Line #39 Characters/MCUHammerAdvancedWeaponsSystems


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3	!! Spoilers for all works set prior to the end of ''Avengers: Endgame'' are unmarked.
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5	[[foldercontrol]]
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8	!!Hammer Advanced Weapons Systems
9
10	[[folder:In General]]
11	!!''Hammer Industries''
12	!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/IronMan2'' \| ''Series/{{Luke Cage\|2016}}''
13
14	A weapons manufacturer company led by Justin Hammer.
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16	* AlwaysSecondBest: They appear to be this to Stark Industries. For instance, they only became the primary weapon contractors for the U.S. Armed Forces after Stark Industries stopped manufacturing weapons.
17	* EvilInc: They are basically what Stark Industries used to be before Tony's change of heart, if not worse. They have no ethical issue with manufacturing dangerous weapons and collaborating with criminals.
18	* IncompetenceInc: Very few of their products actually work properly, with a missile that was supposed to level buildings failing to even tickle a single man, demonstrating serious quality control problems. According to Tony, their technology is at least 20 years behind Stark Industries. However, by the time of ''Series/{{Luke Cage\|2016}}'' they have become much more competent.
19	* MegaCorp: Not as much as Stark Industries, but still counts.
20	* TookALevelInBadass: By ''Series/{{Luke Cage\|2016}}'', Hammer Industries has exceeded in the failures of the past by creating smarter, deadlier weapons, such as the "Judas" bullet, crafted from Chitauri metal and able to penetrate otherwise impervious materials. The bullet is essentially the "Ex-Wife" done right. It's likely that without Hammer's "oversight" the company was actually able to get things done.
21	[[/folder]]
22
23	!!!Leadership
24
25	[[folder:Justin Hammer]]
26	!!''Justin Hammer''
27	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hammer_justin.jpg]]
28	[[caption-width-right:300:''"I wanna make Iron Man look like an antique."'']]
29	!!!'''Species:''' Human
30	!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
31	!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/SamRockwell
32	!!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/JoseAntonioMacias (Latin-American Spanish dub), José Javier Serrano (European Spanish dub), Creator/ToshiyukiMorikawa (Japanese dub), Guillaume Lebon (French dub), Gilbert Lachance (Canadian French dub), David Nathan (German dub)
33	!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/IronMan2'' \| ''Film/AllHailTheKing''
34
35	->''"We all know why we're here – in the last six months Anthony Stark has created a sword with untold possibilities, and yet he insists it's a shield. He asks that we trust him as we cower behind it."''
36
37	CEO of Hammer Industries, and a (self-perceived) rival of Tony Stark. He forges a temporary alliance with Ivan Vanko, but the latter makes use of his resources to try and assassinate Tony Stark and attack his expo.
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39	* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In the comics Hammer is much older, originally [[ComicBookFantasyCasting modelled after]] Creator/PeterCushing. In the MCU, however, he is played by Sam Rockwell, an actor often seen as sexy.
40	* AdaptationalComicRelief: His comics counterpart is more cynical and has hatred of Tony Stark rather than jovial rivalry.
41	* AdaptationalDumbass: This version of Hammer was presented as being the pawn of Vanko. The Hammer of the comics was smart enough to a be a skilled manipulator in his own right; in fact, the events of the "Demon in a Bottle" were, among other things, due to Hammer's manipulating things to screw with Tony and he was the BigBad of the "ComicBook/ArmorWars" story.
42	* AdaptationalNationality: American here, his comic book counterpart is British with a citizenship in Monaco.
43	* AffablyEvil: Despite being pleasant and professional, Hammer is not above bombings, prison breaks, and keeping people prisoner.
44	* AgeLift: His comics counterpart is much older.
45	* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: He's driven by his jealousy of Tony Stark.
46	* AmbiguouslyBi: In ''Film/IronMan2'', he is briefly seen with Christine Everhart who seemingly flirted with him... until she left him when Tony told her Hammer lost his contract with the Government. He also calls Tony gorgeous. In the short film ''All Hail the King'', Hammer has a boyfriend who constantly follows him and strokes his shoulder to comfort him (Justin even calls him "baby").
47	* AttentionWhore: When making his introduction at the Stark Expo, he shows off his dancing skills just to try and impress the audience.
48	* BigBadWannabe: He is using Vanko to further his plans to catch up to Tony with the tech Vanko designs for him. The reality is that Vanko's plans are much more immediate and violent.
49	* ButNotTooWhite: During his first meeting with Vanko his palms are visibly stained, indicating that he forgot to wash the fake tan off his hands after applying it.
50	* CloudCuckoolander: For all his villainous aspirations, he's just a rich eccentric and plain weird.
51	* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Springs a violent genius felon out of prison to help advance his company's technology.
52	* DrivenByEnvy: He helps get Vanko out of prison so he can make his Hammer drones, all for the sake of catching up with Tony Stark.
53	* EvilCounterpart: To Tony Stark, only not a natural genius. It's really driven home during his display at the expo where he tries dancing his way onto the stage in a display of showmanship to a very underwhelmed audience, who responded extremely well to Tony Stark for just showing up in the Iron Man suit.
54	* EvilPlan: Tries one for his company, intending on catching up to Tony Stark's Iron Man suit technology, with support from the US Military, only for Vanko to throw it all away for an attempt at killing Iron Man instead.
55	* FauxAffablyEvil: Justin Hammer can act like your best friend when it's clear the man can't stand your guts.
56	* FirstNameBasis: He's the only one to call Tony Anthony.
57	* GreenEyedMonster: He envies Tony Stark's natural talent, popularity, and inherited fortune. His technology throughout the film is described as resembling a knock-off from Stark Tech. Heck, most of his motivation in the film is to catch up to Tony Stark's Iron Man technology.
58	* HiddenDepths: He shows himself to be a very capable dancer at the Stark Expo when making his introduction.
59	* IgnoredEnemy: Despite Justin Hammer's efforts, Tony Stark barely acknowledges him.
60	* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Aside from his efforts at being either a respected businessman or a crafty villain, it’s hard not to feel sorry for the poor guy.
61	* KnowNothingKnowItAll: He's not half as smart as Tony Stark, but he makes himself out to be Tony's rival.
62	* LargeHam: Being an EvilCounterpart of Tony Stark, Justin Hammer needed to be a large ham like Stark. ''All Hail the King'' even has Hammer complaining about Trevor Slattery overdoing it -- both represent how EvilIsHammy, but Hammer does it without the need to overact!
63	* LethallyStupid: Thought it would be a good idea to break a known crook out of prison and order the GeniusBruiser around.
64	* MoreDakka: His drones are equipped with even more weapons and ammunition than Iron Man. Tony lampshades it about Rhodey's War Machine armor that Hammer outfitted.
65	-->'''Tony:''' You ''have'' a [[{{BFG}} big gun]], you aren't ''the'' big gun. \
66	'''Rhodey:''' Tony, don't be jealous. \
67	'''Tony:''' No, it's subtle, all the bells and whistles. \
68	'''Rhodey:''' Yeah, it's called being a Badass.
69	* MotorMouth: Often speaks in fast and rambling sentences much like Tony Stark's own MotorMouth.
70	* NeverMyFault: As he's detained and hauled off by the police, he immediately blames Pepper for trying to "weed out the competition", not even considering that he's being arrested for breaking several laws throughout the movie.
71	* NonActionGuy: He's not combat capable obviously - another reason Vanko doesn't fear him.
72	* PutOnAPrisonBus: Arrested by the authorities after his complicity with Vanko's crimes was exposed. He is sent to Seagate Penitentiary and makes a brief cameo in ''Film/AllHailTheKing'' short.
