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Iron Man is a live-action American Superhero film franchise based on the Marvel Comics character Iron Man, starring Robert Downey Jr. as the armored Super Hero. It is notable for having the first ever film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which was at first distributed by Paramount, but is now owned and handled by Walt Disney Studios.Iron Man Film Series Iron Man (2008): After being kidnapped by terrorists using his own weapons, genius, billionaire, industrialist, arms dealer Tony Stark builds a Powered Armor suit to escape. He then builds a considerably improved armor and goes after those responsible. Iron Man 2 (2010): When he finds out the palladium battery of his Powered Armor is slowly killing him, Tony attempts to find a safe replacement while battling a vengeful ghost from his late father's past. Iron Man 3 (2013): Following the Alien Invasion in The Avengers, a shell-shocked Tony goes Transhuman to take on the Diabolical Mastermind behind the terrorist organization that targeted him in the first film. Ironheart (Disney+, 2023), starring Dominique Thorne as Riri Williams/Ironheart, a technology student who reverse-engineers her own version of Stark's armor. Armor Wars (TBA), starring Don Cheadle as James "Rhodey" Rhodes/War Machine.Other appearances of Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man and associated characters The Incredible Hulk (2008): Tony Stark appears in a cameo, briefly hinting at the formation of the Avengers. The Avengers (2012): In a Crossover with the MCU's other franchises, Tony and five other dysfunctional heroes team-up to save the Earth from an Alien Invasion. Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015): In a second Marvel Cinematic Universe Crossover, Tony and the rest of The Avengers take on a Killer Robot—that Tony created— out to destroy them. Captain America: Civil War (2016): Steve Rogers and Tony Stark end up on opposite sides when the world decides superheroes should be forced to register as United Nations agents. A third party deliberately worsens the situation to pit them against each other...and succeeds. Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017): Teenage superhero Peter Parker / Spider-Man, who Tony took under his wing in Civil War, attempts to navigate high school and crime fighting, despite Tony's less than stellar mentoring. Avengers: Infinity War (2018): When Thanos makes his play for the six Infinity Stones, the Avengers join forces with Earth's other heroes and the Guardians of the Galaxy in a desperate attempt to stop him. Avengers: Endgame (2019): A direct sequel to the above, and Grand Finale of the entire MCU's Myth Arc up to that point. What If…? (2021): Several variants of Tony appear across The Multiverse. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022): Introduces Riri Williams ahead of her own series, as one of her inventions becomes the center of an international incident between Wakanda, America, and the hidden undersea kingdom of Talokan. Secret Invasion (2023): Rhodes gets caught up in a conspiracy of aliens infiltrating world governments.The Character Sheets can be found here. | |
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Creator Cameo: Stan Lee shows up in all three films. Tony mistakes him for Hugh Hefner and Larry King in the first two. In the third, he can briefly be seen as a judge for a local beauty pageant. | |
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Gatling Good: The preferred projectile weapon on those suits. Played straight as a ruler: Of course they don't shoot with the right rate. | |
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Vanity License Plate | |
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Vanity License Plate: Tony's various cars have license plates reading STARK 1 through at least STARK 17 as of Iron Man 3. | |
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Spectacular Spinning | |
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Spectacular Spinning: In general, Iron Man's flights incorporate a lot of spinning which probably isn't necessary, but still looks pretty damned cool. There's even a justified reason near the climax of the third movie; when Tony is wearing just his right gauntlet and his left boot, making it virtually impossible for him to not spin. | |
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Death by Origin Story | |
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Death by Origin Story: Yinsen in the first, Anton Vanko in the second. | |
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Mr. Fanservice | |
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Mr. Fanservice: Tony gets a shirtless or near shirtless scene in several of his movies. | |
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Poor Communication Kills | |
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Poor Communication Kills: Tony's not very good at talking to other people about his problems, which leaves everyone around him confused and irritated by his strange behavior while he does things like build a suit of Powered Armor in his basement or slowly die of palladium poisoning. | |
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Green-Eyed Monster: This is, when you get right down to it, the motivation of all of Tony's enemies. | |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners | |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners: Tony and Col. Rhodes, especially when reunited after Tony's capture. Lampshaded by the fact that Tony sarcastically calls Rhodes "honey" and "dear" a couple of times. | |
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Suit Up of Destiny | |
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Suit Up of Destiny: Done at least once in each movie. | |
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Good Is Not Nice | |
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Good is Not Nice: Yes, Tony Stark works hard to keep the world safe, and his heart is in the right place. He's still a playboy, a glory hound, a drunkard, and an irresponsible jackass. Howard Stark's devotion to science and the common good is commendable, especially compared to Anton Vanko being Only in It for the Money. Less commendable is having the guy deported back to the country from which he defected. As Tony himself notes, he was cold, calculating, and apparently never just out and told his son how much he cared about him. In person, at least. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: In the first film: Pepper turns Tony's old arc reactor into a "Proof That Tony Stark Has A Heart" pseudo-trophy. This ends up saving Tony after his newer arc reactor is stolen later in the film. Tony finds Powered Armor has "icing problems" at high altitudes during his first flight test of the Mark II. In the climax, he uses this to temporarily disable Stane's suit. In Iron Man 2: The miniature model of the first Stark Expo featured early in the film turns out to be a hidden blueprint for the element that's key to perfecting the arc reactor. When Stark and Rhodes fire repulsor beams at each other during their fight at Tony's place, it causes a huge explosion. They end up using this in the climax to defeat Vanko. In Iron Man 3: When Pepper asks him how many suits he's made, we see that the actual answer is 42. In the climax we get to see most of the rest of the suits. | |
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Ironic Echo | |
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Ironic Echo: "I'm not Tony Stark." First said by Obadiah Stane, then to Obadiah Stane. "(It's) good to be back." First said by Tony Stark, then to Tony Stark. Also in the sequel, "You have to learn to let go..." | |
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Mythology Gag | |
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Mythology Gag: A bunch. Tony's driver is named Happy Hogan, who marries Pepper in the comics. The movie's director cast himself as Happy. During the final fight, a building in the background has the logo of Roxxon, a major company in the Marvel Universe (in fact, a Mega-Corp Fictional Counterpart of Exxon). JARVIS, the name of Tony's AI. JARVIS is mostly based on HOMER from the comics, with a patina of Edwin Jarvis, manservant to the Stark family and subsequently Battle Butler to The Avengers. In the novelisation, Pepper explains that it is an acronym for "Just A Rather Very Intelligent System". JARVIS has since become a recursive mythology gag, being brought into the comics as the onboard AI in Pepper's suit. And of course, Tony's very first suit, the one he builds in the cave? It's basically a real life version of the very first suit he had in the comics, circa 1963. Stane's "we're iron mongers, Tony" line, the only in-film reference to his traditional supervillain name. A similar thing happens in Iron Man 2; neither Whiplash, Black Widow or War Machine are referred to as such, but Tony does say to Rhodey, "You wanna be the war machine?" at the climax of their little boxing match. Stane grabbing a car full of civilians echoes one of the truly bastardly moves he made in the comic book Iron Monger story: nearly crushing a baby to death. The theme song of the Iron Man segment of The Marvel Super Heroes appears twice, played by an orchestra and as a ringtone. At the start the Monaco race scene, Whiplash is shown wearing a technician's uniform with a fake name patch which reads "B. Turgenov". In the comics, Boris Turgenev was a Soviet spy who became the second Crimson Dynamo. A very slight example in the same scene is that of one of the racers listed on the screen, a British racer named Chapman. A British action hero in the Marvel Universe, one of three who used the identity Union Jack, was named Joseph Chapman. Given the auto race scenario, it could also be a Shout Out to Colin Chapman, famous race car maker who founded Lotus Cars. We get a glimpse of Captain America's in-progress shield in Tony's workshop. During the drone chase near the end, a sign for "Circuits Maximus", one of Tony's companies in the comics, can be seen for a second. The sequel has a blink and you'll miss it reference to Project Pegasus, a new-energy research facility that makes many appearances in Marvel. Tony makes a reference to not being sure that Nick Fury is real. In the comics, he's survived many apparent deaths through the use of Life Model Decoys. You get a brief glimpse of a Captain America comic book in the trunk Tony is excavating when he is looking for hints to a palladium substitute. In the sequel, Tony tries to make romantic advances on Black Widow literally from the first scene that she shows up in. In the Ultimates (the Ultimate Marvel verison of the Avengers), the two of them are an official couple. "I am Iron Man." is a reference to the lyrics of the second theme song to Iron Man: The Animated Series. The new weapon Tony demonstrates to the military resemble the one used on the Hulk in the 2003 movie. | |
