Marvel Releases First Official "Iron Man 3" Still

[the goddamn batman]

If it turns out the villain is just another guy in some Iron-Man armor I'm passing on this.

[GRANT!]

Shouldnt the Mark 2 armor be missing since that became the War Machine armor? Yeah, he could have just built a second one for display purposes.. but that doesn't seem entirely his style.

Semi off-topic. I'm a little iffy on them doing the Extremis story in this movie. Part of the reason Extremis happened was to beef up Iron Man's abilities, because Iron Man himself was now obsolete. In the Marvel movie universe though, Stark is still well-ahead of the curve.

Ideally the movies threat would put him behind the curve.

[BrotherUnitNo_4]

If it turns out the villain is just another guy in some Iron-Man armor I'm passing on this.

Depends on how closely it sticks to Extremis. If it's close, the finale wouldn't be a metal man throwdown.

[StoneGold]

Shouldnt the Mark 2 armor be missing since that became the War Machine armor? Yeah, he could have just built a second one for display purposes.. but that doesn't seem entirely his style.

Yeah, because Tony ain't much one to brag.

Here's the thing -- in the comics, generally, the new armor is made because the old one gets destroyed. And yet, every time he needs to pull the old ones out of the closest, there they are.

Semi off-topic. I'm a little iffy on them doing the Extremis story in this movie. Part of the reason Extremis happened was to beef up Iron Man's abilities, because Iron Man himself was now obsolete. In the Marvel movie universe though, Stark is still well-ahead of the curve.

And Tony wasn't behind the curve until Mallen unleashed Extremis. It's not like Stark just figured I should turn myself into a wetware cyborg, he turned himself into a wetware cyborg to compete with other wetware cyborgs.

[StoneGold]

If it turns out the villain is just another guy in some Iron-Man armor I'm passing on this.

Looks like some armor, some not. But it's not like the movies have even scratched the surface of Tony's comic armor-clad rogues.

[Phil Clark]

But Vanko's Whiplash tech was built with Stark Tech/blueprints... so that kind of solidifies the idea that Stark is still well ahead of the curve. Same thing with Stane/Iron Monger in Iron Man 1 and War Machine in Iron Man 2, pretty much everything in the Marvel movie universe that's on par with Stark Tech is... more Stark Tech, not independently built. Granted, as BrotherUnitNo_4 pointed out, the story could work if Extremis is just introduced as a new independent advancement that shoots up to par with Stark or beyond.

The idea was that his father worked with Tony's dad on the Arc Reactor, so Vanko had blueprints of the full size reactor. It was Vanko's genius (nearly on par with Tony's) that allowed him to also miniaturize the reactor as he had seen/reasoned that Tony had done.