Originally posted by Kazenji
Never seen Deliver Us From Evil?....Scott Derrickson was doing full on exorcism's in that movie, Unless of course Marvel gets him to tone it down.
The Mandarin's a little-bit-of-everything villain. He uses mundane military force, science, chi-mysticism, a little bit of ritual magic, and occasionally acquires a magic plot-device.
If I had to say what the core of the character is, I'd actually say money. He seems to have limitless resources to spend kidnapping scientists, building mundane armies, digging up magic plot-devices, and training himself in whatever.
Which Iron Man cartoon? Every Iron Man cartoon version is wildly different from both each other, and from the comic version.
The comic version of The Mandarin is a bit-of-everything villain whose biggest power is probably money, since he seems able to spend more than some countries on mundane military forces, kidnapping scientists, digging up magical plot-devices, and training himself in science, martial arts, chi-mysticism, ritual magic, whatever.