History Film / IronMan2

'''Iron Man 2''' is the 2010 sequel to ''Film/IronMan2008'' based on the Creator/MarvelComics character ComicBook/IronMan, starring RobertDowneyJr as the armored SuperHero and directed by Creator/JonFavreau. It is the third film in the Marvel Studios produced and [[{{Creator/Disney}} Walt Disney Pictures]] distributed Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse.

'''Iron Man 2''' is a 2010 sequel to ''Film/IronMan2008'' based on the Creator/MarvelComics character ComicBook/IronMan, starring RobertDowneyJr as the armored SuperHero and directed by Creator/JonFavreau. It is the third film in the Marvel Studios produced and [[{{Creator/Disney}} Walt Disney Pictures]] distributed Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse.

* BrickJoke: [[spoiler:"He should be giving me a medal!"]]
** Justin Hammer's line suggesting that [[spoiler: Pepper and the Expo computer technician recover the hijacked drones, which all communicate in unique languages, by trying [[RunningGag Russian]]. An entire battle scene later, he's seen saying, "I told you that five minutes ago!"]]
** Happy chides Tony for "dirty boxing" during their workout (he uses an elbow). Later, when fighting a guard at Hammer Industries, Happy gains the upper hand by biting his ear, Tyson-style.
** Hell, this even happens during the ''first few minutes'' of the film. Listen to the snippets of news audio playing in the background during Ivan Vanko's "TrainingMontage". It's the end of the first ''Iron Man'', during which Tony [[spoiler:reveals to the world that he is Iron Man and the events that follow.]]

** Larry Ellison

* ChekhovsGun: Howard Stark and Anton Vanko created the Arc Reactor, their blueprints for said technology allowed their sons to create miniaturised versions.
** Howard also [[spoiler:left hidden plans for a new element to power the Arc reactor in the layout of the Stark Expo, knowing he was unable to synthesize it with the technology of his era but that Tony would have the means to make it work.]]
** Also, when Tony is going through Howard's notebooks, [[spoiler:a tesseract (the four dimensional equivalent of a cube) is seen in the notes. This is the same object used as a power source by the Red Skull, and later recovered by Howard in ''CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger''; dialogue in that movie, as well as more explicit information in Film/TheAvengers, indicates the Tesseract was stolen or lost from Odin's armory of superweapons, and was the most powerful of them. ''Captain America'' and wasn't released until a year later, ''The Avengers'' two years, making this also something of a CallForward.]]

* DrowningMySorrows: In ''Iron Man 2'', Tony, [[spoiler: who is dying]], decides to get absolutely plastered at his birthday party. It does not end well.
* DullSurprise: A common criticism of Scarlett Johansson's acting. To be fair, her character is [[JustifiedTrope supposed to be]] [[EmotionlessGirl emotionally withdrawn]] [[spoiler:because she's an undercover spy who doesn't want to expose her feelings]].

* GenreBlindness: When the Hammer Drones [[IncrediblyObviousBomb begin flashing and beeping in an increasingly high pitch]] Pepper just stands there watching one with a confused look. Inverted with Tony and Rhodes, who immediately knew what was coming and acted quickly in response
* GodzillaThreshold: 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.

* GoryDiscretionShot: Vanko and Hammer's guards.

** However, unusually for this trope, his DynamicEntry doesn't include the traditional "MyNameIsInigoMontoya. [Insert grievance here]" announcement, and he [[NoNonsenseNemesis immediately starts using lethal attacks]]. Had they been successful, Tony would have died without having any idea who his killer was or why he killed him. This rather unconventional approach underlines Vanko's role as TheQuietOne.

->''"If you could make God bleed, people would cease to believe in him"''

->''"If you can make God bleed, people will cease to believe in Him."''

'''Iron Man 2''' is a 2010 American superhero film based on the Creator/MarvelComics character ComicBook/IronMan, starring RobertDowneyJr as the armored SuperHero and directed by Creator/JonFavreau. It is the third film in the Marvel Studios produced and [[{{Creator/Disney}} Walt Disney Pictures]] distributed Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse.

** 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'. [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment He used two different terms for the same explosive (RDX) back-to-back]]. [[spoiler:When War Machine uses it on Whiplash, it simply bounces off and sputters on the ground.]]

** 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'. [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment He used two different terms for the same explosive (RDX) back-to-back.]]. [[spoiler:When War Machine uses it on Whiplash, it simply bounces off and sputters on the ground.]]

