When wealthy industrialist Tony Stark is forced to build an armored suit after a life-threatening incident, he ultimately decides to use its technology to fight against evil.
Tony Stark is the complete playboy who also happens to be an engineering genius. While in Afghanistan demonstrating a new missile, he's captured and wounded. His captors want him to assemble a missile for them but instead he creates an armored suit and a means to prevent his death from the shrapnel left in his chest by the attack. He uses the armored suit to escape. Back in the U.S. he announces his company will cease making weapons and he begins work on an updated armored suit only to find that Obadiah Stane, his second in command at Stark industries has been selling Stark weapons to the insurgents. He uses his new suit to return to Afghanistan to destroy the arms and then to stop Stane from misusing his research.
Written by John Vogel {jlvogel@comcast.net}
Obadiah Stane tells Tony Stark "We're iron mongers, we make weapons." Stane's supervillain moniker is the Iron Monger, and thus foreshadows Stane's own transition in the film to an armour-clad antagonist.
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Goofs
Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers):
At Tony's suggestion, Rhodes informs the press that an "unfortunate training exercise" occurred involving an F-22 Raptor, which makes no sense. A "training accident" is more likely what was intended.
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Quotes
[first lines]
Tony Stark:
I feel like you're driving me to court martial. This is crazy. What did I do? I feel like you're gonna pull over and snuff me. What, you're not allowed to talk? Hey, Forrest! Jimmy:
We can talk, sir. Tony Stark:
Oh, I see. So it's personal. Ramirez:
No, you intimidate them. Tony Stark:
Good God, you're a woman! I honestly, I couldn't have called that. I mean, I would apologize, but isn't that what we're going for here? I thought of you as a soldier first. Ramirez:
I'm an airman. Tony Stark:
Well, you have actually excellent bone structure there. I'm kinda having a hard time not looking at you now. Is that weird?
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Crazy Credits
SPOILER: A scene appears after the closing credits: Tony Stark arrives home to find SHIELD director Nick Fury waiting for him so that they can discuss the Avengers Initiative. This leads into
The Avengers (a superhero team of which Iron Man is a founding member).
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