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* [[Animated Adaptation]]: The [[Iron Man (Anime)|anime series]] seems to be a spin-off from the films, with the opening credits suggesting the two are set within the same continuity.
* [[And Show It to You]]: Subverted in two different ways. Tony's "heart" is not a conventional one, and he also lives through the experience, somehow.
* [[Anti
* [[Applied Phlebotinum]]:
** The Arc Reactor being the most prominent example, but the "repulsor" technology is a close second: tiny little glowing devices that can somehow push enough atmosphere away from them to generate thrust.
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{{quote| '''Pepper:''' I do anything and everything Mr. Stark requires of me. *[[Beat]]* Including occasionally taking out the trash. Will that be all?}}
** It continues in ''2'', with some help from Tony.
{{quote| '''Pepper:''' Yes she did quite a [[Is That What
'''Tony:''' And she wrote a story, as well.<br />
'''Pepper:''' It was very impressive, very well-done... }}
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** The Ten Rings gang, despite having surface similarities with al-Qaeda, are actually a mishmash of Central Asian, Middle Eastern, and Balkan members.
** In the sequel, the all-American Justin Hammer employs corrupt French policemen and a Russian [[Evil Genius]]. {{spoiler|Meanwhile, [[Word of God]] is that the man who got Vanko his false passport, an Asian man working in Russia, is an agent of the Ten Rings.}}
* [[
** During the first film's Mark III suiting-up sequence, as the outer breastplate is closed the structures surrounding the arc reactor spin counter-clockwise ever so slightly.
** In Iron Man 2, during the Mark V suiting-up sequence, similar structures make a spinning motion as well, but clockwise, much faster and much more visibly, and with the camera zoomed in on it much more. Of course, there are [[Rule of Cool|more exposed mechanical parts]] during that scene than last time, as well.
** In general, Iron Man's flights incorporate a lot of spinning which probably isn't necessary, but still looks [[Rule of Cool|pretty damned cool]].
* [[Evil Counterpart]]: All three main villains in the two films embody different aspects of Tony's personality, but lack his other traits that balance him out--{{spoiler|Stane}} is a friendly businessman interested in accumulating power, Hammer is a playboy billionaire [[Jerkass]] with none of Tony's brilliance or charm, and Vanko has Tony's intelligence and ingenuity but not his morals.
* [[Evil, Inc.]]: Stark Enterprises in a way. Even though Howard and Tony were both great guys, it seems their business partners always want to sell weapons to American enemies behind the scenes. Also subverted by Tony Stark, who points out that many of his inventions in the field of medicine and agriculture has been made possible by revenues from the military contracts.
* [[Evil Knockoff]]:
** Every major villain so far has stolen, copied, or otherwise been inspired by Tony's Iron Man designs. Deliberately invoked, as weapon proliferation is his major concern.
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** Howard Stark's devotion to science and the common good is commendable, especially compared to Anton Vanko being [[Only in It For The Money]]. Less commendable is ''having the guy deported back to the country from which he defected''. As Tony himself notes, he was cold, calculating, and apparently never just out and told his son how much he cared about him. In person, at least.
* [[Heroic Resolve]]: A dialogue and exposition-free example happens during Tony's first fight against Whiplash. With ''one'' resolute glare, Tony goes from being on the ropes to winning the fight in seconds.
* [[The
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Tony and Col. Rhodes, especially when reunited after Tony's capture. Lampshaded by the fact that Tony sarcastically calls Rhodes "honey" and "dear" a couple of times.
* [[Hey
* [[Hoist By His Own Petard]]:
** Almost, with {{spoiler|the Stark Industries missile... and the guns... and Iron Monger}}. OK, pretty much every time Stark is in trouble, it has something to do with his company.
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** In a deleted scene, Pepper discovers him lounging around half-out of his armor after his first combat outing in the suit, and he's badly bruised, bleeding and generally banged up. Not badly enough to account for shrugging off tank fire, but much worse than is shown in the main release.