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Small Name, Big Ego | |
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Small Name, Big Ego: Justin Hammer likes to think of himself as a better version of Tony Stark, but he's actually far inferior. | |
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High-Up Ice-Up: Very nearly gets Tony killed in the first movie when he's testing the suit; he later uses it against Stane. | |
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Bilingual Bonus: If you spoke Urdu, you found out Stane was behind Tony's kidnapping an hour before Pepper translates the ransom tape. In the scene where Hammer is yelling at Vanko for taking so long with his Hammer Drones, the Russian simply smirks and says in his native tongue "You Talk Too Much!." When Tony Stark asks Natasha if she actually speaks Latin, she responds with the phrase "Fallaces sunt rerum species," a quote from Lucio Anneo Seneca meaning "The appearances of things are deceptive." | |
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The Mark II armor also gets an upgrade partway through the second movie, into Rhodey's "War Machine" armor. However, this is less technological and more "let's tape on as many machine guns & rocket launchers as possible" though. It also gets a downgrade, as Hammer "upgrades" the software from Stark Tech to his own inferior OS. | |
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Autobots, Rock Out! | |
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Autobots, Rock Out!: Literally the entire score. It also doesn't hurt that most of it was performed by Tom Morello. It really doesn't hurt that the official soundtrack for the sequel was an AC/DC compilation, as three of the band's songs play in both movies. | |
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This movie has both an AI and two robots (the second robot controls the camera in the tests of the flight system), and none of them goes evil/crazy by the end of the movie. The AI even doubles as the operating system of a suit of invincible battle armor, exhibits a bit more common sense than Stark himself in most scenes, and it still doesn't go Ax-Crazy! Amazing! As is standard for AI's, JARVIS is far from emotionless, and is capable of sarcasm: | |
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Insufferable Genius | |
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Insufferable Genius: Tony Stark may be a veritable technology wizard, but he is one of the most self-absorbed douchebags and assholes on planet Earth. He seems to be aware of it ("Textbook narcissism? [Beat] ...agreed.") and tries to get better. He was less of it in the first film, but the fame got back into his head by Iron Man 2note Though in this case it was exacerbated by the fact that he was dying from palladium poisoning. | |
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Create Your Own Villain | |
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Create Your Own Villain: Pretty much everyone Tony fights in the movies gets their start thanks to the actions of Tony or his father, Howard. Fitting, as one of the central themes of the series is how Tony's numerous character flaws cause most of his worst problems. This eventually carries on to Tony's protege, Peter Parker. | |
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Rule of Cool | |
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Rule of Cool: As one science-oriented film reviewer pointed out, his suit should technically start to fall whenever the jets/repulsors aren't pointing straight down to counter gravity's pull, though he seems to have a repulsor on his chestplate that takes up the slack, as well as flaps on the armor that make him a variable-geometry lifting body. His testing in the first movie also illustrates that a very small fraction of his repulsors' thrust capacity are needed to actually counter his weight. Even a very small vertical component of thrust at half or full power should be enough to hold him airborne. Of course, with the weight of the armor... | |
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Not the Fall That Kills You | |
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Not the Fall That Kills You…: Averted. Tony goes for the mechanism handling the ejected pilot's parachute rather than try to catch the pilot by himself. Also averted in the sequel, when Iron Man is rushing to save Pepper from the exploding Hammer Drones, while he rushes to the rescue at top speed, he conspicuously comes to a near stop before picking her up. | |
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Sequel Escalation | |
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Sequel Escalation: The first film features Tony fighting Iron Monger. The second film features Tony and War Machine fighting Whiplash and a bunch of drones. The third film features Tony, Pepper and dozens of Iron Man suits fighting a whole lot of super-powered humans. | |
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Character Development | |
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Tony Stark starts out as one, and realising that his company has been dealing under the table while he wasn't paying attention, decides to atone and become a hero by hunting down and destroying the stockpiles of villains. | |
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Heart in the Wrong Place | |
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Heart in the Wrong Place: Averted by Iron Man, whose heart-sustaining arc reactor is housed within a wide, wrist-deep hole exactly where his heart should be. Although the sheer size of the device means his heart would have to be pushed to the side to fit. | |
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Powered Armor | |
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Powered Armor: His suits are Flying Bricks with energy weapons. | |
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Blatant Lies | |
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During Stark's ego-stroking "It's not about me!" speech during his Expo, he continues to say that instead, it's about legacy. This continues to be a theme throughout the movie as Ivan Vanko seeks to destroy the legacy of the Stark family and claim the legacy he believes to be his. Justin Hammer actually brings up the idea of 'going after his legacy' verbatim. | |
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A.I. Is a Crapshoot | |
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A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Averted. The armature robot, Dummy, acts like a scorned puppy every time he screws up an order from Stark. This movie has both an AI and two robots (the second robot controls the camera in the tests of the flight system), and none of them goes evil/crazy by the end of the movie. The AI even doubles as the operating system of a suit of invincible battle armor, exhibits a bit more common sense than Stark himself in most scenes, and it still doesn't go Ax-Crazy! Amazing! As is standard for AI's, JARVIS is far from emotionless, and is capable of sarcasm: The robot arm Tony constantly scolds for being clumsy saves his life by giving him the replacement arc reactor. It demonstrates Tony's bizarre sense of humor that the robots are "Dummy" and "You"—and demonstrates his impatience with "yes men" that all of his Artificial Intelligences show independence of mind, even if only passive-aggressively. Played with in Iron Man 3. The AI in the Iron Man Mark 42 responds to chip implants that read Tony's brainwaves - even when he's asleep and having nightmares. It's following its programming, but that doesn't help Pepper when she wakes up to it glaring at her. | |
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GreyAndGreyMorality | |
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Grey-and-Grey Morality: None of Tony's enemies (aside from the Ten Rings) are outright evil, Vanko just wants revenge and is shown to be a comparatively nice guy otherwise, while Hammer is a smug Jerkass but is otherwise an incompetent but ambitious weapons developer. The most evil villain so far has been Stane, but he's Affably Evil, indicates he was reluctant to have Tony killed, though more of pragmatism perhaps. Considering what we see of Tony before he reforms implies he's an irresponsible playboy billionaire taking the glory and credit while Stane keeps the company afloat, it's hard not to understand why Stane might want Tony out of the picture. Meanwhile with Tony, just look at Good is Not Nice above. Perhaps the true Mandarin and Killian could be considered genuinely evil too, but we really don't know much about them. | |
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Energy Weapon | |
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Energy Weapon: Since all the major suits function around some variation of arc reactor technology, energy weapons are inevitable. Iron Man has his signature repulsor rays, and the uni-beam in his chest. As well as that "one-time use" super duper beam attack in his gloves. Whiplash, having created his own arc reactors, wields a pair of, you guessed it, energy whips. War Machine is more of a typical armoured suit with guns, but he still has the repulsor rays. He just prefers bullets. | |
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Shirtless Scene | |
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Shirtless Scene: Aplenty. First we have Tony in the first during his "heart change" operation, then Mickey Rourke in the second wearing nothing but underpants and sporting muscles covered in tattoos. | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
