History Heartwarming / IronMan2

* Tony is [[strike: running]] flying for his life [[spoiler: from his best friend in another suit of armor that has been commandeered by the bad guy]]. The Expo is being evacuated because of the drones attacking. One brave little boy in an Iron Man mask and repulsor toy puts his hand up to fire at the drone. The drone mistakes the kid for Tony and takes aim as well. Then Tony lands, takes out the drone with his repulsor, then looks at the little boy, says "Nice work, kid," and goes back to being chased.

*** During this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kriY9C0uwgs scene]] you can also hear aunt May and uncle Ben shouting Peter's name in concern for their nephew. (At around 2:27 and again at 2:42)

* Tony making Pepper permanently the CEO of Stark Industries, especially after what she did in Iron Man 1 is extremely heartwarming as Tony feels she has not only been competently running the company but also how she helped expose Stane and his fellow conspirators in their last attempt to keep Stark Industries as a weapons manufacturer. All with celebratory champagne.

** Also, after the revelations in ''Film/TheAvengersEndgame'' when [[spoiler:Tony travels back to 1970 to SHIELD secret headquarters and accidentally runs into his father. While pretending to be 'Howard Potts,' the two strike up a heart-felt conversation about raising children, with Howard Stark expressing the fear that he will be a bad father to the not-yet-born Tony. Tony uses his own newfound experience as a father to Morgan to assuage Howard's fear. When you go back and re-watch Howard's film recording exhorting Tony that "you will change the world," everything comes full circle.]]

--> '''Natalie Rushman / Natasha Romanov / Black Widow:''' I would do whatever I wanted to do, with whomever I wanted to do it with.

-->'''Tony''': Pepper!
-->'''flies off to save her'''

* Just the amount of screentime we get of Natasha and Pepper bonding; such a shame we never got to see that beyond this film anymore.

* Just seeing the amount of screentime we get of Natasha and Pepper bonding; such a shame we never got to see that beyond this film anymore.

* As of the senate hearing, Tony has made the peace sign [[IronicEcho his signature]], like that soldier who wanted to take a picture with him in the first movie. The general idea was that he'd privatized world peace, but more subtly, [[FridgeBrilliance it was his tribute to the men and woman whose deaths in the line of duty opened his eyes to what his company was really doing.]]

*** Also, Ivan tells his father to pay no mind to that crap. He likely didn't care about wealth or power, but what he DID mind was his father dying of alcoholism and depression and in poverty because of what Howard did to him.

** The reveal in The Winter Soldier paints Howard's actions in a completely different light. The day Tony went to private school was his happiest not because he got rid of a kid he didn't care for. [[spoiler: He knew HYDRA had infiltrated SHIELD and was trying to kill him so he moved his son out of harm's way.]]
* This one takes a bit of FridgeBrilliance. After Rhodey [[spoiler: steals the Mark II Iron Man suit]], Romanov mentions that Tony's security system is designed to prevent unauthorized use of the suits. Thought it's never said explicitly, it's implied that Tony had been planning to make Rhodes into the next Iron Man [[spoiler: after he died.]]

* Borrowed from the WMG page: despite everything that happened between them afterwards, it is still fairly moving to realize that Howard Stark may well have named his son, Anthony, after his former partner, Anton.

* As of the senate hearing, Tony has made the peace sign [[IronicEcho his signature]], like that soldier who wanted to take a picture with him in the first movie. The general idea was that he'd privatized world peace, but more subtly, [[FridgeBrilliance it was his tribute to the men and woman whose deaths opened his eyes to what his company was really doing.]]

* Tony complains about the ParentalAbandonment issues he had with his father, which makes Howard Stark's recording admitting that Tony was his greatest creation into such a powerful TearJerker. That and the outtakes of the recording, which acts as a posthumous LikeFatherLikeSon moment as we see the elder Stark was a lot like Tony.

* This one takes a bit of FridgeLogic. After Rhodey [[spoiler: steals the Mark II Iron Man suit]], Romanov mentions that Tony's security system is designed to prevent unauthorized use of the suits. Thought it's never said explicitly, it's implied that Tony had been planning to make Rhodes into the next Iron Man [[spoiler: after he died.]]

* Tony's pitiful attempt at making an in-flight meal for Pepper after the Monaco attack. As he put it later, [[spoiler: he'd been planning to make her an omelet and tell her that he was dying. And like with the strawberries, the omelet was a clumsy, failed attempt to make her feel better. It took him three hours to make, and he never even really got any credit for trying.]]

** The reveal in The Winter Soldier paints Howard's actions in a completely different light. The day Tony went to private school was his happiest not because he got rid of a kid he didn't care for. [[spoiler: He knew HYDRA had infiltrated SHIELD and was trying to kill him so he moved Tony out of harm's way.]]

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