IRON MAN 2 is a very exciting action adventure fantasy chock full of adolescent eye candy. It has a heart if you watch to the very end and some positive messages, but it is edgier and darker than the first IRON MAN.
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Iron Man 2 is the second movie in the film series, released in 2010 and based on the character, starring as the armored and directed. It is the third film in the produced and distributed.Several months after the events of, 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 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 , 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 resulting from his arc reactor implant. also features in a supporting role and Lt. James 'Rhodey' Rhodes (now played by ) suits up as his alter-ego.: Vanko's electric whips can slice through cars.
Tony's do-it-yourself particle accelerator emits a beam that slices through his lab wall and some shelving and cabinets as he's aligning it.:. modeled. in, while also discussing.
Another character of his also hung out around a.: Justin Hammer is much easier on the eyes in the film than in the comics, where he's a very wrinkled old man. Partly thanks to the merging of Hammer's character with another rival of Tony's who's much younger.: Combined with. In the comic, Whiplash was just a guy with a ridiculous costume and two lashes. Tony Stark: Gimme a phat beat to beat my buddy's ass to.: Rhodey is trapped inside the War Machine armor with no control over it, no way out and he is forced to try and kill his best friend. The look he gives Tony when Natasha finally reboots the armor remotely says it all.: Tony attempts this several times with Pepper, but only gets as far as making her even more concerned about his mental health.: More like Annoying Foreground Event: During the scene where, he's continuously distracted by the motions of a kinetic sculpture on the desk, eventually interrupting himself and moving so he can't see it. At the end of the scene, he tries to stop it from moving.
And fails.: Rhodey, when his War Machine armor gets hacked and is used to attack his friends.: While it may seem like a standard Hollywood mistake when Justin Hammer calls magazines clips while showing weapons to Rhodey, he also demonstrates complete ignorance and/or apathy towards every rule of firearms safety, not bothering to clear any of the guns he picks up (all of which have magazines inserted), and lacking any muzzle or trigger discipline whatsoever. His appallingly-unsafe handling coupled with the many technical details he gets wrong in the same scene subtly indicate that he really doesnt know what the hell hes talking about, and is trying to dazzle Rhodey with bullshit.: When Natasha is hacking into Rhodey's suit, the Russian 'code' appearing on screen is just a glossary of operators.:. Nick Fury, after having a minor appearance in, gets more screen time and becomes Tony's mentor as a major character in the film.
Played with since had signed a multi-picture contract with Marvel and was always intended to have a recurring role in the MCU. Happy Hogan, after having a few brief appearances in the first movie, becomes a major character in the movie.: Coulson says that he will become one should Tony not get to work. Coulson: If you attempt to leave or play any games, I will tase you and watch while you drool into the carpet.: Iron Man and War Machine facing off back to back against about twenty hijacked Hammer drones.: 'Another One Bites the Dust' plays during the fight scene between Tony and Rhodey.:. During Hammer's description of the Ex-Wife, which is mostly just him giving it flattering compliments that have little to nothing to do with its capabilities, he only gives one notable piece of technical information about it. He describes the missile as containing a 'cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine RDX burst'.
When War Machine uses it on Whiplash, it simply bounces off his armor and sputters on the ground. Tony Stark: I'm not saying that the world is enjoying its longest period of uninterrupted peace in years because of me. I'm not saying that from the. Never has a greater Phoenix metaphor been personified in human history.
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I'm not saying that Uncle Sam can kick back on a lawn chair, sippin' on an iced tea, because I haven't come across anyone who's man enough to go toe-to-toe with me on my best day!.:. The begins with the usual Marvel Comics logo and studio credits, albeit overlaid with sounds of Tony gasping and crying out in utter agony. When we finally cut to Tony, he's wasted and face-first in a toilet; in full armor, no less. The main opening makes it look like Tony is inserting into a hostile warzone with him dodging anti-aircraft munitions, only for the explosions to be revealed as fireworks and him landing at his own expo.: Iron Man and War Machine work together to beat some baddies.
They're also best friends.: The final thing the drunken Stark and Rhodes do in their brawl is point their repulsors at each other and let loose. It knocks Tony on his butt and Rhodes manages to abscond with the Mk.2 armor.:. Rhodey points out that Tony should have used his deadly laser attack at the beginning of the battle. Tony's response is he was saving them, since they're.
A moment later, when Vanko arrives, Rhodey decides to use his most powerful weapon immediately: the bunker buster missile 'the Ex-Wife'. It completely fails.: Justin Hammer, the owner of Hammer Industries and Tony Stark's arch-nemesis, thinks he's calling the shots, but it's really vengeance-crazed madman Ivan Vanko out to destroy Tony who's the real villain.:. When Tony Stark asks Natasha if she actually speaks Latin, she responds with the phrase 'Fallaces sunt rerum species,' a quote from Lucio Anneo Seneca meaning 'The appearances of things are deceptive.' .
Also when Vanko tells Hammer that the drones at the show won't be fully capable, he adds that they will be able to 'make salute.' But in Russian, salyut means fireworks. The Stark Expo turns into one hell of a fireworks show. Black Widow is and speaks Russian, so she is able to reprogram Vanko's hack into War Machine's system. Black Widow: You got your best friend back.:. Tony lands stylishly at the site of his Stark Expo in his Iron Man suit to the cheers of many admirers after skydiving out of his personal carrier.