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Jerk With A Miniature Arc Reactor Powering His Heart: Tony may be a good guy, but he's still an arrogant and irresponsible drunkard. | |
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The Stinger | |
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The Stinger: The first has the well-known appearance of Nick Fury. The second shows Agent Coulson who left Tony for a trip to New Mexico to find what he was looking for — a crater, with The Mighty Thor's hammer beside it, saying "We found it." In the third movie, we find that Tony has been telling the entire story to Bruce Banner, who dozed off about five minutes in. | |
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The Hero's Journey | |
| Iron Man Films / int_4a852053 | comment |
The Hero's Journey: The movies are Tony's journey to becoming a full-fledged hero. Progress got set back at the beginning of the second film, justified because he's dying and in denial about it at the time. | |
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Smug Snake | |
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Smug Snake: Christine Everhart, the reporter from Vanity Fair, comes off a bit like this: she clearly wants to be an Intrepid Reporter but she (rather hypocritically) doesn't let her moral objections to Tony's arms-dealing get in the way of sleeping with him despite confronting him with them very self-righteously moments before, she behaves very condescendingly towards Pepper Potts the morning after, and overall she comes across as smug, self-righteous and not quite as smart and on top of things as she wants people to believe she is. | |
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Pre-Mortem One-Liner | |
| Iron Man Films / int_508d91a2 | comment |
Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Attempted by Stane before trying to kill Pepper, which gives Tony enough time to intervene. | |
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Technology Porn | |
| Iron Man Films / int_50f848cc | comment |
Technology Porn: The Trope Codifier. From Tony's house (with its near-sentient AI, touch-based control panels on everything, robotic arms doing every little thing, and his holographic workstation complete with motion-sensitive schematics that can respond in real time to objects placed within its boundaries in full three dimensions) to the Iron Man armor itself (tons of shifting, locking mechanisms and a prep bay with all the pieces coming out of the floor and ceiling to effortlessly suit him up for battle). | |
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Finale Title Drop | |
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Finale Title Drop: The film ends with Tony Stark admitting: | |
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Eyepatch of Power | |
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Eyepatch of Power: Nick Fury. Made fun of by Stark quite a few times. | |
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Late-Arrival Spoiler | |
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Late-Arrival Spoiler: Even if it was a twist for the first film to end with Tony announcing that he was Iron Man, the sequels, and other MCU films, make it pretty clear people know who he is. | |
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Intrepid Reporter | |
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Intrepid Reporter: Played with; Christine Everhart. She does break some news, including the fact that Stark Industries is selling weapons to the villains, but also sleeps with Tony and generally comes across as an overly smug nuisance. | |
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Pragmatic Adaptation | |
| Iron Man Films / int_603f1a80 | comment |
Pragmatic Adaptation: As with any superhero movie. While the movie is based on the 616 universe, Tony's flippant and sarcastic personality doesn't come from the 616 version of the character but rather from the Ultimate incarnation of the character as written by Mark Millar. Most fans agree it was an excellent decision, as 616 Tony has never really had much of a personality to begin with. Another big change was replacing Jarvis the butler with J.A.R.V.I.S. the AI, which has also been well-received (and moved into the 616-verse). | |
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Artificial Intelligence | |
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Artificial Intelligence: JARVIS, Tony's AI butler. | |
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Mid-Season Upgrade | |
| Iron Man Films / int_62cbb836 | comment |
Mid Film Upgrade: Tony is constantly refitting and remaking his armors. The first film has him go through two prototypes before he actually dives into battle with the Mark III. The second film starts with Tony using the Mark IV after the Mark III armor was heavily damaged in the fight with Stane, with the Mark V (Briefcase Armor) as a back-up in case he needs to suit up on the fly. He ditches the Mark IV after upgrading his chest piece to a less poisonous element, and begins using the Mark VI armor. The Mark II armor also gets an upgrade partway through the second movie, into Rhodey's "War Machine" armor. However, this is less technological and more "let's tape on as many machine guns & rocket launchers as possible" though. It also gets a downgrade, as Hammer "upgrades" the software from Stark Tech to his own inferior OS. In The Avengers, Tony upgrades his armor to Mark VII, after the Mark VI is heavily damaged fighting Thor & during Loki's assault on the Helicarrier, to the point where it's clearly struggling to fly. The major changes from the Mark VI are the return of the circular chest piece and rocket boosters on the back so the repulsors can be used as weapons while flying. By the time we get to Iron Man 3, Tony is working on Mark XLII. Because everyone needs a hobby.note Though in Tony's case it's implied he's doing it because he's preoccupied with his near-death experience during The Avengers and is trying to counter the effects of PTSD. | |
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Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames | |
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Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: A Running Gag is for a comic-based codename to be used offhandedly to refer to the character, but not for it to become an actual moniker. Obadiah Stane uses the term "iron mongers" once, referring to himself and Tony as weapons dealers. Tony calls Rhodey a "war machine" during their fight in the second flick. Subverted by the third film, where Rhodey called himself War Machine for a while before the military forcibly rebranded the suit Iron Patriot. There is a brief mention of "whiplash technology" in regards to Anton Vanko's weapons. Natasha Romanov is called "Agent Romanov", but never the Black Widow. They saved that for The Avengers. Although a backronym was in effect on S.H.I.E.L.D. in the comics, the first movie had them referred to as the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division before they showed the full acronym near the end. Tony is a a subversion, as he doesn't adopt the title "Iron Man" until the end of the first film, and even then, it's mostly used to refer to the armor ("the Iron Man weapon"), not Tony himself. | |
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Locking MacGyver in the Store Cupboard | |
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Locking MacGyver in the Store Cupboard: Tony Stark is kidnapped and left mostly unsupervised with various parts that are supposed to build a missile. Instead he builds the first version of his Iron Man suit in a cave, with a box of scraps, and uses it to escape. Justin Hammer essentially did the similar thing on Vanko in the second movie. Unsurprisingly, Vanko built the powered armor for himself and left Hammer once he's done. | |
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Gilligan Cut | |
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Gilligan Cut: A bunch of times. A memorable example is Stark suggesting the Air Force blame certain events on a "training exercise". Rhodes tells him it isn't that simple — then we cut to him delivering a statement to the press about an "unfortunate" training exercise. Another hilarious example involving Rhodes: When he's offered an alcoholic drink on Tony's jet, he flatly states he's not going to drink. Cut to a completely plastered Rhodes a good few hours later. In 2, Tony is contemplating his own mortality. He asks Natasha what she would do if she knew she was going to die soon. She replies, "I would do whatever I wanted to do, with whoever I wanted to do." You'd think he'd go through with his earlier plans of shelving the party... and then there's a cut to Tony doing scratch DJing, and then dancing sloppy drunk in his armor. | |
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Vodka Drunkenski | |
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Whiplash is also a brilliant scientist who can build power armor in a shitty apartment and the son of a technology wizard, but has none of Tony's wealth or prestige that he envies so much; in addition, he seems to share Tony's drinking problem. He also doesn't really care about civilian casualties. | |
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Ivy League for Everyone | |
| Iron Man Films / int_6b3c357e | comment |
Ivy League for Everyone: Justified. Billionaire playboys aren't everyone. It's worth noting that Tony's alma mater, MIT, isn't in the Ivy League. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: Although this of course comes from the comics, it's no coincidence that Tony is "Stark", meaning clear, and unblemished, While Obadiah is a "Stane", which, when spelled stain means to mark or tarnish. | |
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Like an Old Married Couple | |
| Iron Man Films / int_6e0a57d6 | comment |
Like an Old Married Couple. Two in fact: Tony and Rhodey, and Tony and Pepper. | |
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Bigger Stick | |
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Bigger Stick: After Iron Man publicly reveals himself, his tech becomes the target of villains, arms manufacturers and governments so they can be better equipped on the battlefield than anyone else. Tony Stark himself is a believer in this philosophy although in later films his focus shifts from "bigger stick" to "suit of armor around the world". | |