73	* SinisterSweetTooth: He's eating ice cream when he meets up with Ivan and sucking on a lollipop while presenting weapons to Rhodes (pictured above) and confessed to Ivan that "I like my dessert first".
74	* SmugSnake: He has the same ego and smarmy social skills as Tony but nowhere near the genius to back it up like Tony can.
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76	[[/folder]]
77
78	!!!Employees
79
80	[[folder:Jack]]
81	!!''Jack''
82	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jack_3.bmp]]
83	[[caption-width-right:300:''"It's a beautiful bird!"'']]
84	!!!'''Species:''' Human
85	!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
86	!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Jack White
87	!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/IronMan2''
88
89	Justin Hammer's personal assistant and butler.
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91	* AscendedExtra: His actor [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0970642/ Jack White]] was originally hired as the food stylist who prepared and served the salmon carpaccio to Vanko in the aircraft hangar, but he ended up appearing in several scenes as Hammer's assistant.
92	* CanonForeigner: He isn't based on any characters from the comics.
93	* TheDanza: He shares his first name with the actor who portrayed him, Jack White.
94	* EvilCounterpart: Being Justin Hammer's assistant and butler, he can be considered as one to either Pepper Potts or Happy Hogan. [[PunchClockVillain He isn't that much evil, though]].
95	* MinionWithAnFInEvil: He may be working for Hammer, but he doesn't do anything really evil himself and come across as a pretty pleasant guy.
96	* NonActionGuy: He doesn't appear to have any combat skills, and doesn't intervene at all when his boss get tackled by Natasha Romanoff and later taken in custody by police officers.
97	* OneSteveLimit: Averted. There are plenty of other characters named Jack (or similar names) within the MCU ([[Film/IronMan3 Jack Taggart]], [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier Jack Rollins]], [[Series/Daredevil2015 Jack Murdoch]]...).
98	* OldRetainer: It's not clear how long he has been working for Hammer, but he's quite older than him and seems entirely loyal to him.
99	* OnlyOneName: His last name is never mentioned, he's only referred as "Jack" throughout the movie, even in the credits.
100	* PersonalMook: He serves as Justin Hammer's personal assistant, butler, waiter, porter and possibly driver as well.
101	* PunchClockVillain: While he has apparently no problem with the fact that his boss has organized the escape of a dangerous criminal which resulted in several people's death, he doesn't seems particularily evil, just happening to work for the wrong person.
102	* SatelliteCharacter: He is Justin Hammer's assistant, and that's pretty much all there is to say about him. He barely interacts with anyone else during the movie except Vanko on brief occasions.
103	* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: On Hammer's orders, he tried to to fit his head into that of a drone, even though it had no openings and was clearly too small. Predictably, it didn't work.
104	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He's last seen running away from the premises after Justin Hammer got arrested. It's unknown what happened to him afterwards, and if he got arrested for his complicity or not.
105	* YesMan: He tends to agree with everything his boss says even when he's blatantly lying, notably when he tried to pass off some random bird as Vanko's pet and (falsely) complimented it.
106	-->'''Vanko:''' This is not my bird. \
107	'''Hammer:''' What do you mean? That's the bird! This is the bird! Yeah! I pulled a lot of strings to get this bird. This is a great bird! \
108	'''Jack:''' It's a beautiful bird! \
109	[[/folder]]
110
111	[[folder:Hammer's henchmen]]
112	!!''Hammer's henchmen''
113	!!!'''Species:''' Humans
114	!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
115	!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/IronMan2''
116
117	Two henchmen of Justin Hammer.
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119	* BagOfKidnapping: After taking Vanko's bird, they put it in a bag.
120	* BloodlessCarnage: Partially averted, as we can see blood on Vanko's hands after he killed them.
121	* DeadGuyOnDisplay: After killing them, Vanko hangs them in the control room. Their dead bodies are later found by Black Widow and Happy Hogan when they come to arrest Vanko.
122	* GiantMook: They are both beefy guys, and Hammer thinks they're strong enough to deal with [[HuskyRusskie Ivan Vanko]]. He's wrong, though.
123	* GoryDiscretionShot: Their deaths were apparently quite bloody, thankfully they only happen offscreen.
124	* InformedAbility: According to Justin Hammer, they are tough guys that Vanko shouldn't try to mess with. However, Vanko didn't seem to have much trouble killing them.
125	* KickTheDog: On Hammer's order, one of them takes Vanko's bird from him in a brutal manner.
126	* KilledOffScreen: Both of them are killed by Vanko, but their deaths aren't shown onscreen.
127	* NoNameGiven: We don't get any name for either of them.
128	* PokeThePoodle: Hammer orders them to take Vanko's pillows. Both of them. And his shoes.
129	* TheVoiceless: Neither of them has any lines of dialogue.
130	[[/folder]]
131
132	[[folder:Hammer Technician]]
133	!!''Hammer Technician''
134	!!!'''Species:''' Human
135	!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
136	!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Brian Schaeffer
137	!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/IronMan2''
138
139	A technician of Hammer Industries.
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141	* EnemyMine: When the drones start wreaking havoc at Stark Expo, he's willing to help Pepper Potts find a solution, even though she works for a rival company.
142	* NoNameGiven: His name is never said during the film.
143	* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: He wears a huge pair of glasses and seems to be one the few Hammer Industries employees to be somewhat competent at their job.
144	* TokenGoodTeammate: Despite working for Hammer Industries, he does his best to help Pepper stop the drones' attack and tells her everything he knows.
145	* YouLookFamiliar: His actor Brian Schaeffer played other minor roles in several MCU films.
146	[[/folder]]
147
148	[[folder:Hammer Security Guards]]
149	!!''Hammer Security Guards''
150	!!!'''Species:''' Humans
151	!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
152	!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/IronMan2''
153
154	The security guards at the Hammer Industries facility.
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156	* BlindedByTheLight: At one point, Black Widow uses flash bombs to temporarily blind two guards before attacking them.
157	* BoxingBattler: Happy Hogan engages in a crude boxing match against one of the guards.
158	* CherryTapping: After beating all the others in pretty awesome ways, Black Widow ends up defeating the last security guard with a pepper spray, [[OffhandBackhand without even looking]].
159	* ConservationOfNinjutsu: While it's very easy for Black Widow to defeat a large number of guards, Happy Hogan struggles to fight a single one of them.
160	* CurbStompBattle: All the guards who confront Black Widow are defeated without any difficulty. Averted with the one fighting Happy Hogan, who manages to put quite a hard fight.
161	* EarAche: When fighting one of the guards, Happy eventually gains the upper hand after biting his opponent's ear.
162	* GroinAttack: Black Widow neutralizes a guard by hitting him in the groin.
163	* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: It's ridiculously easy for Happy Hogan and ''especially'' Black Widow to break into their building and defeat all of them.
164	* AHandfulForAnEye: During the fight against Black Widow, two guards are blinded by the smoke of her flash bombs, and another one gets pepper-sprayed in the eyes shortly after.
165	* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Black Widow steals a guard's pepper spray at some point, and then uses it to defeat another guard.
166	* LawmanBaton: At least one of them uses a baton to attack Black Widow.
167	* TheManTheyCouldntHang: One of the guards ends up hanged, but he struggles so much that he apparently manages to survive.
168	* {{Mooks}}: They are Justin Hammer's minions, and their only purpose in the movie is to be defeated in various ways by Black Widow in order to show how badass she is.
169	* MookChivalry: For the most part, they only try to fight Black Widow one or two at a time. To be fair, those hallways are rather narrow.