** In the sequel, Vanko gets rammed by Happy Hogan's car, ''twice'', ''without the benefit of power armor'', and all it does is knock him out for a few seconds. Whatever protection the exoskeleton covering his torso offered, the fact remains that his body took the brunt of that.
* [[Mid
** The first film has him go through two prototypes before he actually dives into battle, and ends with him upgrading the armor to Mark IV after {{spoiler|the Mark III armor was heavily damaged in the fight with Stane}}.
** The second film starts with Tony using the Mark IV, with the Mark V (Briefcase Armor) as a back-up in case he needs to suit up on the fly. He ditches the Mark IV after {{spoiler|upgrading his chest piece to a less posionous element}}, and begins using the Mark VI armor.
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* [[Omnidisciplinary Scientist]]: Tony Stark seems to be an expert at high-energy physics, materials science, and aerospace engineering all at the same time. Granted, he has an AI to help. Ivan Vanko, however, is a physics genius who manages, completely unassisted, to hack Hammer's entire network in seconds simply by typing at the Windows login screen, build an army of advanced robot soldiers, and control said robots effectively in combat.
** ''The Avengers'' shows Tony becoming a Tesseract expert after just one night of study.
* [[One
** Stark's fire extinguisher robot and {{spoiler|[[Nick Fury]]}}. [[Breakout Character|Both have larger roles in the second film]].
** Bill O'Reilly, who makes a surprising cameo as himself in the sequel, commenting on his show about {{spoiler|Pepper Potts becoming CEO of Stark Industries}}. It's much like the segments on his show in real life, but the fact that he's in ''Iron Man 2'' makes it hilarious.
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** There's also the [[Sega]] logos at the expo. Guess who created the video game adaptations of the films?
** Dr. Pepper appears a few times in the second movie. Once as a can sitting on the table where Natasha and Pepper are working, and later on banners at the Stark Expo (strangely, the logo is not the current one, or even the last one, but the one before that).
** The [[Highly
** LG and Verizon during the first movie during Tony's conversation following the missile demonstration (though This Troper forgets the exact model of phone he was using, though it was a recent model as of 2008).
* [[Rage Helm]]: The closure line of the suit's helmet suggests a thin-lipped scowl.
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* [[Stan Winston]]: The genius behind the creation of Tony's battlesuits in the movies.
* [[Staring Kid]]: When Tony takes his suit for a test flight for the first time, the first person to spot him is a little kid on a Ferris wheel. [[Bonus Points]] for the dropped ice cream cone. In the second film, the kid in the Iron Man costume who stands up to a "Hammeroid."
* [[Tall, Dark and Snarky]]: Stark.
* [[Technology Porn]]: It's practically the trope namer. From Tony's house (with its near-sentient AI, touch-based control panels on everything, robotic arms doing every little thing, and his holographic workstation complete with motion-sensitive schematics that can respond in real time to objects placed within its boundaries in full three dimensions) to the Iron Man armor itself (tons of shifting, locking mechanisms and a prep bay with all the pieces coming out of the floor and ceiling to effortlessly suit him up for battle), you'd be lying to say you wouldn't want to be Tony Stark for a day.
** [http://nextround.net/2010/03/11/iron-man-2-briefcase-suit-gif/ This] is technoporn equivalent to Satoshi Urushihara.
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{{quote| '''Tony''': We're not doing ''good enough'', we can do ''better'', we can do ''something else''.}}
* [[Hero for A Day]]: The villain powers his own version of the power suit by stealing Stark's portable generator, leaving Stark literally powerless for a short while.
* [[Hey, Wait!]]: "Is that today's paper?" This is a subversion of the trope. {{spoiler|Obadiah suspects Pepper is up to something the moment he enters the office. He only asks for the paper because he (correctly) thinks she's hiding something in it. He doesn't care about the paper, he throws it down onto the desk as soon as she leaves.}}
* [[Hollywood Science]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in the first film (Sir, the technology we need doesn't exist)
* [[How Do I Shot Web]]: The first half of the film is basically Tony trying to figure out how to fly. The Mark I armor doesn't so much fly as rocket skyward and then fall, and after building his boot jets for the Mark II armor, Tony invents the repulsors to act as flight stabilizers. And then after that, there's the [[Chekhov's Gun|icing problem]].