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Fiction 500 | |
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Fiction 500: In the MCU, Tony is the poster child of this trope. He has the personal resources to have a completely automated production facility that can build a fully functional Iron Man suit (Mark III) in five hours... in his garage. He owns/owned Avengers Tower in New York City, then builds an entire Avengers complex in upstate New York after the tower's destruction. | |
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Unflinching Walk | |
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Unflinching Walk In the first movie, he fires a missile at a tank that lands with a dull clank. He turns toward the camera and starts the walk, but nothing happens. He never looks back and after a beat it explodes. Downplayed in that the tank is a quite a ways away so he's well outside the blast radius. Ivan Vanko does this like crazy on the racetrack where he confronts Tony, with racecars crashing and exploding behind him in slow motion while he calmly struts over, in a rig that makes him barechested and barebacked except for the harness powering the whips. | |
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Menacing Stroll | |
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Ivan Vanko does this like crazy on the racetrack where he confronts Tony, with racecars crashing and exploding behind him in slow motion while he calmly struts over, in a rig that makes him barechested and barebacked except for the harness powering the whips. | |
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Shooting Superman | |
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Shooting Superman: Averted by the Ten Rings terrorists in the first movie. During the Mark I fight, they do end up actually damaging the armor somewhat by attacking it from more vulnerable angles than the front, and Raza's grenade launcher would probably have done a number on the suit if Tony hadn't been warned at the last second. During the Mark III fight in Gulmira, the Ten Rings militants quickly realize that their weapons have absolutely no effect on Iron Man's armor, and turn their guns on their civilian hostages. Justified in the second movie by War Machine, during the final fight versus Ivan Vanko. The Ex-Wife turned out to be useless and his minigun was destroyed just a few seconds in, so he was stuck with his forearm-mounted machine guns, which didn't even dent Vanko's armor. Presumably he thought (correctly) that he'd have better luck with them than with his palm-mounted repulsors, which Vanko had shown in a previous fight that he could deflect. The third movie still has people shooting at the Iron Man armor and Iron Patriot armor with pistols and sub-machine guns, even by the President's Secret Service who should know better. | |
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Perpetual Smiler | |
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Perpetual Smiler: Agent Coulson, particularly in the first film, always sports a mild smile. | |
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Honest Corporate Executive | |
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Honest Corporate Executive: Tony, at least after he gets back from Afghanistan. | |
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Arms Dealer | |
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Obidiah Stane is a fellow charming Arms Dealer, but is only interested in accumulating power. | |
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Tech Tree | |
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Tech Tree: The development of the Iron Man armor in relation to its various spinoffs. In Iron Man both Tony and Stane work off of the Mk I armor Tony used to escape captivity, yet the two armors are wildly different. Tony developed Mk II as a flight suit first and a weapon second, while Stane's armor was developed primarily as a tank-like weapon with limited flight capabilities. Two different approaches to the same basic framework. In Iron Man 2 we see the Air Force develop on Tony's Mk II armor. While Tony's Mk III armor was the Mk II armor made with a material better for flight and with compact weaponry, the Air Force's take on it adds several guns to the ensemble. | |
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Super Cell Reception | |
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Super Cell Reception: The title hero's cell wired through his armor. Maybe the armor is Bluetooth compatible. Then there's the video chat on the non-armor-based cell phone in the middle of Afghanistan at the start of the movie. In 2, the phone gets an upgrade to be able to instantaneously access projection screens. It also appears to be as big and transparent as a piece of plexiglass. In 3, the same phone has been upgraded so it can Skype with others. | |
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Establishing Character Moment | |
| Iron Man Films / int_7febc23b | comment |
Establishing Character Moment: The opening scene quickly establishes Tony as a hard rock loving, whiskey drinking billionaire playboy. | |
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Large Ham | |
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Large Ham: All the villains. Obadiah Stane, who points out that Tony Stark was able to build a miniature arc reactor "IN A CAVE! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!'' Justin Hammer, who could best be described (non-literally) as "Tony Stark's annoying, hammy little brother." Ivan Vanko, who is clearly enjoying himself in every line. And the Mandarin, both Ben Kingsley as a hammy actor playing a hammy villain, and Guy Pearce as a Drunk with Power baddie. Tony himself counts, in several scenes in 2 (particularly when he's drunk). He's a genius, he's a larger-than-life figure, he knows it, and he wants to make sure everyone else does too. | |
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin | |
| Iron Man Films / int_8409a385 | comment |
Whiplash in the second film has elements of the original Crimson Dynamo (last name's Vanko, is Russian, and builds and wears Iron Man-inspired armor) with the comics Whiplash (codename and main gimmick, which is Exactly What It Says on the Tin). | |
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Power Glows | |
| Iron Man Films / int_857d1626 | comment |
Power Glows: Applied Phlebotinum glows, no matter what it is. The arc reactor, the repulsors, the whips, even the element that Stark synthesized all emit a lot of light. Movie 3's Extremis. 'Nuf said. | |
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Newscaster Cameo | |
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Newscaster Cameo: A few, to show Tony is living in basically our world. Jim Cramer of Mad Money is in the first, Christiane Amanpour and Bill O'Reilly are in the second, and plenty in the third, including Josh Elliott, Bill Maher and Joan Rivers. | |
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Only in It for the Money | |
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Howard Stark's devotion to science and the common good is commendable, especially compared to Anton Vanko being Only in It for the Money. Less commendable is having the guy deported back to the country from which he defected. As Tony himself notes, he was cold, calculating, and apparently never just out and told his son how much he cared about him. In person, at least. | |
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Wardrobe Flaw of Characterization | |
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Wardrobe Flaw of Characterization: Agent Coulson's suit is ill-fitting, in keeping with his role as comic relief. Later movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe give him better duds. | |
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Reed Richards Is Useless | |
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Reed Richards Is Useless: Tony refuses to give his Iron Man technology to his own company, other engineers, and even the US government out of fear it could fall into the wrong hands, despite the dozens of positive applications it could have. Semi-Averted by the fact that he's attempting to put the power aspect of the suit, into practical application. In addition justified by the fact that he's seen his technology falling into the wrong hands, including an the armor prototype. By the end of 2, he's perfectly fine with his buddy Rhodey using a suit for the military. Fully absent after 2. In Avengers he states that he's the "biggest name in clean energy" because of the arc reactor, and by Captain America: The Winter Soldier, he's given S.H.I.E.L.D. access to his repulsors for their new helicarriers. The expanded materials on the Iron Man 2 bluray show that he has licensed Mark II technology to "Accutech" (for medical exoskeletons), another company (for a repulsor-based "sonic fire extinguisher", and a Japanese partner for StarkHUD AR glasses. | |
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Macross Missile Massacre | |
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Macross Missile Massacre: The Jericho missile. In Iron Man 2, the Navy Hammer Drones get one of these when they unload a sizable portion of their rocket ordnance on the fleeing Expo attendees. Notably, these are the only drones that successfully go after civilians onscreen. Quite a literal massacre. In Iron Man 3, the helicopters that launch a salvo on Tony's home in Malibu. | |
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Dress-O-Matic | |
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Dress-O-Matic: After improving his Powered Armor, Tony Stark builds a room in his home whose walls unfold into mechanical arms that assemble his armor onto his body (he walks in wearing a jumpsuit, which becomes the underlayer). It also removes the armor, although this can be harder if he got shot up while wearing it. | |
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Forging Scene | |
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Forging Scene: Tony making his first armor during his captivity in Afghanistan. In the sequel, it's intentionally paralleled by Ivan Vanko making his first Whiplash suit. | |
