History Fridge / IronMan2

* Vanko said he'd be able to make the drones "salute". He makes them pull off a ''21-gun salute''.

*** Tony told the Senate hearing they'd have to come and take the suit. He won't let just anyone take one of his suits. [[BloodBrothers There's only one man he'll let fly his suit]].

** Much of the need for armor in a weapons system is to protect the human pilot. The most badass tank in the world is useless if the crew gets immolated inside of it by an armor-penetrating shell. For an unmanned or remotely-piloted system, one can easily be tempted to shed armor weight/cost for more robust missions payloads, either [[MoreDakka more weapons]] or better comm/electronic warfare systems. Then again, it's also possible that Hammer figured he could make more money selling replacements for battlefield losses if the units were a bit more vulnerable to damage. A large force of these things, even with cheap plastic armor, would still be quite the force to be reckoned with on the battlefield. It's also possible Hammer just wanted to ensure a government contract by offering a lower bottom line.

*** Another thought about [=HammerTech=] failures. Vanko is able to effortlessly gain access to the computer system connected to the [[IncrediblyLamePun Hammer Man]] suits, evidently via RapidFireTyping. He claims that it is because of "Shitty Software". It occured to me later in the film that the login name was "ADMIN". Maybe he just typed in the default ADMIN password for that operating system... ''because the [=HammerTech=] IT guys were too inept or careless to change the password''.

* When Tony made the comment about how other countries are 5-10 years away from developing an iron man battlesuit and Hammer is 20 years away. He isn't wrong, they got the first part worked out which was kill someone else not themselves.

** Adding to this, the Mark V is a armor designed to be able to compact itself into the size of a standard suitcase. It's likely been heavily stripped down including it's armor plating to save space, which is why Vanko's whips are able to do so much damage to it compared to previous versions of the suit which probably would barely have had their paint scratched by it.

* WordOfGod has retroactively confirmed the fan theory that the little kid Tony saves from a Hammerdrone at the Stark Exo is a young Peter Parker. We still don't know how the MCU's Peter wound up an orphan, and when Tony saves him, there's no sign of an adult caregiver in sight. ''Did the Parkers get killed in the chaos of the Expo attack after being separated from their son?''

* The US government wanting Tony's suit technology? Bad enough, they're hardly bastions of morality. But we learn in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' that Hydra has infiltrated all levels of the US government (along with pretty much everything else). We even see Senator Stern himself is part of Hydra. If Tony had been willing or forced to give up his tech, they'd absolutely have acquired it for themselves. What Hydra could do with that would probably make Project Insight look pleasant by comparison.

** June 4th: [[Film/TheIncredibleHulk Blonsky and Banner duel in New York]].

* The US government wanting Tony's suit technology? Bad enough, they're hardly bastions of morality. But we learn in Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier that Hydra has infiltrated all levels of the US government (along with pretty much everything else). We even see Senator Stern himself is part of Hydra. If Tony had been willing or forced to give up his tech, they'd absolutely have acquired it for themselves. What Hydra could do with that would probably make Project Insight look pleasant by comparison.

* When pressuring Tony into upgrading his Arc Reactor, Coulson threatens to taser him. While for most people, it'd be extremely painful but mostly harmless, Tony is being kept alive by an electromagnet. Getting tased could very well kill him.

* Tony Stark claims he knows exactly what hes doing the entire time the movie is going on when Rhodes confronts him and helps him swap out palladium strips in his reactor. He spent the movie acting erratic and crazy so that when he died of palladium poisoning he would tarnish the reputation of personal reactors, in addition to coping with his fears of death. What nation would risk creating a weapon that will end with their soldiers acting utterly uncontrollable and potentially violent. That and the fears of autonomous weapons would keep anyone with a brain from creating drones using it what with the existing problems copying his tech. Another layer of deterrent courtesy of Tony Stark.

* Rhodes' BottomlessMagazines in the second film -- with the arc reactor he may not actually be firing bullets, just bits of metal propellecond to bullet-type speeds by the arc reactor and some form of on-board propulsion, which would make ammunition easier to store since there's no need for the "bullets" to have casings, primers and powder.

* Vanko is probably well aware of the poisoning given how he knew about how Tony was abducted. Had Tony not discovered the new element. The pure strain of fighting the Hammer Drones and him would have killed Tony anyway. Vindicating his father's by dying the same way his father did, by heart cancer.

* "I'd like to point out that that test pilot survived." Whether he ''[[AndIMustScream wanted to]]'' is another question...

** [[EarWorm Here he comes, here comes Iron Man...]]

** Also, Hammer is canonically terrible at the technical aspects of his own weapons, but even he would have to be suspicious when Vanko started to stuff enough explosives into the drones to blow apart an arena, which means he probably okayed it. The reason why? No other country (or more importantly, company) has armor/dronetech (apart from Tony obviously), like Hammer had at that time, and he wanted to keep the monopoly. The explosive self destructs were meant to keep the armor/drones out of the hands of enemies to keep them from reverse-engineering it (like Obadiah did in ''Film/IronMan'').