History Film / IronMan2

* BatmanGambit: Vanko arranges to get a passport, and cover as a worker at the Monaco Grand Prix, figuring that Stark would want to race in one of the Stark Industry cars. He knows that Tony is dying from the palladium poisoning (he even mentions it during the prison talk), and Tony's ego would have him right where he wants him, alone on the track for a time.

Several months after the events of ''Film/IronMan1'', the film deals with the consequences of Tony Stark outing himself as Iron Man and becoming the world's newest defender. His first major issue is congressional hearings about sharing his tech, with rival ([[AlwaysSecondBest ''and perpetually second-place to Tony'']]) industrialist [[SmugSnake Justin Hammer]] (Creator/SamRockwell) standing the most to gain. Despite their best efforts, Tony is untouchable: unbeatable in conferences and unstoppable as Iron Man. But his invincibility is tested by Ivan Vanko/Whiplash (Creator/MickeyRourke), a man with a grudge against the Stark empire who is more than capable of challenging Tony's genius, as Tony is also dealing with a [[PhlebotinumBreakdown slowly fatal medical condition]] resulting from his arc reactor implant. ComicBook/BlackWidow (Creator/ScarlettJohansson) also features in a supporting role and Lt. Col. James "Rhodey" Rhodes ([[TheOtherDarrin now played by]] Creator/DonCheadle) suits up as his alter-ego ComicBook/WarMachine.

Several months after the events of ''Film/IronMan1'', the film deals with the consequences of Tony Stark outing himself as Iron Man and becoming the world's newest defender. His first major issue is congressional hearings about sharing his tech, with rival (''and perpetually second-place to Tony'') industrialist [[SmugSnake Justin Hammer]] (Creator/SamRockwell) standing the most to gain. Despite their best efforts, Tony is untouchable: unbeatable in conferences and unstoppable as Iron Man. But his invincibility is tested by Ivan Vanko/Whiplash (Creator/MickeyRourke), a man with a grudge against the Stark empire who is more than capable of challenging Tony's genius, as Tony is also dealing with a [[PhlebotinumBreakdown slowly fatal medical condition]] resulting from his arc reactor implant. ComicBook/BlackWidow (Creator/ScarlettJohansson) also features in a supporting role and Lt. Col. James "Rhodey" Rhodes ([[TheOtherDarrin now played by]] Creator/DonCheadle) suits up as his alter-ego ComicBook/WarMachine.

* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Despite ComicBook/BlackWidow being born in Russia, the film version speaks without any trace of a Russian accent. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] due to her [[spoiler:being undercover for S.H.I.E.L.D.]]. It was stated in the comics that she speaks fluent English (she's fluent in all the languages she speaks), plus being a spy, she'd need to be. You can hear the traces of a Russian accent near the end when she intimidates Justin Hammer into revealing his part in the EvilPlan. In ''Series/AgentCarter'', it is revealed that [[spoiler:learning English in an American accent is par for the course for the Black Widow training facility. The girls in the Red Room speak along with American cartoons as part of their daily routine.]]

* CallForward: Notes on [[spoiler:the Tesseract]] can be found in Howard Stark's notebooks.

* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: Inverted. When Nick Fury is listing all the things in Stark's personality that made him ineligible for the Avengers group, Stark denies or fogs every single one...up to "Textbook Narcissism", to which he simply agrees.

* InSeriesNickname:
** "Hammeroids". Near-ubiquitous among fans, but it was used by Tony first.
** Hammer claims the 7.62mm 6-barrel minigun that ends up integrated with the War Machine suit is known to the US soldiers who use them as, alternately, [[ChunkySalsaRule Uncle Gazpacho]] or "Puff the Magic Dragon". (He was half-right here: The AC-47 gunship, a Vietnam-era ground-support aircraft fitted with several such miniguns for MoreDakka, was nicknamed "Puff the Magic Dragon" for the hail of tracer rounds it rained down on the enemy.) He also nicknames his [[spoiler:not-so-]]super mini-bunker-buster, supposedly capable of "reducing the population of any standing structure to 0" (although it's actually [[spoiler:a laughable dud that needs a little work]]) the "Ex-Wife".

* NoSell: Iron Man's ShootTheHostageTaker gun system from the first movie makes a re-appearance as he tries to use it against Vanko's armor, targeting both his currently-unarmored head and spots around the shoulders. Being essentially a small-arms system, [[FiveRoundsRapid it's completely ineffective]] when Vanko's helmet snaps up to block the attack.

