Everyone else probably knows this by now, but...

... I just found out that the baddie in Iron Man 3 is a sixties Fu Manchu clone, The Mandarin, played by Ben Kingsley.

Commentary on this and casting in the Marvel flicks generally: On Marvel, Mandarin, and Marginalization. Includes quotes from the filmmakers which do not fill me with confidence.

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