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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
The moment I saw the dragon I chuckled imagining Known Unknown slamming his fit into the table and screaming "I FUCKING KNEW IT."
Edited by Gaon on Jun 24th 2021 at 7:42:34 AM
"All you Fascists bound to lose."Maybe Shang-Chi will include elements from the Agents of Atlas comic series, which did tie in the Yellow — sorry, the Golden Claw's origin with a honest-to-goodness mythological Chinese dragon.
I wouldn't be surprised if the MCU's Mandirin ends up being a Composite Character of not only the comics Mandarin and Fu Manchu, but also Marvel's other big Yellow Peril villain, the Yellow/Golden Claw.
Trope Editor (he/him)Based on what we saw in the trailer, I doubt that individual rings have different powers. The magic/ki blast attacks we see appear to use an entire arm's worth of rings to fire. The rings themselves are all visually identical and the change to make them arm bands means you pretty much have to use them together 'cause, like, good luck reaching the second from the bottom without awkwardly dumping the three above it first.
It seems pretty clear to me that the film's strictly using the Mandarin's rings for, like, chunky ki blasts. Kung fu magic/tech artifacts that let you blast energy attacks out of your hands and can be used as an energy whip or whatever.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Jun 25th 2021 at 7:54:25 AM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I'm hoping alien tech. IIRC, the Rings in the comics are supposed to be from the reactor of an alien ship. They were the ship's power supply. That does mesh with energy blasts we see in the trailer. The Mandarin could totally have scavenged the core of an alien reactor and now he's basically doing the sci-fi equivalent of wearing plutonium rods to shoot nuclear fusion beams.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Jun 25th 2021 at 8:32:04 AM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Mandarin also seems to be really freaking old according to the first trailer, unless that was his identical ancestor as Mandarin in the past (also possible - Armored Adventures did the same thing), so the rings probably aren’t harming his health. Much the opposite, in fact, unless he’s got the Ra’s Al Ghul thing where he’ll like shrivel into an elderly corpse without constant exposure.
Man, the Abomination appearance really threw me, and I love it. When people were saying there was a surprise cameo in the trailer, I was thinking “oh, maybe it’ll be Rhodey or something for the Iron Man connection,” but it looks like we’re getting superhero cage match shenanigans and I love those.
Given that shot in the trailer where Shang-Chi and the Mandarin are having a tug-of-war with the rings, I totally expect Shang-Chi to take them at the end. The MCU doesn't really like Badass Normals, so it makes sense that they'd reimagine the Ten Rings as kung fu superweapons specifically so they can give Shang-Chi kung fu superweapons by the end of his origin film.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.

I wonder if the rings are gonna have 10 different abilities or its gonna be simplified in what it can do.
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