History Fridge / IronMan1

* The scene where Tony flies too high and the suit shuts down from the Icing Problem has quite a few parallels to the myth of Icarus's fall, where his reckless pride wrecked his flight flying too high to a celestial body where the difference in temperature caused the fall. The key difference is that it's inverted: while the latter's wings of wax melted from flying too close to the sun, Tony's armour froze up in ice when he flew too close to the moon.

* Fury's comment that Stark isn't the only superhero in the world makes sense considering he worked with Captain Marvel 13 years earlier.

* The scene where Tony flies too high and the suit shuts down from the Icing Problem has quite a few parallels to the myth of Icarus's fall, where his reckless pride wrecked his flight flying too high to a celestial body where the difference in temperature caused the fall. The key difference is that while the latter's wings of wax melted from flying too close to the sun, Tony's armour froze up in ice when he flew too close to the moon.

* Fury's comment that Stark isn't the only superhero in the world makes sense considering he worked with Captain Marvel 15 years earlier.

* The scene where Tony flies too high and the suit shuts down from the Icing Problem has quite a few parallels to the myth of Icarus's fall, where his reckless pride wrecked his flight flying too high to a celestial body where the difference in tempterature caused the fall. The key difference is that while the latter's wings of wax melted from flying to close to the sun, Tony's armour froze up in ice when he flew too close to the moon.
* When Tony finds Obadiah playing the piano, Obadiah is playing a selection by Salieri. You know the bitter old rival who killed the talented upstart out of jealousy. Sound familiar?

* Tony really didn't had a choice but to dismantle the weapons division even if he didn't felt guilt ridden by the deaths of the soldiers. The US government was looking into Tony's disappearance and feared he may have been working with the terrorists willingly for a quick buck. Had he not dismantled it, he would had been arrested and likely killed by Hydra who makes it clear he can either join them or die and given how he already refused to help Ten Rings, it is unlikely he would even consider their offer.

* Fury's comment that Stark isn't the only superhero in the world makes sense considering he worked with Captain Marvel 13 years earlier.

* There's been a general consensus that, had Stane not "suddenly developed Stormtrooper aiming", it would have been a very short climax. Here's the kicker, though: [[RealityEnsues anyone who's ever fired a gun can tell you that, even with a good sight, lining up a shot takes practice.]] Stane was aiming a very imprecise minigun mounted on the outside of a mechanical arm the size of a tree trunk ''indirectly''; odds are he would have emptied his mag before he nailed Tony even ''once''. Tony preempting him by disabling the targeting module was the smartest tactical decision made for the entire battle.

* Fury's comment that Stark isn't the only superhero in the world makes sense considering he worked with Captain Marvel 11 years earlier.

* Tony really didn't had a choice but to dismantle the weapons division even if he didn't felt guilt ridden by the deaths of the soldiers. The US government was looking into Tony's disappearance and feared he may have been working with the terrorists willingly for a quick buck. Had he not dismantled it, he would had been arrested and likely killed by Hydra who makes it clear he can either join them or die and given how he already refused to help Ten Rings, it is unlikely he would even consider their offer.

* During Iron Man's first battle in his Mark III suit. Unlike most of the fights from then on, he does it with no quips or one-liners. On the surface it would seem, the reason for that was because he was pissed off at the Ten Rings for what they did to him and his company, but there are more layers to that. The fight takes place in Gulmira where his fallen friend Yinsen used to live, so that's one part of it. Since the Mark III is essentially the Mark II suit with a different metallic structure and updated weaponry, it has the same camera zoom features the Mark II was equipped with, as seen when he used it to spy on two kids on a Ferris wheel during the test run. Iron Man, while flying over to Gulmira, was already watching what the Ten Rings thugs were doing to that man and his son before he landed there. Tony himself knew what it was like to lose a father and didn't want that to happen to the kid. He wasn't just simply mad, he was showing TranquilFury.

* Dummy is the first robot/[=VI=] Tony Stark built. He's built others over the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Jarvis, Ultron, Friday, Karen. But Dummy is still his favourite, not just for sentimental value (no matter how much he may deny it) but for it actually having hardware that can enable him to help out as a lab assistant in his designing gadgets.

