Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings to show Marvel fans the real Mandarin, at last

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One of the best bait-and-switches in the entire first decade of the MCU was the trick pulled in Iron Man 3, when Ben Kingsley—supposedly credited as classic Iron Man villain The Mandarin, wielder of magical rings and some pretty hoary old stereotypes—was revealed to just be an actor distracting Tony Stark from the real threat. And while a later short film revealed that there was a real Mandarin running around behind the scenes of the Marvel universe, we’ve never gotten a glimpse of him. But that’s about to change.