YMMV / All Hail the King

• Ho Yay: Justin Hammer at the end of All Hail The King seems to have a prison butt buddy that follows his every move and order without a word. His talk about Tony Stark and his jealousy of him also questions his orientation.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Jackson Norriss' cryptic threat towards Trevor for making a fool of the real Mandarin, implying that the Mandarin intends to personally execute Trevor with ten bullets, sounds like a scary fate for the wash-up actor despite the fact he's an Unwitting Pawn in Killian's scheme. Fast-forward eight years later in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, it's revealed that Trevor's actual punishment is simply becoming the Ten Rings' court jester, giving him his own vanity desk in his cell as well as a faceless pet named Morris. Trevor would reveal to Shang-Chi that he was almost executed but was spared at the last moment due to his Macbeth performance.
• One-Scene Wonder: Herman in All Hail The King, who is Trevor's loyal Token Black Friend and manages to fight off Jackson for more than ten seconds before getting killed by him.
• Pandering to the Base: All Hail The King gets this criticism from some, specifically, those who thought The Reveal about the Mandarin in Iron Man 3 didn't ruin everything. Said viewers were OK with that reveal, and felt that adding this extra detail was just catering to an unnecessarily-incensed fanbase. Word of God actually denies this, saying that the idea for the short and knowledge about there being a real Mandarin who commanded the terrorist group from the first movie were already in place during production of Iron Man 3, they weren't invented as a response to fan backlash.
• Take That, Scrappy!: For those who hated Trevor in Iron Man 3 for usurping the Mandarin's role, well, the Mandarin feels the same, and things aren't looking good for Trevor... Though Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings reveals Wenwu was so amused by Trevor's buffoonery that he changed his mind and allowed Trevor to live as his sort of court jester.

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