History Film / IronMan

*** Still impressive considering that means he has automated forges (which are nowhere near cost effective outside of industrial levels) with a fully automated transfer mechanism to move fresh forged ingots to CNC machines for cutting into parts (or he has an automated mold making system which can also cut molds to cast the armor plates in his forge directly). For those of you keeping track at home not even Boeing has that sort of facility.

* FateWorseThanDeath: Tony threatening one of his robots with being sold to a community college seems to be comically invoking the spirit of this trope.

* FateWorseThanDeath:
** In an attempt to save face, which failed miserably, Justin Hammer tries making a point that the pilot involved in the failed Hammertech armour test actually survived. To elaborate, he survived having his spine twisted 180 degrees.
** Tony threatening one of his robots with being sold to a community college seems to be comically invoking the spirit of this trope.

** In the second film, Howard Stark is analogous to Walt Disney with his vision of a better tomorrow envisioned in his Stark Expo '74, which is analogous of EPCOT. He's even sporting the same look Disney wore during most of his shows and promos in the '60s. (Compare [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffnSTfBN1lU&feature=related Walt]] and [[http://www.hotflick.net/flicks/2010_Iron_Man_2/010IR2_John_Slattery_001.jpg Howard]].) This could even be considered {{Hilarious in Hindsight}} considering ''Iron Man 2'' was well into production by the time Disney bought Marvel.
** Stan Lee intended Tony Stark to be an analogue to Howard Hughes, with both his genius intellect and various eccentricities. Character development has lessened the resemblance over the years, but you can still see it well in the movies. The movie version of Iron Man was, [[WordOfGod according to Robert Downey Jr]], based on Tesla Motors & [=SpaceX=] founder Elon Musk.

** [[spoiler:Aldrich Killian wanted revenge on Tony for being a JerkAss, and had a camera-double to cover his ass.]]

** The Mandarin [[spoiler:(or rather, the guy controlling his impersonator) is a genius scientist and inventor who has created a huge breakthrough in his area of studies, but he uses his creations for evil and vengeance, and distributes the technology without caring about the consequences. In another sense, Extremis allows his subjects to go toe-to-toe with Tony's suits, pitting biological evolution against technological evolution.]]

* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: In general, Iron Man's flights incorporate a lot of spinning which probably isn't necessary, but still looks [[RuleOfCool pretty damned cool]][[note]]Admit it, Tony's whole personality is built on RuleOfCool[[/note]]. [[spoiler:Justified near the climax of the third movie; when Tony is trapped in just his right gauntlet and his left boot, the imbalance naturally makes it literally impossible for him to ''not'' spin unless he grabs the wall and braces his empty foot against it]].

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The whole movie has a pretty grounded tone compared to what followed later in the MCU. It's main themes were corporate corruption, war profiteering and middle-eastern terrorism, a far cry from the alien invasions, magic and other crazy shenanigans that would follow later.
** Not to mention the implication that S.H.I.E.L.D. hadn't figured out its own name yet.

* EnergyWeapon: Since all the major suits function around the arc reactor technology, his repulsor energy weapons are inevitable.

* DramaPreservingHandicap: In the first two films, Tony is weakened before the final battle. In the first, his improved arc reactor is removed and he's forced to use the inferior prototype, severely limiting the suit's power. In the second, he uses up his best weapon on the Hammer Drones before he fights Vanko.
** Taken UpToEleven in the third movie: Tony spends almost the entire movie [[spoiler:including most of the final battle]] outside of his armour, making him very dangerously vulnerable compared to Rhodey, who is seen mostly in the War Machine- sorry, ''[[CompositeCharacter Iron Patriot]]'' armour.
* EnergyWeapon: Since all the major suits function around the arc reactor technology, energy weapons are inevitable.

* DodgeByBraking

* CowTools: The CoolGarage is filled with just about everything and anything you can imagine an engineer would need.

* CoolGarage: Tony Stark's workshop houses a Saleen S7, a Tesla Roadster, an Audi R8, an AC Cobra and a hot rod. He smashes one of them and sprays debris on another during his tests of the Iron Man suit. He somehow has ComicBook/CaptainAmerica's partially completed shield just ''lying around his workshop''. Taken even further when Iron Man 3 reveals that Tony has put in a wine cellar beneath his garage, along with an armory built specifically for his numerous Iron Man suits.