For added effect, he's surrounded by a group of Rockettes-esque women in garb meant to resemble his armor who are performing the Can-Can. Whiplash also has one, during a Formula One race in order to attack Tony, who is driving one of the said cars.: Overtly, War Machine with his shoulder mounted minigun, but as Tony points out. Stark: Elon, how's it going? Those engines are fantastic.Elon: Thank you. I've got an idea for an electric jet.Stark: You do?Elon: Yeah.Stark: Then we'll make it work.: When Tony shows the Senate Committee other countries' attempts at creating their own Iron Man suits, one camera man is accidentally shot by a malfunctioning suit in North Korea. One in Iran is hit by a crashing suit as it skids along the ground.: After the Marvel-Sony deal in 2015, it's been speculated that the kid in the Iron Man mask at the Stark Expo is a young.
It has since been confirmed by that it is him.: The novelization of the movie claims that the new element Tony creates is vibranium. Needless to say, future MCU movies would establish that this is absolutely not the case.: Happy Hogan repeatedly rams Ivan Vanko during the villain's attack on Tony at the racetrack.: Rhodes throws Stark into the ceiling during their fight.: The revelation in that Senator Stern is an agent of HYDRA puts his designs on Stark's technology in a much more sinister light. Tony's father issues also take a darker subtext with the reveal that the deaths of his parents in a car accident was an assassination engineered by HYDRA.:.
The model for the original Stark Expo shown in Howard Stark's opening video to the modern day Stark Expo ends up being the key to Tony finding an alternative to the palladium in his arc reactor. Played for laughs with Hammer's 'Ex-Wife' missile. After being hyped up to extreme levels, it ends up being worthless. As it does so, too!.:.
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The feedback from two repulsor blasts hitting each other packs one hell of a punch. Another, more villainous example is Ivan's computer hacking skills. Natasha Romanoff's martial arts skills also come in handy. More or less done as a joke, but Happy's knowledge of boxing enables him to take down one security guard at Hammer industries.
Howard Stark: Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to show you. turns his back on the camera and thrusts his butt out.: In Vanko's first confrontation with Tony, his electrified whips made him incredibly dangerous from a specific distance.
With a prolonged whip snag slowly melting through the armor, Tony starts deliberately tangling himself in the whip so that Vanko doesn't have any leverage, and since Vanko is otherwise unarmored, Tony could get in close and knock him out. The armor was nearly compromised as a result, but if he did nothing it wouldn't have ended well either way.: Vanko waits until Hammer's big product-promotion event to unleash his drones. Tony hacks the video screens at the Armed Services Committee and displays footage of North Korea, Iran, and Hammer Industries suffering from this trope while attempting to build their own power armor.:. Black Widow changing clothes in the back of a car nearly causes a crash.
It also happened during the filming: when Scarlett Johansson first appeared in the Black Widow catsuit in the Randy's Donuts scene, Jon Favreau famously tweeted that 'he'd never seen such a quiet film crew before'.: Vanko only works for Hammer as far as it helps with his own.: When Iron Man charges up his one-use laser weapon, the emitters make a sound reminiscent of a shotgun cocking.: Tony decides to get plastered at his birthday party as his arc reactor is slowly killing him. He ends up blowing up half his house.: Drunk Tony in power armor.
It can fly.: The Natalie Rushman is the undercover S.H.I.E.L.D. Super-assassin.: The kid in the mask that helps Tony take out a Hammer drone?.: Pepper Potts tells off Tony for ogling Natasha on their first meeting.: During the Senate hearing early in the film, the senator argues that other countries are trying to make their own battlesuits to replicate Iron Man. Tony promptly uses his own hacking skills to display videos of those attempts, showing just how incapable each of his would-be challengers are:. The North Korean project is a chicken-legged battle suit whose legs are too spindly to support its own weight; it takes one step and breaks its leg, toppling over and discharging its gatling gun uncontrollably.
For added, the bullets kill the camera-bearer recording this, causing his blood to splatter over the screen. The Iranian suit tries to uses its thrusters and can't control itself, launching itself in an impressive spiral through the air before slamming into a solid object at probably fatal velocity. Justin Hammer's own suit suddenly twists 180 degrees at the waist, audibly snapping the spine of the man inside it at the time.
Hammer tries to save face by saying the pilot survived but that just elevates it straight into.: While trying to perfect the arc reactor, Tony suddenly finds inspiration in his father's miniature model of the first Stark Expo. His dad did that on purpose during the video he left behind for Tony. Howard Stark: This is the key to the future, Tony.camera cut to the City of the Futurecamera cut to the Unispherecamera cut to a prototype arc reactor. It seems that they did some research on the missing element. The element in question (118) exists as 'Ununoctium' though it is radioactive and only lasts for a very short time before decaying. It can only be synthesized with the help of a particle accelerator.
However, who's to say there isn't some else coming into play here, like the fact that it's based off of Asgardian matter?.:. 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.: A gender-flipped version. Ivan Vanko, while bitter towards Tony, is perfectly willing to quietly take care of his invalid father, even though the film implies his father was abusive when he was well.: Hammer tells Vanko that the drones better steal the show. They do just that.right out of Hammer's hands. Hammer to Vanko about his bird / Vanko to Hammer about suits: Don't get too attached to things.
