Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings: The Rising and Advancing of the Spirit
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The comics already dropped him a long time ago.
Only because their licence to use him expired.
In a "In my time I have gone by many different names" kind of way presumably.
From what I understand, yes. The retcon is that Zheng Zu is his real name and Fu Manchu was an alias.
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Exactly. Marvel does the same thing whenever they use their Godzilla character from the Godzilla comic way back when. Can't remember exactly what they call him now but it's the same creature, just not called Godzilla.
After seeing Fin Fang Foom in Nextwave I can only picture James Gunn or Taika Waikiti doing him in all his purple-trunked glory.
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I had the same thought. Didn't The Mandarin's rings in the comic come from Fin Fang Foom? If that is the case, it wouldn't be totally out of the real of possibity.
I was surprised to see so much magic and monsters in the new trailer, I was expecting this to be a bit more grounded with a few Wuxia style fights being the craziest thing in it.
Last i remember Mandarin found a crashed alien ship and the rings within them, that was ages ago however and i'm sure since then Marvel has changed/retconned that background.
I was especially surprised to see that Dragon appear. Since Dr. Strange Marvel has introduced magical items to the MCU ( and i'm pretty sure that "his" order aren't the only magic practicioners in the world) it would be nothing unusual but i'm curious how they'll explain the Dragon.
The new trailer has me more excited to see this movie.
I don't know what is the big deal about the Rings NOT being rings on a finger? I mean, haven't y'all watched Stargate? They have rings which fit around a GROUP of people. Having arm rings could make for some interetsing Cosplay (better than 10 tiny ones; it works for Green Lantern, but not as much for other things).
I am curious to see if this can have some cultural/financial impact as Black Panther did?
I don't know what is the big deal about the Rings NOT being rings on a finger? I mean, haven't y'all watched Stargate? They have rings which fit around a GROUP of people. Having arm rings could make for some interetsing Cosplay (better than 10 tiny ones; it works for Green Lantern, but not as much for other things).
I am curious to see if this can have some cultural/financial impact as Black Panther did?
Like I said over in the Marvel thread, the idea of rings on arms isn't a new idea. Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea features a magical arm ring in several of its books. Likewise, as I was reminded by Christopher, the time ring The Fourth Doctor used in Genesis of the Daleks was also an arm ring. Both of those are from the 60s and I'm sure they weren't the first ones either.
I was immediately reminded of Earthsea when I saw the new trailer so wasn't bothered by the change. Probably helps that I never read any comics with the Mandarian and the extent of my knowledge of him and the rings are from the Marvel Comic trading cards in the early 90s.
I was immediately reminded of Earthsea when I saw the new trailer so wasn't bothered by the change. Probably helps that I never read any comics with the Mandarian and the extent of my knowledge of him and the rings are from the Marvel Comic trading cards in the early 90s.
I like the arm rings, the stuff we see with them in the trailer is a lot more interesting than if he was just waving his fingers while the rings glowed or something like that.
And for arm rings in general, they weren't magical, but for the characters in Vikings getting an arm ring was a big deal. Not sure if that came from the real Vikings or was just something they made up for the show.
And for arm rings in general, they weren't magical, but for the characters in Vikings getting an arm ring was a big deal. Not sure if that came from the real Vikings or was just something they made up for the show.
Ah, that's right. I forgot about the Viking connection. That makes a lot of sense.
Wasn't that just in one of the cartoon shows? I'm not sure how the cartoons fit into canon.
If it was in the comics, forgive me.
I remember reading it too. It's in 'Iron Man; Enter the Mandarin'. He finds a crashed space ship. I can't remember if the cartoon from the 90's ever explored his origin.
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