I love cartoons.

The previews for Iron Man 3 make me a little nervous, because the Mandarin is scary. Enter Iron Man: Armored Adventures, the show that makes all of the characters a thousand times more adorable and ridiculous.

Here’s Gene (aka the Mandarin):

And there’s those rings, right? Ten scary rings that grant hard-to-fight powers? Yeah, they glow in the dark:

Plus, here’s how Gene’s arc winds up on Armored Adventures:

(from wikipedia):
At the end of the series, Gene is faced with the results of his ambitions when the Makluans invade the Earth for the rings, and decides to become a protector to the Earth instead.

(from the marvel wiki):
“Perhaps I’m not supposed to rule the world. Perhaps, I’m supposed to protect it.”

(That’s totally how I want Iron Man 3 to happen now — the Mandarin gets all big and bad with some glow-in-the-dark rings, it spurs an alien invasion, and he decides to switch sides and protect the Earth.)

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