Marvel Cinematic Universe

Honestly, none of the -Buster armors have actually *worked* for that task very well. The Hulkbuster armors in particular have a terrible track record. Probably because they are Tony trying to beat Hulk at his strengths.

Yeah, one of the elements which seperate Movie Tony from Comic Tony, from my mind at least is how they go about in combat. Comic Tony will blast stuff, Movie Tony will think outside the box e.g. the icing problem, his tribute to Jonah etc.

One thing comes to mind about Millar's statement about wanting Fox and Marvel Studios to possibly share continuity. Viper is showing up in the upcoming Wolverine movie as one of the villains. They're almost certainly going to be muzzled from mentioning her ties to H.Y.D.R.A., but I wonder if they couldn't allude to her working for some sort of shadowy terrorist group that's been around since WW 2, or something....

Iron Man 3 teaser. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=askHCPHNRsM

... and three days until we get anything substantial.

Still lookin bit-o-honey. Oh well. Theycan't all be winners.

Personally, I've been comparing it to someone *cough-drunk Tony-cough* using the new armor as a toilet.

...I like the bit-o-honey armor... It looks cool.

In just the few seconds of footage it was in, I certainly thought it looked better than the physical model shown at Comic Con. But I tend to find that true of a lot of superhero outfits. I usually think they look better to me in motion and with special effects added.

I even liked it from the Comic Con version...

Hmmm looks like Pepper is in trouble. The possible birth of Rescue, perhaps?

I first thought that the movies would introduce in order Iron Man, War Machine and then Rescue... but Movieverse! Pepper doesn't seem like the kind of person who would really want or need to use one of the armors for anything.

Maybe momentarily, though. As a desperate kind of thing. She does seem like the person who would use one of the armors when she has no other choice, then pledge never to wear it again.

Some more photos and an elaboration of the plot.

The Mandarin apparently ends up destroying Stark's armory and home early on in the film. http://www.newsarama.com/film/iron-man-3-details-teaser-revealed.html

Seems likely. I do hope it is *he* ( his minions/organization ) that does this, though, and that they don't use some form of "confiscated by the government" subplot.

He's probably infiltrated the government D:

Clearly he's infiltrated the League of Shadows.

Nyeh. I dislike the prospect of the Mandarin not having his high-tech rings...

Are they doing that?

A few of the people who saw the Comic Con trailer said that the has a suit of armor. But I don't think anyone has confirmed he won't have his rings in this one?

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2012/10/22/iron-man-3-the-mandarin-first-look/

Hmm. If that's accurate I can sort of see why. Even though we've established aliens exist in The Avengers, it doesn't really fit well with the tone of the threats in the previous movies. Having Tony going from fighting guys with stolen technology to someone with alien weaponry might be a bit of a leap.

I was thinking just the opposite - that the rings would be necessary to keep enemies from being monotonous.

I think you make the foes unique while still sticking to the same basic theme from the first two movies. Mandarin certainly doesn't sound like the same kind of foe as Stane and Whiplash.

First of all. Oh my god I can't wait

And second that's a great teaser poster.

That look gives me the impression that they're making him into a kind of Ra's Al Ghul figure, and the summary of the plot and themes kind of hearkens back to the that of The Dark Knight Trilogy... but almost as a total reverse, if that makes any sense:

Like the Nolan Bat films, this series has the hero fighting a terrorist organization as part of their rite of passage / origin, then forget about them in the sequel only for that organization to return as the hero's most climactic and important foe in the third movie. But in a reverse of that, while Batman fought the leader of the organization first then an offshoot years later, Stark fights a small portion of his foe's forces initially and then fights the real leader after a couple of movies of the villains bolstering their forces.

But the main thing that made me notice the comparison/contrast between the two was the theme of "going into the shadows," which Stark is apparently going to do. It seems somewhat parallel, but at the same time contrasting, to the Batman arc in the Nolan movies - Bats starts in the shadows, and spends his life hiding away from the world, both literally and spiritually/mentally, before learning that he has to be a known presence and make himself a part of the world to truly be effective and happy. On the other hand, Stark goes through an opposite arc - being loud, present and active everywhere he can, before apparently learning to step back.

And like TDKR, this movie's probably going to run into some political analysis with it's portrayal of its villain.

I'm sure the rings will be present, even if they're not alien in origin. The organization is called the Ten Rings, after all. Perhaps they're terrestrial technology. I'm more wondering about the whole "Mandarin has a suit of armor" thing. If it's a light armor or something, that's cool, but I hope they're not going with the same exact theme for the final battle as Iron Monger or Whiplash, here. It'd just seem like an Anti-Climax. I hope they keep Mandarin as a manipulator and less as a forceful, direct foe.