History Awesome / IronMan

*** Indeed, it is pure, premium-quality excellence: 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 begins to fly 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 [[BigDamnHeroes Iron Man]] [[DynamicEntry suddenly landing in their midst]], immediately [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom gut-punching some idiot]] stupid enough to fire a gun at [[ImmuneToBullets him]]. He then proceeds to [[CurbStompBattle kick all asses in need of said service]]; the terrorist leader [[BarrierBustingBlow couldn't hide]] [[OhCrap from him for long]]. '''Damn''', this movie is awesome!

* During the "World's Most Wanted" arc, Tony manages to protect the identities of his fellow heroes and humiliate Norman Osborne, all while his brain is slowly destroyed and he goes backwards through his armors until he fights Osborne in his original. Let me repeat that: Tony Stark, near brain-death and in an armor which [[AscendedMeme he admits was built in a cave with a box of scraps]], takes on Norman Osborne, at the time the de facto head of the United States and wielding the most up-to-date repainted Iron Man suit. Naturally, Tony's terrible, but [[spoiler:that's how he wins: by shaming Osborne in front of the media]]. Then he royally screws over Osborne while comatose by having [[spoiler:Don Blake, a.k.a. TheMightyThor]] appointed his doctor so that he won't have his life support terminated.

* Yinsen's HeroicSacrifice, along with Tony Stark building the Mark 1 suit and [[AppliedPhlebotinum a miracle power source]], [[MemeticMutation "IN A CAVE! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!"]]

--> '''Tony Stark''': They say the best weapon is one you never have to fire. I respectfully disagree; I prefer the weapon you only need to fire once. That's how Dad did it, that's how America does it... and it's worked out pretty well so far. I present to you the newest in Stark Industries' Freedom line. Find an excuse to let one of these off the chain, and I personally guarantee, the bad guys won't even wanna come out of their caves. Ladies and gentlemen, for your consideration, I give you... [[MeaningfulName Jericho]]. (mountainside behind him explodes)

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

---> ''These are the Cubans, baby. This is the Cohibas, the Montecristos. This is a kinetic-kill, side-winder vehicle with a secondary cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine RDX burst. It's capable of busting a bunker under the bunker you just busted. If it were any smarter, it'd write a book, a book that would make Ulysses look like it was written in crayon. It would read it to you. This is my Eiffel Tower. This is my Rachmaninoff's Third. My Pieta. It's completely elegant, it's bafflingly beautiful, and it's capable of reducing the population of any standing structure to zero. I call it "The Ex-Wife."''

** Definitely badass, as "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Thor's Hammer" and ''Film/TheAvengers'' prove. And the best part: rewatching the movies again, it becomes clear that Coulson ''definitely'' knows what is going on, and is playing everyone while pretending to be a dumb, harmless, boring federal agent.

*** [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation She's just bitter that all the other reporters are in a frenzy over someone who gave her the dismissal she deserved.]]

* Tony survives getting shot at in his crude Mark I suit when leaving the terrorist hideout. He waits until they stops firing, and then says, "My turn." And breaks out the flamethrower.

** I'm pretty sure this bit is paying homage to VforVendetta.
*** I'm pretty sure the Mk. I is a homage to the Firebat.
** Pretty sure it's not, as it has its own trope page: NowItsMyTurn

** No. That is not the CMOA. You know what is? When he says: [[spoiler: "I'd like to talk to you about the [[AndTheFandomRejoiced "Avenger Initiative"]].]]

* The fighter pilot who looks like he's about to not appear in IronMan 2..but then; Stark catches the falling pilot and unjams his parachute. Made. Of. Win.

* When the MkI suit comes to life. All the lights go out, and all you can hear is the suit powering up and taking it's first step.

*** I'm pretty sure the MkI is a homage to the Firebat.

** The entire village rescue scene is an SugarWiki/AwesomeMoment: Stark suits up, flies halfway around the world, then defeats '''all''' of the terrorists (including the aforementioned hostage rescue) in ''under a minute'' makes the entire film.

* Based on the trailers, there's going to be a lot of [=CMoAs=] in ''Iron Man 2'', but the first official theatrical trailer gives us the sight of Iron Man and War Machine fighting side-by-side, and it looks AWESOME.

*** There were robots taking off Iron Man's suit?
**** [[EverybodyRemembersTheStripper It was really more of a]] [[SoCoolItsAwesome sectionally automotive suit removal station]].

** It's so awesome that it's on the main image on the DVD cover despite being featured for less than five minutes.

* Having AC/DC do the entire soundtrack, 'nuff said.
** Actually AC/DC only have two songs in the movie, but John Debney definitely earned his paycheck with the score!
* Tony Stark has a problem: he is slowly dying from the arc reactor in his chest, powered by palladium - which is poisoning him. No suitable element exists as an alternative, and the technology to create an element that would be a suitable alternative doesn't exist, so what does Tony do? [[spoiler:He spontaneously ''invents'' the technology needed to create a brand new element to custom requirements, '''props it up with Captain America's shield''', and ''makes'' the right element himself!]]
** IN HIS BASEMENT, WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!!
*** [[spoiler: Even more awesome given what we [[Film/CaptainAmerica now know about where]] the Arc Reactor concept came from. Tony successfully ''reverse engineered the Cosmic Cube!'']]

** "I know what you're ''going through''" . Both genuinely creepy and [[IncrediblyLamePun awesomely funny]] for this troper.