170	* PunchClockVillain: The only reason the security guards oppose Black Widow and Happy Hogan is because they did broke into the building they are supposed to protect. Technically, the guards are just doing their job.
171	* WouldHitAGirl: None of them appear to have issue with fighting Black Widow. In their defense, she's the one who attacked first.
172	[[/folder]]
173
174	!!!Products
175
176	[[folder:Hammer Drones]]
177	!!''Hammer Drones''
178	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hammer_drones_4.bmp]]
179	!!!'''Species:''' Drones
180	!!!'''Citizenship:''' None
181	!!!'''Portrayed By:''' N/A
182	!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/IronMan2''
183
184	An army of drones created by Hammer Industries to be sold to the military. They started as {{Powered Armor}}s similar to Iron Man's suits, but Ivan Vanko was recruited to work on them and decided to change them to drones in order to hack them and use them in his plans to take revenge on Tony Stark.
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186	* ActionBomb: They're revealed to be this at the end of the final battle, when it turns out all the drones (as well as Whiplash's armor) have a SelfDestructMechanism that Vanko is planning to use as [[TakingYouWithMe a last attempt to kill the heroes]].
187	* AirborneMook: All the drones are able to fly, but the Air Force Drones are the best example as they primarily attack the hero while flying in mid-air, whereas the other drones usually attack from the ground.
188	* AlienBlood: Every time they are torn apart by the heroes, they bleed oil. Justified, since they are robots after all.
189	* AllThereInTheManual: Some details about the Hammer Drones not shown in the movie are revealed in the ''Guidebook to the Marvel Cinematic Universe'', such as the facts that the Navy Drones have fixed-point coil lasers, the Air Force Drones have thermal vision vortex ring guns, and the Marine Drones have high-definition cameras.
190	* AmericanRobot: Subverted. At first, Justin Hammer tries to pass them off as this. The drones were built to serve in the U.S. Armed Force, they come in [[RealRobotGenre Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine]] models, and every model has a specialist weapon or device attached to it (an autocannon for the Army, missile launchers for the Navy, high-speed flight systems for the Air Force, and close-range machine guns for the Marines). Too bad [[RenegadeRussian Ivan Vanko]] has different plans for them...
191	* AnimatedArmor: Initially, they were created to be simple [[PoweredArmor armors]] that have to be piloted by someone inside of them. However, when Ivan Vanko was recruited to work with Hammer, he decided to turn the armors into drones capable of moving on their own, without needing any pilots.
192	* AntiAir: This is pretty much the Army Drones' job, as they are the ones charged with firing at Iron Man while he's flying in the air. They fail to actually hit him though, but they accidentally shoot down one of the Air Force Drones.
193	* AntiClimax: After [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Justin Hammer]] and [[EvilGenius Ivan Vanko]] spent a large part of the movie building an army of robots supposedly capable of challenging Iron Man, you'd be forgiven for expecting an epic showdown between them and the heroes during the climax... Instead, after the (admittedly pretty cool) ChaseScene, Iron Man and War Machine manage to [[CurbStompBattle easily defeat all of them in less than a minute]].
194	* ArmCannon: The drones all have machine guns mounted in their arms, as well as missile launchers in the case of the Air Force and the Marine Drones, and also multigrenade launchers for the Army Drones.
195	* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: All the drones have their weapons fully loaded, despite the fact that they weren't expected to perform any live fire demonstrations during the presentation. Granted, this was probably Vanko's doing, but it's still odd that nobody involved in transporting them to the expo tried to check first.
196	* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: Even though they are supposed to be "the new face of the United States Military", there are only four different lines of drones (one for the U.S. Army, one for the Navy, one for the Air Force and one for the Marine Corps), while there are five branches of the U.S. Armed Forces. For some reason, the United States Coast Guard is the only one that was not included (maybe Justin Hammer simply forgot it even existed?).
197	* AttackAttackAttack: Once they are activated, they do nothing but attack Iron Man over and over, no matter what. Even when one of them crashes into an advertising screen, it immediately gets up and keeps attacking the hero like nothing happened. Justified, as it's in their program to specifically target Iron Man.
198	* AttackDrone: They are an army of fully weaponized drones created for combat, and at the climax of the movie, [[BigBad Ivan Vanko]] remotely controls them to attack the heroes.
199	* BackpackCannon: The Air Force Drones have machine guns mounted on their back, allowing them to shoot at their target while flying.
200	* BadassArmy: They are an army of flying robots armed with missile launchers and autocannons that are supposed to replace the U.S. militaries. Slightly subverted in that they're not badass enough to defeat Iron Man and War Machine, though (admittedly, this is not exactly an easy task).
201	* {{BFG}}: ''All'' the Army Drones have a shoulder-mounted autocannon that is certainly big enough to qualify.
202	* TheBlank: Unlike Iron Man's and Whiplash's armors, or even their previous design, the Hammer Drones lack anything resembling a human face, eyes or a mouth.
203	* BoomHeadshot / YourHeadASplode: During the battle inside the Oracle Dome, War Machine blows off one of the Marine Drones' head with his guns before spraying the rest of its body with bullets.
204	** Just before, Iron Man breaks a Marine Drone's head into pieces by kicking it with his knee, then crushes its remaining corpse with his elbow.
205	* BottomlessMagazines: Kind of justified, actually. Even though they fire an astonishing number of bullets at the heroes, the fact that they were converted into drones without pilots inside them means the recovered space could have been used to provide them with more ammunition.
206	** In addition, the trope is partially averted as the Navy Drones eventually run out of missiles, and the Army Drones never use their autocannons during the battle inside the Oracle Dome, implying they are short of ammunition. Plus, it can be easily assumed that all the drones that tried to fight the heroes hand-to-hand did so because they were out of bullets.
207	* BulletSparks: In the final battle, they fire plenty of bullets on the heroes, which make lots and lots of sparks.
208	* CannonFodder: It's implied the drones' real purpose is to get destroyed by Iron Man and War Machine's weapons so that they will be out of ammo when Whiplash arrives.
209	* ChaseScene: The Air Force Drones have a pretty memorable one near the end of the film, where they pursue the protagonist all around Stark Expo, until they get all destroyed thanks to some {{Wronski Feint}}s.
210	* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: The drones have repulsors that leave a blue-ish trail when they are activated, making it easier to differentiate them from Iron Man and War Machine (who both have brighter colors) in scenes where they are all flying.
211	** In addition, each of the four line-up of drones has a different color, which also helps a bit to tell them apart.
212	* ConservationOfNinjutsu: Averted. When the Hammer Drones attack in great numbers, Iron Man and War Machine manage to deal with them without too much trouble, and when faced against a single drone, they can defeat it just as easily, as seen with the one that tried to shoot a child.
213	* CranialProcessingUnit: Destroying their heads seems to be a pretty effective way to kill them, as seen on several occasions during the final fight.
214	* CurbStompBattle: They didn't do particularly well against Iron Man and War Machine, to say the least. During the battle inside the Oracle Dome, they all end up destroyed in barely a minute.
215	* CyberCyclops: All of them have a rectangular camera on their face that they use to see, making them look like this trope.
216	* DarkIsEvil: They have rather dark colors, and serve as the BigBad's army.
217	* DefeatEqualsExplosion: Played with. They all explode shortly after being defeated, however it's due to Vanko activating their SelfDestructMechanism rather than because of the defeat in itself (that being said, he activated it because he and his drones lost the battle...).
218	* DiagonalCut: After Iron Man used his Death Blossom lasers to kill the last drones, a couple of them remain standing for a few seconds before collapsing, sliced in half.