Learn to let go.: Justin Hammer tries oh-so-hard to be this to Tony, only to fail spectacularly. It's really driven home during his display at the expo where he tries dancing his way onto the stage in an utterly feeble impersonation of Tony's showmanship to a very underwhelmed audience.
Hilariously, when Tony shows up in the Iron Man armor, doing nothing more than coming in for a landing on the stage, the crowd goes wild. Ivan 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 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.: Two. Hammer wants to upstage Tony at his own expo and become the number one arms dealer. He recruits Ivan to be his. Then Ivan outgambits him.
Ivan wants payback on Tony Stark for. Ivan: Hey, Tony!
How you doin? I double cycle.Tony: What?Ivan: You told me 'double cycle, more power'.Good advice.Tony: You sound pretty sprightly for a dead guy.Ivan: You too. Ha ha!. Justin Hammer will act like your best friend when it's clear he can't stand your guts.: Tony uses his suit's lasers to finish clearing the field of the Hammer drones. Its use at the end is justified as it uses too much power to use more than once.: Limited by the technology of his time, Howard Stark leaves behind a projector reel and a model town that is secretly a blueprint for the new element needed to perfect the arc reactor.: In-universe, what several companies/countries are trying to do in response to the Iron Man suit's existence. With mixed results.: Two repulsor blasts took a toll on both Tony and Rhodey.
Tony later uses the same trick to defeat Whiplash.:. Before even the Thor stinger, we get a hint about the Tesseract. Note the 4D figures in the various archive notes from Tony's father that he pages through.
Before about her identity as Natasha Romanoff (not that it was. Well, anyone who ) 'Natalie' is given an early allusion as to her true role. When Tony and Rhodey are fighting in the mansion and burst from the ceiling, Pepper screams and cringes in horror. 'Natalie' takes an.
She also very briefly has a Russian accent when Tony goes out to drive a racecar, and tells Pepper 'This is the first I am knowing of it.' . Agent Coulson recognising the Captain America shield in Tony's lab, showing his knowledge of the superhero (and him being a fanboy of Steve Rogers).: Tony unveils a high-powered wrist laser that can shear through basically anything, but uses cartridges that burn out after one shot. He pulls a 360 degree spin during the battle with the Hammer drones that turns them all into scrap.:. As mentioned in. During the Iron Man/War Machine fight at the party, watch Pepper and Natalie.
When the armored suits crash through the floor, Pepper screams and flinches, Natalie drops into a combat stance. Pay attention to what Rhodey knocks Tony into the fireplace with. He.
Around 1:13:55. Take a look at the image on the right page of the book Tony is thumbing through. A three dimensional square within a three dimensional square.
Otherwise known as a Tesseract. Seems the Arc Reactor may be based off research on the cube Howard Stark picked up in. When Tony builds the homemade cyclotron, he uses equipment from/for Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S. (Doubles as a Foreshadowing for and.).: War Machine.
Gatling fantastic. Sadly, they got the noise wrong yet again. Imagine how much more awesome the fight scenes would have been if War Machine had been making.:.
Ivan Vanko. Plain and simple.
Capable of taking a few car hits to a torso without the benefit of power armor, though his Whiplash suit probably did some of that note the concept art galleries show that the Whiplash exoskeleton encases the legs as well. Neck snaps opponents with practiced ease, and hangs his two guards to retrieve his bird. He survived fifteen years in a Russian prison and is tattooed like an. Nick Fury: Woah, woah, he TOOK it? You're IRON MAN, and the brother just walked in there, kicked your ass, and TOOK your suit?.: According to Natalia's C.V. She speaks many languages.
When Tony asks if she speaks Latin too, she answers. Light it up song lyrics. In Latin, and he's impressed. And she's bad-ass in general.: Even though he's wealthy like Tony Stark, Justin Hammer envies Tony's talent and success.
His technology throughout the film is described as a joke and a failed knock-off of Stark Industries technology. His jealousy is even shown when he's talking to Tony or mentioning him. Heck most of his motivation in the film is to upstage Tony Stark.: Tony does this with some Hammer Drones using parts from other Hammer Drones.: This is employed by Black Widow on a Hammer security guard.: We all love the Mark V suitcase suit, but let's face it, this is where it really comes from. There's no way that suit could fold down into a suitcase-sized package that's light enough to carry in one hand.: Happy Hogan carries around the Mark V 'briefcase armor' locked to his wrist like this.: Because Tony's not sharing his Iron Man tech with the military, Senator Stern has a seemingly valid reason (when he's not alluding to American military contractors' profits)—Tony's being an irresponsible jackass.: Inverted. In the final battle, the heroes wear helmets but Vanko takes his off, which leaves him vulnerable to Stark and Rhodes' finishing move.: Tony goes into one big time, due to him suffering a slow death due to Palladium contamination. It culminates into him throwing a party, while in his Iron Man armor.: Towards the end of the film, the Hammer-drones are rampaging and the crowd is fleeing in fright.