* CoolGarage: Tony Stark's workshop houses a Saleen S7, a Tesla Roadster, an Audi R8, an AC Cobra and a hot rod. Oh, and a suit of power armor that is easily the most advanced piece of combat equipment ever made. He smashes one of them and sprays debris on another during his tests of the Iron Man suit. He somehow has ComicBook/CaptainAmerica's partially completed shield just ''lying around his workshop''[[note]]It's actually in one of Howard Stark's crates, which is lying around his garage[[/note]]. Taken even further when Iron Man 3 reveals that Tony has put in a wine cellar beneath his garage, along with a ''[[http://sciencefiction.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Iron-Man-3-Armor-Designs-Iron-Legion.jpg freaking ARMORY]]'' built specifically for his Iron Man suits.

* CoolGarage: Tony Stark's workshop houses a Saleen S7, a Tesla Roadster, an Audi R8, an AC Cobra and a hot rod. Oh, and a suit of power armor that is easily the most advanced piece of combat equipment ever made. He smashes one of them and sprays debris on another during his tests of the Iron Man suit. He somehow has ComicBook/CaptainAmerica's partially completed shield just ''lying around his workshop''[[note]]It's actually in one of Howard Stark's crates, which is lying around his garage[[/note]].[[spoiler:Making for yet another funny moment when he casually uses it to prop up part of his prismatic accelerator, as many a fanboy orgasm turned to horrible, horrible shock.]] Taken even further when Iron Man 3 reveals that Tony has put in a wine cellar beneath his garage, along with a ''[[http://sciencefiction.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Iron-Man-3-Armor-Designs-Iron-Legion.jpg freaking ARMORY]]'' built specifically for his Iron Man suits.

** Averted with The Mandarin, who is referred to as such.

** "Tastes like coconut and metal".

The Character Sheets can be found [[Characters/IronManFilms here]].

** Creator/StanLee being mistaken for someone else by Tony.

** Three times in the movies Tony dodges a missile by simply stepping aside, and neutralizes the attacker with his own missile.
** In the first film he dodges Raza's rocket and manually fires one off from his Mark I suit. Later, in the Mark III, he steps out of the way of a missle from a tank, and (looking irritated if anything) returns fire with a much smaller missle, and then demonstrates proper application of the UnflinchingWalk. Finally in the, second movie, Tony's HUD alerts him to a drone about to fire a rocket, and he avoids it by merely leaning to the left a bit. Tony then destroys the drone, and two of its buddies, by firing several small rockets that penetrate the drones' armor, give them just enough time to start to move in on Tony, and then blows them to bits.
** Throughtout both movies, Tony has a bad habit of messing with other peoples' cars.

** The second shows [[spoiler:Agent Coulson who left Tony for a trip to New Mexico to find what he was looking for -- a crater, with ComicBook/TheMightyThor's hammer beside it, saying "We found it."]]
** In the third movie, we find that [[spoiler:Tony has been telling the entire story to Bruce Banner, who dozed off about five minutes in.]]

* StaringKid: When Tony takes his suit for a test flight for the first time, the first person to spot him is a little kid with an ice cream cone on a Ferris wheel. The kid licks the ice cream right off the cone due to lack of focus. In the second film, the kid in the Iron Man costume ([[spoiler:later retconned, according to WodOfGod, to be a young [[Franchise/SpiderMan Peter Parker]]]]) who stands up to a "Hammeroid". Throughout the third, Tony is assisted by a kid stuck on his own named Harley Keener.

* StaringKid: When Tony takes his suit for a test flight for the first time, the first person to spot him is a little kid with an ice cream cone on a Ferris wheel. The kid licks the ice cream right off the cone due to lack of focus. In the second film, the kid in the Iron Man costume who stands up to a "Hammeroid." Throughout the third, Tony is assisted by a kid stuck on his own.

** Whiplash in the sequel has elements of the original Crimson Dynamo (last name's Vanko, is Russian, and builds and wears Iron Man-inspired armor) with the comics Whiplash (codename and main gimmick, which is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin).

* DeathByOriginStory: [[spoiler:Yinsen in the first movie, Anton Vanko in the sequel.]]

** In the sequel, the all-American Justin Hammer employs corrupt French policemen and a Russian EvilGenius. [[spoiler:Meanwhile, {{Word of God}} is that the man who got Vanko his false passport, an Asian man working in Russia, is an agent of the Ten Rings.]]

** In the sequel, Howard Stark is analogous to Walt Disney with his vision of a better tomorrow envisioned in his Stark Expo '74, which is analogous of EPCOT. He's even sporting the same look Disney wore during most of his shows and promos in the '60s. (Compare [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffnSTfBN1lU&feature=related Walt]] and [[http://www.hotflick.net/flicks/2010_Iron_Man_2/010IR2_John_Slattery_001.jpg Howard]].) This could even be considered {{Hilarious in Hindsight}} considering ''Iron Man 2'' was well into production by the time Disney bought Marvel.

