History Film / IronMan1

* ChekhovsSkill: Tony is testing the Mark II armor's flight capabilities and impulsively decides to break the altitude record. He fails because the suit builds up a layer of ice which shorts out its systems; Tony incorporates a fix for this in the Mark III design. Later in the movie, he lures the Iron Monger to similar altitudes, causing that armor to freeze up while his own suit is protected.

** The Mark III's helmet has a voice changer in it as Tony is wanting to keep his identity a secret. Once Tony goes public with his Iron Man identity at the end of the film, this feature is not duplicated in his future armor.

* DoWithHimAsYouWill: Tony leaves the mercenary leader to the mercy of the villagers he's been terrorizing.

* FreezeFrameBonus: Around 34 minutes into the picture, notice the code in the background of the program being run on the Toshiba Tecra laptop to power up the Mark I suit. Apparently, the Ten Rings terrorist organization has a thing for Legos.

--> "I'll go to my assistant and we'll make a ... date"
* FunWithAcronyms:

** According to the novelization (by Creator/PeterDavid) JARVIS stands for Just A Rather Very Intelligent System.

** Reporter Christine Everheart is immediately skeptical of the cover story about Iron Man being Tony's bodyguard. At the press conference after Tony suddenly announces that he ''is'' Iron Man, there's a shot of all the reporters leaping forward to shout excited questions at Tony—except for Christine, who remains seated, completely unsurprised by the reveal.

* IntrepidReporter: Played with; Christine Everhart clearly tries to present herself as this. When she ends up sleeping with Tony shortly after calling him out as the 'Merchant of Death' it blunts that image a bit, but she ''is'' the one to reveal to Tony that [[spoiler:his company is selling weapons to terrorists.]]

-->'''Stane''': TONY STARK WAS ABLE TO BUILD THIS THING IN A ''CAVE''! WITH A BOX OF ''SCRAPS''!
-->'''Scientist''': Well, I'm sorry... I'm not Tony Stark.

* FreezeFrameBonus: Around 34 minutes into the picture, notice the code in the background of the program being run on the Toshiba Tecra laptop to power up the Mk. I suit. Apparently, the Ten Rings terrorist organization has a thing for Legos.

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: A Black Comedy example, but in the scene where Pepper swaps out Tony's Arc Reactor for the upgraded model, when she mishandles the copper wire and then yanks out the electromagnet, the heart monitor behind them buzzes and shifts from a steady heart pulse to delivering a full page of red text. Bonus points in that his RobotBuddy has been holding a light to illuminate the chest procedure but the flashlight head is actually angled toward Tony's face.

* ShootingSuperman: Downplayed. Although the Iron Man armor does its job in protecting Tony, significant firepower does introduce a case of RealityEnsues. The Mark I does an adequate job at first but eventually Tony starts to be overwhelmed by the terrorist's unrelenting gunfire and is driven to his knees before he ignites his rockets to escape. The Mark III survives the mission to Gulmira but the armor is quite pockmarked and damaged enough that Tony has a hard time removing it.

''Iron Man'' is a 2008 American superhero film based on the Creator/MarvelComics character ComicBook/IronMan, starring Creator/RobertDowneyJr as the armored SuperHero. Directed by Creator/JonFavreau (''Film/Elf'', ''Film/Zathura''), the movie went on to become the first movie in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse and, retroactively, the first chapter of both Phase 1 and the Infinity Saga MythArc.

''Iron Man'' is a 2008 American superhero film based on the Creator/MarvelComics character ComicBook/IronMan, starring Creator/RobertDowneyJr as the armored SuperHero. Directed by Creator/JonFavreau, the movie went on to become the first movie in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse and, retroactively, the first chapter of both Phase 1 and the Infinity Saga MythArc.

** ** The ending has Tony out himself as Iron Man and leaves the implications of that unsaid.

* SequelHook: Creator/SamuelLJackson as ComicBook/NickFury in TheStinger.
-->'''Fury:''' You think you're the only superhero in the world? Mr. Stark, you've become part of a [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse bigger universe]]. You just don't know it yet.
* SettingUpdate: As originally written, Iron Man's origin took place during the UsefulNotes/VietnamWar. Due to UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror, the film replaces the Communists with Middle Eastern terrorists and Vietnam with UsefulNotes/{{Afghanistan}}. Dr. Yinsen retains his AsLongAsItSoundsForeign East Asian name despite the actor not looking East Asian at all.