Except for wearing an Iron Man mask, who then holds up a gloved hand at one of the drones. The drone pauses, uncertain whether this boy is the real deal or not, giving the real Iron Man time to land and blast the drone away. He gives the boy a 'Nice work, kid!' Before flying away again.
In doing this, the boy probably saved dozens of lives.: Ivan Vanko needs about three seconds and twenty keystrokes to hack into Hammer's battlesuit system, the first time he sees it. He even lampshades it: 'Software shit.' It takes Black Widow only slightly longer to penetrate his security and shut them down. Obviously, Hammer's security systems are the worst.: Played with. Tony and Rhodes discuss tactics in the moments leading up to the Hammer Drone attack in the garden, including taking the high ground, making use of cover, and avoiding the 'kill box' in the middle of the garden. Unfortunately, they get distracted arguing over.leaving them right in the middle of said kill box when the Hammer Drones finally arrive a few seconds into their argument., although it forces Tony to use up his best weapon before fighting Ivan Vanko head-on.: Ivan Vanko, aka Whiplash, a Russian scientist with a grudge against Tony Stark, played by.: Happy calls out Tony for 'Dirty Boxing' earlier in the movie, but later takes out a Hammer security guard by biting his ear Mike Tyson style.: A kid in a toy Iron Man mask targeted by a Hammeroid gets his bacon saved by Iron Man. Good thing he lived, too, or Tony wouldn't have found when he.: Tony insists during the Senate Subcommitee hearing that the Iron Man armor is not a weapon but is instead a high-tech prosthesis.: 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.:. Rhodey pulls one on Tony and Pepper. Tony: I will formally apologize when I am not fighting off a Hammer-oid attack.: The Hammer Drones become these complete with blinking lights and sounds when they self-destruct.: Justin Hammer, though more 'ineffectual' (and ) than 'sympathetic'.:. '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, 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, was nicknamed 'Puff the Magic Dragon' for the hail of tracer rounds it rained down on the enemy.) He also nicknames his not-so-super mini-bunker-buster, supposedly capable of 'reducing the population of any standing structure to 0' (although it's actually a laughable dud that needs a little work) the 'Ex-Wife'.: A sub-plot involves the device that Tony Stark built to keep himself alive is actually killing him through the volatile metal that powers it.
What a beautifully ironic twist to a story about a man associated with iron.: As the NYPD haul him away, Hammer accuses Pepper of trying to 'pin the blame' for the Hammer Drone attack on him (while simultaneously ). This, despite the fact that the Hammer drones going rogue, resulting in millions of dollars in property damage and of casualties, was basically entirely his fault.
While he didn't specifically intend to cause what was going on, he illegally broke Vanko out of prison and gave a known mechanical genius and psycho access to all his technology, all just to further shady-at-best business practices. The most charitable option is that his plans have.: Invoked directly with Iron Man's Death Blossom, which can only be used once per battle.:. While Senator Stern is a jerk about it, it's hard to argue that he's wrong to be worried about leaving technology as sophisticated and dangerous as the Iron Man suits in the hands of a private citizen like Tony Stark. Hammer: These are the Cubans, baby.
This is the Cohibas, the Montecristos. This is a kinetic-kill, side-winder vehicle with a secondary cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine RDX burst. It's capable of busting a bunker under the bunker you just busted.
If it were any smarter, it'd write a book, a book that would make Ulysses look like it was written in crayon. It would read it to you. This is my Eiffel Tower. This is my Rachmaninoff's Third. It's completely elegant, it's bafflingly beautiful, and it's capable of reducing the population of any standing structure to zero.: Ivan's harness apparently 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 asphalt he's still conscious enough to taunt Tony, if dazed and bleeding heavily.: Ivan Vanko's tattoos identify him as a member of Russian organized crime.: We get a lovely shot of Natasha's rear when we see her in the catsuit for the first time. We also get another gratuitous shot of it again when she fights the bad guys and pulls out the small mines from her belt.: The.
Although ordered to build man-wearable suits, Ivan Vanko insists on making the Hammer drones autonomous drones instead. Elegantly lampshaded with the explanation 'Human make problem. Drone better.' : in an earlier scene a human test pilot attempts to pilot Hammer's suit design and breaks his own spine by turning too quickly but that's not the biggest problem averted by invoking this trope: the audience now has no problem when the Hammer Drones are blown up, dismembered, or sent crashing into buildings. Although he takes over War Machine, Vanko loses his control later. The drones won't have such a problem. Why stuff people into suits and risk having them regain control when you can just build drones?.
Ivan also demonstrates exactly what he's saying perfectly. He is giving Hammer programmable drones because people 'Cause trouble.' This can include not doing what they're told, doing what they want or think is better instead. In other words, the exact thing he is doing.: The helmet and repulsor toys worn by the kid who Tony rescues from nearly getting killed are from the toyline.
This is possibly the only superhero movie where using the actual toys used to promote the film is appropriate in-story.: When Hammer is brought in to weaponize the Mark II armor, he showcases several weapons to Rhodes, starting small and going big. Rhodes: I'll take it.Hammer: Which one?Rhodes: All of it!.: Averted; you'd think that because this is a superhero movie, Black Widow would have a stuffed bra, but she doesn't and her chest is kept realistically sized, with the cleavage toned down, though Scarlett Johansson isn't flat-chested by any means.: Ivan Vanko seems to be thanks to surviving adversity in a Siberian prison.