''Iron Man'' is a live-action American {{Superhero}} film franchise based on the Creator/MarvelComics character ComicBook/IronMan, starring Creator/RobertDowneyJr as the armored SuperHero. It is notable for having the first ever film in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, which was previously owned by Creator/{{Paramount}}, but is now owned by Creator/WaltDisneyPictures.

* ''Film/Avengers4'' (2019): A direct sequel to the above, and GrandFinale of the entire MCU's MythArc up to that point.

*** When Stark and Rhodes fire repulsor beams at each other during their fight at Tony's place, it causes a huge explosion. [[spoiler: They end up using this in the climax to defeat Vanko.]]

* CoolGarage: Tony Stark's workshop houses a Saleen S7, a Tesla Roadster, an Audi R8, an AC Cobra and a hot rod. Oh, and a suit of power armor that is easily the most advanced piece of combat equipment ever made. He smashes one of them and sprays debris on another during his tests of the Iron Man suit. He somehow has ComicBook/CaptainAmerica's partially completed shield just ''lying around his workshop''[[note]]It's actually in one of Howard Stark's crates, which is lying around his garage[[/note]].[[spoiler: Making for yet another funny moment when he casually uses it to prop up part of his prismatic accelerator, as many a fanboy orgasm turned to horrible, horrible shock.]] Taken even further when Iron Man 3 reveals that Tony has put in a wine cellar beneath his garage, along with a ''[[http://sciencefiction.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Iron-Man-3-Armor-Designs-Iron-Legion.jpg freaking ARMORY]]'' built specifically for his Iron Man suits.

--->'''Pepper:''' I do anything and everything Mr. Stark requires of me. *{{Beat}}* Including occasionally taking out the trash. Will that be all?

* DecompositeCharacter: As it turns out, [[spoiler: there are at least three people calling themselves the Mandarin. The first was a warrior-king whose influence dates back to the Middle Ages. In the present, Aldrich Killian assumes the identity of the Mandarin, and then has actor Trevor Slattery pretend to be the Mandarin and take credit for the Extremis explosions.]]

* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: In general, Iron Man's flights incorporate a lot of spinning which probably isn't necessary, but still looks [[RuleOfCool pretty damned cool]][[note]]Admit it, Tony's whole personality is built on RuleOfCool[[/note]]. [[spoiler: Justified near the climax of the third movie; when Tony is trapped in just his right gauntlet and his left boot, the imbalance naturally makes it literally impossible for him to ''not'' spin unless he grabs the wall and braces his empty foot against it]].

** The Mandarin [[spoiler: (or rather, the guy controlling his impersonator) is a genius scientist and inventor who has created a huge breakthrough in his area of studies, but he uses his creations for evil and vengeance, and distributes the technology without caring about the consequences. In another sense, Extremis allows his subjects to go toe-to-toe with Tony's suits, pitting biological evolution against technological evolution.]]

** [[spoiler: Aldrich Killian wanted revenge on Tony for being a JerkAss, and had a camera-double to cover his ass.]]

** S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Coulson going to New Mexico to find [[spoiler: [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor's]] hammer]].

* TheHerosJourney: The movies are Tony's journey to becoming a full-fledged hero. Progress got set back at the beginning of the second film, justified because he's [[spoiler: dying and in denial about it]] at the time.

* IntrepidReporter: Played with; Christine Everhart. She does break some news, including the fact that [[spoiler: Stark Industries is selling weapons to the villains]], but also sleeps with Tony and generally comes across as an overly smug nuisance.

** In ''Iron Man 2'', the Navy Hammer Drones get one of these when [[spoiler: they unload a sizable portion of their rocket ordnance on the fleeing Expo attendees. Notably, these are the only drones that successfully go after civilians onscreen. Quite a literal massacre.]]

--> '''Rhodey:''' I got something special for this guy. [[LetsGetDangerous I'm gonna bust his bunker with "The Ex-Wife."]]
--> ''(Bunker-buster mini-missile fires and... bounces off its intended target & fizzles)''
--> '''Tony:''' "... Hammertech?"
--> '''Rhodey:''' "...yeah..."

* MrFanservice: Tony.
* MsFanservice: Pepper and Black Widow.

--->'''Pepper''': Have you ever met the actual Jarvis? \\
'''JARVIS''': No, ma'am. I suspect it would be rather odd.

** Also averted in the sequel, when Iron Man [[spoiler: is rushing to save Pepper from the exploding Hammer Drones]], while he rushes to the rescue at top speed, he conspicuously comes to a near stop before picking her up.

--->'''Hammer''': Oh, shit! Oh, shit!

--->'''Iron Man''': [[DoWithHimAsYouWill He's all yours.]]

-->'''Stane:''' Your services are no longer required.
-->'''Tony:''' [[SayMyName STAAAAAAAANE!!]]