* BackToBackBadasses: Iron Man and War Machine face off pretty much back to back against about twenty or so remote drones. It's awesome. [[spoiler: They [[InvertedTrope switch it up]] when Whiplash is between them, and [[DespairSpot has them]] by the necks. Given what happened at the [[StuffBlowingUp Stark mansion stand-off]] they notice that [[ChekhovsSkill Whiplash is standing in a very dangerous spot...]]]]

** 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'. [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment He used two different terms for the same explosive (RDX) back-to-back.]]. [[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.]]
--->'''Tony:''' [[spoiler:Hammer tech?]]\\
'''Rhodey:''' [[spoiler:(disgusted nod) Yeah...]]
*** This could very well be an excellent piece of engineering FridgeBrilliance: considering how this would be written in engineering notation--"cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine ''(RDX)'' burst"--it's likely that he's just quoting the schematics. [[SmallNameBigEgo He does not have the slightest idea what he's talking about.]]
** Another:
--->'''Ivan:''' "What your father did to my family over 40 years I'll do to you in 40 minutes!"

--->'''Tony Stark''': "I have successfully privatized world peace."
** Let us not forget his bombastic speech at the opening of the Stark Expo. Sure, he keeps on saying, "I'm not saying..." before every single boast he makes, but ''come on''. Humility goes out the window when you imply that you are the [[SmugSuper single greatest living equivalent of the mythical phoenix in all of history.]]

** Tony Stark continues his slide into this trope in the second movie. Ivan Vanko is a [[VodkaDrunkenski hard drinker]] as well (his bird seems to share the hobby), but he's more able to hold his shit together.
** It is strongly implied that the bottle is what did Anton Vanko in--and also resulted in him being abusive, leading to Ivan becoming villainous.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: In the second film, it seems Tony thinks his father was his AlwaysSomeoneBetter. Quite aside from Howard Stark's apparent lack of parenting skills, he's been [[spoiler:"dead for almost twenty years...still takin' [Tony] to school". Of course, that line is said with some admiration, as it's the tail end of learning how much Howard did care for him, unable to express it as he was, and the man was still his dad, after all.]]
** It's pretty obvious right away that Tony is the AlwaysSomeoneBetter to Justin Hammer, who just barely hides his resentment behind a false, smug grin.

* TakeThat: 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 [[CharacterDerailment often reviled, arguably fascist]] way he was portrayed in the ComicBook/CivilWar series. Not for the first time, Iron Man was basically RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap by his movies.

* SensualSlavs: Comicbook/BlackWidow, so very much.

* YouJustToldMe: "I never said you were a superhero."

* TakeThat: 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 [[TheScrappy often reviled, arguably fascist]] way he was portrayed in the ComicBook/CivilWar series. Not for the first time, Iron Man was basically RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap by his movies.

** Happy Hogan, of all people. After Ivan Vanko makes his grand DynamicEntry 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, [[DynamicEntry comes out of nowhere]], rams ''into Vanko full force'', and manages to keep him effectively pinned against the chain-link fence for several minutes.
** The Mk II goes from a flight test beta to the embodiment of MoreDakka. As Discussed by Rhodey, this was the point.

* ToxicPhlebotinum: [[spoiler:The palladium.]]
* TransformationIsAFreeAction: In the sequel, [[spoiler:Ivan allows Tony to finish putting on his armor, despite having energy whips that could reach and kill him if he so inclined. Though partially justified in that Ivan's legs were pinned between a wall and a car. On the other hand, he could've just planned to kill Stark, and when he saw him putting on the suit, decided he could do even better and show that Iron Man wasn't all that invincible. Or he didn't want to kill him.]]

* {{Unobtainium}}: [[spoiler:Stark needs a non-toxic replacement for palladium for his reactor]]. Eventually, he builds a prismatic accelerator to produce a new element previously only discovered by his father. According to his computer screens, it's actually [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ununoctium Ununoctium]], which is not a metal though theorized to be part of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_stability island of stability]] if the configuration of protons and neutrons is correct. In the novelization, it's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibranium Vibranium]], an element that has appeared in the comics (in two distinct varieties) since the '60s, though it has different properties from those two varieties. Other MCU movies suggest that it's [[spoiler:the same material, perhaps Asgardian in origin, that makes up the Tesseract]].