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Evil Genius | |
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In the second film, the all-American Justin Hammer employs corrupt French policemen and a Russian Evil Genius. Meanwhile, Word of God is that the man who got Vanko his false passport, an Asian man working in Russia, is an agent of the Ten Rings. | |
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Cool Garage | |
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Cool Garage: Tony Stark's workshop houses a Saleen S7, a Tesla Roadster, an Audi R8, an AC Cobra and a hot rod. He smashes one of them and sprays debris on another during his tests of the Iron Man suit. In some crates left by his father, we even see Captain America's partially completed shield. Taken even further when Iron Man 3 reveals that Tony has put in a wine cellar beneath his garage, along with an armory built specifically for his numerous Iron Man suits. | |
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In the Future, We Still Have Roombas | |
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In the Future, We Still Have Roombas: Tony has robotic arm things to help him out when he is inventing, in his garage/lab, called Butterfingers, Dummy and You. They seem to get in the way more than help him though and at one point he threatens to donate one to a city college. | |
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Silicon Snarker | |
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Silicon Snarker: Jarvis is introduced with a particularly snarky wit. When Tony suggests that the design for the second armor is a bit "ostentacious", Jarvis has a golden bit of snark: | |
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Girl Friday | |
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Girl Friday: Pepper | |
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Send in the Clones | |
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Send in the Clones: A major motif in the sequel, where different rogue states, corporations and individuals try to create their own, preferably mass-produced Iron Men, with varying (lack of) success. Foreshadowed in the first movie: Raza, the terrorist leader, asks Obadiah Stane for "a gift of iron soldiers" based on Tony Stark's suit. Also foreshadowed by Raza's 'iron soldiers' comment, Iron Legion. To elaborate: Tony's featured suit for 3 reads Mk 42. Marks I through VII go down with his house. At the climax, all other 34 suits of Powered Armour fly in and start going to town on the Extremis experiments. | |
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Immune to Bullets | |
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Immune to Bullets: Played with. It's called armor for a reason so small arms fire bounces off, and nothing except a direct hit from an explosion hurts. However, larger calibers score and dent the armor, and can cause problems ranging from a frozen knee joint to difficulty removing the suit. | |
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Creative Sterility | |
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Creative Sterility: Obadiah Stane and Justin Hammer's entire R&D departments are based around ripping off Tony Stark's, and his father's, inventions. | |
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Evil Counterpart | |
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Evil Counterpart: The major villains in every Iron Man film embody different, twisted aspects of Tony's personality. Obidiah Stane is a fellow charming Arms Dealer, but is only interested in accumulating power. Justin Hammer is a fellow Jerkass playboy billionaire with none of Tony's brilliance or charm. Ivan Vanko has Tony's intelligence and ingenuity as an engineer, but is obsessed with revenge instead of redemption. The Mandarin (or rather, the guy controlling his impersonator) is a genius scientist and inventor who has created a huge breakthrough in his area of studies, but he uses his creations for evil and vengeance, and distributes the technology without caring about the consequences. | |
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Took a Level in Badass | |
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Took a Level in Badass: Pepper Potts in Iron Man 3. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: Something always appears in The Stinger of each film that does this for future MCU films. They also double as mythology gags: The "Ten Rings" terrorist organization, who idolize Genghis Khan, with the chief the leader Raza displaying one very large and prominent ring* It's his left index ring, which generally is the "psionic ring", though it is red and the novelization states explicitly that it's the Ring of Fire, which is never mentioned again. Relation to Genghis and ten magical rings with individual powers are the trademarks of The Mandarin. However, Word of God states that if/when they do the Mandarin, the rings will either be technological in nature or not really "rings". When Rhodes sees Tony fly off in the Iron Man armor to confront Stane, he glances at the second suit of armor in the garage and pauses for a moment, and then says "Next time, baby," a reference to the character's future role as War Machine. Stark is drinking almost constantly—he later gets shitfaced, badly, in the sequel, inspired by the "Demon in a Bottle" storyline from the comics. "You think you're the only superhero in the world? Mr. Stark, you've become part of a bigger universe. You just don't know it yet. [ ... ] [I'm] Nick Fury, director of S.H.I.E.L.D.. I'm here to talk to you about the Avenger Initiative." The brief cameo of Captain America's shield strapped to one of Tony's workbenches. Made for an additional gag in the sequel. On the same note, Coulson's reaction to the above foreshadows his fanboy-like appreciation of its owner in The Avengers. S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Coulson going to New Mexico to find Thor's hammer. When Tony is talking to Nick Fury, there is a map in the background with circles on it. They are over California, a region in the southwest US, the north east, Greenland, Scandinavia, and the eastern coast of Africa. We know that both the Iron Man 2 final fight and the Hulk incident happened in the east/north east, and the Hammer was found in New Mexico, right where the second circle is. As for the others, Africa is home to the Black Panther, and Captain America is found in the Arctic region, though the location is never specified more than that... Stark says how Senator Stern should be giving him a medal. He does. During Stark's ego-stroking "It's not about me!" speech during his Expo, he continues to say that instead, it's about legacy. This continues to be a theme throughout the movie as Ivan Vanko seeks to destroy the legacy of the Stark family and claim the legacy he believes to be his. Justin Hammer actually brings up the idea of 'going after his legacy' verbatim. The brownish "health drink" makes its first appearance when Tony is in the lab/workshop, working on the Mark IV. | |
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Made of Iron | |
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Made of Iron: Technically it's a 'titanium-gold alloy', but close enough. More traditionally, Tony Stark (and Rhodey later) shrugs off an absurd amount of punishment during the movie (even worse in The Avengers). Even inside the suit, the acceleration should have produced enough G-forces to turn him into a squishy mess. In a deleted scene, Pepper discovers him lounging around half-out of his armor after his first combat outing in the suit, and he's badly bruised, bleeding and generally banged up. Not badly enough to account for shrugging off tank fire, but much worse than is shown in the main release. In the sequel, Vanko gets rammed by Happy Hogan's car, twice, without the benefit of power armor, and all it does is knock him out for a few seconds. Whatever protection the exoskeleton covering his torso and legs offered, the fact remains that his body took the brunt of that. | |
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis! | |
| Iron Man Films / int_9e0c3153 | comment |
All the villains. Obadiah Stane, who points out that Tony Stark was able to build a miniature arc reactor "IN A CAVE! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!'' Justin Hammer, who could best be described (non-literally) as "Tony Stark's annoying, hammy little brother." Ivan Vanko, who is clearly enjoying himself in every line. And the Mandarin, both Ben Kingsley as a hammy actor playing a hammy villain, and Guy Pearce as a Drunk with Power baddie. | |
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Three-Point Landing | |
| Iron Man Films / int_9eaf2be0 | comment |
Averted with the Hammer Drones, which land in a standing posture. Presumably, having a good dozen Three Point Landings in a row would diminish the drama. Also, as drones, they have higher g-tolerances than humans, and don't need to cushion their landings. | |
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Cut Lex Luthor a Check | |
| Iron Man Films / int_9fbf8969 | comment |
Cut Lex Luthor a Check: Inverted with Iron Monger, who creates an Evil Plan to get his hands on Stark's tech so he can sell it. Discussed in the second film, when Tony asks why Ivan Vanko didn't sell his inferior but functional arc reactor and Powered Armor on the Black Market for profit. Vanko however is more concerned with getting revenge on the Starks than making money. | |
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Overly Long Gag | |
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Tony Stark is kidnapped and left mostly unsupervised with various parts that are supposed to build a missile. Instead he builds the first version of his Iron Man suit in a cave, with a box of scraps, and uses it to escape. | |
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Left Stuck After Attack | |
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Left Stuck After Attack: Tony does this accidentally. As he is busy, a Mook tries to headshot him and kills himself with a ricochet. | |
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Rule of Three | |