Technically, Natasha Romanoff also—she claims in Avengers that she 'used to be' Russian.: Hammer babbles incessantly throughout most of his scenes; moreover, a lot of his impressive-sounding techno-jabber is pure bullshit. It's not entirely clear if it's a case of or Hammer just being a schmooze who tries too hard.
He's a foil to Tony, who also chatters, but usually has a point to everything he says, or to Vanko, who is highly intelligent but barely says anything. Vanko expressly calls him out on it during one of Hammer's angry rants, where Vanko's only response (in unsubtitled Russian) is 'You talk too much.' .: Howard Stark's portrayed in a style very similar to Walt Disney's futurist years. They even got one of the Sherman Brothers to write the theme music for the old Stark Expo. It doesn't stop there either; after Walt's death rumors began circulating, and an urban legend giving instructions on the direction to take the company in the future.
Tony's dad gives him the key to saving his life, and the day, in a film made before his death.: The expo theme, 'Make Way For Tomorrow Today' later shows up in.: A sci-fi version. Howard Stark discovered a new element back in the 70s but was unable to actually synthesize it, so he designed the grounds of the 1974 Stark Expo as a blueprint of the element in hopes that his son Tony would eventually find and decipher it to create what he couldn't.:. A very obscure one: the Black Widow's cover identity 'Natalie Rushman' refers to 'Nancy Rushman,' a cover identity the comic-book version of the Widow used in an arc of Marvel Team-Up in the 1970s.
Tony's bodyguard, Happy Hogan, is shown training Tony how to box. In the comics, Happy was a boxer before becoming Tony's bodyguard. Given Happy's fight with a security guard (which he wins) later in the film, this origin probably still applies.
The broken semi-transparent Captain America shield looks like it comes from the films. ◊. Tony suggests perhaps he could be Secretary of Defense, a position he held in the comics for a little while in the early 2000s. 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. The map of metahuman activity that Nick Fury shows to Tony has markers in Africa and the middle of the Atlantic ocean. The marker in Africa is in reference to the, while fans have speculated that the one in the ocean is meant to hint at.
Tony stores his armor in an attache case, which dates back to the very earliest issues of Iron Man. The film's villain is named Ivan Vanko; he is more or less an amalgamation of the characters the Crimson Dynamo and Whiplash. His father's name is Anton Vanko, the name of the original CD in the comics. Anton Vanko defected to the West in 1963, the same year both Iron Man and the Crimson Dynamo first appeared. The Stark Expo is held in Flushing, NY, the original location of Stark's factory in the comic books.
Olivia Munn's small role is as Chess Roberts, a reporter from the first issue of the third volume of the comics who only appeared once. Stark being forced to attend the Senate Armed Services Committee is lifted straight from the comics; the senator there was named Byrd, not Stern.: Vanko shows 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 to dick with the guy.
Later on he acts only barely competent at engineering and technology, convincing Hammer that the best he can do with the Hammer suits is to make drones and then later on that the best he can make the drones do is 'salute.' Hammer naturally underestimates him as a result.: Black Widow does this with pepper spray.:. Tony somehow manages to slip past the S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents assigned to keep him inside his house and studying Howard Stark's old notes when he goes to visit Pepper and returns with the Stark Expo model.
Agent Coulson: How did you break containment?. We never see how Vanko escapes (and kills) the Hammer goons sent to watch him, but according to the scene after, it was damn bloody.: Pepper and Tony have one when Happy is taken down during the boxing lesson by 'Natalie'.: claims that Vanko's father wanted to get rich off of the arc reactor technology, rather than use it to benefit the world. This is the reason why Howard Stark had him deported back to Russia.:.: Vanko's toothpick. Hammer: I don't know if you're aware of this, but I DON'T!
RUSSIAN!.: Vanko is very quiet, especially when compared with Tony or Hammer. In several of his most prominent scenes, Vanko says nothing at all; during the climax, his only words are a simple 'You lose.' At Tony.: The Ex-Wife is said by Hammer to be a kinetic-kill weapon, which can be brushed off as it being a buzzword he threw around. But if it really is the case, then it explains its total failure. The theory behind it is that the projectile is inert until it reaches high speed, as in the kinetic force will be what causes the destruction.
Rhodey shooting Vanko that close would have only bounced back as it doesn't have enough room to accelerate, let alone arm itself even if it wasn't a dud.: According to the novelisation, Vanko likes cartoons like.: The Mk II eyes light up blue like all Iron Man suits—as War Machine, they are red.: Averted; Ivan Vanko/Whiplash did not do this because all he wants is revenge. He did not sell arc reactor technology to the Russians.: In 2017, and acknowledged a popular fan theory that considered the boy with the Iron Man mask as Peter Parker.: Vanko could have still had his vengeance by showing that someone else could create the Arc Reactor technology. Hell, discounting the fact that Tony was able to save himself, he could have just waited until Stark DIED and become the only game in town, instead of going to so much trouble to kill him (he knew about the palladium poisoning). All of these things he could have done, but he was so bent on screwing Tony personally that he either never realized this, or more likely never cared.: Ivan Vanko's reason for being is revenge for his father. /: Vanko's basement.: 'Never take your eye off your opponent.'