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* [[Literal Change of Heart]]: Sort of. Getting the arc generator put in Tony's chest symbolically represents his assumption of the role of Iron Man.
* [[Living Legend]]: Tony's jealous of his own coverage and outs himself as The Iron Man.
* [[Look Ma, No Plane]]: The first movie has an example of the "fight military aircraft" version.
* [[Made of Titanium]]: Literally. The Iron Man [[Powered Armor]] is made of a "gold-titanium alloy". Why? To correct a design flaw that the previous iteration's steel casing had that only manifests in specific circumstances... and ''[[Eccentric Millionaire|because he can]]''.
* [[Magical Database]]: Variant; when Pepper Potts is {{spoiler|hacking the Stark Industries mainframe}} from Stark's office computer (and at his request), she instantly translates the soundtrack of a foreign language video into ([[Just a Stupid Accent|appropriately accented!]]) English by typing in "Translate" on the video viewer's window. Sort of a case of [[Shown Their Work]] - New Scientist checked up the plausibility of this and found that there are programs in development that can pretty much do the same thing (if not quite so smoothly just yet). No excuse for the accent, though.
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** The lead F-22 Raptor pilot's callsign is "Whiplash One", and Whiplash became the villain in the sequel.
* [[Newscaster Cameo]]: One scene features a segment of Jim Cramer's "Mad Money" television show, warning about the sudden drop in the price of Stark Enterprises stock.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Iron Man unintentionally causes the destruction of an Air Force F-22 that attempted to intercept him (before they knew he was a good guy). Also, he helped to design and build many of the weapons being used by the Ten Rings (and presumably the Taliban, though that much is never stated in the first film).
* [[Noodle Incident]]: "Let's face it, this is not the worst thing you've caught me doing."
* [[No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup]]: Subverted and avoided in every way the writers could think of. {{spoiler|The first suit and its plans are recovered and used as a basis for Stane's.}} Stark has two functional suits in his house, and the facilities to build a new one from scratch in five hours... {{spoiler|Except one. If not for Pepper's leaving the original mini-Arc Reactor as a gift to Tony, Obadiah would have successfully left Tony for dead.}}
* [[Not a Game]]: Rhodey says something to this extent to Tony during their phone conversation {{spoiler|while Tony is in the middle of evading a pair of F-22 Raptors over Gulmira.}}
* [[Not Quite Dead]]: {{spoiler|Obadiah}}
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* [[Overly Long Name]]: the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement, and Logistics Division. Fans of the comic would know it better as {{spoiler|S.H.I.E.L.D.}}
* [[Pillar of Light]]: When {{spoiler|the big arc reactor blows}}
* [[Pre
** Later, attempted with: "Your services are no longer required."
* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]: There was a scene planned for the climax of the first film where Iron Man drives his Audi {{spoiler|into Iron Monger, where it flips and he breaks the roof in half and jumps out. The effects team found that A) the car was too well-engineered to flip, and B) the roof was too difficult to cut through. The entire scene was scrapped. Yes, that's right, the [[Product Placement]] car was (in a sense) [[Too Awesome to Use]].}}
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** At [[The Stinger]].
{{quote| '''[[Nick Fury]]''': {{spoiler|I want to talk to you about [[The Avengers (Film)|the Avenger Initiative.]]}}}}
* [[What Do You Mean
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: A variation, as Tony calls Pepper out for walking out now that he wants to protect everyone he's put in danger, whereas before she had no problem with his reaping the benefits of destruction.
* [[What the Hell Townspeople]]: A little bit. Iron Man saves a mother and kids driving a car from being used by Stayne as a giant hitting tool. Her responce? She tries to run him down into the concrete while she and the children scream in an annoying fashion.
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* [[Badass]]: [[Discussed Trope|discussed]].
