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05-16-2016, 10:11 PM
Marvel apparently changed the 'Iron Man 3' villain's gender because toys
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LOS ANGELES — Aldrich Killian toy collectors and cosplayers: this is a day for gratitude.*We've just learned that your*unforgettable, enduringly iconic Iron Man 3*villain was originally written as — brace yourselves here — a woman.
Alas, Marvel brass (at the time) realized that the gender of the secretive "Mandarin," who turned out to be a 50-something tech entrepreneur in a tan business suit, needed swift correction. Because as everyone k**ws, girls don't sell toys.
Thanks to that pervasive, never-proven-wrong **tion, the*Aldrich Killian™*line of Marvel merch, with its commercially optimized perceived anatomy, exists to this day. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/05/16/iron-man-3-villain-woman-shane-black/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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LOS ANGELES — Aldrich Killian toy collectors and cosplayers: this is a day for gratitude.*We've just learned that your*unforgettable, enduringly iconic Iron Man 3*villain was originally written as — brace yourselves here — a woman.
Alas, Marvel brass (at the time) realized that the gender of the secretive "Mandarin," who turned out to be a 50-something tech entrepreneur in a tan business suit, needed swift correction. Because as everyone k**ws, girls don't sell toys.
Thanks to that pervasive, never-proven-wrong **tion, the*Aldrich Killian™*line of Marvel merch, with its commercially optimized perceived anatomy, exists to this day. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/05/16/iron-man-3-villain-woman-shane-black/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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