When Happy thinks he's giving Natalie her first boxing lesson.: Tony does a screaming jump punch at Vanko/Whiplash in the climactic fight, getting tossed for his trouble.: gets undercover in part through her modeling career and some flirtatious eyes she makes at Tony.:. Nick Fury bringing Tony on as a consultant for the in the denouement. In one scene, Director Fury tells Stark that he has 'bigger problems in the southwest region' than Tony. A nod to, which is set in New Mexico (a.k.a. The Southwest) and is teased in as the next film in the Marvel continuity.: Black Widow's fighting style seems to be 'punch, kick, stun grenades.
(And casual mace.)' Not to mention her grappling, which is entirely thigh-based.: Rhodey's War Machine upgrades include a shoulder mounted machine gun.: for the Iron Man series.: Vanko's tattoos were modeled after real Russian prison tattoos, which have different designs depending on things such as the length of the prison sentence. Except said tattoos show him to be a con man, who did time for theft, disorderly conduct, and rape of a minor. That was never mentioned on his rap sheet, nor is there a tat for his actual crime, which was plutonium smuggling.: Tony when he visits Vanko in his holding cell. Ivan: The truth: all I have to do is sit here and watch as the world will consume you.Tony: Where are you gonna be watching the world consume me from?
Oh, right, a prison cell. I'll send you a bar of soap.: The final battle against the Hammer drones was storyboarded. It has many similarities to fight scenes from, such as getting cut in half with oil spurting from their wounds.: One of Ivan's primary motivations for going after Tony Stark is revenge due to the fact that Tony's father, Howard, had Ivan's father, Anton, deported when he accused him of espionage.: Ivan's reaction to his father's death.: Element synthesis is so much cooler when you're.: Natasha speaks multiple languages including Latin, which impresses Tony. Pepper corrects him in saying no one 'speaks' Latin, as it's a dead language.: Justin Hammer is as full of himself as Tony but unlike Tony, he doesn't have the genius to back it up.: Tony is more full of himself than usual because his powered armor enables him to 'privatize world peace'.: Tony tries to nail Vanko with the 'aimbot' he used to clear out the terrorists in Gulmira in the first film. Though Vanko's head is exposed, his helmet instantly reforms to block the shot.: Justin Hammer's declaration that 'the papers will face a new problem. They are going to run out of ink!' The only thing missing from the declaration is the.: Anton Vanko, a Soviet defector, co-developed the arc reactor technology with Tony's father in the 1960s.: Tony uses this to take out the last of the 'Hammeroids'.: Nick Fury for Tony.
Went to AA meetings and talked to various sponsors to make sure his dialogue was right.: When Scarlett Johansson saw her Black Widow outfit, her first thought was 'It's really. Her second was 'Great, now I've got to diet.' .: If you are acquainted with some of the more advanced notions in physics and have a quick eye, you'll notice that on the last page of Howard Stark's notebook there's a reference to an 'Abnormal Zeeman Effect', which any is a magnetic equivalent of the effect.:. The senator's remark to Tony Stark shortly after giving him the medal and 'accidentally' pricking him with the pin. Coulson: Sir. camera cuts to the crater and.: Ivan Vanko is 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.: Done with the suitcase armor at the race track.: The palladium poisoning, which covers Tony's torso in a web of blue-black veins.: In a movie that starts off with a speech about the importance of legacy, this is going to come up a lot.
Howard Stark reveals that he discovered a new element that would perfect the arc reactor and revolutionize energy. However, he lacks the technology to create it and leaves it up to Tony to solve the problem.
Rhodey is set up by the dying Tony to take over as armored hero. As Fury points out, the only way Rhodey could have activated the Mk. II was if Tony had already given him clearance to do so. Pepper takes over Stark Enterprises.: Upon his defeat, Whiplash's armor's chestpiece begins blinking red, as do the ones on all the Hammer Drones.
Granted, Tony and Rhodey get out in time but the ensuing explosions destroy most of Flushing Meadows.: Ivan Vanko. They implied he's part of the Russian mafia.: Tony Stark expects this to happen with Pepper and the new aide Natalie, but the two of them get along fine. Pepper takes it as a sign of Tony's arrogance that he'd assume another would form over him.: During the lead-in to the climactic battle, Iron Man swoops over a carpark and sets off a couple of alarms. Shortly afterwards, War Machine and a bunch of Hammer Drones, chasing him, set off the rest.
Tony: The question I get asked the most often is, 'how do you go to the bathroom in this suit?' .that's how.:.
Yes, Justin. Let the brilliant, vindictive Russian physicist, who you've known only for a few hours, change the design and software of your massive army of.? Ironically, he's not one of Vanko's targets in the climax, although it would have been simple to kill him if it were. Pepper of all things, despite obviously being a highly capable and intelligent person, veers into this during the finale. So the just sicced an army of on you and shot everything around you to hell. One of those mechs is lying disabled only a few steps away.
That disabled mech's torso suddenly starts flashing a big red light, combined with. What do you do? Why yes, of course you stay put and stare at the damn thing instead of hightailing it out of there.
