This is what the Ten Rings are like in the comics when compared to the Rings in the MCU

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Hey guys! u/DjGrayfox knows already - if you were wondering if he knows about the rings not being comic accurate, he knows.

I thought I didn't know, but you're probably right. 

Because they’re based on [Iron Rings](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_rings) from Chinese martial arts.  The word “ring” applies to more than just finger jewelry.

They’re arm rings. Which have been a thing for thousands of years.

Ring also just means circle. Doesn’t have to be round the finger.

Cannot imagine having magic rings that slide off my fingers every time I need to use them. My knuckles are the widest part of my finger. I'd need wolverine or deadpool regenerative powers to use them more than once.

Technically, some bracelets are rings.

A halo is a ring.

That circle around Saturn? A ring.

Know what I find weird? A boxing ring is rectangular yet it’s called a ring. 🤔

That’s exactly why per fiege, they didn’t want to confuse the general audience

What we got plays better on a screen, too. 

The MCU’s rings are cool. But they just seem like really really good melee weapons. Not the type of thing that makes the owner omnipotent or gives them power, nor does it help them unlock new magic, etc.

Also it seems extremely OP. Like someone that had that power for a few thousand years would literally just be ruling the planet.

Not only that, but imagine them trying to explain what each ring does without losing pace

Not to mention the *insane* power creep here...literally only comic book logic could defeat a villain with these rings and no movie, Marvel or DC, has ever gone *full* comic book logic.

The MCU version of the rings makes the fight scenes really fun compared to what would probably be hand waving causing CGI stuff to happen to our hero. It at least gives us some sick dynamic poses

It is a reasonable approach but I do wish the rings had a little more character/function in the MCU. As they are now, they seem like a slightly better version of Dr Strange’s sling whip. Still cool but not terribly interesting.

Only Howard the Duck could counter such grandiose power

They are, villain hubris is how they get defeated.

I think the biggest issue with the old ring design is that it’s difficult to incorporate a finger ring into Kung Fu practice

This is what I believe is going to happen as well

It would be great. He gets a power up or two every time we need one narratively? Hell yeah

Plus they can always just change what the rings actually do

The Rings have had numerous representations over the years. I remember the old Marvel Handbook entry for them being different from OPs image, with the powers being still varied but perhaps less overwhelming in description. Often the Mandarin would use one or another against Iron Man before resorting to things like metal-breaking martial arts. Obviously this was written this way for dramatic intent but to your point, the Ten Rings certainly should make their wielder invincible if used with any degree of competence.

Ten rings are way weaker than the infinity stones. Like three stones can do all of what is listed here

This is one of those few changes that actually improves things.

Johnny depp would’ve been the perfect cast if they went the original route. He loves to accessorize

Absolutely, imagine these in the movies. Just more beams of *magic* coming out of a different guy's hand this time

Mandarin is cosmic level?

After all, they ARE capable of changing size. Should be perfect for the Mr. Foom.

It's not anywhere near as powerful. Like David Blane vs Dr strange

I mean, it seems to me like that ring can affect individual items. So, you can break down the cellular structure of a being or object, not remake all of reality. I think it's the scale of these abilities that's significantly different.

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Well obviously that's not how they would do it

They did, now they're more of a homogenous one set of things that have intuitive, kinetic/ energy vibe to it

Considering they washed all the unique ring thing away, it actually does look awesome

I'm kind of torn on that. It would be really cool, but it's also the kind of thing that just works better in comics than a movie. In comic form, this can be explained in a single panel. In a movie, this would need 10 minutes of exposition.

lol!  That’s a perfect description 

> No cohesion or thematic consistency across all of them.

I dont know why you *would expect them to be*.

They contain the souls of long dead warriors, they werent *designed*.

Yeah this is just darts at a dartboard style of deciding powers. And I’m not remembering 10 different weird and specific powers. MCU handled this massively better. 

Yeah I see everyone saying that they wanted to differentiate them from the Infinity stones, which is a good idea. But what they change the rings to should ideally be at least as interesting as what they were before, if not more so. I would argue that what we got was incredibly generic.

It reminds me of the first Doctor Strange movie, where you have actual wizards who can fight with all sorts of magic, and all they can think to do to visualize this is have them create swords and shit out of magic energy. Incredibly lame.

Infinity War had some good moments where Thanos used the stones in a way that conveyed their individual powers (without having to spend 10 minutes explaining each one verbally, like people here are claiming they'd need to do for the rings), and where Strange got to demonstrate some actually visually interesting and creative uses of magic in his fight with Thanos.

No, Iron Man is.

the armored adventures makluan rings were dope and the Mandarin Armor

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Comic 10 Rings is essentially Infinity Gauntlet.

They grant 100+ powers like reality warping, energy blast, time control, magic, hypnosis, superstrength, force field, power to every aspect of nature like magnetism, gravity, time, ice, fire, water, thunder and so on