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=== Iron Man (2008) ===

After being captured by terrorists while on a missile demonstration, [[Fiction 500|multi-billionaire]] Tony Stark uses his brilliant intellect to devise a [[Powered Armor]] to escape. Being an irresponsible, wealthy playboy before, he ([[Incredibly Lame Pun|literally]]) has a change of heart regarding his company policies and dedicates himself to cleaning up Stark Industries' patented weapons and taking care of the terrorist group that got their hands on them. To do so, he builds an even better suit of armor. He ignores that Obadiah Stane (his second-in-command in the company) has an agenda on his own...

 

=== Iron Man 2 (2010) ===

* [[Appropriated Appellation]]: Tony is Iron Man because a newspaper called the mysterious man in a metal suit that. ([[Badass Bookworm|Tony]] [[Smug Super|being]] [[Deadpan Snarker|Tony,]] [[Lampshade Hanging|he remarked that it wasn't technically accurate]]).

* [[Arms Dealer]]: Tony starts out as one. {{spoiler|Obadiah Stane}} and Justin Hammer are outright villainous versions of this

{{quote|'''Gregg:''' […] There was a kind of banter between Coulson and Stark that writers kind of came up with, and Robert and I kind of came up with, and they responded to it quickly. And suddenly it was a part of the script, and they were like, "Oh, are you free for the next two months? We started adding more stuff to this. It serves a real purpose, beyond just being some of the comic relief in the movie. It serving a real purpose in terms of setting up S.H.I.E.L.D., which we have big plans for." And I went, "Yeah! I’ll ''get'' free! Whatever I’m doing can be cancelled, okay?"}}

* [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny]]: Tony's eccentric nature makes him prone to zoning out of what he's ''supposed'' to be doing.

* [[Eyepatch of Power]]: [[Nick Fury]]. Made fun of by Stark quite a few times.

* [[Expy]]:

** Tony Stark is analogous to Howard Hughes as Stan Lee originally intended, with both his genius intellect and various eccentricities.

** Also played with in Stan Lee's appearances, since in both movie appearances it wasn't made clear (to Tony) if Stan Lee was supposed to be playing Hugh Hefner, Larry King or [[The Cameo|himself]]. He's credited [[As Himself]], at least in the second film. But then he usually is.

** Another hilarious example involving Rhodes: When he's offered an alcoholic drink on Tony's jet, he avidly states he's not going to drink. Cut to a completely plastered Rhodes a good few hours later.

** In ''2'', Tony is contemplating his own mortality. He asks Natasha what she would do if she knew she was going to die soon. She replies, "I would do whatever I wanted to do, with whoever I wanted to do." You'd think he'd go through with his earlier plans of shelving the party... and then there's a cut to Tony doing scratch [[D Jing]], and then dancing sloppy drunk in his armor.

* [[Good Is Not Nice]]:

** Yes, Tony Stark works hard to keep the world safe, and his heart is in the right place. He's still a playboy, a glory hound, a drunkard, and an irresponsible jackass.

* [[Honest Corporate Executive]]: Tony, at least after he gets back from Afghanistan.

* [[Immune to Bullets]]: Played with slightly. Small arms fire bounces off, and nothing except a direct hit from an explosion hurts. Larger calibers (up to an including 20mm Vulcan rounds and the main cannon of a tank!) score and dent the armor, showing off the creators' CG muscle and occasionally causing problems ranging from a frozen knee joint to trouble removing the suit without a diamond blade.

* [[Imported Alien Phlebotinum]]: Not immediately obvious (in fact, only apparent as part of the larger ''Avengers'' film continuity) but {{spoiler|the Arc Reactor technology was originally developed by Howard Stark, who was part of SHIELD and who apparently studied the Tessaract Cube that came from Asgard. It became obvious in the second movie that Howard Stark made great intellectual discoveries by studying the artifact, but he was limited by the technology of his time, and that Tony was the one who eventually realized much of the potential of his father's research into Asgard tech.}}

* [[Insufferable Genius]]:

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