With his upcoming movie appearance, will Mandarin appear back in comics soon?

[Will Evans]

Unless I’m wrong I haven’t seen him in solicitations at all.

Wouldn’t now be the best time to revamp him?


Or is he too different from the one we’ll see in Shang Chi?

[Holt]

They’ve been trying to find a way to modernize the Mandarin for years now with mixed results, so they’re probably keeping him on ice until someone with a really good pitch comes along.

[Master Planner]

I always liked the Mandarin, even in his old, Fu Manchu/Dr Doom days, but i more worried that if they use him again, he will retconned to be more close to his MCU character.

[Tony Stark]

All they have to do is read how the Knaufs wrote him. The template is there.

[Master Planner]

All they have to do is read how the Knaufs wrote him. The template is there.

It was always weird to me, why Marvel failed to modernise Mandarin. I mean, the core of the character is:

1)Scientist or at least clever enough to understand alien tech and use it for his goals

2)Physical perfection and mastery of chi, to the point that he can fight Iron Man even without his rings.

3)traditionalist/old school nationalist. He wants to put China(with him as the leader) in charge of the world, but his ideal society is a centralised, imperial China, especially during the Mongols dynasty. That makes him also an enemy of modern China, as he would be viewed as a reactionary and right wind extremist.

Change the visual repressentation(no goatee/manchu mustache and asian robes) and had him as the big menace of Asia. Hell, put a Chinese superhero team to fight him, just to note that he is the biggest threat of modern China.

[Hypestyle]

let's see what happens in the next year. do the rings still exist or have they been destroyed?

[Thor-Ul]

It was always weird to me, why Marvel failed to modernise Mandarin. I mean, the core of the character is:

1)Scientist or at least clever enough to understand alien tech and use it for his goals

2)Physical perfection and mastery of chi, to the point that he can fight Iron Man even without his rings.

3)traditionalist/old school nationalist. He wants to put China(with him as the leader) in charge of the world, but his ideal society is a centralised, imperial China, especially during the Mongols dynasty. That makes him also an enemy of modern China, as he would be viewed as a reactionary and right wind extremist.

Change the visual repressentation(no goatee/manchu mustache and asian robes) and had him as the big menace of Asia. Hell, put a Chinese superhero team to fight him, just to note that he is the biggest threat of modern China.

That is not Xi Jinping? (Greeting to the chinese internauts, Hello!!)

Jokes aside, is kinda hard to recreate the Mandarin for modern audiences if you have to consider what he originally represented. Iron Man stories were very cold war inspired and the Mandarin was part of that discourse. He was the asian menace to the american hegemony (and still is) and is kind of hard to sell that concept in a movie to chinese audiences. In the comics you can work on that, I don't thin than american comics are selling in China, but if it is reinvented, I think it will be something very different from what you were used to.

Only, don't use Trevor.

[Frontier]

It's not like any of the past Iron Man runs have really created a strong alternative (beyond just not featuring Mandarin at all), but now they've fused him with Shang's dad who also hasn't been seen in a while so...not really sure what'll happen.

[MichaelC]

All they have to do is read how the Knaufs wrote him. The template is there.

This^

The Knaufs version is the gold standard for this character.

[Jabare]

They won't introduce the OG Mandarin. If he's ever introduced again, they will use the movie version as a template. As alluded to before, the comic Mandarin is problematic. I imagine Disney will be smart about this like they usually are.