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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Re: The Mandarin in the first Iron Man.
Aside from the Ten Rings terrorist organization, there is a deleted bit, late in the film, where Jarvis tells Tony he has a call from The Mandarin (among other people) that Tony chooses to ignore. The scene was featured in a sizzle reel at SDCC, and inspired a good bit of comment in the fan press at the time.
Edited by Robbery on Jun 22nd 2021 at 5:17:49 AM
New Shang Chi trailer will debut tonight in conjunction with Game 1 of the NBA finals
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Edited by Beatman1 on Jun 24th 2021 at 11:09:17 AM
Fin Fang Foom in a basketball jersey. ![]()
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Not that I entirely buy the theory that he's in the movie.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Jun 24th 2021 at 10:15:12 AM
Very cool trailer. And no one is talking about the dragon underwwater.
Regarding the other spoiler, I'm going with the theory that they decided to handwave Abomination looking more comic-accurate (and less creepy) because of further transformation he experienced. In light of the cage fighting, I'm feeling good about the idea that he'll be substituting for Absorbing Man in the She-Hulk and I'm going to guess that his further transformation was a good thing for his mental state.
I mean. I feel like Bruce Banner has changed more dramatically since that movie than Abomination here, if that is him.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I am more curious about who the dragon is than the Abomination.
Edited by Bullman on Jun 24th 2021 at 9:01:31 AM
Fan-Preferred Couple cleanup threadAnd the rings are arm bands now. Interesting.
Abomination is a twist if it's really him. But yeah, Marvel had a schedule and COVID-19 foot its foot up the ass of that schedule so who knows now.
One Strip! One Strip!Yeah, that appears to be the dragon who appeared on the Funko merch, who looked nothing like Foom and was named something different.
I'm not sure what it is, tbh. The Shang Chi comics this is story is largely based on weren't too mystical, that came later, and it isn't an Iron Man thing brought over to this movie like Mandarin's stuff. It looks like we're delving into MCU original stuff with that, or stuff that's so far removed from the source material that it might as well be MCU original (like Hope van Dyne was, or JARVIS).
Edited by KnownUnknown on Jun 24th 2021 at 7:23:13 AM

I never got into any of the marvel tv shows because they were on platforms that were inaccessible to me I think
have a listen and have a link to my discord server