History Awesome / IronMan1

''[gestures to the operator to launch one of the missiles. As the missile begins to dive to Earth, [[MacrossMissileMassacre it fragments]] [[RecursiveAmmo into many smaller rockets]]]''
-->'''Tony:''' For your consideration... [[MeaningfulName the Jericho]]. ''[the mountainside behind him explodes, Tony spreads his arms and grins as the shockwave washes over him and the soldiers]''

-->'''Stane:''' This is the only gift you'll receive.

-->'''Stane:''' I guess this is a draw. The genie is out of the bottle. We've done our part. We've brought a great gift to the world and now it is time to go. That is the law of nature, Tony.
-->''[Stane falls into the reactor. Tony watches him, feeling nothing.]''
-->'''Tony:''' [[BondOneLiner And that is the law of gravity.]]
** Bad. Ass.

** He also deactivates JARVIS, which, trivial as it is, demonstrates something important about S.H.I.E.L.D.; as brilliant and smug as Stark is, S.H.I.E.L.D. still has his number.

* The majority of the preceding examples fall into the category of Moment of Awesome for Tony Stark, Hero. THE Crowning Moment of Awesome for Tony Stark, Genius Billionaire Playboy Philanthropist, occurs when it turns out that the flight attendants on his plane are strippers... ''complete with a brass pole that rises out of the floor''.

* Stane goes into a tent, leaving his guards standing in the center of the cars he just came in, surrounded by terrorists. Then he [[strike:kills]] paralyzes the terrorist leader, and comes outside, to reveal that his guards have captured and disarmed all of the terrorists - who had them in a perfect crossfire - ''without firing a single shot''.

* The Mark II test-flight scene, specifically the part where [[HowDoIShotWeb a gung-ho Stark takes the suit higher than it can go, and it ices over and shorts out]]. Tony plunges back to the ground, but after he manually opens the flaps and cuts the ice, suddenly the suit wakes up and promptly ignites its rockets and Tony soars again. And it's so close he nearly scrapes the damn pavement.

* Iron Man vs. Iron Monger. One of the best superhero vs. supervillain fight scenes ever. Even if the beginning is Stane giving Tony a NoHoldsBarredBeatDown (Which is one hell of a SugarWiki/AwesomeMoment for Stane), both Iron Man and Iron Monger show us how undeniably badass they truly are.

* Luring Obadiah Stane into high altitude where his suit freezes and falls. Especially because Stane is so ''sure'' of Tony's inevitable destruction given the tone of his ranting, Tony's response is said in such a condescending I-know-something-you-don't-know tone that you can't help but laugh:

** Equally awesome: several terrorists use the women and children as human shields when they see that Iron Man just killed the rest of their forces. Just watching Tony and JARVIS specifically target them as "HOSTILE" and the taking them out with pin-point accuracy is perfection.

* Tony survives the Ten Rings guys shooting up his crude Mark I suit when leaving the terrorist hideout. He waits until they stop firing, and then says, [[NowItsMyTurn "My turn."]] And breaks out the [[KillItWithFire flamethrowers]] ''[[GunsAkimbo akimbo]]'', laying waste to everyone and everything within reach.

** She gets a better one later on Obadiah Stane, when he walks in on her as she's uncovering all the incriminating evidence against him in his laptop. She keeps her cool, smoothly covers up what she's been doing (clicking off the screen she was on, casually draping that day's newspaper over the UPB she's using to hack his files), pretends to go along with his conversation, than walks out the room with the memory stick carrying the incriminating files in her pocket. By the time Stane realizes what she was up to (just ''seconds'' later), she's talking to Coulson and telling him everything.

* Tony hero-dodges a tank shot and returns fire with a miniature rocket launched from his forearm. It hits the tank and makes a tiny "clang" sound, seemingly [[NoSell doing nothing]]. Tony then [[UnflinchingWalk turns around and starts to walk away]]. Then the tank [[DelayedExplosion explodes]]. A whole new level of movie SuperHero awesomeness!

* Tony hero-dodges a tank shot and returns fire with a miniature rocket launched from his forearm. It hits the tank and makes a tiny "clang" sound, seemingly [[NoSell doing nothing]]. Tony then [[UnFlinchingWalk turns around and starts to walk away]]. Then the tank [[DelayedExplosion explodes]]. A whole new level of movie SuperHero awesomeness!

** Making it more awesome, is that this is Tony's first BigDamnHeroes moment: While tinkering with a forearm from his armor, Stark is watching an international news report on a town ravaged by the black-market trade in his company's weapons. As the on-screen scenes get more and more disturbing, the [[PowerGlows palm repulsor brightens a bit]] while [[TranquilFury Tony's face darkens]]. Just after Stark [[LockAndLoadMontage suits up]] in the [[TechnologyPorn Mark III]] for the first time, he flies to the besieged town of Gulmira. Meanwhile, the Ten Rings terrorists are rounding up the village's men and generally [[KickTheDog being violently disruptive assholes]], when one innocent man refuses to go any farther with them. This dude is about to [[BoomHeadshot catch a bullet for his trouble]], ''right in front of his horrified, screaming wife and kids'', when the boy suddenly hears a roaring sound overhead. Cue Iron Man's DynamicEntry *THUD*.

** Making it more awesome, is that this is Tony's first BigDamnHeroes moment: While tinkering with a forearm from his armor, Stark is watching an international news report on a town ravaged by the black-market trade in his company's weapons. As the on-screen scenes get more and more disturbing, the [[PowerGlows palm repulsor brightens a bit]] while [[TranquilFury Tony's face darkens]]. Just after Stark [[LockAndLoadMontage suits up]] in the [[TechnologyPorn Mark III]] for the first time, he flies to the besieged town of Gulmira. Meanwhile, the Ten Rings terrorists are rounding up the village's men and generally [[KickTheDog being violently disruptive assholes]], when one innocent man refuses to go any farther with them. This dude is about to [[BoomHeadshot catch a bullet for his trouble]], ''right in front of his [[AdultFear horrified, screaming wife and kids]]'', when the boy suddenly hears a roaring sound overhead. Cue Iron Man's DynamicEntry *THUD*.