History Trivia / IronMan2

** Scenes that fleshed out Ivan Vanko and portrayed him as a more sympathetic figure were cut from the final film, resulting in him appearing to be a more generic villain. This may be a reason why Rourke has stated [[OldShame he is not fond of his experience working on the film]].

* MissingTrailerScene: Several. [[spoiler:Most notably, Tony saying "you complete me" as Pepper kisses his helmet then throws it out an airborne plane for him to catch—it was decided during editing that it disrupted the movie's flow—and Tony letting "Natalie" try out his repulsor.]] (All can be seen on the DVD)
* OldShame: Mickey Rourke was '''NOT''' a fan of how Whiplash was portrayed in the film's final cut. Rourke couldn't live down the changes Marvel management that existed at the time forced on the film, believing that they robbed the character of a three-dimensional personality that would've prevented the film from suffering the same fate as other Phase One films in the MCU with their own underdeveloped villains.

*** Creator/JessicaBiel, Creator/GemmaArterton, Creator/JessicaAlba, Creator/NataliePortman, Creator/BrieLarson and Creator/AngelinaJolie were considered for the part of Black Widow as well before the casting of Johansson. Biel had previously portrayed Abigail Whistler in ''Film/BladeTrinity'', while Alba previously portrayed [[Comicbook/InvisibleWoman Susan Storm]] in ''{{Film/Fantastic Four|2005}}''. Portman, Larson and Jolie would eventually go on to play [[ComicBook/Thor2014 Jane Foster]], [[Characters/MarvelComicsCarolDanvers Carol Danvers]] and Thena in ''Film/{{Thor}}'', ''Film/CaptainMarvel'' and ''Film/{{Eternals}}'' respectively.

** In the French dub of the first film, Paul Borne voiced Nick Fury. Creator/SamuelLJackson's usual dub voice since ''Film/PulpFiction'', Creator/ThierryDesroses, took over with this film.

** Most of the French spoken in the film is grammatically accurate but noticeably spoken by either French-Canadian or non-Francophone actors playing characters from either Monaco or the southeast of France (with the exception of [[spoiler:the corrupt prison guard who delivers Vanko to Hammer and says "I'm not leaving him with you, he's batshit"]]).

*** Creator/JessicaBiel, Creator/GemmaArterton, Creator/JessicaAlba, Creator/NataliePortman, and Creator/AngelinaJolie were considered for the part of Black Widow as well before the casting of Johansson. Biel had previously portrayed Abigail Whistler in ''Film/BladeTrinity'', while Alba previously portrayed [[Comicbook/InvisibleWoman Susan Storm]] in ''{{Film/Fantastic Four|2005}}''. Portman and Jolie would eventually go on to play [[ComicBook/Thor2014 Jane Foster]] and Thena in ''Film/{{Thor}}'' and ''Film/{{Eternals}}'' respectively.

** Creator/EdwardNorton was rumored to reprise his role as [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk Bruce Banner]], in a cameo for this film, as a foreshadowing of ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''.

* CreatorBacklash

** Creator/JonFavreau hated what the Marvel higher-ups forced him into pushing out so much he made [[Film/{{Chef}} a whole film]] as an analogy of his creative struggle. Though he returned to produce ''Film/IronMan3'', and continued playing Happy in future films, he turned down directing it due to his experiences on this film.

* DoingItForTheArt: Creator/MickeyRourke improvised a lot of Vanko's characteristics, such as [[OralFixation his toothpick habit]], his fondness for cockatoos, and his tattoos. He paid for the cockatoo with his own money, learned to speak Russian, and visited the infamous [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butyrka_prison Butyrka prison]] to interview the prisoners there, who he described as very polite.

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