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Rule of Three: Tony goes through three different suits in the first movie, and three more in the second. Also three in the Avengers movie, although the first two appear to be the same "model." The first one (Mk VI) gets dinged up brawling with Thor, he brings a brand new (or repaired) suit on board the Helicarrier (also Mk VI), and then he brings out the new and improved model (Mk VII) for the climax. And in the third movie, three suits were destroyed while Tony was wearing them (although he had several dozen at that point). | |
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Only Known by Their Nickname | |
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Only Known by Their Nickname: Almost all of Tony's supporting cast and friends are known by their nicknames: Virginia "Pepper" Potts, James "Rhodey" Rhodes, Harold "Happy" Hogan even Obadiah "Obie" Stane. Knowing Tony he probably gave them all nicknames when he met them. | |
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Obfuscating Stupidity | |
| Iron Man Films / int_a7aef9ff | comment |
Obfuscating Stupidity: Tony Stark often acts dimwitted, but shown to be incredibly on the ball, delivering Deadpan Snarker putdowns to people who irritate him and managing to build incredible machines out whatever he has on hand. | |
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MegaCorp | |
| Iron Man Films / int_aa8dcc21 | comment |
During the final fight, a building in the background has the logo of Roxxon, a major company in the Marvel Universe (in fact, a Mega-Corp Fictional Counterpart of Exxon). | |
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Soundtrack Dissonance | |
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Soundtrack Dissonance: Not "dissonance" per se, but the lyrics to the Black Sabbath song featured so heavily have absolutely nothing to do with the plot, character, or movie. But... who cares? The vocals are actually missing from the song played at that point, anyway. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
| Iron Man Films / int_ad1db87c | comment |
Oh, Crap!: "Sir, it appears his suit can fly." "...Icing problem?" When Tony lifts up his hand to take a shot with his repulsor and realizes that there's no glove on it. Justin Hammer (on TV) in 2 when his Iron Man ripoff malfunctions and snaps its pilot's spine. Tony gets a good one in the second film, when he discovers Ivan's whips are lethal enough to significantly damage his armour. When one of the Ten Rings leaders is given up to the villagers in order to dispense their own brand of justice. The look on his face suggests that he would have rather had Iron Man blow him up. In 3, whenever an Extremis member starts glowing, somebody reacts violently. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
| Iron Man Films / int_ae3d6438 | comment |
Deadpan Snarker: Both Tony Stark and JARVIS. Pepper Potts too. It continues in 2, with some help from Tony. By the third movie, Shane Black taking over leads to a full-on World of Snark. | |
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Ms. Fanservice | |
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Ms. Fanservice: Pepper is always dressed extremely professionally and eventually fights Killian in a sports bra and yoga pants after being injected with Extremis. Black Widow is used as eye candy as a way to gain Stark's trust and has a scene where she changes outfits in the back seat of a car. This distracts the driver. | |
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Take That! | |
| Iron Man Films / int_b53077b3 | comment |
Subverted, with a hint of Take That!. The Stark Industries logo, which we mostly see emblazoned on missiles being shot by terrorists, is very obviously inspired by the Lockheed Martin logo. Lockheed isn't mentioned in the credits, but Boeing is — despite more Lockheed stuff than Boeing in the film, and the only Boeing thing being heavily disguised. | |
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Science Hero | |
| Iron Man Films / int_b55e8979 | comment |
Science Hero: Tony Stark for building Powered Armor in a cave, with a box of scraps. Also is an Action Hero when he's in the Iron Man suit. | |
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Omnidisciplinary Scientist | |
| Iron Man Films / int_b72ae7 | comment |
Omnidisciplinary Scientist: Tony Stark seems to be an expert at high-energy physics, materials science, and aerospace engineering all at the same time. Granted, he has an AI to help...but since he invented the AI in question that's just one more field of expertise for Tony. Ivan Vanko, however, is a physics genius who manages, completely unassisted, to hack Hammer's entire network in seconds simply by typing at the Windows login screen, build an army of advanced robot soldiers, and control said robots effectively in combat. The Avengers shows Tony becoming a Tesseract expert after just one night of study, but that's more a case of Fridge Brilliance because he's been working with arc reactor technology for years ... and that's based off of the Tesseract! It would be like a vet who specializes in dogs learning really quickly how to treat injured wolves. | |
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It Makes Sense in Context | |
| Iron Man Films / int_ba236071 | comment |
Burger King is also worked in, but It Makes Sense in Context: he's been tortured and imprisoned for three months and you can't blame him for wanting an American cheeseburger. | |
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Upgrade vs. Prototype Fight | |
| Iron Man Films / int_bc0346e2 | comment |
Upgrade vs. Prototype Fight: Zig-Zagged in the final battle of the first movie, which has Tony in the new Mark III suit but powered by the older prototype arc reactor versus the Iron Monger suit, which is an enhanced version of the older Mark I armor, but is powered by the upgraded arc reactor that was stolen from Tony. | |
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Millionaire Playboy | |
| Iron Man Films / int_be23e9f6 | comment |
Millionaire Playboy: Tony Stark, and also Justin Hammer in the sequel. | |
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Sexy Secretary | |
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Sexy Secretary: Pepper Potts, and in the sequel, Natasha Romanov becomes this for her. | |
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Irony | |
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Irony: "How ironic, Tony! Trying to rid the world of weapons, you gave it its best one ever!" Tony gets shrapnel into his heart because of an explosion from one of his own weapons. Tony builds the prototype armor with stuff Stane has been secretly selling to the Ten Rings. Justin Hammer insisting that Ivan should let go of his meaningless possessions, followed by Ivan making the same comment in reference to the designs of his suits. The palladium poisoning. As Jarvis puts it, the thing that's keeping Tony alive is slowly killing him. | |
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A.I.-cronym | |
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A.I.-cronym: JARVIS is really Just A Rather Very Intelligent System. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: Go to this page. | |
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Evil Knockoff | |
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Hammer planned to use Vanko's technical expertise to create Iron Man knockoffs and steal all of Tony's former military contracts for himself. | |
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Corrupt Corporate Executive | |
| Iron Man Films / int_cbe687ab | comment |
Corrupt Corporate Executive: Obadiah Stane in the first movie, Justin Hammer in the second, and Aldrich Killian in the third. | |
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Word of God | |
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The "Ten Rings" terrorist organization, who idolize Genghis Khan, with the chief the leader Raza displaying one very large and prominent ring* It's his left index ring, which generally is the "psionic ring", though it is red and the novelization states explicitly that it's the Ring of Fire, which is never mentioned again. Relation to Genghis and ten magical rings with individual powers are the trademarks of The Mandarin. However, Word of God states that if/when they do the Mandarin, the rings will either be technological in nature or not really "rings". | |
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The Aesthetics of Technology | |
| Iron Man Films / int_cd52fd56 | comment |
The Aesthetics of Technology: This has actually popped up in a lot of the fandom for the Iron Man movies, where Obidiah Stane's Iron Monger suit is less "advanced" than Tony's suit since Tony fought it and won while only at 17% of power. The suit uses conventional weapons and is bigger and "clunkier" than Tony's more streamlined suit. This could also apply to the "briefcase suit" that Tony uses in the 2nd movie. It is more portable, and looks a little fancier than his normal suit, but it is apparently less powerful and protective, and it isn't established that it can even fly. This is because the suit is exactly what it's used as in the movie: An emergency measure. It's something Tony can slap on real quick to deal with smaller, sudden threats mostly to his own person. | |
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Heads-Up Display | |
| Iron Man Films / int_ce151179 | comment |
Heads-Up Display: Starting with the "Mark II" armor, all the suits built and worn by Tony Stark in all the three Iron Man films and The Avengers feature one. There are both POV shots of it and shots inside the helmet where it's projected in front of Tony. It starts to flicker and fail when he takes damage. It completely disappears when faced with the icing problem in the first film and when it travels into space in The Avengers. | |
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Heroic Resolve | |
| Iron Man Films / int_ce60aef3 | comment |
Heroic Resolve: When the Iron Monger reveals that he intends to have Pepper killed, Tony manages to drag himself downstairs to retrieve his spare arc reactor, with his heart failing the whole way. A dialogue and exposition-free example happens during Tony's first fight against Whiplash. With one resolute glare, Tony goes from being on the ropes to winning the fight in seconds. | |