{{quote| '''Rhodey:''' Yeah, it's called being a badass.}}
* [[Back
* [[Badass Boast]]:
** During Hammer's description of the Ex-Wife, which is mostly just him giving it flattering compliments that have little to nothing to do with its capabilities, he only gives one notable piece of technical information about it. He describes the missile as containing a 'cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine RDX burst'. [[Department of Redundancy Department|He used two different terms for the same explosive (RDX) back-to-back.]] [[And That's Terrible]]. {{spoiler|Then subverted when War Machine uses it on Whiplash: it simply bounces off and sputters on the ground. It genuinely pays off in the novelization, though.}}
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{{quote| '''Tony''': I'm not saying that the world is enjoying it's longest period of uninterrupted peace in years because of me. I'm not saying that from the [[Large Ham|ASHES!]] [[This Is Sparta|OF CAPTIVITY!]]... never has a greater Phoenix metaphor been personified in human history. I'm not saying that Uncle Sam can kick back on a lawn chair, sippin' on an iced tea, because I haven't come across anyone who's man enough to go toe-to-toe with me on my best day!}}
* [[Bash Brothers]]: Iron Man and War Machine
* [[Beam
* [[Big Entrance]]: Tony lands stylishly at the site of his Stark Expo in his Iron Man suit to the cheers of many admirers after skydiving out of his personal carrier. For added effect, he's surrounded by a group of Rockettes-esque women in garb meant to resemble his armor who are performing the Can-Can.
** Whiplash also has one, during ''a Formula One race'' in order to attack Tony, who is driving one of the said cars.
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{{quote| '''Tony''': You ''have'' a big gun, you're not ''the'' big gun }}
* [[Big Bad Wannabe]]: Hammer is one of the most obvious examples of the trope.
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: Whatever Vanko is ''really'' saying to Hammer must surely count as this. As well as Natalie's statement in Latin. During the scene in which Hammer is yelling at Vanko for taking so long with his work, the Russian simply smirks and says in his native tongue, "[[Shut UP, Hannibal|You talk too much]]." To Rourke's credit, his accent is fairly decent (when he isn't mumbling). Vanko's line ''Tvoy soft govno'' ("Your software is shit"), uttered when he easily breaks into Hammer's computers, has even undergone mild [[Memetic Mutation]] among Russian software workers.
* [[Boogie Knights]]: Drunk Tony in full armor.
* [[Boxing Lessons for Superman|Boxing Lessons For Iron Man]]: In the sequel, we see that Tony has been teaching himself how to box. It comes in handy later: on one occasion, he's able to outfight Rhodey (who is military-trained but not used to movement in [[Powered Armor]]) with [[Good Old Fisticuffs]] and on another, he beats down drones with his bare, er, well ''iron'' hands.
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* [[Contractual Boss Immunity]]: Because it would have been really anticlimactic if {{spoiler|War Machine's "Ex-Wife" missile killed Whiplash in one shot. It does work in the novelization, though.}}
* [[Contrived Coincidence]]: The Iron Man suits are capable of flight and have extensive ranged weaponry, and so should be able to completely own Whiplash, who only uses his plasma whips with a range of maybe 3 meters. Naturally, circumstances in the movie force Tony to fight Vanko on the ground in melee range.
* [[Could Say It, But...]]: The "I'm not saying..." speech.
* [[Cowboy Bebop At His Computer]]: A ridiculous number of reviews refer to Scarlett Johansson's character as "Natalie Rushman," the false identity she uses when she first appears in the film. Understandable if the reviewer is attempting to avoid spoiling the character's true identity (thought neither the movie's advertising campaign nor the movie itself are particularly subtle about it) but somewhat clueless in reviews that go on to identify her as the Black Widow. Moviefone calling her "Natasha Rushman" didn't help.
* [[Create Your Own Villain]]: Ivan Vanko.