''Iron Man 2'' is the second movie in the ''Film/IronMan'' film series, released in 2010 and based on the Creator/MarvelComics character ComicBook/IronMan, starring Creator/RobertDowneyJr as the armored SuperHero and directed by Creator/JonFavreau. It is the third film in both the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse and its Phase 1, and notably, the first installment released after Creator/{{Disney}} bought out Marvel in 2009; however both this and the [[Film/{{Thor}} next two]] [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger installments]] were still distributed by [[Creator/{{Paramount}} Paramount Pictures]].

** In the ''[[ComicBook/TheAvengersPreludeFurysBigWeek Fury's Big Week]]'' tie-in to ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', which strings together these films' continuities with each other and the rest of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, Fury says that Stark went on to try and patent this new element as "[[AwesomeMcCoolname badassium]]", but bureaucracy was getting in the way.

* ImpressedByTheCivilian: as Hammer's robots rampage across the expo and people flee, one little boy in an Iron Man costume stands his ground against an approaching robot. Of course, the real Iron Man swoops in at the last second, destroys the bot, and complements the kid before flying off. [[invoked]]WordOfGod later confirms that the kid was a young Peter Parker.

->''[[Film/{{Thor}} Sir. We've found it.]]''

* DefectorFromCommieLand: Anton Vanko, who was sent back to the USSR after falling out with Howard Stark.

** Happy Hogan rescues Tony from Vanko on a racetrack. In ''Tales of Suspense'' #45, Happy rescuing Tony from a crashed race car is how the two characters first met.

** Tony stores his armor in an attache case, which dates back to the very earliest issues of ''Iron Man''. The idea of the suitcase transforming ''into'' the armor dates back to the [[WesternAnimation/IronMan 90s animated series]]. The armor itself bears great resemblance to the Silver Centurion armor from the comics in its color scheme.

* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning:
** Sickeningly averted by the Hammer weapon test video shown at the Senate.
** Gloriously played straight with the Death Blossom lasers.
** Black Widow's twirling takedowns on Hammer security, which look more like lucha libre than anything else.

* SpinAttack: [[spoiler:Tony uses this to take out the last of the "Hammeroids".]]

''[[caption-width-right:350: [[{{Tagline}} It's not the armor that makes the hero, but the man inside.]]]]''

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->''[[Film/{{Thor}} Sir. We've found it.]]''

[[caption-width-right:350: [[{{Tagline}} It's not the armor that makes the hero, but the man inside.]]]]

''Iron Man 2'' is the second movie in the ''Film/IronMan'' film series, released in 2010 and based on the Creator/MarvelComics character ComicBook/IronMan, starring Creator/RobertDowneyJr as the armored SuperHero and directed by Creator/JonFavreau. It is the third film in both the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse and its Phase 1, and notably the first installment released after Creator/{{Disney}} bought out Marvel in 2009; however both this and the [[Film/{{Thor}} next two]] [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger installments]] were still distributed by [[Creator/{{Paramount}} Paramount Pictures]].

Several months after the events of ''Film/IronMan1'', the film deals with the consequences of Tony Stark outing himself as Iron Man and becoming the world's newest defender. His first major issue is congressional hearings about sharing his tech, with rival (and perpetually second-place to Tony) industrialist [[SmugSnake Justin Hammer]] (Creator/SamRockwell) standing the most to gain. Despite their best efforts, Tony is untouchable: unbeatable in conferences and unstoppable as Iron Man. But his invincibility is tested by Ivan Vanko/Whiplash (Creator/MickeyRourke), a man with a grudge against the Stark empire who is more than capable of challenging Tony's genius, as Tony is also dealing with a [[PhlebotinumBreakdown slowly fatal medical condition]] resulting from his arc reactor implant. ComicBook/BlackWidow (Creator/ScarlettJohansson) also features in a supporting role and Lt. Col. James "Rhodey" Rhodes ([[TheOtherDarrin now played by]] Creator/DonCheadle) suits up as his alter-ego ComicBook/WarMachine.

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* NoSell: Iron Man's ShootTheHostageTaker gun system from the first movie makes a re-appearance as he tries to use it against Vanko's armor. Being essentially a small-arms system, [[FiveRoundsRapid it's completely ineffective.]]

** Happy Hogan is well-qualified as a boxing partner; [[Creator/JonFavreau]] in his younger, trimmer days played boxing legend Rocky Marciano in a biopic, and a MMA fighter on ''Series/{{Friends}}'' as well as ''Film/FourChristmases''.

* AdultFear: A mass shooting occurs at a public event in the climax. Even worse, there are children in the crowd that gets hit by the resulting debris. You can hear a man and a woman crying out "Peter!" multiple times, as one boy faces the robots with an Iron Man mask. Given the confirmation that it was a young Peter Parker, he was separated from his parents or aunt and uncle during the event. And he was facing down a murderous robot, showing no fear.