* During Iron Man's first battle in his Mark III suit. Unlike most of the fights from then on, he does it with no quips or one-liners. On the surface it would seem, the reason for that was because he was pissed off at the Ten Rings for what they did to him and his company, but there are more layers to that. The fight takes place in Gulmira where his fallen friend Yinsen used to live, so that's one part of it. Since the Mark III is essentially the Mark II suit with a different metallic structure and updated weaponry, it has the same camera zoom features the Mark II was equipped with, as seen when he used it to spy on two kids on a Ferris wheel during the test run. Iron Man, while flying over to Gulmira, was already watching what the Ten Rings thugs were doing to that man and his son before he landed there. Tony himself knew what it was like to lose a father and didn't want that to happen to the kid. He wasn't just simply mad, he was showing TranquilFury.

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* The Mark III suit was designed as a flight suit, carrying on from the Mark II, and put into production before Tony knew about the situation in Gulmira. It wasn't designed for combat, he swore to Pepper that he wasn't building a weapon, and he had no plans to use it as one. Even the principle weaponry of the suit is just him overcharging the repulsors to create an energy blast, as seen in the same scene where he insists it's not a weapon. The question, then, is what sort of non-weapon flight-suit function do the anti-tank rocket in the arm and the deadly-accurate missiles in the shoulder serve?
** They don't. They're obviously weapons. Tony was lying, or in denial.

* The Mark III suit was designed as a flight suit, carrying on from the Mark II, and put into production before Tony knew about the situation in Gulmira. It wasn't designed for combat, he swore to Pepper that he wasn't building a weapon, and he had no plans to use it as one. Even the principle weaponry of the suit is just him overcharging the repulsors to create an energy blast, as seen in the same scene where he insists it's not a weapon. The question, then, is what sort of non-weapon flight-suit function do the anti-tank rocket in the arm and the deadly-accurate missiles in the shoulder serve?

* During Iron Man's first battle in his Mark III suit. Unlike most of the fights from then on, he does it with no quips or one-liners. On the surface it would seem, the reason for that was because he was pissed off at the Ten Rings for what they did to him and his company, but there are more layers to that. The fight takes place in Gulmira where his fallen friend Yinsen used to live, so that's one part of it. Since the Mark III is essentially the Mark II suit with a different metallic structure and updated weaponry, it has the same camera zoom features the Mark II was equipped with, as seen when he used it to spy on two kids on a Ferris wheel during the test run. Iron Man, while flying over to Gulmira, was already watching what the Ten Rings thugs were doing to that man and his son before he landed there. Tony himself knew what it was like to lose a father and didn't want that to happen to the kid. He wasn't just simply mad, he was showing TranquilFury.

* Dummy is the first robot Tony Stark built. He's built others over the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Jarvis, Ultron, Friday, Karen. But Dummy is still his favourite, not just for sentimental value (no matter how much he may deny it) but for it actually having hardware that can enable him to help out as a lab assistant in his designing gadgets.

* During Iron Man's first battle in his Mark III suit. Unlike most of the fights from then on, he does it with no quips or one-liners. On the surface it would seem, the reason for that was because he was pissed off at the Ten Rings for what they did to him and his company, but there are more layers to that. The fight takes place in Gulmira where his fallen friend Yinsen used to live, that's one part of it. Since the Mark III is essentially the Mark II suit, with a different metallic structure and updated weaponry, it has the same camera zoom features the Mark II has. As seen when he used it to spy on two kids on a Ferris wheel during the test run. Iron Man while flying over to Gulmira was already watching what the Ten Rings thugs were doing to that man and his son before he landed there. Tony himself knew what it was like to lose a father and didn't want that to happen to the kid. He wasn't just simply mad, he was TranquilFury.

* Something that comes up in hindsight: it's revealed in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' that HYDRA has been active inside SHIELD this whole time. HYDRA said that accidents happen, and they engineered Howard Stark's death. Now think about Obadiah Stane and his motivations in this movie. The easiest way for HYDRA to set up a murder as an accident would be to have an inside man Howard Stark trusted. Add to that the fact that Obadiah is selling weapons to the Ten Rings and possibly lots of other terrorist organizations around the world, which is exactly the kind of thing HYDRA would do to sow disorder and fear and it's wholly possible that Stane was actually a mole for HYDRA the whole time.

* Something that comes up in hindsight: it's revealed in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' that HYDRA has been active inside SHIELD this whole time. HYDRA said that accidents happen, and they engineered Howard Stark's death. Now think about Obadiah Stane and his motivations in this movie. The easiest way for HYDRA to set up a murder as an accident would be to have an inside man Howard Stark trusted. Add to that the fact that Obadiah is selling weapons to the Ten Rings and possibly lots of other terrorist organizations around the world, which is exactly the kind of thing HYDRA would do to sow disorder and fear and it's wholly possible that Stane was actually a mole for HYDRA the whole time.