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{{spoiler|Camera cut to a ''prototype arc reactor''}} }}
** {{spoiler|It seems that they did some research on the missing element. The element in question (118) does exist as "Ununoctium" though it is radioactive and only lasts for a very short time before decaying. It can only be synthesized with the help of a particle accelerator.}}
* [[
** Later gloriously played straight. (see the [[It Only Works Once]] entry below)
* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas]]: A gender-flipped version. Ivan Vanko, while bitter towards Tony, is perfectly willing to just quietly take care of his invalid father. But then his father [[Oh Crap|dies...]]
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'''Tony:''' You sound pretty sprightly for a dead guy.<br />
'''Ivan:''' You too....Ha ha! }}
* [[Finishing Move]]: See {{spoiler|[[Frickin' Laser Beams]]}}.
* [[Fling a Light Into The Future]]: Limited by the technology of his time, {{spoiler|Howard Stark leaves behind a projector reel and a model town that is secretly a blueprint for the new element needed to perfect the arc reactor}}
* [[Follow the Leader]]: In-universe, what several companies/countries are trying to do in response to the Iron Man suit's existence.
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* [[Formula One]]: That Monaco race Tony entered? [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historic_Formula_One_Championship It's a real event]. Some of the cars shown are not actual F1s, though, [[Watch the Paint Job|particularly the ones that are destroyed]].
** The track has been used in multiple ''Gran Turismo'' games. Fans of the series undoubtably know where Stark is on the track if they're familiar enough with Cote d'Azur.
* [[For Science!]]: It seemed Howard Stark earnestly wanted the Arc reactor to help benefit mankind and not "to shut the hippies up" as Stane claimed in the first movie.
** He notably also had Anton Vanko deported for wanting to cash in on the technology.
* {{spoiler|[[Frickin' Laser Beams]]: 360 degree laser attack for the win.}}
** {{spoiler|[[Too Awesome to Use|"It's a one-use weapon".]]}}
** {{spoiler|Rhodes and Tony beat Vanko with simple-but-effective double laser beams from them both firing one at him at the same time.}}
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* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: As Tony leaves Vanko's cell in Monaco, he snarks that "I'll send you a bar of soap." Hmm, now why would Tony want Vanko to have...[[Prison Rape|oh right.]]
* [[Godzilla Threshold]]: Of a sort. Rhodey spends the first half of the film trying to get Tony back on duty, because he doesn't want the military barging in and taking the suits. When Tony starts carelessly blasting things while drunk, though, he immediately takes the Mark II armor to stop Tony by force, and keeps it after that.
* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]]: Ivan has the traditional scar down his eye.
* [[Gory Discretion Shot]]: Vanko and Hammer's guards.
* [[Green
* [[Grievous Harm With a Body]]: In the second film's novelisation, Tony does this with some Hammer Drones using parts from other Hammer Drones.
* [[Groin Attack]]: This is employed by {{spoiler|Black Widow on a Hammer security guard.}}
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** It's more like he's using a valid reason to try and take whatever he can in order to profit America.
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Tony goes into one in the sequel, {{spoiler|due to him suffering a slow death due to Palladium contamination}}. It culminates into him throwing a party, [[Drowning My Sorrows|completely drunk]], ''while in his Iron Man armor''.
* [[Hollywood Tactics]]: Played with. {{spoiler|Stark and Rhodes actually discuss tactics in the moments leading up to the Hammer Drone attack in the garden, including taking the high ground, making use of cover, and avoiding the "kill box" in the middle of the garden. Unfortunately, they get distracted arguing over [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|who's the bigger gun]], leaving them right in the middle of said kill box when the Hammer Drones finally arrive a few seconds into their argument. [[Back
* [[Husky Russkie]]: Ivan Vanko, aka Whiplash, a Russian scientist with a grudge against Tony Stark, played by Mickey Rourke.
* [[I Take Offense to That Last One]]: Inverted. When Nick Fury is listing all the things in Stark's personality that made him illegible for the Avengers group, Stark denies every single one up to "Textbook Narcissism", to which he ultimately agrees with Fury on that one.
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* [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]]: Justin Hammer, though more "ineffectual" (and [[Laughably Evil|humorous]]) than "sympathetic"
* [[Infant Immortality]]: [[Like You Would Really Do It|Did anyone really think that hammer drone would kill that kid?]]