219	* DisastrousDemonstration: Invoked. Vanko deliberately waits until the Hammer Drones are being displayed at Stark Expo as a big event before taking control of them and letting them cause mayhem.
220	* EleventhHourRanger: The Marine Drones stay dormant during the majority of the chase scene and are only activated near the end of it, just in time to join the other drones for the final fight against Iron Man and War Machine in the Oracle Dome.
221	* EliteMooks: While they are still defeated without too much trouble by the heroes, the drones are definitely far more powerful and dangerous compared to the Hammer security guards. Heck, with all the firepower at their disposal, they're arguably some of the strongest and most destructive {{Mooks}} within the entire MCU.
222	* EveryoneChasingYou: All the Air Force Drones plus War Machine chase Iron Man for several minutes during the finale, and later the other drones follow him to the Oracle Dome as well.
223	* EvilIsBigger: Downplayed compared to [[Film/IronMan1 Iron Monger]], but the drones are at least one full head taller than human beings, including the heroes when they wear their {{Powered Armor}}s.
224	* EvilKnockoff: The Hammer Drones are low-quality knockoffs of Iron Man's armors, designed to compete with him.
225	* EyeLightsOut: Downplayed. Some, but not all, of the drones have the light of their arc reactor fading off when they get killed.
226	* FacelessGoons: In comparison to Iron Man and War Machine, they have particularly non-human faces, which serves to dehumanize them and make sure that the audience won't empathize too much with them or feel too bad when they are violently massacred.
227	* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: In the battle towards the end of the movie, the drones get slaughtered by the heroes in rather brutal ways, such as having their head blown off, getting cut in half or being smashed into pieces. Even if they are not flesh-and-blood, the way their oil is splattering every time they get hurt still makes it look like a bloodbath and can be a little disturbing to watch...
228	* FakeUltimateMook: Despite being supposed to "make Iron Man look like an antique", they all get beaten by him fairly easily, and are shown to have less efficient firepower and cannot take nearly as much damages as him.
229	* {{Flight}}: All of them have flight capability due to being designed with repulsor flight technology. The Air Force models in particular are skilled enough to effectively chase Iron Man throughout Stark Expo for a long period of time.
230	* FlyingFirepower: In addition to having the ability to fly, they all have machine guns built in their wrist and are equipped with missile launchers, autocannons, grenade launchers and other firearms of all kinds.
231	* FourIsDeath: There are four different lines of drones, each representing a branch of the U.S. Armed Force ([[ArtisticLicenseMilitary even though there are actually five branches...]]), and they all are equally deadly {{Killer Robot}}s.
232	* FriendlyFire: One of the Army Drones accidently shoots down an Air Force Drone that was chasing Iron Man, while targeting the latter. Shortly afterward, it happens again in the battle inside the Oracle Dome, where one of the drones fires a missile at Iron Man and hits the Marine Drone that was behind him.
233	* GlowingMechanicalEyes: The rectangular cameras on the drones' faces that serve as their eyes are constantly glowing in blue light.
234	* GoneHorriblyRight: Justin Hammer insisted to Vanko that he wanted the drones to steal the show. Well, they did... by wreaking havoc and causing panic at Stark Expo. Probably not the way he intended, but at least he can be sure that every newspaper is going to talk about it.
235	* GoneHorriblyWrong: From Justin Hammer's point of view at least, the drones presentation didn't exactly go as planned. From Ivan Vanko's view, on the other hand, everything went perfectly according to his plans.
236	* GrenadeLauncher: The Army Drones all have a multigrenade launcher installed on their wrist.
237	* GeoEffects: When the drones arrive in the Oracle Dome, they surround Iron Man and War Machine from a much more elevated position, which according to Rhodey give them the advantage over the two of them in the ensuing battle. Subverted, as the drones loose the fight anyway.
238	* GrievousHarmWithABody: During the final battle, some drones' parts are used by Iron Man to do this to other drones
239	* GuiltFreeExterminationWar: Being robots, they obviously feel nothing about killing the heroes, and unsurprisingly, [[JustAMachine neither do the heroes have any guilt about destroying them]].
240	* HackYourEnemy: They started off as Hammer Industries' products, but Vanko easily manages to hack them to make them become his own {{Mooks}}.
241	* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: At the end of the battle inside the Oracle Dome, all the remaining drones get sliced in two by Iron Man and his Death Blossom lasers.
242	* HeartLight: Just like Iron Man's, Iron Monger's, War Machine's and Whiplash's armors, the Hammer Drones have a glowing arc reactor installed in their chest that powers them.
243	* HeavilyArmoredMook
244	* HoistByHisOwnPetard: At least one of the Air Force Drones gets blasted out of the sky by a misplaced shot from an Army Drone.
245	** It happens quickly, but during the final fight we can see in the background one of the Marine Drones being blown up by another drone's missile that missed Iron Man.
246	* HollywoodHacking: Ivan Vanko managed to hack into their system with incredible ease. Apparently, Hammer's security systems are just the worst. Lampshaded by Vanko:
247	-->'''Ivan Vanko:''' Software shit.
248	* HomingProjectile: The Navy Drones and Air Force Drones both have guided missile launchers mounted on their arms. During the chase scene in the carpark, one of the Air Force Drones fires two of its missiles at Iron Man, only for him to manage a HighSpeedMissileDodge.
249	* ImmuneToBullets: Surprisingly averted, unlike Iron Man's and War Machine's and even the second Whiplash's armors, they are totally vulnerable to bullets. Rhodey is notably able to take down several of them with any of his different types of guns in the final battle.
250	* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Downplayed, as they actually manage to hit the heroes when they're firing normal bullets with their machine guns, but they completely miss every time they try to use a weapon that may have a chance to seriously hurt them such as the autocannon or missile launchers. Of course, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome one of them requires the Drone to lock itself into a fixed angle before firing and another is designed to lock onto and hit much larger targets than a man-sized Iron Man armor.]]
251	* IncrediblyObviousBomb: They become these in the end, with their arc reactors ticking and flashing red light faster and faster, making it clear to everyone ([[IdiotBall except Pepper Potts, surprisingly]]) that they are going to self-destruct.
252	* InformedAbility: According to Justin Hammer, the drones are supposed to "make Iron Man look like an antique" and to be capable of replacing not only him, but also the U.S. militaries. However, they are clearly shown to be far less powerful than any of Iron Man's armors, and they can't even withstand bullets particularly well, making Hammer's claims ''extremely'' doubtful at best.
253	* InfraredXrayCamera: Apparently, some of the drones have thermal vision cameras.
254	* InSeriesNickname: Tony Stark refers to them as "Hammeroids" at one point. The term became very popular among fans.
255	-->'''Tony:''' I will formally apologize when I am not fighting off a Hammer-oid attack.
256	* InstantAwesomeJustAddMecha: They are the first humanoid-shaped robots of large size introduced in the MCU, but [[Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron certainly not the]] [[Series/AgentsOfShield last ones]].
257	* ItsRainingMen: Near the end of the movie, the drones go after Iron Man and War Machine inside the Oracle Dome. Once there, they all drop from a certain height and land around the two heroes one-by-one, surrounding them. Since they are robots made of metal and they slightly used their RocketBoots to slow down their descent, the fall doesn't hurt them at all.
258	* JobStealingRobot: Justin Hammer is planning to make them replace the U.S. militaries in order to reduce human casualties (he still says he consider human presence as necessary though, but he's only talking about men in {{Powered Armor}}s), as well as Iron Man himself. In a sense, when they are turned into drones they also technically stole the job of whoever was supposed to pilot them as {{Powered Armor}}s.
259	* KillerRobot: They are heavily armed robots designed for the sole purpose of destroying their enemies.