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Lighter and Softer | |
| Iron Man Films / int_ce6555f0 | comment |
Lighter and Softer: Compared to most Iron Man comics, which tend to be a bit more serious and dark. | |
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Roaring Rampage of Revenge | |
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Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Tony's escape from the terrorists' base has elements of this after he sees Yinsen die in front of him. The last we see of his face is a fierce, determined look, and then the mask slides back into place, and after that he becomes a great deal less defensive and actively starts blowing things up. | |
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Floating Head Syndrome | |
| Iron Man Films / int_d09eafbc | comment |
Floating Head Syndrome: The film posters for Iron Man 1 and 2 feature multiple head-shots of the main characters and the Iron Man suit floating around each other. | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard | |
| Iron Man Films / int_d397657d | comment |
Hoist by His Own Petard: Almost, with the Stark Industries missile... and the guns... and Iron Monger. OK, pretty much every time Stark is in trouble, it has something to do with his company. In the second film, a lot of the Hammer Drones get shot down by friendly fire. Also defied, according to the novelisation, as Vanko's suit is built so that he doesn't cut himself with his whips. | |
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Imported Alien Phlebotinum | |
| Iron Man Films / int_d45ad2f5 | comment |
Imported Alien Phlebotinum: Not immediately obvious (in fact, only apparent as part of the larger Avengers film continuity) but the Arc Reactor technology was originally developed by Howard Stark, who was part of SHIELD and who apparently studied the Tesseract that came from Asgard. It became obvious in the second movie that Howard Stark made great intellectual discoveries by studying the artifact, but he was limited by the technology of his time, and that Tony was the one who eventually realized much of the potential of his father's research into Asgard tech. | |
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Sarcasm Failure | |
| Iron Man Films / int_d4689f3 | comment |
Sarcasm Failure: Tony Stark from is known for being an irreverent, ostentatious jackass, so when he clams up you know something's serious. At the end of Iron Man 3, Tony witnesses Pepper Potts come back from seeming death and blast the villain to pieces right as he was declaring himself "the Mandarin", saving his life; his only reaction is to stare at her and finally come up with, "I got nothing." | |
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CapePunk | |
| Iron Man Films / int_d7c318da | comment |
Cape Punk: Unlike the majority of other Marvel Cinematic Universe stories, much attention is given to the ways Tony Stark is a flawed hero as well as one who is existing in the "real" world. Real-life science was used to justify the majority of his inventions (Arc Reactor aside) plus critiques of the War on Terror with superheroism representing a critique to both sides. Unlike other members of the team, Tony suffers PTSD and other psychological ailments from his experiences in the films. | |
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Battle Butler | |
| Iron Man Films / int_d9d8fd35 | comment |
JARVIS, the name of Tony's AI. JARVIS is mostly based on HOMER from the comics, with a patina of Edwin Jarvis, manservant to the Stark family and subsequently Battle Butler to The Avengers. In the novelisation, Pepper explains that it is an acronym for "Just A Rather Very Intelligent System". | |
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Blind Shoulder Toss | |
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Blind Shoulder Toss: In the first movie, Tony takes apart a warhead to extract .13 grams of palladium. The rest of the warhead is casually tossed behind him with a "Don't need that." | |
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Collapsible Helmet | |
| Iron Man Films / int_dd24c5d2 | comment |
Collapsible Helmet: A simple version, the face plate can slide out of the way. The Mark 42's helmet can be split into many pieces along with the sliding face plate. Ivan Vanko's helmet splits apart and slides into his suit's interior. | |
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Rage Helm | |
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Rage Helm: The closure line of the suit's helmet suggests a thin-lipped scowl. | |
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Delayed Explosion | |
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In the first movie, he fires a missile at a tank that lands with a dull clank. He turns toward the camera and starts the walk, but nothing happens. He never looks back and after a beat it explodes. Downplayed in that the tank is a quite a ways away so he's well outside the blast radius. | |
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Casual Danger Dialogue | |
| Iron Man Films / int_df41acb | comment |
Casual Danger Dialogue: After being asked what's happening when the magnet that keeps shrapnel from piercing his heart is pulled out, Tony responds: "Nothing, I'm just going into cardiac arrest." In the third film, Tony calls Rhodes while he is on a mission and they have a very casual chat while Rhodes holds insurgents at gun-point. | |
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You Talk Too Much! | |
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In the scene where Hammer is yelling at Vanko for taking so long with his Hammer Drones, the Russian simply smirks and says in his native tongue "You Talk Too Much!." | |
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Composite Character | |
| Iron Man Films / int_e4965307 | comment |
Composite Character: Whiplash in the second film has elements of the original Crimson Dynamo (last name's Vanko, is Russian, and builds and wears Iron Man-inspired armor) with the comics Whiplash (codename and main gimmick, which is Exactly What It Says on the Tin). JARVIS is mostly based on HOMER from the comics, with a patina of Edwin Jarvis, manservant to the Stark family and subsequently Battle Butler to The Avengers. Justin Hammer is a combination of his comic book self and another Stark rival, the younger Tiberius Stone. In the third film, Rhodes uses the armor and name Iron Patriot. In the comics, Iron Patriot is the name of the armor Norman Osborn uses during Dark Reign and the new paint job Rhodes gives to his War Machine armor resembles Norman's. Aldrich Killian is a merger of his comic counterpart, Mallen, Ezekiel Stane, and the modern incarnation of the Mandarin. | |
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Expy | |
| Iron Man Films / int_e5421161 | comment |
Expy: In the second film, Howard Stark is analogous to Walt Disney with his vision of a better tomorrow envisioned in his Stark Expo '74, which is analogous of EPCOT. He's even sporting the same look Disney wore during most of his shows and promos in the '60s. (Compare Walt and Howard◊.) Stan Lee intended Tony Stark to be an analogue to Howard Hughes, with both his genius intellect and various eccentricities. Character development has lessened the resemblance over the years, but you can still see it well in the movies. The movie version of Iron Man was, according to Robert Downey Jr, based more on Elon Musk, founder of Tesla Motors & SpaceX. Many other Hughes-ish attributes were moved to Howard Stark as his son grew in other directions. Thus this expy's arguably-clearest appearance in the Iron Man film mythos isn't an Iron Man film per se— rather, it's Howard Stark's direct (as opposed to posthumous) appearance in Captain America: The First Avenger. | |
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Insistent Terminology | |
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The airmen riding with Tony in the convoy in the first film are wearing the tiger-stripe Airman Battle Uniform that the Air Force adopted in 2007, with body armor and helmets in the blocky Universal Camouflage Pattern typical of the Army, a typical combination for deployed Air Force personnel at the time. For bonus points, when the movie was in production, most of the Air Force was still wearing woodland and desert variants of the Battle Dress Uniform, making this bit of attention to detail relatively forward thinking. | |
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The Reliable One | |
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The Reliable One: Pepper is this for Tony, naturally. | |
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Equal-Opportunity Evil | |
| Iron Man Films / int_e993da98 | comment |
Equal-Opportunity Evil: The Ten Rings gang, despite having surface similarities with al-Qaeda, are actually a mishmash of Central Asian, Middle Eastern, and Balkan members. In the second film, the all-American Justin Hammer employs corrupt French policemen and a Russian Evil Genius. Meanwhile, Word of God is that the man who got Vanko his false passport, an Asian man working in Russia, is an agent of the Ten Rings. The Mandarin's mooks in the third movie are comprised of both men and women of varying ethnicities. | |
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Jerkass | |
| Iron Man Films / int_eb8e4fa8 | comment |
Aldrich Killian wanted revenge on Tony for being a Jerkass to him. | |
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Jerkass | |
| Iron Man Films / int_eb8ec7c8 | comment |
Jerkass: Tony Stark starts out as one, and realising that his company has been dealing under the table while he wasn't paying attention, decides to atone and become a hero by hunting down and destroying the stockpiles of villains. In the second movie, after his birthday party, Tony regresses a bit during his fight with Rhodey. The final dialogue of the scene, when they both have repulsors pointed at each other, is sheer, priceless, goading jackassery on Tony's part. In the sequel, Justin Hammer definitely counts. Tony's father, who is described as "cold and calculating". He never told his son he loved him. | |
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Servile Snarker | |
| Iron Man Films / int_ef20dac5 | comment |