* [[In
** Hammer claims the 7.62mm 6-barrel minigun that ends up integrated with the War Machine suit is known to the US soldiers who use them as, alternately, [[Chunky Salsa Rule|Uncle Gazpacho]] or "Puff the Magic Dragon". (He was half-right here: The AC-47 gunship, a Vietnam-era ground-support aircraft fitted with several such miniguns for [[More Dakka]], was nicknamed "Puff the Magic Dragon" for the hail of tracer rounds it rained down on the enemy.) He also nicknames his {{spoiler|not-so-}}super mini-bunker-buster, capable of "reducing the population of any standing structure to 0", the "Ex-Wife".
* [[
* [[It Only Works Once]]: invoked directly with {{spoiler|Iron Man's Death Blossom lasers, which can only be used once per battle.}}
* [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold]]: He may not openly display it to Tony Stark during childhood (he sent him to a private school to get him out of the house), but Howard Stark does legitimately care for Tony Stark, as evidenced by his blooper tape/hidden message.
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** {{spoiler|Although he manages to take over War Machine, Vanko loses his control later. The drones won't have such a problem. Why stuff people into suits and risk having them regain control when you can just build drones?}}
** Ivan also demonstrates exactly what he's saying perfectly. He is giving Hammer programmable drones because people "Cause trouble." This can include not doing what they're told, doing what they want or think is better instead. In other words, the exact thing he is doing.
* [[Merchandise
* [[Missing Trailer Scene]]: Several in the trailers for the sequel. {{spoiler|Like Tony saying "you complete me" as Pepper kisses his helmet then throws it out an airborne plane for him to catch; and Tony letting "Natalie" try out his repulsor.}} (all can be seen on the DVD)
* [[More Dakka]]: When Hammer is brought in to weaponize the Mark II armor, he showcases several weapons to Rhodes
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* [[The New Russia]]: Briefly shown as a dreary, snow-covered and crime-ridden place.
* [[NGO Superpower]]: By the second film, Tony has '''[[Large Ham|privatized world peace]]'''.
* [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain]]: Justin Hammer's deal with Ivan Vanko turns out to be a mistake from his perspective. Vanko proves impossible to work with, uses Hammer's resources and technology for his own single-minded vendetta, ruins Hammer's Expo (while placing thousands of people in immediate danger, we might add) and ultimately leads to Hammer's arrest when it's discovered that he's behind Vanko's escape. The ''real'' kick in the pants? ''It was all totally unnecessary.'' If Hammer had simply waited, Tony Stark would have self-destructed completely on his own, been discredited in the eyes of the public, and Hammer would have still gotten his hands on the War Machine armor and been allowed to study/weaponize it as the premier US military contractor.
* [[No Endor Holocaust]]: See [[Nobody Can Die]] below. The Hammer Drones, as well as Rhodes, wreak all kinds of havoc during the expo, but nobody seems to come to any harm.
** Averted in the novelization where it is blatantly mentioned that several people are killed.
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* [[Pet the Dog|Pet the Cockatoo]]: Worried that anything negative will come out of the birds that the villain Whiplash has? Don't be, because (in his only display of kindness) he takes care of a cockatoo that isn't even his to the very end. Aww.
* [[Power High]]: When Tony Stark inserts the new element into his arc-reactor, he gets a very sudden high.
* [[The Power of Friendship|The Power Of]] <s>Friendship</s> [[The Power of Friendship|Animosity]]: Played with in the second film. {{spoiler|When Rhodes takes the Mk II, his [[Beam
* [[Precision F
** Whatever those circumstances may be, pettiness is probably not among them.
* [[Power Degeneration]]: Continuing use of the Iron Man suit {{spoiler|accelerates Tony's palladium poisoning.}}
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* [[Room Full of Crazy]] / [[Stalker Shrine]]: Vanko's basement.
* [[Sensual Slavs]]: [[Black Widow (Comic Book)|Black Widow]], so very much.