260	* KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter: Even though they have similar technology to Iron Man, who has [[PowerPalms Repulsors]], ChestBlaster and [[EnergyWeapon Frickin' Laser Beams]] , and were created by Vanko, who is capable of creating Electro-whips, the drones only use relatively common weapons, such as machine guns, missiles and grenade launchers. [[SubvertedTrope It didn't really help them win against the heroes during the climactic battle, though.]]
261	* LawOfInverseRecoil: Justified. The Army Drones utilize rather excessive 25mm Bushmaster autocannon, but they manage to avoid being RecoiledAcrossTheRoom every time they shoot by using foot-mounted anchor spikes that serve as outriggers.
262	* LetsSplitUpGang: While chasing Iron Man through the carpark, a few Air Force Drones split up from the others in order to lure him back to Stark Expo. Also, when the four lines of drones are activated they all go on separate directions, with the Air Force Drones following Iron Man through the sky, the Navy Drones going at the exit to fire their missiles, the Army Drones accompanying them outside and placing themselves at the stairs to shoot at Tony, and the Marine Drones staying where they are.
263	* LightIsNotGood: Despite having a HeartLight and a glowing camera on their face, they are definitely ''not'' good guys. Instead, they're dangerous {{Killer Robot}}s used by the BigBad to try to kill the heroes.
264	* LosingYourHead: Due to them being robots, Hammer can remove one of the drones' head and shows it to Vanko when asking what it was without it being a problem. Vanko himself did the same thing the first time he comes face-to-face with them, while they were still {{Powered Armor}}s.
265	-->'''Justin Hammer:''' What is that? Ivan...What’s this? Is that a helmet? It doesn’t look like a helmet to me. How are you supposed to get a head in there? Jack, could you put your head in there? Try to put your head in there. Go ahead. Try to put your head in there. See, Ivan? He can’t put his head in there. That’s...That's... That’s not a helmet. It’s a head.
266	* MachineBlood: The way their oil is spurting every time they are injured during the fight against Iron Man and War Machine makes it very reminiscent of blood.
267	* MacrossMissileMassacre: This trope is the Navy Drones' speciality, as they all have two shoulder-mounted missile launchers, each of them carrying six missiles, plus three others mounted in a pod on each of their arms, making a total of eighteen missiles per drones. The Air Force Drones and the Marine Drones also have missiles inside their arms.
268	* MadeOfPlasticine: Compared to Iron Man's and War Machine's as well as Whiplash's armors, at least. During the final battle, the two heroes manage to tear them apart as easily as if they were made of cardboard.
269	* MechaMooks: The Hammer Drones are a typical example of this trope. They are non-sentient robots sent by the BigBad to kill the heroes, attack them in large number, but are quite easily destroyed in various manners. Good thing Vanko made them drones rather than men in {{Powered Armor}}s, this way the audience has no problem when they are brutally slaughtered by the heroes.
270	* MilitarySalute: Vanko tells Justin Hammer that "make salute" is the only thing they are ready do for now. Of course, he was lying and the drones can do much more than that, but it turns out they can indeed make a military salute and they all do one at the same time in response to Rhodey's during the presentation at Stark Expo.
271	* MissileLockOn: Vanko locked all of them on Iron Man, causing the Air Force Drones and War Machine to chase him unrelentingly through Stark Expo while the other drones are firing at him from the ground.
272	* MistakenIdentity: One of them mistakes a kid wearing an Iron Man mask for the real deal and tries to shoot him. Fortunately, the real Iron Man shows up just in time and blast the drone down as it realises its mistake.
273	* MookCarryover: Sort of. They were first created by [[BigBadWannabe Justin Hammer]] (as {{Powered Armor}}s) and were supposed to be utilized by ''him'', however when [[BigBad Ivan Vanko]] was hired to work on them, he ended up taking control of them and using them to fulfill his own goals.
274	* MookChivalry: When some of the drones try to fight the heroes hand-to-hand, for the most part they only go one at a time. Though the others continue to shoot, at least.
275	* MoreDakka: They all have machine guns mounted in their wrist (and also in their back in the case of the Air Force Drones) that they use to strafe their enemies with plenty of bullets.
276	* MundaneUtility: They are high-tech robots equipped with all kinds of weaponry. What does Justin Hammer use them for? Decorate his presentation and respond to War Machine's salute. Justified, as Vanko told him it was the only things they could do.
277	* MurderByMistake: Due to their high number, some of the Hammer Drones that tried to shoot at Iron Man end up killing other drones behind him instead.
278	* UsefulNotes/NavySeals: The Navy Drones, of course, are supposed to become the new Navy [=SEALs=].
279	* NoisyRobots: Similar to Iron Man's armors, the Hammer Drones make a lot of sounds whenever they move or when they adjust their weapons.
280	* OneDimensionalThinking / TwoDSpace: When Iron Man flew through the Stark Expo's Unisphere, all the Air Force Drones followed him inside rather than simply flying over it, even though he was already out by the time they arrived. [[TooDumbToLive This caused all of them to get destroyed]].
281	* OneHitPointWonder: Any of them can be killed with only one of Iron Man's repulsor blasts, one of his missiles, or even with just a punch.
282	* ThePawnsGoFirst: If he had wanted to, Vanko could have joined the drones in the battle against Iron Man and War Machine, but he deliberately chose to wait until they're all destroyed instead. Presumably, he wanted them to soften the two heroes before he fights them himself.
283	* PersonOfMassDestruction: Not as much as Iron Man or War Machine, but they are still capable of causing a great deal of havoc. Especially the Navy Drones, which provoke a lot of destruction in Stark Expo with their missiles.
284	* PlotHole: Even though there were only eight drones per branches of the U.S. military during their presentation, making it a total of of thirty-two drones, they are clearly much more numerous than that a few moments later during the battle against Iron Man and War Machine.
285	** Also, the Air Force Drone 0303 apparently gets destroyed twice according to Vanko's computer, the first time when it's accidently shot down by the Army Drones, and the second time when two drones collides with each other and crash into a pillar in the carpark.
286	* PoweredArmor: They started off as this, but Vanko decided to turn them into drones because, as he explains to Hammer, "drones better".
287	* PricelessPaperweight: Each of them is a high-tech robot worth tens of millions dollars, but when Vanko pretends they are not combat-ready, Justin Hammer decides to only use them as little more than background decoration for his presentation. He even refers to them as "overpriced paperweights" at one point.
288	-->'''Justin Hammer:''' And now your overpriced paperweights are gonna look like a backdrop to my demonstration.
289	* QuantityVsQuality: Vanko clearly focused them on quantity, while focusing his second armor on quality. Though great in number, the drones have relatively weak firepower compared to the likes of Iron Man and War Machine and are rather easy to defeat, whereas Vanko's second armor is a single model but is way stronger and tougher than all the drones combined.
290	* RealRobotGenre: The Hammer Drones mostly qualify as Real Robots. They are mass-produced units built by a weapons manufacturing company, they only use normal firearms (unlike Iron Man or Whiplash), they were given some tests (as seen in the video during the Congress), and they are supposed to be sold to the U.S. militaries to fight during wars.
291	* RedEyesTakeWarning: It's not their eyes, but each drones' arc reactors turn red when Vanko activates their SelfDestructMechanism, warning the heroes (and the audience) they are about to explode.
292	* ReplacementMooks: At first, Justin Hammer tried to have henchmen wearing {{Powered Armor}}s, but they turned out to be rather ineffective (not to mention dangerous for their own pilots). As a result, Vanko decided to replace them with more capable drones, justifying himself by saying that "People make problem. Drone better." (in reality, he mostly wanted to be able to hijack them and send them after Iron Man).
