History Film / IronMan1

* AreTheseWiresImportant: Tony does this to Iron Monger and it knocks out his targeting system. Provides the quote for the page trope.

* AreTheseWiresImportant: Tony does this to Iron Monger and it knocks out his targeting system.

* ShoutOut: Tony's climactic line at the ending could be one to [[spoiler:BlackSabbath]].

* TreacherousAdvisor: [[spoiler:Obadiah Stane, a major villain from the comics who drove Tony into alcoholism and took over his company, before Stark sobered up and defeated him, is retooled as having co-founded Stark Industries with Tony's dad, then serves as a mentor to Tony and the second-in-command of his company when the elder Stark dies and Tony inherits the company. Naturally, this being an adaptation, Obadiah turns out to be more villainous than he lets on]].

* BigBad: [[spoiler:The leader of the Ten Rings, Raza]] is set up to be this, but it turns out he was only TheDragon for [[spoiler:Obediah Stane]], who was EvilAllAlong.
* BiggerStick: Everyone from the Ten Rings to Obadiah wants to get their hands on Tony's Iron Man technology so they can outstip everyone else's weapons. The phrase "bigger stick" even comes up in the movie itself when Tony is talking to the reporter about his father. "Peace means having a bigger stick than the other guy."

* TheDarknessGazesBack: In the finale, Pepper Potts and agents of SHIELD are looking [[spoiler:for BigBad Obidiah Stane in his darkly-lit workshop. Pepper notices a suspiciously-large shadow and cautiously stares into it,]] only for the Iron Monger to power up and two glowing mechanical eyes to stare back at her.

* HeelFaceTurn: Tony sums up his new change in direction to Obadiah when he chews him out for shutting down the weapons enterprise of Stark Industries;

** The "bodyguard" excuse at the end of the movie is taken from the story used in the early comics by Tony to explain why Iron Man was always hanging around Stark Enterprises (and Tony in particular).

* NewscasterCameo: One scene features a segment of Jim Cramer's "Mad Money" television show, warning about the sudden drop in the price of Stark Enterprises stock.

* TreacherousAdvisor: [[spoiler:Obadiah Stane, a major early villain from the comics, is retooled as having co-founded Stark Industries with Tony's dad, then serves as a mentor to Tony and the second-in-command of his company when the elder Stark dies and Tony inherits the company. Naturally, this being an adaptation, Obadiah turns out to be more villainous than he lets on]].

* KilledOffForReal: After being deemed no longer useful by [[spoiler: Obidiah Stane]], [[spoiler: Raza]], the leader of the Ten Rings, is disposed of by [[spoiler: Stane]].

* TheDarknessGazesBack: In the finale, Pepper Potts and agents of SHIELD are looking for BigBad Obidiah Stane in his darkly-lit workshop. Pepper notices a suspiciously-large shadow and cautiously stares into it, only for the Iron Monger to power up and two glowing mechanical eyes to stare back at her.

** JeffBridges is also a great choice to play the villain, because it's a role he doesn't normally play. He comes across as friendly and likeable, albeit a bit of a smooth talker. And when we learn he was behind everything, we empathize with the betrayal Tony is feeling, because we're feeling it as well.

* OhCrap: Obadiah's reaction when Tony points out the following design flaw.
--> '''Tony:''' How'd you solve the icing problem?
--> '''Obadiah:''' ''...Icing problem?'' *Suit cuts out*
--> '''Tony:''' *Smugly* Might want to look into it!

-->'''Tony:''' No they won't.
-->'''Yinsen:''' No they won't.

-->'''Christine''': Have you ever lost an hour of sleep in your life?!
-->'''Tony''': I'd be prepared to lose a few with you.

* TemptingFate: Pepper comments that she expected Obadiah's suit (actually Tony's recovered MK I) to be ''bigger''. Oh, how right she was.

* TreacherousAdvisor: Obadiah Stane, a major early villain from the comics, is retooled as having co-founded Stark Industries with Tony's dad, then serves as a mentor to Tony and the second-in-command of his company when the elder Stark dies and Tony inherits the company. Naturally, this being an adaptation, Obadiah turns out to be more villainous than he lets on.

* VillainousBreakdown: Obadiah Stane, after finding out no one but Tony knows how to make a miniaturized arc reactor.
-->'''Stane:''' ''TONY STARK WAS ABLE TO BUILD THIS IN A CAVE! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!!'''