** The ending has Tony out himself as Iron Man and leaves the implications of that unsaid.
** Nick Fury comes out in the stinger and tells Tony just what exactly he has to look forward to.

* DontAskJustRun: Pepper gets ambushed by Coulson just as she's leaving Stane's office, [[spoiler:with an armful of evidence that Stane has been working with the Ten Rings the whole time.]] Her immediate concern is getting herself ''the hell out of there.''

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** When the Ten Rings list off their ransom demands, the viewer and Tony alike [[IntendedAudienceReaction see it as typical terrorist jargon]] since it's not translated whatsoever, and Tony certainly has no reason to understand it at the time. [[spoiler:Then Pepper gets a proper translation of the footage, where the Ten Rings are actually demanding to know why the hell they were assigned to kill Tony, hiding the twist of Obadiah's betrayal under everyone's noses the entire time thanks to their lack of bilingual skills.]]
** After Tony decides to completely overhaul Stark Industries, it results in a significant drop in stock price, so the Board uses it as grounds to file a legal injunction against his control, majority shareholder or not.
** After his first mission in Gulmira, Tony has a lot of trouble getting out of his suit because the damage it encountered warped it.
** After J.A.R.V.I.S. renders the Mark III, he is told that the automated system will take five hours to manufacture it. Even Tony can't speed up the process, so he goes out to the benefit party.

* IconicAttributeAdoptionMoment: Tony builds his first Iron Man armor to escape his imprisonment by the Ten Rings but doesn't build the iconic red and gold suit until sometime after he returns home. Even then the suit's baseline abilities (such as flight and repulsor rays) don't properly debut until Tony takes it to deal with a Ten Rings attack on an innocent village.

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** Dum-E, a mobile robotic arm, behaves like a faithful dog. After Tony's upgraded mini-arc reactor is stolen, Tony is scrambling to reach his older original reactor, but can't reach it. Tony crumples to the ground, about to die, when the robotic arm fetches it for him, and whimpers like a dog concerned about his owner. Tony smiles and says "Good boy!".

* BetaOutfit: Tony Stark builds the first suit while held captive by the Ten Rings terrorists, which was big and bulky due to both being a mechanical prototype, and as a nod to the original Iron Man suit in the comics. After getting back to the city he makes a chrome unpainted prototype before building the iconic final form of the suit out of a gold alloy and deciding to paint much of it hotrod red. The prototype chrome suit goes on to become the War Machine suit.

* AndYourLittleDogToo: Just before leaving Tony's apartment, the BigBad remarks, "It's a shame you had to involve Pepper in this, I would have preferred that she lived." It hammers home just how far they're willing to go to achieve their goals.

** Dum-E, a mobile robotic arm, behaves like a faithful dog. After [[spoiler:Stane steals Tony's arc reactor, and he's unable to reach the display case containing the old one]], Dum-E fetches it for him and even whimpers like a dog concerned about his owner. Tony smiles and says "Good boy!".

* AndYourLittleDogToo: Just before leaving Tony's apartment [[spoiler:with his arc reactor]], [[spoiler:Obadiah Stane]] remarks, "It's a shame you had to involve Pepper in this, I would have preferred that she lived." It hammers home just how far he's willing to go to achieve his goals.

''Iron Man'' is a 2008 American superhero film based on the Creator/MarvelComics character ComicBook/IronMan, starring Creator/RobertDowneyJr as the armored SuperHero. Directed by Creator/JonFavreau, the movie went on to become the first movie in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse and, retroactively, the first chapter of the Infinity Saga MythArc.

''Iron Man'' is a 2008 American superhero film based on the Creator/MarvelComics character ComicBook/IronMan, starring Creator/RobertDowneyJr as the armored SuperHero. Directed by Creator/JonFavreau, the movie went on to become the first movie in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse.

* RealityEnsues:
** After Tony decides to completely overhaul Stark Industries, it results in a significant drop in stock price, so the Board uses it as grounds to file a legal injunction against his control, majority shareholder or not.
** After his first mission in Gulmira, Tony has a lot of trouble getting out of his suit because the damage it encountered warped it.
** After J.A.R.V.I.S. renders the Mark III, he is told that the automated system will take five hours to manufacture it. Even Tony can't speed up the process, so he goes out to the benefit party.