mandarin!

[Fairweather Pure]

In the first movie he was captured by terrorists of the organization, The Ten Rings (Mandarin wears 10 rings).

I totally missed that. If we still had VV points, I would've totally given you some for that!

[Ashur]

I now vaguely remember noting that during the one time I watched it, but I quickly forgot about it.

[Ransure]

I have nothing to add....

I miss VV pionts

[Sartori]

Also at one of the ten rings camps or something there's a flag waving with some writing on it that looks hebrewish. It's actually Mongolian according to some Iron Man fans online so I'm not 100% sure it's true. I'm not really familiar with Mandarin in the comics, but he claims to be a descendent of Genghis Khan according to his wiki.

[Acies]

The Ten Rings is a direct reference to The Mandarin. Raza (who was the villian guy fiddling with the ring on his finger who kidnapped Tony Stark) was a member of "The Hand", which is a body of elite underlings to The Mandarin. When they go out on assignment, the Mandarin lends them one of his rings (which presumably was the ring he was playing with continually).

[Ashur]

... and they should totally get the dude who plays Ghengis Khan in "Mongol" to play him.

[Kwonryu DragonFist]

I was hoping Ken Watanabe (Rhas Al Ghul in Batman Begins) would play The Mandarin!

http://www.imdb.com/rg/action-box-name/ ... /nm0913822

[Sartori]

Really like Ken, I think he'd be good.

[Keverian FireCry]

The ten rings:

The principal personal weapons of the Mandarin are the ten rings which he wears on the fingers of each hand. The rings' operations cannot be explained by contemporary Earth science, but it is known that they served as near-limitless power sources for the warp-drive engines of the Makluan starship of Axonn-Karr. The Mandarin learned how to convert the rings to his personal uses and to make them respond to his mental commands. The fingers on which he wears each ring, and the known functions for which he uses each ring, are given below.

* Left Little finger — "Ice Blast," emits waves of intense cold which can be used to stun an opponent. The ring usually causes the air in the path of its blast to turn to ice, and can lower an object's temperature to nearly absolute zero. With it he could encase foes in bands of ice or create walls of ice to block pursuers.
* Left Ring finger — "Mental-Intensifier," which amplifies the Mandarin's own mental energies and allows him to control the minds of others, with a limit of one person at a time at a distance of ten feet. Can also be used to create illusions. As proven by Psylocke, if the wearer of the ring is a natural telepath, the ring will enhance their abilities far beyond a wearer without telepathy.
* Left Middle finger — "Electro Blast," emits electricity in amounts and intensities mentally determined by the wearer. The maximum voltage attainable is not known.
* Left Index finger — "Flame Blast," emits infrared radiation, or heat, at intensities mentally determined by the wearer. Usually the heat produces flame through incandescing the molecules in the air in the path of the blast. The heat beam can be used to trigger chemical explosions.
* Left Thumb — "White Light," can emit various forms of energy along the electromagnetic spectrum, often a laser-like beam. Can also create gravity sufficiently powerful to make Iron Man bury himself simply by trying to walk forward.
* Right Thumb — "Matter Rearranger," which can rearrange the atoms and molecules of a substance. The Mandarin usually uses this ring to change the shape of objects, such as causing a giant stone hand to erupt out of the earth and grapple a foe, and turning a mountain into a giant rock monster. He has, however, used it to transmute the molecular composition of objects, such as changing the air around a target into a poisonous gas and can also speed up or slow down molecular movement so as to alter states of matter like turning water vapor into liquid water. Has also been used to turn someone into a beetle, and to turn someone into stone. It has failed to rearrange Iron Man's magnetic forcebeam reinforced armor.
* Right Index finger — "Impact Beam," can project various forms of energy, most frequently that of fast neutrons with immense concussive force, sufficient to send James Rhodes in Iron Man armor flying through a mountain and thousands of miles past it. The ring has also been used to project intense sonic vibrations and to create magnetic and gravitational waves to attract or repel objects and people. The ring may be capable of emitting other forms of energy as well.
* Right Middle finger — "Vortex Beam," causes the air to move about at high speed in a vortex. The vortex can be used as an offensive weapon, as a means of levitating objects, or as a means of propelling Mandarin through the air.
* Right Ring finger — "Disintegration Beam," emits a beam of energy that destroys all bonds between the atoms and molecules of the object it strikes. This ring needs twenty minutes to recharge after use.
* Right Little finger — "Black Light," can create an area of absolute blackness that seems to absorb all light used within it. Although "black light" is a term used to refer to ultraviolet radiation, the darkness created by the ring is probably a form of the "darkforce" used by Cloak, Darkstar, and the Shroud. This darkforce can also be used to imprison and repel an enemy of Iron Man-level strength at least briefly.

I wonder which one Raza was fiddling with in the film? Perhaps the mental-intensifier to win over more minions?

[Fairweather Pure]

I was hoping Ken Watanabe (Rhas Al Ghul in Batman Begins) would play The Mandarin!

http://www.imdb.com/rg/action-box-name/ ... /nm0913822

Go bigger! I say Chow Yun-fat.

[Kwonryu DragonFist]

I was hoping Ken Watanabe (Rhas Al Ghul in Batman Begins) would play The Mandarin!

http://www.imdb.com/rg/action-box-name/ ... /nm0913822

Go bigger! I say Chow Yun-fat.

Haha yes, Chow Yun Fat works as well!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Sao_ ... _China.jpg

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