Picking up several months after the events of ''Film/IronMan'', the film deals with the consequences of Tony outing himself as Iron Man and becoming the world's newest defender. His first major issue is congressional hearings about sharing his tech, with rival (and perpetually second-place to Tony) industrialist [[SmugSnake Justin Hammer]] standing the most to gain. Despite their best efforts, Tony is untouchable: unbeatable in conferences and unstoppable as Iron Man. But his invincibility is tested by Ivan Vanko (Whiplash), a man with a grudge against the Stark empire who is more than capable of challenging Tony's genius, and he's also dealing with a [[PhlebotinumBreakdown slowly fatal medical condition]] resulting from his arc reactor implant. Comicbook/BlackWidow also features in a supporting role and Jim Rhodes suits up as his alter-ego Comicbook/WarMachine.

* SoUnfunnyItsFunny: Justin Hammer's declaration that [[spoiler:"the papers will face a new problem. They are going to ''run'' out of '''ink'''!"]] The only thing missing from the declaration is the ChirpingCrickets.

Followed by the 2012 CrossOver film ''Film/TheAvengers'' and the 2013 sequel ''Film/IronMan3''

'''Iron Man 2''' is a 2010 American superhero film based on the Creator/MarvelComics character ComicBook/IronMan, starring RobertDowneyJr as the armored SuperHero and directed by JonFavreau. The film is also the third film in the Marvel Studios produced and [[{{Creator/Disney}} Walt Disney Pictures]] distributed Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse.

Picking up several months after the events of ''Film/IronMan'', the film deals with the consequences of Tony outing himself as Iron Man and installing himself as the world's new defender. His first major issue is congressional hearings about sharing his tech, with rival (and perpetually second-place to Tony) industrialist [[SmugSnake Justin Hammer]] standing the most to gain. Despite their best efforts, Tony is untouchable: unbeatable in conferences and unstoppable as Iron Man. But his invincibility is tested by Ivan Vanko (Whiplash), a man with a grudge against the Stark empire who is more than capable of challenging Tony's genius, and he's also dealing with a [[PhlebotinumBreakdown slowly fatal medical condition]] resulting from his arc reactor implant. Comicbook/BlackWidow also features in a supporting role and Jim Rhodes suits up as his alter-ego Comicbook/WarMachine.

Picking up several months after the events of ''Film/IronMan'', the film revolves around Tony dealing with the consequences of outing himself as Iron Man and placing himself as the world's defender of peace. His first major issue is congressional hearings about sharing his tech, with rival (and perpetually second-place to Tony) industrialist [[SmugSnake Justin Hammer]] standing the most to gain. Despite their best efforts, Tony is untouchable: unbeatable in conferences and unstoppable as Iron Man. But his invincibility is tested by Ivan Vanko (Whiplash), a man with a grudge against the Stark empire who is more than capable of challenging Tony's genius, and he's also dealing with a [[PhlebotinumBreakdown slowly fatal medical condition]] resulting from his arc reactor implant. Comicbook/BlackWidow also features in a supporting role and Jim Rhodes suits up as his alter-ego Comicbook/WarMachine.

Picking up several months after the events of Film/IronMan, and Tony deals with the numerous consequences of outing himself as Iron Man and placing himself as the world's defender of peace. His first major issue is congressional hearings about sharing his tech, with rival industrialist (and perpetually second-place to Tony) [[SmugSnake Justin Hammer]] standing the most to gain. Despite their best efforts, Tony is untouchable: unbeatable in conferences and unstoppable as Iron Man. But his invincibility is tested by Ivan Vanko (Whiplash), a man with a grudge against the Stark empire who is more than capable of challenging Tony's genius, and he's also dealing with a [[PhlebotinumBreakdown slowly fatal medical condition]] resulting from his arc reactor implant. Comicbook/BlackWidow also features in a supporting role and Jim Rhodes suits up as his alter-ego Comicbook/WarMachine.

Followed by the 2012 CrossOver film ''Film/TheAvengers'' and its 2013 sequel ''Film/IronMan3''

* CarFu: Hogan during Vanko's attack on Tony at the track. Sadly, his CarFu is weak, but it buys Tony enough time to suit up.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: The Black Widow. She's not a mutant, or an alien, or a robot, but her [[ActionGirl ability to kick ass]] is simply superhuman.
** The film's a bit unclear as to which version of the Black Widow this is, so this isn't certain (some comic versions had undergone a biotech upgrade).

-->'''--Ivan Vanko'''

* ActionGirl: Black Widow, very much so. [[spoiler:In the time it took Happy Hogan to down one HAMMER security guard, she already ''annihilated'' twelve of them.]]

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