293	* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Due to the recoil created by their autocannons, the Army Drones have anchor spikes mounted on their feet that they can use to stabilize.
294	* RoboCam: We're given several shots of their vision, notably when one of them nearly kills a kid with an Iron Man mask.
295	* RobotNames: As shown on Vanko's computer, each individual drone has a name, which starts with some figure that is followed by the diminutive of the branch of the U.S. Armed Forces to which it belongs and a number:
296	** The Army Drones are referred as lozenge - ARM - 0101 up to 0108.
297	** The Navy Drones are referred as barred square - NAV - 0301 up to 0308 (oddly, there are no number 0201 to 0208),
298	** The Air Force Drones are referred as triangle - AIR - 0301 up to 0308.
299	** The Marine Drones are referred as star - MAR - 0401 up to 0408.
300	** Whilpash is referred as a big triangle - HSD - 001.
301	** War Machine (whose suit is also known as Variable Threat Response Battle Suit) is referred as a green lozenge - VTRB - 0001.
302	** Iron Man is referred as a white circle - IRM - 0001.
303	* RobotSoldier: They are an army of robots created to be used by the militaries to fight during wars in place of human soldiers. Although Vanko has other plans for them, but it still involves them participating in a battle.
304	* RobotsAreJustBetter: This is basically the reason given by Vanko to make them {{Attack Drone}}s rather than {{Powered Armor}}s (although the real reason is that he's secretly planning to use them for himself).
305	-->'''Ivan Vanko:''' Drone better.\
306	'''Justin Hammer:''' What? Drone better? Why is drone better? Why is drone better?\
307	'''Ivan Vanko:''' People make problem. Trust me. Drone better.
308	* RocketBoots: Much like Iron Man, they all have those in their foot. The Air Force Drones also have reactors in their back in order to help them fly better.
309	* UsefulNotes/RussianLanguage: After the drones are hijacked by Vanko, their systems are written in Russian. In addition, some of them are apparently communicating in Russian language.
310	-->'''Hammer Technician:''' Each set of drones is... is communicating in its own unique language.\
311	'''Pepper Potts:''' Choose one and focus on that.\
312	'''Justin Hammer:''' Have you tried Russian? Why don't you try Russian?
313	* SapientTank: Downplayed as they are still machines, but the Army Drones are essentially humanoid tanks and have a robotic intelligence.
314	* SeeingThroughAnothersEyes: Everything the drones are seeing through the cameras on their faces is also seen by Ivan Vanko on his computer.
315	* SelfDestructMechanism: At the end of the battle, it turns out all the drones have one that Whiplash activates as [[TakingYouWithMe a last attempt to kill the heroes]].
316	* SemperFi: The Marine Drones, being huge robots equipped with machine guns, missile launchers, repulsors and everything. That being said, they are not particularly stronger that the other drones...
317	* SendInTheClones: The Hammer Drones are of course inspired by Iron Man. Just like several countries were trying to do, Justin Hammer wanted to create mass-produced Iron Men. So, at the movie's climax, the hero basically has to fight an army of knockoffs of himself.
318	* SequelEscalation: At the end of the first film, Tony only had to fight one guy in PoweredArmor (Iron Monger). In the second film, he and Rhodey naturally have to fight an entire army of robots plus another guy in PoweredArmor (Whiplash).
319	* SetAMookToKillAMook: At two different points, Iron Man dodges the shots of some drones, causing them to hit other drones behind him.
320	* ShootingSuperman: They keep trying to kill Iron Man and War Machine by firing normal bullets at them, even though it clearly has little to no effect on their armors. Granted, from time to time they also use heavier weapons that have better chances to actually harm them, such as autocannons and missiles, [[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy but they tend to miss every time they shoot those ones...]]
321	* ShoulderCannon: The Army Drones have an autocannon mounted on their shoulder.
322	* SlidingScaleOfRobotIntelligence: They are straight Bricks, only capable of obeying their programming and not much more.
323	* SomebodySetUpUsTheBomb: Without anyone knowing it, Ivan Vanko installed a powerful SelfDestructMechanism inside the drones before they were sent to the expo. He ends up activating it near the end of the film, and the ensuing explosions cause a lot of destruction within Stark Expo, but fortunately the protagonists manage to get to safety.
324	* SpaceMarine: Or rather, robot Marines, in the case of the Marine Drones.
325	* StalkerWithoutACrush: They ruthlessly hunt down Iron Man and will never stop, ''ever'', until they manage to kill him. Justified, since they are robots and have been programmed to target him.
326	* StompyMooks: They make quite a lot of noise when they are walking, when they land on the ground, or even [[NoisyRobots when they're just moving]].
327	* SuicidalOverconfidence: Even though they are quite clearly outmatched, the drones keep attacking Iron Man and War Machine over and over, until all of them are destroyed. To be fair, this is only due to their programming, not because they really believed they could win.
328	* SuperiorSuccessor: While nowhere near as effective as Tony Stark's armors, the drones are still working ''much'' better than Hammer's previous {{Powered Armor}}s.
329	* SuperPersistentMissile: The Air Force Drones act like this during the finale, relentlessly following Iron Man all across Stark Expo no matter what's on their way. They don't even let the mere fact of crashing into obstacles (like when one of them bump into an advertising screen) stop them from pursuing him.
330	* SuperpoweredMooks: Similar to the heroes, the drones have an arc reactor powering them and are equipped with repulsors that allow them to fly, and more importantly with a vast array of weapons that include machine guns, missile launchers and autocannons among others, all of which making them a force to be reckoned with.
331	* SuperWristGadget: All of them have machine guns, missiles and other types of weapons built into their wrists.
332	* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Naturally, the Army Drones' autocannons have a lot of recoil, hence why they need to use their foot-mounted anchor spikes in order to stabilize when they shoot with it.
333	* TakingYouWithMe: Just like Whiplash's second armor, they blow themselves up after their defeat as a last attempt to kill the heroes. Needless to say, it doesn't work. While the ensuing explosions cause lots of collateral damages, the heroes manage to escape in time.
334	* TankGoodness: Again, the Army Drones have a shoulder-mounted autocannons that they use againt Iron Man.
335	* ThatPoorCar: During the climactic chase scene, the Air Force Drones (and War Machine) follow Iron Man through a carpark and they set off almost all the cars' alarms.
336	* ThreePointLanding: Surprisingly, averted. During the climactic battle in the Oracle Dome, they all land in a standing posture. Presumably, having a good dozen {{ThreePointLanding}}s in a row would diminish the drama. Also, as drones, they have higher g-tolerances than humans, and don't need to cushion their landings.
337	* ThrowTheMookAtThem: It's easy to miss, but shortly before all the drones get destroyed by the Death Blossom laser during the final fight, one of them gets grabbed by Iron Man and then thrown on another drone, destroying both of them.
338	* TimeBomb: Become this after Vanko activated their SelfDestructMechanism. While no precise time limit is given, it takes them approximately 30 seconds of movie time to blow up, forcing Iron Man to hurry up to go pick Pepper and put her into safety before the explosions kill her.
339	* TinCanRobot: Downplayed, but their overall appearance looks a bit like this trope.
340	* TooDumbToLive: Following Iron Man inside the Stark Expo's Unisphere wasn't really a good idea, and led to the destruction of roughly all the Air Force Drones. The other drones don't seem to have a particularly good sense of self-preservation either, as [[SuicidalOverconfidence they keep attacking the heroes, including by trying to fight them hand-to-hand, even when it's obvious they don't stand a chance]]. Justified though, as they are programmed to act this way.
