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** Vanko hates Tony's guts and wants him to suffer, but their two main conversations (in the cell and on the phone) are fairly civil, even with Vanko's accusations that Tony has whitewashed his family history. The first time Tony offers him a bit of technical advice, and Vanko points out how unhealthy the palladium is for Tony. The second time, Vanko reveals that he took Tony's advice, and thanks him for it.
*** Ivan is also very polite (if curt) to Hammer, even when the former's acting like a douchebag. Aside from wanting to ruin Tony and avenge his father (and not caring who he has to kill to do it), he's a pretty nice guy. When he's not planning evil, he just seems to enjoy playing with his bird.
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** The armature robot acts like a scorned puppy every time he screws up an order from Stark.
** This movie has both an AI ''and'' ''two'' robots (the second robot controls the camera in the tests of the flight system), and ''none of them'' goes evil/crazy by the end of the movie. The AI even doubles as the operating system of a suit of invincible battle armor, exhibits a bit more common sense than Stark himself in most scenes, and it ''still'' doesn't go [[Ax Crazy]]! Amazing! As is standard for AI's, JARVIS is far from emotionless, and is capable of sarcasm:
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* [[Death by Origin Story]]: {{spoiler|Yinsen in the first movie, Anton Vanko in the sequel.}}
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: Very nearly avoided.
** Both Tony Stark and Jim Rhodes graduated from MIT, and the movie gives them the correct MIT rings (or Brass Rats). Tony Stark also briefly appears on the cover of Technology Review, the school's magazine, and Pepper notes that he's scheduled to do the Commencement speech. However, they slip up in saying that Tony graduated ''summa cum laude''. MIT does not grant ''summa cum laude'' or any other honors; [[Training
*** However, the incorrect association of Latin honors with MIT actually stems from the comics.
** Jon Favreau, director of the first two films and the actor who portrayed Happy Hogan in them, has repeatedly referred to the Mandarin's rings during interviews where questions are asked about the Mandarin's foreshadowing as being magical in the comics when in fact they are not, never were, and never will be magical. The Ten Rings of Power are, in fact, alien technology used by the same race that the dragon Fin Fang Foom is a member of. For someone who likes to emphasize how much of an Iron Man fan he is (and who co-wrote an Iron Man comic featuring Fin Fang Foom), this is a fairly huge mistake to make not just once, but repeatedly.
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* [[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.
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* [[Create Your Own Villain]]: Ivan Vanko.
** Though technically Tony didn't create him, his father did. Still counts.
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** {{spoiler|Rhodey is set up by the dying Tony to take over as armored hero. As Fury points out, the only way Rhodey could have activated the Mk. II was if Tony had already given him clearance to do so}}.
** Pepper takes over Stark Enterprises.
* [[Take That]]: It's entirely possible that the film's trailers heavily touted a scene of Tony taking a stand against the idea of governments reining in vigilantes as a spit in the face of the [[The Scrappy|often reviled, arguably fascist]] way he was portrayed in the Civil War series. Not for the first time, Iron Man was basically [[Rescued
* [[Taking You with Me]]: {{spoiler|Upon his defeat, Whiplash's armor's chestpiece begins blinking red, as do the ones on all the Hammer Drones. Granted, Tony and Rhodey get out in time but the ensuing explosions destroy most of Flushing Meadows.}}
* [[Tastes Like Chicken|Tastes Like Coconut]]: {{spoiler|Upon placing the new [[Unobtainium]] powered Arc Reactor into his chest, Tony remarks it tastes like coconut. And metal.}}
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* [[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
* [[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.}}
* [[Toxic Phlebotinum]]: {{spoiler|The palladium.}}
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