--->'''NickFury''': [[spoiler:I'm here to talk to you about [[Film/TheAvengers the Avengers Initiative.]]]]

* WhatTheHellTownspeople: Iron Man saves a mother and kids driving a car from smashing into the ground after they're thrown by Stane. Their response? They start screaming and run Tony over as they drive away.

-->'''Raza:''' I hope you'll repay me with the gift of iron soldiers.
-->[[spoiler:'''Stane:''' (''in Urdu'')]] This is the only gift you shall receive.

!''Iron Man'' Provides examples of:

* TheDarknessGazesBack: In the finale, Pepper notices a suspiciously-large shadow and cautiously stares into it, only for the Iron Monger to power up and two glowing mechanical eyes to stare back at her.

* InMediasRes: The movie begins a little while in with Tony in Afghanistan being escorted back to his plane. He jokes around with the troops [[spoiler: then his convoy gets attacked. His guards are quickly slaughtered and when he tries to take cover. A missile, one made his company, lands near him and explodes in his face knocking him unconscious. Tony's then captured by the Ten Rings and is put up for ransom.]] The story then flashes back 36 hours to show Tony's personal life up till that point.

* AIIsACrapShoot: Averted. All of Tony's AI creations, from JARVIS to the armature robot, Dummy, are not only extremely helpful, but extremely affable too.
-->'''Tony Stark''': (looking at a solid gold render of his armor) A little ostentatious, don't you think?\\
'''JARVIS''': What was I thinking? You're usually so discreet.\\
'''Tony Stark''': Tell you what. Throw a little hotrod red in there.\\
'''JARVIS''': Yes, that should help you keep a low profile.
** For another example, the mobile robotic arm he built when he was a child behaves exactly like a faithful dog. During one of the climactic scenes, [[spoiler: Tony is dying, and needs to reach the spare arc reactor to put into his chest, but can't reach it. Tony crumples to the ground, about to die, when the robotic arm suddenly fetches it for him, and even whimpers like a dog concerned about his owner.]] Tony smiles and says "Good boy," and [[spoiler: takes the arc reactor]]. The same robotic arm also shows up in the sequel, although in a somewhat smaller role. Needless to say, he's the closest thing Tony has to an actual pet.
** The arm he uses to operate as a fire extinguisher while testing his suit technology ''is'' a bit of a crapshoot. It can't seem to figure out when the right time is to spray Tony. He gets sprayed once while not on fire and has to ward it off from spraying him numerous times in the scene where he perfects the rockets.

* FirstInstallmentWins: Many viewers find the first ''Iron Man'' to be the best film in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, and it's hard to overcome the perception that Tony Stark is the overall protagonist of the entire MCU by virtue of being the first hero to be introduced.

* TravellingAtTheSpeedOfPlot: Tony Stark is so good at seducing women, he can infatuate the reporter at the beginning of the movie enough to make her drive four and a half hours from Las Vegas to Malibu just to have sex with him.

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Paramount marketing put this movie on a heavy trailer rotation for a clean month before the US release, allowing a lot of people to figure out many of the plot elements.

* CurbStompBattle: Tony Stark's Power Suit vs. a group of terrorists armed with powerful automatic weapons, grenade launchers, and '''tanks''' = easy Stark victory in under 6 full minutes. The more he upgrades the armor, the more epic the curb-stomp.

'''''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 [[{{Creator/Disney}} Walt Disney Pictures]]' Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse.

* AndShowItToYou: [[spoiler: Iron Monger rips out Tony’s artificial "heart", the arc reactor, and then taunts the hero while holding it out in front of him.]]

* BeatStillMyHeart: A variation. [[spoiler:Obadiah toys with Tony's new arc reactor right in front of him after yanking it out. It wasn't actually his heart, but the reactor kept his heart from failing.]]

** Tony's second attempt at the suit doesn't work out too well after ice builds up during a high-atmosphere flight.[[spoiler:He later uses this against the BigBad.]]
** The giant Arc-Reactor which is mentioned in the first third of the movie, [[spoiler:then overloaded at the end to finally defeat Obadiah Stane.]] Every character, item, and detail has at least two uses in the movie. [[spoiler: "How did you solve that icing problem?"]]