341	* VictoryByEndurance: It's heavily implied the reason Vanko sent them after Iron Man and War Mar Marchine is to force the heroes to burn most of their energy and ammunition against them (notably Iron Man's one-time use Death Blossom lasers) before he goes fight them himself.
342	* VillainOverride: They are victims of this during the expo, in which Vanko takes control of all of them to go after Iron Man.
343	* WalkingArmory: Much like Iron Man's and War Machine's armors, all the drones are equipped with a huge amount of weaponry:
344	** The Army Drones have machine gun and multigrenade launcher on their wrists, and a autocannon on their shoulder.
345	** The Navy Drones also have machine gun on their wrist, plus two missile launchers on their shoulders and missiles mounted in a pod on each arm.
346	** The Air Force Drones have machine guns on their wrist and their back, and two wrist-mounted missile launchers.
347	** The Marine Drones have machine gun as well as missile launcher on their wrists.
348	* WalkingTank: The Army Drones. They are basically walking tanks with a humanoid shape.
349	* WeHaveReserves:
350	* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Due to them being drones, the heroes have absolutely no issues with destroying them in violent ways. Considering they're basically mindless machines, it's hard to blame them.
351	* WhyAmITicking: As it turns out, Vanko installed a SelfDestructMechanism in every drones and activates it at the end, causing all of them to explode after half a minute of ticking.
352	* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: The one that tried to kill the kid certainly didn't hurry to actually fire, which gave Iron Man enough time to show up and blast it into pieces. In addition, when the drones start landing in the Oracle Dome, they wait until all of them have arrived and even allow Iron Man and War Machine to close their helmets before attacking.
353	* WouldHurtAChild: During the climax, one of the drones tries to kill a child with an Iron Man mask [[note]]apparently a young Peter Parker[[/note]]. In its defense, it genuinely thought he was the real (and very adult) Iron Man.
354	* WronskiFeint: Most of the Air Force Drones get victims of this tactic during the climactic chase scene, with some of them following Iron Man in a carpark and crashing into pillars, another one colliding with an advertising screen a few moments later (although this one manages to recover pretty quickly), and finally all the remaining ones being destroyed after trying to follow Iron Man in the Stark Expo's Unisphere.
355	* YouAreNumberSix: As shown on Vanko's computer, each individual drone has a number assigned to it that follows a figure symbolizing its branch from the U.S. Armed Forces and the diminutive of the branch's name:
356	** The Army Drones are referred as lozenge - ARM - 0101 up to 0108.
357	** The Navy Drones are referred as barred square - NAV - 0301 up to 0308 (oddly, there are no number 0201 to 0208),
358	** The Air Force Drones are referred as triangle - AIR - 0301 up to 0308.
359	** The Marine Drones are referred as star - MAR - 0401 up to 0408.
360	** Whilpash is referred as a big triangle - HSD - 001.
361	** War Machine is referred as a green lozenge - VTRB - 0001.
362	** Iron Man is referred as a white circle - IRM - 0001.
363	* ZergRush: They are clearly a lot weaker than Iron Man and War Machine, with their only advantage being that they vastly outnumber them. Therefore, they try to use sheer number to overwhelm the two heroes in the final battle. This might have worked if Iron Man didn't have the Death Blossom lasers...
364	[[/folder]]
365
366	!!!Associates
367
368	[[folder:French Prison Guard]]
369	!!''French Prison Guard''
370	!!!'''Species:''' Human
371	!!!'''Citizenship:''' French
372	!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Karim Saleh
373	!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/IronMan2''
374
375	A French prison guard who helped Justin Hammer to get Ivan Vanko out of jail.
376	----
377	* BilingualBonus: All of his lines of dialogue are in French.
378	* CorruptCop: Or prison guard, in his case. Justin Hammer bribes him to break out Ivan Vanko and bring him to him.
379	* FrenchJerk: He is french, and is a CorruptCop.
380	* IgnoredExpert: He's aware of Vanko's unpredictable nature and tries to warn Justin Hammer about it, but Hammer dismisses it.
381	* JailBake: He helps Ivan Vanko to escape from his cell and fake his death by giving him a meal tray with some plastic explosives hidden in place of the potatoes.
382	* KarmaHoudini: Despite his complicity in Vanko's prison break, which led to the deaths of at least two people, he's never seen receiving any comeuppance.
383	* NoNameGiven: His actual name is unknown.
384	* OnlySaneMan: He seems to be the only associate of Justin Hammer who realizes just how dangerous Ivan Vanko really is.
385	* WardensAreEvil: He's a prison guard, and has no problem with letting a prisoner escape and sacrificing another.
386	* YoureInsane: Tells Justin Hammer that Vanko is crazy, in the latter's presence.
387	-->'''French Prison Guard:''' Je te laisse pas avec lui, il est ouf ![[labelnote:Translation]]''"I'm not leaving you alone with him, he's crazy!"''[[/labelnote]]
388	[[/folder]]
389
390	[[folder:Ivan Vanko / Whiplash]]
391	!!''Ivan Vanko / Whiplash''
392	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/whiplash_im2_3302.png]]
393	[[caption-width-right:300:''"What your father did to my family over 40 years, I will do to you in 40 minutes."'']]
394	[[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see the upgraded Whiplash suit]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ad17bb19e73d1b039a424b8c19d2a249.png[softreturn]''"You lose."'']][[/labelnote]]
395	!!!'''Species:''' Human
396	!!!'''Citizenship:''' Russian
397	!!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Hammer Industries (formerly)
398	!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/MickeyRourke
399	!!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/CarlosSegundo (Latin-American Spanish dub), Alfonso Vallés (European Spanish dub), Creator/TakayukiSugo (Japanese dub), Michel Vigné (French dub), Benoît Rousseau (Canadian French dub)
400	!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/IronMan2'' \| ''[[WesternAnimation/WhatIf2021 What If...?]]'' [[note]]Archive footage from ''Iron Man 2''[[/note]]
401
402	->''"If you could make God bleed, people would cease to believe in Him. There will be blood in the water, the sharks will come. All I have to do is sit back and watch as the world consumes you."''
403
404	Son of Anton Vanko, a former partner of Howard Stark, who forced his father's exile to Siberia, and a subsequently miserable life turned him to revenge against Howard's son Tony.
405	-----
406	* AbortedArc: His death was deliberately made ambiguous in case Marvel Studios wanted to bring him back in future movies. Unfortunately, Creator/MickeyRourke [[CreatorBacklash hated the movie so much]] that Vanko is unlikely to ever return unless they pull an [[TheOtherDarrin Other Darrin]].
407	* AffablyEvil: Vanko's shown to be a pretty nice guy as long as you're on his good side, and even if you aren't, he isn't above some polite conversation.
408	* ArchEnemy: To Tony Stark, though it's very one-sided on his side as Tony views him more as an annoyance than a threat. However, Vanko had dedicated his life to killing Tony due to his father having been screwed over by the latter's.
409	* BadassNormal: Electro-whips aside, Vanko's just a normal guy fighting true PoweredArmor. Until his second suit, which is indeed PoweredArmor and much stronger than Tony's and Rhodey's. He's implied to be a fearsome guy in his past (Mafiya tattoos and all).
410	* BigBad: In ''Iron Man 2'', he's the major threat and the one pulling the strings, but he's content to let Hammer ''think'' he's just an underling.
411	* CanonForeigner: There were four people who took on the mantle of Whiplash before the release of ''Film/IronMan2'', but none of them were named Ivan Vanko.
412	* CanonImmigrant: Vanko's version of Whiplash is later migrated into [[Franchise/MarvelUniverse mainstream Marvel comics universe]].