** The [[GunsAkimbo flamethrowers]] ''[[GunsAkimbo akimbo]]''. Additionally, right after a terrorist shoots the Mk. I in a joint, dropping Stark to one knee, there is an incredibly badass shot of the fire from an explosion fading to reveal Tony Stark, down but not out, firing his flamethrower. This Troper (Morgan Frohman) had a copy of the movie on his iPod a week after it came out in theaters, and successfully managed to persuade ''seventeen'' people to see the movie based on that still alone.

* When he's apparently reached a point wherein he has to risk killing a bunch of women-and-children hostages in order to get at the terrorists, he ''targets each one and collectively shoots them in the heads'' without touching a hair on the hostages' heads. There was a standing ovation at this Moment of Cool in this troper's theatre.

** In this troper's opinion, the entire village rescue scene is a CMOA on a movie full of [=CMOAs=]. Stark suits up, flies halfway around the world, then defeats '''all''' of the terrorists (including the aforementioned hostage rescue) in ''under a minute'' makes the entire film.
** [[{{Gizbit99}} This Troper's]] favourite moment in the movie is Iron Man's DynamicEntry right at the beginning of this sequence. THUD.

** This troper prefers to think of the entire movie as one huge CrowningMovieOfAwesome.

* The novelization of the film included a moment for Tony that this troper would have liked to see in the film itself. At the climax of the final battle, [[spoiler:after Pepper has hit all the buttons and launched the EMP, freezing both Tony and Stane and collapsing the roof, Stane begins to fall into the reactor, but has enough time to give a speech rife with ContemplateOurNavels:]]

** This troper also thinks that could have been an awesome ending, and is slightly disappointed now because that would have shown the non-comic reading audience just how badass Rhodey is.
*** "Next time, baby."

* This troper really loved 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 Stark manually opens the flaps and cuts the ice, suddenly the suit wakes up and promptly ignites its rockets and Tony soars again.

*** And all while the CrowningMusicOfAwesome track "Driving With The Top Down" by composer Ramin Djawadi is blasting in the background. (So awesome, this troper is listening to it now on YouTube as he adds this edit!)
* Iron Man vs. Iron Monger. One of the best superhero vs. supervillain fight scenes This Troper has ever seen. Even if the beginning 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.
** This Troper's favorite part was Iron Monger picking up a motorcycle and smacking Iron Man upside the head with it. What made this awesome was that he picked up the motorcycle ''while it was still moving''.
* When the MkI suit comes to life. All the lights go out, and all you can hear is the suit powering up and taking it's first step. This troper's whole body clenched up to brace for epic.
* '''[[BrickJoke "Just call us S.H.I.E.L.D."]]''' ThisTroper practically cheered when he heard the agent finally reveal it. And the big [[SamuelLJackson reveal]] after the credits made it even better.

** This Troper always read that situation as: she's still a little bitter and trying to catch him in a moment of hypocrisy. When he finds out what his company is doing without his knowledge, however, he's genuinely concerned and walks off without explaining himself. Because at this point, his public image is less important to him than whether his company is following through on his ideals.

* Also, Happy Hogan himself taking down one of Hammer's guards after a long struggle; doubles as a CrowningMomentOfFunny thanks to Black Widow.
* The after-credits scene had the 50 or so people who stayed at the theater with ThisTroper scream a geekgasmic howl of joy when the camera slowly pans over a crater in the New Mexico desert to show '''[[spoiler:[[TheMightyThor MJOLNIR!!!!!]]]]'''

* 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.

** Definitely badass, as "A Funny Story on the way to Thor's Hammer" and ''Film/TheAvengers'' prove. And the best part: rewatching the movies again, it becomes clear that Coulson ''definitely'' knows what is going on, and is playing everyone while pretending to be a dumb, harmless, boring federal agent.

*** The best part? Yinsen mentioned earlier that Gulmira is actually his hometown. Tony [[CurbStompBattle curbstomping]] the invaders could be seen as a RoaringRampageOfRevenge on his behalf.

** Definitely badass.

* 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.

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

* Obidiah [[spoiler: 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]] paralyses 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 shot''.]]
** The way Obidiah parlyses the terrorist leader deserves mention, when the leader makes his proposal, Obidiah puts his hand on his shoulder in the same "jolly old uncle" manner he has acted as throughout the film, flips out the device, and when the leader is immobilised, he tells him coldly
-->This is the only gift you'll recieve.

** Not to mention that the music playing during that scene was [[spoiler: '''[[DaftPunk Robot]] [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome Rock!]]''']]

-->'''This is the only gift you'll recieve.'''

::As the hearing continues and Stark's {{rival}}, Justin Hammer, tries to testify against him by showing evidence of other "Iron Man" suits being built, Stark effortlessly ''hacks into federal computers with a PDA'' and zooms satellite imagery in enough to show that these suits are really nothing to worry about -- including Hammer's own pathetic attempts. Stark then goes on to espouse how much of a hero he really is for having taken care of several threats as Iron Man and finishes it off with this bold statement:

::Chillingly awesome.
** Cue the senator's response:
--->''Senator Stern''': *BLEEP* you, mister Stark. *BLEEP* you, buddy!

* How about the reporter lady, coming up to Tony at the party and showing him photographic proof of [[spoiler:Obadiah's double-dealing]]? What makes this better is that she put aside her spontaneous one-night stand with him to tell him that. Even the sluts are awesome in this movie!