Surefire blockbuster Iron Man 3 gets the summer movie season going when it’s released tonight. The villain who will try to take down Tony Stark this time: The Mandarin, an original character from comic books of the 1960s. Fortunately, the blatantly racist, stereotypically Asian elements of the character have been toned down for the movies (and he’s played by Sir Ben Kingsley).

Here are couple other questionable—and offensive—comic book characters:

Shamrock. In 1982, Marvel debuted this redheaded Irish heroine. Her super powers: she could harness the spiritual energy of Irish people killed in “the Troubles” and summon “the luck of the Irish.”

Egg Fu. This “yellowface” villain originally appeared in Wonder Woman comics. He’s a gigantic, sentient—and yellow—egg who wears a Fu Manchu mustache and works as a spy for the Chinese government. He first popped up in the ‘60s, but a couple of years ago was reintroduced under the less offensive name “Chang Tzu.”

Skyfall hit theaters in November so it should be safe to finally talk about a popular (but strange) fan theory regarding James Bond. (If you still haven’t seen the latest—and best-reviewed and highest-grossing—Bond movie ever, there’s spoilers ahead.)

Theory: There is no one real James Bond. “James Bond” and “007” are just code names used by multiple spies over the years. One spy uses the alias for a while before it’s handed off to a successor (sort of like “the Dalai Llama” or “the Pope”). Fans have tossed this theory around for years on the Internet and fan conventions, citing “evidence” from more than 20 of the different James Bond movies.

Details: Going all the way back to Sean Connery’s portrayal of Bond in the ‘60s, this explains how we can have a virtually ageless Agent 007 for 50 years. Further, events in the movies explain why one actor left and another came in. For example, why did Geoge Lazenby only play Bond for one film? Because he quit the spy life at the end of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service when his wife died. Lazenby’s predecessor, Sean Connery, returned for one more film before handing “James Bond” over to Roger Moore. And why did Timothy Dalton’s tenure end with 1987’s License to Kill? In that movie, Bond becomes a rogue agent…and gets fired.

Lending more credence: in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Lazenby’s Bond may or may not make a reference to “the other fellow”:

But wait: It’s as if the filmmakers behind the James Bond movies were aware of this bizarre theory, so much so that in Skyfall, they seemingly address the rumors…and completely refute them. Toward the end of the movie, Bond (Daniel Craig) and M (Judi Dench) seek refuge at the Bond family’s crumbling mansion in Scotland. There’s even a shot of Bond’s parents’ gravestones.

This proves that James Bond is “real” and one of a kind. He just never ages because of movie magic.