Servile Snarker: Pepper and JARVIS. JARVIS is notable in that he's an AI who's advanced enough to be snarky every now and then. | |
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Drama-Preserving Handicap | |
| Iron Man Films / int_efacc623 | comment |
Drama-Preserving Handicap: In the three standalone Iron Man movies, Tony is weakened before or during the final battle: In the first, his improved arc reactor is removed and he's forced to use the less powerful prototype, severely limiting the suit's power. In the second, he uses up his best weapon on the Hammer Drones before he fights Vanko. In the third, Tony spends almost the entire movie including most of the final battle outside of his armour, making him very dangerously vulnerable compared to Rhodey, who is seen mostly in the War Machine armour. | |
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Decomposite Character | |
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Decomposite Character: As it turns out, there are at least three people calling themselves the Mandarin. The first was a warrior-king whose influence dates back to the Middle Ages. In the present, Aldrich Killian assumes the identity of the Mandarin, and then has actor Trevor Slattery pretend to be the Mandarin and take credit for the Extremis explosions. | |
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Once per Episode | |
| Iron Man Films / int_f05444a4 | comment |
Once per Episode: Part of Tony's home gets destroyed in each movie (applies to the Malibu mansion in the Iron Man films and the New York penthouse in The Avengers): Iron Man - After a test flight with the Mk. 2, Tony cuts the thrusters early and falls through the roof of his house, destroying his piano and a couple of his cars. Iron Man 2 - Tony and Rhodey get into a fight while wearing Tony's armor and blow up Tony's bar. The Avengers - Tony crashes out of the penthouse window in Stark Tower to be caught by his remote-activated suit; later, Hulk and Thor comprehensively destroy the interior of the same apartment during their fight. Iron Man 3 - The Mandarin's goons blow up most of Tony's house with missiles. | |
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Evil Plan | |
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Evil Plan: Each new villain has an evil plan based around Tony. Raza wanted to go into business with Iron Monger to mass produce the Iron Man tech and conquer the developing world. Iron Monger wanted to sell Stark weapons on the black market, with the Iron Man platform the crown jewel of his arsenal. Vanko wanted revenge on the Stark family, and created an Arc Reactor of his own to show all of Tony's enemies the hero was neither infallible nor invincible. Hammer planned to use Vanko's technical expertise to create Iron Man knockoffs and steal all of Tony's former military contracts for himself. Aldrich Killian wanted revenge on Tony for being a Jerkass to him. | |
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20 Minutes into the Future | |
| Iron Man Films / int_f32d85ab | comment |
20 Minutes into the Future: The first HUD shot places the movie in late 2009. The second film, released in 2010, also takes place in 2010, six months after the first movie. The third film continues this by taking place during Christmas time of 2013, also six months after the film was released. | |
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Product Placement | |
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Product Placement: Audi, especially the R8, is given a huge amount of screen time in the first film. The second one has it as well. Burger King is also worked in, but It Makes Sense in Context: he's been tortured and imprisoned for three months and you can't blame him for wanting an American cheeseburger. Subverted, with a hint of Take That!. The Stark Industries logo, which we mostly see emblazoned on missiles being shot by terrorists, is very obviously inspired by the Lockheed Martin logo. Lockheed isn't mentioned in the credits, but Boeing is — despite more Lockheed stuff than Boeing in the film, and the only Boeing thing being heavily disguised. Database software company Oracle in the second movie. CEO Larry Ellison even makes a cameo as himself. There's also the Sega logos at the expo. Guess who created the video game adaptations of the films? Dr. Pepper appears a few times in the second movie. Once as a can sitting on the table where Natasha and Pepper are working, and later on banners at the Stark Expo (strangely, the logo is not the current one, or even the last one, but the one before that). Of course, the pun works nicely, but Dr. Pepper has since become one of the more consistent sponsors of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The glaringly obvious Mountain Dew Vending Machine near the beginning. LG and Verizon during the first movie during Tony's conversation following the missile demonstration. During the boxing scene in the second movie, Tony is seen drinking from a Dick's Sporting Goods bottle. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: The robot buddies, and Tony berating them. From the second film: "Mute." Stan Lee being mistaken for someone else by Tony (except in the third movie). Justin Hammer can't speak Russian. Three times in the movies, Tony dodges a missile by simply stepping aside, and neutralizes the attacker with his own missile. In the first film, he dodges Raza's rocket and manually fires one off from his Mark I suit. Later, in the Mark III, he steps out of the way of a missile from a tank, and (looking irritated if anything) returns fire with a much smaller missile, and then demonstrates proper application of the Unflinching Walk. Finally, in the second movie, Tony's HUD alerts him to a drone about to fire a rocket, and he avoids it by merely leaning to the left a bit. Tony then destroys the drone, and two of its buddies, by firing several small rockets that penetrate the drones' armor, gives them just enough time to start to move in on Tony, and then blows them to bits. Throughout both movies, Tony has a bad habit of messing with other peoples' cars. | |
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Meta Casting | |
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Meta Casting: (Not meant as a Take That!...) Tony Stark is a hard-partying enfant terrible who turns his life around, having nearly lost it. Robert Downey Jr. knows a little bit what that is like... and his life experience was in fact cited by director Jon Favreau as one of the reasons he insisted on casting Downey in the role. | |
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Gadgeteer Genius | |
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Gadgeteer Genius: Tony Stark, naturally. Also Ivan Vanko from the sequel. | |
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Comically Missing the Point | |
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Technically it's a 'titanium-gold alloy', but close enough. More traditionally, Tony Stark (and Rhodey later) shrugs off an absurd amount of punishment during the movie (even worse in The Avengers). Even inside the suit, the acceleration should have produced enough G-forces to turn him into a squishy mess. | |
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Robot Buddy | |
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Robot Buddy: Stark's workshop robots. | |
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Staring Kid | |
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Staring Kid: When Tony takes his suit for a test flight for the first time, the first person to spot him is a little kid with an ice cream cone on a Ferris wheel. The kid licks the ice cream right off the cone due to lack of focus. In the second film, the kid in the Iron Man costume (later retconned, according to Word of God, to be a young Peter Parker) who stands up to a "Hammeroid". Throughout the third, Tony is assisted by a kid stuck on his own named Harley Keener. | |
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Evil, Inc. | |
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Evil, Inc. Stark Enterprises to an extent. Though Howard and Tony were mostly decent guys, some of their fellow members of the company aren't above selling weapons to some really bad people behind the scenes. Also subverted by Tony Stark, who points out that many of his inventions in the field of medicine and agriculture has been made possible by revenues from the military contracts. Advanced Idea Mechanics (AIM), a scientific think tank led by Aldrich Killian who is using the Extremis formula to start a war in which he controls both sides. | |
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Smart House | |
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Smart House: JARVIS. | |
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Shown Their Work | |
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Shown Their Work: Aside from the suits, Rourke went to Russia to learn about his role, including which prison tats Vanko should have...by going to Russian prisons. One of the most notable being the star that Vanko has on his right hand: very accurate, with each point of the star symbolizing a year he spent in prison. Take a look at the War Machine armor in the Iron Man 2 trailer and promo materials: not only is it painted in the same "Compass Ghost" colors as are standard for Air Force fighters today, but it carries full, correct Air Force markings in the proper low-visibility colors, including: An Air Combat Command badge, just above the elbow. Proper tailcode on the shoulder—ED: Edwards AFB, 412th Test Wing; 445 FLTS, 445th Flight Test Squadron. Aircraft serial number AF10-001 on the side, just above the waist (First USAF aircraft purchased in Fiscal Year 2010). The airmen riding with Tony in the convoy in the first film are wearing the tiger-stripe Airman Battle Uniform that the Air Force adopted in 2007, with body armor and helmets in the blocky Universal Camouflage Pattern typical of the Army, a typical combination for deployed Air Force personnel at the time. For bonus points, when the movie was in production, most of the Air Force was still wearing woodland and desert variants of the Battle Dress Uniform, making this bit of attention to detail relatively forward thinking. | |
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