Iron Man (film)/Headscratchers: Difference between revisions

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** Note that the development cycle for a new weapons platform can be greatly extended when you have to pretty much design the entire system from scratch, using new technologies. With the Stark suits, they already have both a working model of the suit to study and a working example of the technology that powers it. Reverse-engineering Stark's designs would be dramatically easier than building something to match it from scratch.

** Also note that a substantial part of the underlying technology in the Stark suits is already developed and available. The Hammeroids didn't spring fully-formed from Justin Hammer's brow. They're crap compared with Tony's suit, but they're still working humanoid war machines, minus the unfortunate tendency to break their wearers' backs. The development cycle will be greatly reduced compared with the F-22's hilarious history of screwups.

** Additionally, ''Winter Soldier'' reveals another significant fact about the entire affair -- specifically, the fact that Senator Stern (who was leading the government's efforts to confiscate Tony's technology) was actually a HYDRA agent. Yeah, no ''wonder'' he wanted that technology. He can't just take the War Machine armor (because people will notice its gone), but if he has full access to the knowledge necessary to duplicate it? Then HYDRA can make all the copies it wants. Ironically, it would appear that Vanko's betrayal of Hammer actually helped save the world from an eventual HYDRA repulsor-spewing robot army of doom.

* Rhodey mentions someone having the arc reactor technology yesterday, referring to Vanko. Unless they decided to go for non sequential storytelling with no indication the time line is a bit tight. In the "day" between the attack and that conversation, Vanko is hauled away, locked up, gets a visit from Tony, gets busted out in a prison break staged by Hammer involving the bribing of multiple guards and finding a prisoner with similar enough build, hair and skin tone to pass for Vanko's corpse, and is flown to one of Hammer's hangars where they have a whole dinner before that scene. Someone should have caught that scene and shuffled it to earlier or had Rhodey say something like "last week" which I would have bought.

** Or he could be speaking metaphorically and not literally. Kind of how the phrase "I want this yesterday" works. remember that in context, Rhodes says that Tony was banking on no one else having the technology for years to come.