The Mandarin
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The Mandarin is a Marvel Super Heroes minifigure released in 2013.
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Description
Robes
The Mandarin has a combed back hair piece and a beard, both in black. His face is depicted to be serious and is printed with black eyebrows, cheek bones, and lines to give the face shape and he has a second face with his facial features bent into an angry expression. He also features a dark green cape and the torso and arms are dark green with flesh hands. The Mandarin's torso is printed with his dark green robes that have gold embroidery, a dark green and olive green undershirt, and an silver circle design to represent the Ten Rings insignia is printed underneath the beard. There is back printing depicting the back of the collar and creases in the robes.The robe printing continues onto the olive green legs, which depict the robes and undershirt going onto the legs.
Robeless
This variant has the same hair, beard, and double sided face as the other variant. His torso is dark green with flesh arms and hands. The torso is printed with a dark green vest with pockets and yellow diagonal strips, his belt, a sand green undervest, and an olive green and gold lined scarf printed is underneath the beard. This variant has back printing the back of the belt, the creases of the back of the vest, and a little bit of the scarf poking through at the top. He has plain olive green legs. [1]
Background
The Mandarin was a savvy international prototypical terrorist, the archenemy of Iron Man, and leader of the terrorist group; the Ten Rings (who had captured and held Tony Stark hostage in a cave, until he built the Mark I and broke free). He possessed ten rings, which were the symbols and namesakes of his group. His rings, however, did not bestow him any powers so he used guns instead. He also wanted to teach the world lessons, such as the fact that there was no such thing as heroes.
His nationality was unknown, due to the fact he surronded himself in secrecy, as he used many other warrior motifs and symbols and twisted them for his own use, such as Asian royal robes, a terrorist beard, samurai hair, a Captain America shield tattoo with the "A" for "anarchy" in the middle instead of star on the back of his neck, and a gun ammunition shirt.
He studied South American insurgency tatics and Sun Tzu and other ancient warfare tactics. He surronded himself in Chinese iconography, dragons, and the symbols of warlords. He was a field officer at one point, but due to witnessing the atrocities of the world, it drove him mad. He had a hatred of America and used it unified his group, who also had a hatred of America.
He was also was in the intelligence world and knew how to use the media to his benifit.
He had Aldrich Killian, his right hand man, and an Extremis Soldier serving under him.
Notes
- In Iron Man 3, he is played by Sir Ben Kingsley, who also played Nizam in Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.
- On the box art for 76008 Iron Man vs. The Mandarin: Ultimate Showdown he is shown with a shorter new moulded beard.
Gallery of Variants
Appearances
- 76007 Iron Man: Malibu Mansion Attack (Robes)
- 76008 Iron Man vs. The Mandarin: Ultimate Showdown (Robeless)
