Indeed. And the Mandarin fighting Iron Man would represent the arcane/mystical vs. the modern/technological.



BTW, I've notice that some of the major MCU villains have a personal ideology trope going on; the Red Skull had one being anti-statism or anti-nationalism with his talk Cap about his no flags future world talk; HYDRA and Zola had a authoritarianism ideology since they wanted humanity to surrender their freedom for safety and security; Baron Mordo wants a world with no more wizards as he feels magic has been abused and it disrupts the very natural order of things; Ultron is an evolutionist/Darwinist that feels humanity is in a great state of stagnation from further development of evolving; Thanos is a galactic environmentalist who is strongly against Universal overpopulation; etc (the detailed summary of these guys' ideals escape me for this moment) with Ego, Killmonger, Zemo, and maybe even the Kingpin to some extent.



The point is that the Mandarin should continue this villain ideology trope with him being a Neo-Luddism, seeing technology as a corrupting influence on the world and him being an anti-fanatic when it to his views. Tony Stark/Iron Man's counter ideology would be T echnologism. Anyway, It would be great to see the Mandarin and Iron Man finally clash on screen, and hopefully we'll see it.