Ten Rings

Evil Organization

Chinese Symbol
Mongolian Symbol

Full Name

The Ten Rings

Alias

None

Origin

Iron Man

Foundation

A thousand years

Headquarters

Afghanistan

China

Commanders

Xu Wenwu

Raza
Xu Xialing

Agents

Richard Frampton

Jackson Norriss
Abu Bakar
Ahmed
Omar
Cordo Gaines
HYDRA buyer
Ten Rings agent
Death Dealer
Razor Fist
Xu Shang-Chi (formerly)
Gao Lei
Jon Jon

Powers / Skills

Vast wealth and resources

Bases all over the world
Access to technology
Various weapons and firearms
Military training and tactics
Martial Arts
Access to Stark Industries Weapons

Goals

Kill President Ellis in order to rule the entire United States.

Defeat and kill Tony Stark (failed).
Destroy world peace and dominate the world (formerly; as Xu Xialing took over the organization).

Crimes

War crimes
Organized crime
Terrorism
Destruction
Kidnapping
Arms dealing
Torture
Mass murder
Conspiracy
Trespassing
Blackmail
Embezzlement
Crimes against humanity
Attempted global domination

Type of Villains

Hegemonic Terrorists

“	I'm not talking about the message boards, I'm talking about the Ten Rings. The terrorist group..... historically associated with the Mandarin. Officially, they're dormant, but evidence suggests that they're becoming more active.	„
	~ Jackson Norriss about the Ten Rings.

The Ten Rings is a recurring antagonistic faction in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, serving as the main antagonistic faction of both Iron Man and the short-film All Hail the King, a minor antagonistic faction in Iron Man 2, Iron Man 3 and Ant-Man; and the titular main antagonistic faction of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.

It is a terrorist organization dedicated to destroying world peace by any means necessary. It is led by a Chinese warlord named Xu Wenwu, also known as the Mandarin.

History

Iron Man (2008)

While Tony Stark is in Afghanistan to demonstrate Stark Industries' new Jericho missile, a group of terrorists attack the convoy he is on, killing everyone but Stark. He is kidnapped by the terrorists (led by Raza), who introduce themselves as the Ten Rings. They demand that Stark build a Jericho missile for them. He refuses, so they begin to torture Stark.

Hours later, the terrorists show off a huge stockpile of weapons - all made by Stark Industries. Tony appears to relent and start building the missile, but has other plans. With the help of fellow captive Yinsen, Tony constructs a tiny device called an Arc Reactor, a new type of power generator, streamlined from a much bigger design used in one of his companies factory. The power output is enough to run Stark's heart for fifty lifetimes, or something much bigger for about fifiteen minutes.

Tony designs a way out for himself and Yinsen, a powered weapon suit that he will wear and use to defeat the terrorists. Midway through construction, the apparent head of the Ten Rings, a man named Raza, arrives and attempts to torture Yinsen, angry because he thinks Stark is not working on the Jericho as they wanted. Raza gives them one more day to finish.

Working overnight, Yinsen straps Tony into the completed armored suit, telling him the way out of the cave. They set off a bomb inside the cell as a distraction for the guards as Tony powers up his suit. Yinsen realizes that they will not have enough time. He grabs a gun and runs off to distract the surviving guards.

Tony, fully powered, muscles his way through the cave. The guards try to stop but his suit easily deflects their weapon fire. Halfway out, Stark finds Yinsen, mortally wounded. Tony tearfully thanks Yinsen for saving him, and Yinsen encourages Tony to not waste his life as he dies. Tony turns his suit on the terrorists, igniting flame-throwers. He destroys their stockpile of weapons and uses a rudimentary jet-pack to blast away from the captive zone. The armor is ruined as he crash-lands into a sand dune, but he escapes alive.

Months later, Tony learns that the Ten Rings is using weapons created by Stark Industries to terrorize the Middle East, and that Obadiah Stane was dealing them weapons behind Stark's back. Stark dons his Iron Man suit for the first time and flies to the Middle East. Within seconds, he defeats the terrorists the armors superior targeting allows him to kill a group using civilians as human shields without harming the hostages and destroys the weapons they had obtained. The leader of the group tries in one of the buildings to hide only to find a red and gold arm smash through the wall and yank him back out into the street Iron Man then hands him over to the villagers saying "He's all yours." before taking off.

Not long after this, the Ten Rings are visited by none other than Obadiah. It is revealed that Stane paid the Ten Rings members to kill Stark, but they realized who Stark was and demanded a much higher price. After killing Raza, Obadiah takes the remnants of the Mark 1 armor they have gathered.

Iron Man 2

In a deleted scene from Iron Man 2, an unnamed Ten Rings agent gives Ivan Vanko a pass to enter the Prix de Monaco so that he can kill Stark, though this failed.

Iron Man 3

In Iron Man 3, Aldrich Killian uses the Ten Rings name, and hires drunken British actor Trevor Slattery to use The Mandarin persona to mask his failed Extremis experiments as purposeful attacks on the military.

All Hail The King

After Aldrich Killian dies, and Trevor Slattery is placed in Seagate Prison, an undercover Ten Rings agent, Jackson Norriss, breaks Slattery out of prison, and informs him that the real Mandarin wants to meet him after Trevor made a mockery of his beliefs.

Ant-Man

As Darren Cross was holding an auction for his Yellowjacket suit at the Pym Technologies headquarters, a buyer working for both HYDRA and the Ten Rings was seen attempting to buy it. As Ant-Man entered the room, a fight had ensued with the buyer being knocked out and later killed when the building imploded.

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

A thousand years ago, Xu Wenwu found ten powerful rings that granted him powers such as immortality and founded an organization called the Ten Rings.

Members

Xu Wenwu/The Mandarin - Supreme Leader and founder (Deceased)
Xu Xialing - Current Leader
Raza Hamidmi Al-Wazar - Commander (Deceased)
Xu Shang-Chi (formerly)
Death Dealer (Deceased)
Razor Fist
Richard Frampton (Deceased)
Abu Bakaar - Militant (Status Unknown)
Ahmed - Militant (Deceased)
Omar - Militant (Deceased)
Jackson Norriss - Assassin
Ten Rings Agent
HYDRA Buyer - Operative (Deceased)
Cordo Gaines
Naib - Militant
Hajid - Militant (Status Unknown)
Aiden Julius
Gao Lei
Jon Jon

Trivia

Since Aldrich Killian and Trevor Slattery had no associations with the terrorist organization, and the real Mandarin is the true leader of the Ten Rings and has not fully appeared, the Ten Rings could possibly serve as the main antagonistic faction in the entire MCU after Avengers: Endgame. This was confirmed in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.

External Links

Ten Rings on the Marvel Cinematic Universe Wiki

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