413	* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Like Tony, his "superpowers" are all part of his suit.
414	* CompositeCharacter: Of Whiplash (the whips) and Crimson Dynamo (the PoweredArmor, being Russian, and his name), with some elements of Morgan Stark (his motivation for revenge, using remote-controlled drones) thrown in for good measure.
415	* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Unlike Stane who had known the Stark family for many years, Vanko introduced himself to Tony in his debut film and held a grudge against the Starks after what they did to his father. While they both used advanced suits of armor to battle Tony Stark, Stane possessed great ambition and plans while Vanko simply wanted Tony dead and had little care about what would happen to him afterward.
416	* CutLexLuthorACheck: DiscussedTrope; Tony asks why he didn't take his arc reactor, inferior to his but still functional, to an enemy nation or the black market and make a fortune. He also could have lived a comfortable life on Hammer's dollar with the quality of work he was providing. In both cases, he preferred using his talents to get revenge on Tony instead of making money.
417	* DragonInChief: Was this to Justin Hammer.
418	* DragonWithAnAgenda: Let Hammer believe he was helping him embarrass and upstage Tony when, in actuality, he was placating him while developing the tech he would use in his revenge scheme.
419	* DrivenToSuicide: Unable to kill Tony and wounded by him, he activates the self-destruct device inside his Whiplash PowerArmor and other Hammer Drones, gloating to Tony, "You lose." while he laughed.
420	* DualWielding: Can swing two whips at once.
421	* EvenEvilHasStandards: He screws over the deal with Justin Hammer, goes full-on vengeance rampage mode and doesn't care about the collateral in his wake - but he doesn't bother to try to kill Justin when he more than has the capability to with the man's company at his mercy. Whether because he considered the man beneath him or simply didn't want to kill the person that got him so much farther to begin with isn't known, and this is after Justin deliberately cut corners and [[KickTheDog didn't bother to actually get Vanko's bird for him by buying another instead.]]
422	* EvilCounterpart: He built a miniature arc reactor out of scraps and used it to power weapons that gave Iron Man a good run for his money. The novelization even has Tony Stark note that if their fathers had been in reversed positions and it was Howard who was deported and left to descend into drunken depression, Tony might have ended up just like Vanko.
423	* EvilIsBigger[=/=]LightningBruiser: His Whiplash Mk II armor is noticeably brawnier and more heavily armored than the Iron Man or War Machine suits while retaining a similar level of agility and maneuverability to them, in contrast to the slower, more mech-like Iron Monger.
424	* EvilIsHammy: He smiles with glee upon inflicting harm on Tony Stark.
425	* EvilPlan: "[[{{Revenge}} What your family did to mine in forty years, I will do to you in forty minutes.]]"
426	* FlunkyBoss: Hacks War Machine and the "[[MechaMooks Hammeroids]]", sending them against Tony before he finally takes him on personally.
427	* GeniusBruiser: He looks like a thug and is implied to be part of the Russian Mafia, but he's also one of two people capable of making arc reactor technology, and then he used it to make his own PoweredArmor.
428	* GoodScarsEvilScars: Has the traditional scar down his eye.
429	* GreenEyedMonster: Firmly believes (and not without some measure of justification) that he should have and could have been where Tony is now, if not for Howard Stark screwing his father.
430	* INeedAFreakingDrink: He swallows down vodka as his father dies before him.
431	* LargeHam: Creator/MickeyRourke is clearly enjoying himself, best represented by Vanko frequently breaking into a smug smile.
432	* LightningLash: His electro whips cut really well.
433	* MadeOfIron: His harness gives him a good degree of protection. Happy drives a car into him and Vanko is barely stunned, and after being flung through the air onto the asphalt, he's still conscious enough to taunt Tony, if dazed and bleeding heavily.
434	* TheMafiya: If his tattoos are accurate, he's a member.
435	* NeverFoundTheBody: His death isn't shown on screen and it's never stated if his remains were recovered, leaving wiggle room for a potential return. In the original ending (which was included as a deleted scene), he's explicitly killed onscreen by War Machine.
436	* ObfuscatingStupidity: He shows that he's both fluent and eloquent in his early face-to-face confrontation with Tony Stark, but speaks to Hammer in broken, barely intelligible English just [[{{Troll}} to mess with him]].
437	* OralFixation: His toothpick.
438	* PetTheDog: In his only displays of kindness, he shows he likes cockatoos, even the one Hammer gets him in place of Vanko's own back in Russia. He had a few other PetTheDog moments in Russia to help flesh out his character, which were cut from the film, much to the annoyance of Mickey Rourke.
439	* TheQuietOne: Vanko is very quiet, especially when compared with Tony or Justin. In several of his most prominent scenes, Vanko says barely anything at all; during the climax, his only words are "Good to be back" and "You lose."
440	* RelatedInTheAdaptation: This version of Whiplash is the son of Anton Vanko, the first Crimson Dynamo in the comics.
441	* RenegadeRussian: Tried selling Soviet nuclear fuel on the black market at one point.
442	* RevengeBeforeReason: Why he's not using his technology for practical purposes; he only wants revenge.
443	* ShockAndAwe: His whips are charged with electricity.
444	* SinsOfOurFathers: Tony's, specifically, that caused a drunken depression and a piss-poor childhood.
445	* SpitefulSpit: After his first fight with Tony, he spits [[BloodFromTheMouth blood]] on the ground and shouts "You lose!" at Tony as the police take him away.
446	* TheStoic: Vanko is extremely calm and collected, even when held in captivity or being scolded by his billionaire employer. When Hammer tells his guards to start taking Ivan's bird and other comforts away, you can see when he stops protesting and when he starts just going with it silently. It's like flicking a switch.
447	* TattooedCrook: Displays tattoos that are common with Russian criminals.
448	* TragicVillain: All his disdain for Tony's family is well-founded (save for the fact that his own father was a crook). His father was cut off from the project he helped start, was deported to a winter wasteland to die in bitter swill of alcoholism and disgrace, and he himself got wrapped up in organized crime to make a living. Beneath his cold exterior is a genius mind that even Tony Stark is impressed by.
449	** Mickey Rourke, the actor, wanted to play up more on this aspect of the villain, but due to Executive Meddling from Marvel, his ideas ended up on the cutting room floor.
450	* {{Troll}}: He enjoys antagonizing Hammer just for the sake of doing it, such as telling him the drones won't be ready for the expo presentation when they most definitely are.
451	* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: His harness, and later his PoweredArmor, aren't shown to have any onboard weapons like the Iron Man or War Machine armor, except for the whips. Vanko still overpowers both of them because the whips are just that effective. [[FridgeBrilliance It makes sense]]; the Iron Man and War Machine armors are filled to the brim with ''[[LongRangeFighter ranged weaponry]]'', most of which is explosive. Up close, they either miss or hit and damage both Vanko and themselves. The whips bring the attacker in close and immobilize them while delivering an electric discharge to fry and mangle the armor.
452	* WorthyOpponent: He believes Tony to be the only one worthy enough to talk straight to. Other times he is either silent or in Hammer's case pretending to be an incompetent, broken English-speaking CloudCuckooLander. With Tony, he makes his intentions clear and even follows Tony's sarcastic advice when upgrading his weaponry.
453	* YellowLightningBlueLightning: His harness had yellow electricity for its whips, but the full set of PoweredArmor he makes for himself gives them blue lightning.
454	* YouKilledMyFather: It is more of ''your father'' killed my father. Howard Stark left Vanko's father to die in exile, and this motivated Vanko to kill Tony Stark since Howard is already dead.
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