The Mandarin Looks More Mandarin-y Than I Anticipated
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Holy shit. Marvel obviously saw my post on the reveal of Arrow‘s Huntress — because that’s totally a thing they would care about and because there’s no other way they would have received that information from anybody else — and decided that shit would not stand, because they just released this much clearer picture of Ben Kingsley as the Mandarin in Iron Man 3. I’m really, really impressed how… Mandarin-y he looks. Like, if I had no idea what this was from, and hadn’t heard Kingsley was cast in IM3, I feel like I could look at this and say, “Hey, Ben Kingsley looks like he’s dressed like a less flamboyant, more movie-friendly version of the Mandarin.” Well fucking done, somebody.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.