It's obviously played for drama so Tony can pull off another awesome rescue stunt.:. Happy Hogan, of all people. After Ivan Vanko makes his grand during the race that Tony forces himself into, and is about to make his finishing blow on Tony, the bodyguard, in Tony's custom limo, rams into Vanko full force, and keeps him effectively pinned against the chain-link fence for several minutes. He's shown to be decent in a fist fight but not on Black Widow's level.
The Mk II goes from a flight test beta to the embodiment of. As discussed by Rhodey, this was the point.: Tony Stark allows the fame to get to his head again, and it screws him over worse than his playboy tendencies did in the first film.
It's at least justified, in that he's dying, and doesn't know what to do about it.: The palladium that runs Tony's pacemaker is now poisoning him.: All Ivan's 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 a 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. Mickey Rourke 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. This caused Rourke to hate his experience at Marvel.: Ivan allows Tony to finish putting on his armor, despite having energy whips that could reach and kill him if he so inclined. Justified on two accounts: 1.) Ivan's legs were pinned between a wall and a car 2.) when he saw Tony putting on the suit, he decided he could do even better and show that Iron Man wasn't all that invincible.: All of the equipping sequences count, but the standout one has to be the suitcase suit.: The aforementioned suitcase folds out into his armor (which is distinctly much thinner and less protective than his standard suit, and can't fly).: In the first movie, Tony's Malibu house suffered some damage from his suit testing. In the second movie, it's destructively remodeled during his fight with Rhodes, and subsequently repurposed into housing a prismatic accelerator. It's really not much of a house any more. Probably why he's living in New York City in.
Shows it got fixed up - just in time for Aldrich Killian to have it blown off the side of the cliff and into the sea. Oh, and we see Tony's old suits blowing up one-by-one.:. Stark needs a non-toxic replacement for palladium for his reactor.
Eventually, he builds a prismatic accelerator to produce a new element previously only discovered by his father. According to his computer screens, it's, which is not a metal though theorized to be part of the if the configuration of protons and neutrons is correct. In the novelization, it's, an element that has appeared in the comics (in two distinct varieties) since the '60s, though it has different properties from those two varieties. Other MCU movies suggest that it's the same material, perhaps Asgardian in origin, that makes up the Tesseract. In the Fury's Big Week tie-in to, which strings together these films' continuities with each other and the rest of the, Fury says that Stark went on to try and patent this new element as ', but bureaucracy was getting in the way.: Happened to Anton Vanko, which was why Tony didn't know about his involvement in the creation of the Arc Reactor.: After the glowing description of the Ex-Wife's effects, did anybody expect it to work?
It doesn't work, although it does in the novelization.: Justin Hammer to Vanko. He gave Vanko use of his labs to upstage Tony and Vanko decided to use it for his revenge plot.: Rhodey puts on the Mark II and faces off against a drunken Tony in his Mark IV, but doesn't do too well initially because it's his first time using it and Tony's more experienced. However, he improves, while Tony is still drunk and they end up battling each other into a stalemate.: Lampshaded and played straight in the same scene, during Tony's drinking binge. Tony: fully decked in his armor You know, the question I get asked most often is: 'Tony, how do you go to the bathroom in the suit?'
beat; Tony closes his eyes and the look in his face grows steadily. RelievedTony.Just like that.: Tony uses a prototype(?) of 's shield to level part of the prismatic accelerator he's built. He also uses a number of stacked books to hold it up. Judging from the, Howard Stark probably started working on a prototype shield based on how the all vibranium one was being used but had to put it aside.: Used in the climactic battle of the film.: Tony and Happy find an attractive woman standing by his new car. When Tony asks who she is, she replies 'Marshall'. It's only when she informs Tony he's being that we realise it's not her name.: During Tony's fight against James Rhodes.
Tony: Sorry, pal, but. Iron Man doesn't have a sidekick.Rhodes:.: A test pilot for Hammer has his spine snapped by a test armor.: Ivan uses this strategy against Tony and Rhodes. By the time he engages the two in battle, they've already burned a lot of energy and ammunition on the army of drones Vanko sent against them. Furthermore, Tony has used up his ace-in-the-hole. Vanko still loses because of a that the heroes can use.: Ivan Vanko greatly enjoys a of Russian vodka. As does his '.: Black Widow's is able to take out several larger security guards with an acrobatic fighting style.: Natasha/Black Widow changes out of her evening gown into her in the back of Happy Hogan's car. Hogan spies on her with the rear view mirror and nearly crashes the car.
She catches him and tells him to keep his eyes on the road.: Explored, as Tony has some shades of this. Even as he begins to realize just how brilliant his dad was.: Tony is alone after he disappointed all of his friends. He makes up for it in the end.:.
Tony muses in the film's novelisation that if he had been brought up in Siberia by an angry alcoholic for a father, he would have turned out like Ivan too.: Ivan attempts to get his bird from Russia but has to make do with a subsitute. We never find out what happens to it until.:. Rhodey loses all his patience with Tony after Tony parties while wearing his Iron Man armor and using the suit's weaponry to amuse the guests.
