History NightmareFuel / IronMan1

* Stane paralyzing Tony and pulling out his arc reactor, all the while never dropping his AffablyEvil personality and casually telling him that he's going to murder [[LoveInterest Pepper]] before leaving Tony to die a slow and painful death of shrapnel in the heart.
** A minor subpoint, but while Stane is talking, you might notice that Tony is ''bleeding from one ear'' thanks to the gizmo that paralyzed him. Maybe ''that's'' why it was never approved by the government...
** Even paralyzed, Tony can emote amazingly well despite his eyes being the only thing he could move voluntarily. When Stane tells him that he's coming after Pepper, Tony's eyes widen and the horror shines through as clearly as possible in that split second.
* [[DoWithHimAsYouWill The terrorist leader being left to the mercy of those he had been kidnapping and murdering]]. Mitigated in that [[AssholeVictim whatever those people did to him, he absolutely deserved it]].

** Pepper escapes back to street level and calls Tony, only to have Stane in the Iron Monger suit bash his way ''up through the pavement behind her''. With the suit looming over her, Stane's thundering voice tells her, "Your services are no longer required." His left-arm-mounted Gatling-gun is spinning up to firing speed, only a second or two from blowing her away, when Tony distracts him.
** During the fight itself, Stane's Iron Monger suit allows him to throw around Stark's Mark III suit like a ragdoll, effectively turning the first half of the battle into a CurbStompBattle on Iron Man. Stane's boasts and him relishing on the destruction caused by his suit makes it all the more scarier.

* [[DoWithHimAsYouWill The terrorist leader being left to the mercy of those he had been kidnapping and murdering]]. Mitigated in that [[KicktheSonOfABitch whatever those people did to him, he absolutely deserved it]].

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* [[NothingIsScarier The terrorist leader being left to the mercy of those he had been kidnapping and murdering]]. Mitigated in that [[KicktheSonOfABitch whatever those people did to him, he absolutely deserved it]].

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* [[BigBad Obadiah Stane]] himself is a ''huge'' nightmare dispenser. He's always [[FauxAffablyEvil (Faux) AffablyEvil]], he often seems like he's acting in Tony's best interests, and yet he's an AxCrazy OmnicidalManiac by the end of the movie.

* The terrorist leader being left to the mercy of those he had been kidnapping and murdering. Mitigated in that [[KicktheSonofaBitch whatever those people did to him, he absolutely deserved it.]]
** For some, this may fall into NothingIsScarier.
* Stane gives quite a lot of this. He's always AffablyEvil, he often seems like he's acting in Tony's best interests, and yet he's an OmnicidalManiac by the end of the movie.

* The terrorist leader being left to the mercy of those he had been kidnapping and murdering.

** A minor subpoint, but while Stane is talking, you might notice that Tony is ''bleeding from one ear'' thanks to the gizmo that paralyzed him.

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** For some, this may fall into CatharsisFactor or NightmareRetardant.

** Horrifyingly, Tony wakes up while he the electromagnet to keep the shrapnel out of his heart is being grafted to him. He can only scream in agonizing pain before being put under hurried anaesthesia.

* The Ten Rings' invasion of Gulmira.

* After Tony's attack on the Ten Rings' weapons depot, he gets engaged by a pair of USAF Raptors, and after an accidental collision, one of the pilots is forced to punch out - but his parachute doesn't deploy. If Tony hadn't gone after him, that pilot would have been conscious all the way down - and his wingman and the guys in the command center would have had to watch.

** Horrifyingly, Tony wakes up while he the arc reactor is being grafted to him. He can only scream in agonizing pain before being put under hurried anaesthesia.

** Horrifyingly, Tony wakes up while he the arc reactor is being grafted to him. He can only scream in agonising pain before being put under hurried anaesthesia.

* Stane's paralyzing Tony and pulling out his arc reactor, all the while never dropping his AffablyEvil personality and casually telling him that he's going to murder [[LoveInterest Pepper]] before leaving Tony to die a slow and painful death of shrapnel in the heart.

* Here's one that you only realize in hindsight: it's revealed in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' that HYDRA has been active inside SHIELD this whole time. HYDRA said that accidents happen, and they engineered Howard Stark's death. Now think about Obadiah Stane and his motivations in this movie. The easiest way for HYDRA to set up a murder as an accident would be to have an inside man Howard Stark trusted. Add to that the fact that Obadiah is selling weapons to the Ten Rings and possibly lots of other terrorist organizations around the world, which is exactly the kind of thing HYDRA would do to sow disorder and fear and it's wholly possible that Stane was actually a mole for HYDRA the whole time.

* Consider Obadiah Stane and his motivations in the wake of the reveal in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' that HYDRA has been active inside SHIELD this whole time. HYDRA said that accidents happen. The easiest way for them to set up a murder as an accident would be to have an inside man Howard Stark trusted. Add to that the fact that Obadiah Stane is selling weapons to terrorists like the Ten Rings, which is exactly the kind of thing HYDRA would do to sow disorder and fear and it's wholly possible that Stane was actually a mole for HYDRA the whole time.

* Consider Obadiah Stane and his motivations in the wake of Cap 2's Hydra reveal. Hydra said that accidents happen. The easiest way for them to set up a murder as an accident would be to have an inside man Howard trusted. Add to that Stane selling weapons to terrorists being exactly the kind of thing Hydra would do to sow disorder and fear and its wholly possible That Obadiah was a Hydra mole.

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