* [[She Fu]]: The slow motion in the scene makes this a particularly [[
* [[Shoulder Cannon]]: Any guesses who?
* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]:
** Tony does this in the novelisation of the second film, throwing Ivan's words about being a thief and murderer back in his face.
** He pulls this off in the movie, as well, when he visits Vanko in his holding cell.
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* [[Smug Super]]: Tony is arguably this in some scenes.
* [[So Last Season]]: {{spoiler|Tony tries to nail Vanko with the "aimbot" he used to clear out the terrorists in Gulmira in the first film. Though Vanko's head is exposed, his helmet instantly reforms to block the shot.}}
* [[So Unfunny
* [[Soviet Superscience]]: Anton Vanko, a Soviet defector, co-developed the reactor technology.
* [[Spin Attack]]: {{spoiler|In ''Iron Man 2'', Tony uses this to take out the last of the "Hammeroids".}}
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* [[This Is Sparta]]: "I don't know if you're aware of this, but I DON'T! ''SPEAK''! '''RUSSIAN!''' "
* [[Toilet Humour]]: "The question I get asked the most often is, how do you go to the bathroom in this suit?" He promptly shows the audience.
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Yes, Justin. Let the brilliant, vindictive Russian physicist, who you've known only for a few hours, change the design and software of your massive army of [[Mecha Mook|Mecha Mooks]]. [[What Could Possibly Go Wrong?]]?
* [[Took a Level In Badass]]- Happy Hogan, of all people. After Ivan Vanko makes his grand [[Dynamic Entry]] during the race that Tony forces himself into, and is about to make his finishing blow on Tony, the bodyguard, in Tony's custom limo, [[Dynamic Entry|comes out of nowhere]], rams ''into Vanko full force'', and manages to keep him effectively pinned against the chain-link fence for several minutes.
* [[Took a Level In Jerkass]] - Tony Stark allows the fame to get to his head - ''again'' - in [[Iron Man]] 2, and it screws him over worse than his playboy tendencies did in the first film. It's at least justified, however, in that {{spoiler|he's dying, and doesn't know what to do about it.}}
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* [[Verb This]]: "Sidekick this!"
* [[Victimized Bystander]]: a test pilot for Hammer.
* [[Victory By Endurance]]: Ivan uses this strategy against Tony and Rhodes. By the time he engages the two in battle, they've already burned a lot of energy and ammunition on the army of drones Vanko sent against them. Furthermore, Tony has used up his [[One
* [[Vodka Drunkenski]]: Ivan Vanko greatly enjoys a [[Product Placement|famous real-life brand]] of Russian vodka. As does his bird.
* [[Waif Fu]]: Black Widow's preferred combat style.
* [[What If]]: Tony muses in the second film's novelisation that if he had been brought up in Siberia by an angry alcoholic for a father, he would have turned out like Ivan too.
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: Tony has some shades of this, as explored in the second film. {{spoiler|He finally gets his "well done" from Howard in the video he left behind... even as he begins to realize just how brilliant his dad was.}}
* [[We Used to Be Friends]]: Tony is alone after he disappointed all of his friends.
* [[What Happened to The Mouse?]]: [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6007882/1/What_happened_to_the_burd What happened to the bird?]
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: In the second film, Rhodey loses all his patience with Tony after Tony parties around while wearing his Iron Man armor and using the suit's weaponry to amuse the guests. {{spoiler|He decides Tony doesn't deserve the suit and [[Gundamjack|hijacks]] the Mk.II suit to prove his point}}. Depending on how you look at it, there's {{spoiler|Stane and all the people in the sequel who aren't happy that Tony isn't sharing the Iron Man tech with the military.}}
* [[Whip It Good]]: Ivan Vanko, and he [[Dual
* [[A Worldwide Punomenon]]: "Goldstein! Gimme a phat beat to beat my buddy's ass to." Tony laughs at his own pun, too (granted, he was drunk out of his mind at the time).
* [[Worthy Opponent]]: In the second film's novelisation, Tony eventually admits to seeing Ivan as this.
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