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His powers come from his father as the elder Mack served in a unit called the Half-Fulls. Upon discovering a temple of the Dragon’s Breath Cult in the Cambodian jungle, they are enhanced. The same sorceress that Conrad defeated ended up being the reason that the Smiling Tiger was conceived. The character has razor claws on both his hands and his feet. When transformed, the Smiling Tiger gets enhanced strength, speed, and sight.
As for Anthony Mackie’s take on the character, it’s probably just an Easter Egg. None of that would probably faze him as he doesn’t really get those much as the actor told The Direct recently.
“Not really. Nothing about the internet surprises me anymore,” Mackie explained. “There’s stuff that people find interesting, and I just learned what an Easter egg is, so it’s a whole bunch of things going on that aren’t surprising at all. When asked if he really only learned what an Easter Egg was. We don’t go around saying, ‘Yo, you saw that ‘Easter egg’ in Scene 12?’ I mean, that’s not a conversation you have as an actor.”
Sebastian Stan quickly tried to help drive the point home, “I think what [Mackie’s] trying to say is we try not to think as much about it as you think we do. It’s a very strange thing, but we are actually not these characters.”
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