He decides Tony doesn't deserve the suit and hijacks the Mk.II suit to prove his point. Depending on how you look at it, there's Stern and all the people who aren't happy that Tony isn't sharing the Iron Man tech with the military (or, in Stern's case, with HYDRA). When War Machine was introduced, Pepper was just about to give this trope to Rhodey, but Tony beat her to it in order to warn Rhodey about Hammer and Vanko's collaboration.: When confronted with his poisoning and seemingly imminent death, Tony asks what she would do if she had only a brief time to live.
Natasha, evaluating him for, told him that she would do whatever she wanted. As a result, he decides to have a wild party at his house in Malibu in full armor, get drunk, and thereby endangering everyone around him. For that reason, allows the to be a full Avenger, while Tony would be a consultant for failing his test.: Ivan's harness and later his aren't shown to have any on-board weapons like the Iron Man or War Machine armor, except for the whips. He still overpowers both of them because the whips are just that effective.
The Iron Man and War Machine armors are filled to the brim with, 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.: Ivan Vanko, and he them too.
Did I mention that his whips are buzzing electrical tendrils that can slice a car in half in one hit?.: Ivan 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. With Tony, he makes his intentions clear and even follows Tony's sarcastic advice when upgrading his weaponry.: Natasha's fight style is based around martial arts and lucha libre, with plenty of hurricanranas and headscissors takedowns.: Tony uses this to dispose of several hacked Hammer droids.: Ivan Vanko's attack in Monaco didn't need to kill Tony: it only needed to reveal to the world that Tony wasn't the only one with the knowledge to create arc reactors and armoured suit technology, and that he could be physically challenged. He even says 'You lose' as he's dragged away.: The main reason Vanko has a beef with Stark Industries - though technically, it's 'your father had my father deported and left to rot in Siberia.' Being deported is what caused Anton Vanko to develop a destructive drinking habit, which eventually killed him. Unusually for this trope, his doesn't include the traditional '. You drove my father to alcohol poisoning.
Prepare to die,' announcement, and he. Had they been successful, Tony would have died without having any idea who his killer was or why he killed him. This rather unconventional approach underlines Vanko's role as.
'Iron Man 2' is a polished, high-octane sequel, not as good as the original but building once again on a quirky performance by Jr. The superhero genre doesn't necessarily require good acting, but when it's there (as in ' and '), that takes it up a level. Downey here gives us a Tony Stark who is cockier and more egotistical than ever. Or, and here's the key, he seems to be.All heroes have a fatal flaw. That's one of the rules of the road in fiction.
Tony Stark's flaw is that he is dying. The megalomaniac act comes naturally, but now it's useful as a cover-up.
His chest-mounted battery pack, or life source, or whatever it is, is running low and poisoning his blood. It works by using the rarest element in the periodic table, and to renew it would require discovering or inventing a new element. Not easy.Advertisement. So Tony stands aside at big events and uses a little blood monitor-helpfully named the 'Stark Blood Monitor,' in case anybody sees it-that tells him his Blood Toxicity is relentlessly climbing toward death.
This is his private fear, not even shared with the loyal Pepper Potts , who is running his company.Stark is sponsoring a Stark Expo at the site of the New York Worlds' Fair, and he flies in for an appearance in the Iron Man suit and promises world peace. The arena is thronged with adoring fans. Imagine announcing iPad 3. But trouble is brewing. His arch-rival Justin Hammer plans an army of rival iron suits. A Congressional committee headed by the fatuous Senator Stern wants Stark to make Iron Man the exclusive property of the Defense Department. And in Russia, the bitter Ivan Vanko believes Stark's father stole the Iron Man secrets from his own father.Hammer hires Vanko to design a better suit than Stark's, the two suit designs go to war, we get half an hour of sensational special effects, and Bob's your uncle.
But you also have a niece, sexy martial arts expert played by, who may be more than she seems. The character was named Black Widow in the comic books, never a good sign.
Fighting at Stark's side is his comrade Lt. 'Rhodey' Rhodes ; while rocketing through a blizzard of enemy missiles, the two find time to talk. How slow must a missile be moving if your buddy has time to warn you to dodge it?The best CGI sequence in the movie comes at midpoint, when Tony Stark decides to drive his own car in the Monaco Grand Prix, and Ivan Vanko stands fearlessly in the middle of the race, dressed like a kinky gladiator and wielding electric whips that can slice a car in two. He nearly destroys Stark, which is so exciting that we forget to wonder how he knew that Tony was driving his own car. It's after this race that Hammer signs him up.Mickey Rourke gives us all the Ivan Vanko we could possibly wish for, unless he had a third arm to provide space for more tattoos. His performance features flashing his gold teeth in mirthless laughter, and lots of growling. Sam Rockwell gives a wry comic performance as Hammer, a querulous whiner who seems in over his head in the super weapons business.Advertisement.
You want a sequel, you got a sequel. 'Iron Man 2,' directed like the first one by, gets the job done. Since both movies have essentially the same story arc, there aren't a lot of surprises, however, which started me to wondering how the guys survive inside those suits. Sure, the suits are armored, but their bodies aren't.
How many dizzying falls and brutal blows and sneaky explosions can you survive without breaking every bone in your body? Just asking'. At the end of a long day, those suits should be filled with bloody pulp.
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