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** Played straighter in the sequel, where Howard Stark is literally an [[Expy]] of Walt Disney himself.
** Tony to Rhodes: "That lovely lady you woke up with, what was his name? Ivan?"
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20140813014252/http://blog.cratchit.org/2008/03/larry-ellison-is-iron-man.html This blogger speculated] in jest that Oracle CEO Larri Ellison is Iron Man in [[Real Life]]. This was in March 2008. Two years later, Ellison makes a cameo at Tony Stark's birthday party in ''Iron Man 2''.
** Hongkong's [[Andy Lau]] may be in ''Iron Man 3''. [http://sg.news.yahoo.com/photos/andy-lau-talks-iron-man-3-photo-091700784.html This]{{Dead link}} was from a role he did way before that.
* [[Magnificent Bastard]]:
** Obadiah Stane, aka Iron Monger.
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** {{spoiler|[[Captain America (comics)]] is coming back to Earth.}}
* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: {{spoiler|Stane pushing the board to file the injunction against Tony.}} Weirdly, this is ''completely'' innocuous in the world of business (not exactly nice, but sometimes it's a very necessary move). However, the reason it is the [[Moral Event Horizon]] is because {{spoiler|we learn that he did right after Tony confronts him about dealing on the black market.}}
* [[Pandering to the Base]]: Some people accused the second movie of setting up the greater Marvel Cinematic Universe more than its own, despite the fact that Nick Fury doesn't appear until more than an hour in and even then his purpose is more to get Tony off of his ass and create the element that will eventually save his life than to convince him to join The Avengers. Heck, it's even more realistic for a government agency like S.H.I.E.L.D. to have more on its plate to deal with than simply Tony Stark.
* [[Retroactive Recognition]]: Raza, the terrorist leader, is [[Star Trek (film)|Captain Richard "Star Trek's Chuck Norris" Robau]]??
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*** Except actually making something like the Iron Man suit in real life would be ridiculously expensive and would never actually be built let alone save lives.
*** And, [[Fridge Brilliance]]: The main powersource for the Iron Man armor...is TOXIC! He just doesn't want anyone to know, considering.
** Though, after the third movie was released, while still considered enjoyable, is seen as not being able to live upto the previous two. Then again, [[Base Breaker|there are those who consider it a better movie than the second one]], especially on the basis that the audience gets to see more of Tony Stark withotu the armor, which itself is a point of contention among the fans
* [[Special Effect Failure]]: A fairly minor one, but when {{spoiler|Iron Monger AKA Obadiah Stane runs at Pepper after discovering her underground, Stane is very clearly not moving.}} Partially [[Justified Trope|justified]] in the fact that {{spoiler|Stane's suit, the Iron Monger, is less [[Powered Armor|a suit]] a la Stark and the Iron Man, and more [[Mini-Mecha|a walking, flying humanoid-shaped tank]].}}
* [[Squick]]: Pepper having to replace Tony's reactor core was more than a little gross for some. Made even worse with her comment about pus, even though there was none (it was just [[Insistent Terminology|inorganic plasmic discharge, and it was from the device, not him]]).
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Political?]]: With Tony taking the fight to Middle-Eastern terrorists in the first film and refusing to hand his property over to the government in the second, there are [http://www.nypost.com/f/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/iron_man_capitalist_hero_nSJtnJhWoMHEkC9D6a6cSN some] who see him as the ultimate conservative/Republican/Libertarian super hero.
** However, the second film might also have one of the most [[Egregious]] examples of [[Straw Man Has a Point]] in film history. Make of that what you will.
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