History Awesome / IronMan

* As Tony is walking down the tunnel toward the first door, the terrorists slam the door before he (or one of their friends) can possibly get there. The terrorist is freaked out enough to keep pounding the door, trying to get through. The suit may not have been scary to the audience, but it was enough for this guy to [[BowelBreakingBricks crap bricks]].
** In that same scene, just as the audience is thinking "Well, great. How is Tony supposed to escape now?",[[spoiler: [[OhCrap WHAM!]] ]]

** YourMileageMayVary.

* YourMileageMayVary but...Tony Stark's press conference immediately after he was rescued from Afghanistan. The hero [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge kicking the crap out of the guys that captured and tortured him]]? Been there, done that. The hero [[MustMakeAmends publicly admitting that everything he's done up to that point was wrong and he's going to shut down his company's bread and butter to atone for everything they've done]]? BadAss.

* Lt. Col. Jim Rhodes finally shows us how he earned his stripes and why he is Tony's best friend: [[spoiler:he hijacks Tony's Mark II suit while Tony is going on an absolutely ridiculous bender at his birthday party, walks upstairs to deliver a WhatTheHellHero in full armor, and manages to go toe-to-toe with Tony in a brawl despite his suit not being as advanced and it being the first time he had ever stepped into it!]] Awesome for two reasons: it was [[spoiler:[[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan a well-deserved slap in the face to Tony]]]], and it showed that when pushed to his wit's end, "Rhodey" is ''not'' someone to be trifled with and will have the balls to stand up to even Iron Man. Not to mention how this scene [[spoiler:introduces the [=~Chekhov's Gun~=] that when repulsor blasts hit each other, things go [[StuffBlowingUp very big boom.]]]]

* YourMileageMayVary but...Tony Stark's press conference immediately after he was rescued from Afghanistan. The hero [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge kicking the crap out of the guys that captured and tortured him]]? Been there, done that. The hero publicly admitting that everything he's done up to that point was wrong and he's going to shut down his company's bread and butter to atone for everything they've done? BadAss.

* A little FridgeLogic but the fact that Agent Coulson is even in the second movie is a pretty CMOA moment. Remember how at the end of the last one he went up against Stane in his armor and lived? Despite the other agents that we see getting pretty much massacred? Either he's very lucky or a lot more BadAss than anyone realises.

* A little FridgeLogic but the fact that Agent Coulson is even in the second movie is a pretty CMOA moment. Remember how at the end of the last one he went up against War Monger? And lived? Despite the other agents that we see getting pretty much massacred? Either he's very lucky or a lot more BadAss than anyone realises.

* ''Iron Man'' Vol. 1, #200. Stark is finally taking the fight to Obadiah Stane after so long being his drunken ButtMonkey. In the ensuing battle in the very corporate building that Stane stole from him, Iron Man is trapped in a room with Pepper Potts and Happy Hogan held unconscious. Stane comes on a comm screen and tells him that if he moves, motion sensors would detect it and send a killer surge of electricity to kill his hostages, which means Iron Man will be forced to starve to death rather than kill his friends. After an arrogant rant, Stane signs off with a smug farewell. Against this, Stark has only one thought, "Don't count me out, Stane," as he calmly scans the room and finds a critical power conduit point within the firing arc of his chest piece's unibeam weapon, which is fired strictly by a neura-link and defeats the deathtrap and rescues the hostages in ''seconds''.

* During the ''Stark Disassembled'' story arc, when Norman Osborn (dressed in Iron Man derivative 'Iron Patriot' armor) finally catches up with the near braindead Tony Stark, and proceeds to pummel him into the ground. And after deleting his brain, evading every government on the planet, reassembling every Iron Man suit he'd ever owned, and finally getting the snot knocked out of him, what does Tony have to say? [[spoiler:"I win."]] Norman, you have just been pwn'd in the hardest of cores.

--> '''Vanko:''' ''[[MemeticMutation "I vant my burd."]]''

--> '''Vanko:''' ''"I vant my burd."''

--->''Tony'': "I want one." ''Pepper'': "No."

* Iron Man vs. Iron Monger. One of the best superhero vs. supervillain fight scenes ThisTroper has ever seen. Even if the begining is Stane giving Tony a NoHoldsBarredBeatDown (Which is one hell of a CMoA for Stane), both Iron Man and Iron Monger show us how undeniably badass they truly are. It was a festival of ''Holy Shit''!'s in This Troper's room.

* A villain moment for Vanko. As he slowly walks down the race track in his jumpsuit and turn it on the exoskeleton to burn his shirt into ribbons. This troper's friend actually said "That is so cool" as the scene happened.

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* In Vanko's first attack, how does Iron Man defeat him? By ''wrapping himself in one of Vanko's whips'', which are visibly scarring and damaging the armor he's wearing, and then ''dragging himself closer'' so Vanko can't escape, and then punching his lights out. Not much can better show how impossibly tough the Iron Man suits are than literally wrapping a car-slicing electricified heat-whip around yourself to take down the badguy.