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3	''Anime/MarvelAnime: Iron Man'' is a 2010 anime based on the ''ComicBook/IronMan'' comics, though it is perhaps more directly inspired by [[Film/IronMan the live-action movies]]. Produced by Creator/{{Madhouse}}, it is the first of four series co-produced with Creator/MarvelComics, each focusing on a different superhero from the company, starting with this one, followed up by ''Anime/MarvelAnimeWolverine'', then ''Anime/MarvelAnimeXMen'', and culminating with ''Anime/MarvelAnimeBlade''.
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5	In this series, Tony Stark heads to Japan to produce a new arc reactor station and promote the Iron Man Dio armor, but is quickly faced with the challenge of winning the hearts of the skeptical Japanese public. It only gets worse when the Iron Man Dio armors are suddenly hijacked by an organization called the Zodiac, and it's up to the real Iron Man to prove his innocence and stop them.
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7	!!Tropes:
8	* AnimatedAdaptation:
9	** Of the [[Film/IronMan live-action films]].
10	** One episode has a {{Montage}} of Tony in action; included amongst the scenes is Iron Man fighting Iron Monger from the first film (specifically, it looks like the scene where Tony shouts "This looks important!" and starts yanking out components).
11	* BadassBiker: Sakurai
12	* BigBad: [[spoiler: Defense Minister Kuroda/Rasetsu]]
13	* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler: Dr. Tanaka/Gemini]]
14	* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler: Flashbacks reveal that after Yinsen miraculously avoided his DeathByOriginStory, he was taken in by a rural village, where he began to recover in both body and soul. However, the BigBad then destroyed the entire village using Stark weaponry in order to turn Yinsen against Tony.]]
15	* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler: Yinsen to Stark, and Kuroda to Sakurai.]]
16	* TheCameo: Wolverine in episode 4.
17	* CarFu: Taurus attempts to assassinate Tony with a race car.
18	* ChestBlaster: The Unibeam. Engages in a BeamOWar with a similar weapon wielded by Gemini.
19	* CombatTentacles: Gemini has two built into her armor.
20	* ContinuityNod: Fans of the comics will get the references to Advanced Idea Mechanics, the Fujikawa corporation and mention of quinjets.
21	* CrazyPrepared: Tony has 'suit-up' machines in the unlikeliest of places...
22	* CreatorsCultureCarryover: Tony Stark works hard to curtail his American sensibilities (especially his womanizing) while in Japan, knowing it won't win him any points with the locals. His behavior, however, more closely resembles what a Japanese writer would ''guess'' an American hotshot would act like. For example, at one point, he is sparring with Sakurai and compliments the man on his JapaneseSpirit...before [[CombatPragmatist cheating]] and then proclaiming that as an American, he instead has "Pioneer Spirit". Not only is JapaneseSpirit something most Americans have ''vaguely'' heard of, at best, but no American would ever use the term "Pioneer Spirit". The "American Way", maybe, but in this context, even that's a stretch.
23	* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler: Rasetsu kills Ramon Zero with little effort.]]
24	* DiscOneFinalBoss: [[spoiler: Yinsen/Iron Man Dio.]]
25	* FalseFlagOperation: [[spoiler: Zodiac uses this to make it easier to take over Japan.]]
26	* FishOutOfWater: Tony Stark in Japan.
27	** To the point that it's actually used InUniverse several times when he "has to think of the right phrase in Japanese," or uses informal speech and honorifics when he shouldn't. There are rumors that his actor was affecting an American accent the entire time.
28	** In the second episode of the adaptation, there's a similar play on this - when someone asks him why he hasn't answered about whether or not [[spoiler: he's smuggling plutonium into the country]], he replies, "Oh, I've got an answer, I'm trying to think of a courteous way to say it." And then... [[spoiler:"It's a friggin' lie!"]] Kind of makes you wonder what his original, non-courteous answer would've been.
29	* HandsomeLech: Tony, naturally. Though he also is a ChivalrousPervert.
30	* HeelRealization:
31	** [[spoiler: [[TheCracker Pisces]], a WellIntentionedExtremist who would have succeeded in killing Tony if he hadn't suddenly realized he was on the wrong side.]]
32	** Sakurai, when he discovers who the real BigBad is.
33	* IntrepidReporter: Nanami
34	* JapaneseSpirit: Mentioned by name during a sparring scene.
35	* TheMole: [[spoiler: Chika, through MindControl.]]
36	* MonsterOfTheWeek: Each episode features a baddie themed after an animal of the WesternZodiac.
37	* OhCrap: States it directly when he's about to get blasted by a Zodiac's version of the [[ChestBlaster Unibeam]].
38	--> '''Computer:''' Weapons lock detected.
39	--> '''Tony:''' Uh oh. ''gets blasted''
40	* PoweredArmour
41	* RedEyesTakeWarning:
42	** When the Dio armor is first hacked and stolen, its blue optics and Arc Reactor turn red. They revert to blue for his subsequent appearances though. Many of the Zodiac Mechs also have red eyes.
43	** Averted for Ramon Zero, who turns out to be a good guy despite having red eyes.
44	* SatchelSwitcheroo: used in Episode 2.
45	* ShoutOut:
46	** Tony's sets of armor to be mass produced are called [[Music/BlackSabbath Iron Man]] [[Music/RonnieJamesDio Dio]].
47	** Gemini's armor is nanotechnology stored inside her bones, similar to Tony's Bleeding Edge armor from the comics.
48	** As [[spoiler: Rasetsu is [[ThisCannotBe expressing sheer disbelief]] at his defeat]], Tony simply responds with [[Film/IronMan2 "You lose!"]]
49	* StrawmanPolitical: [[spoiler: The defense minister turns out to be an ultranationalist who uses Zodiac to weaken Stark Industries' relations with Japan, take over the government, and turn the country into a militaristic, imperial power.]]
50	* SugarAndIcePersonality: Tanaka
51	* TwelveEpisodeAnime
52	* WesternZodiac: Each episode features a baddie themed after one. MonsterOfTheWeek style. Based on the classic Marvel organization [[http://marvel.wikia.com/Zodiac_(Team) Zodiac]].
53	* TheWorfEffect: [[spoiler: Sakurai gets turned into a SacrificialLion to show us how powerful Kuroda's Rasetsu armor is]].

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