History WesternAnimation / IronManArmoredAdventures

* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Tony's reaction after hearing the plot of Theatre/{[Hamlet}}, believing Pepper is pulling his leg to remind him of his own life.

* AbusiveParents: Living Laser's mother, Gene's stepfather Zhang, and Whitney's father Obadiah Stane are all pretty mean parents to their children. Not to mention [[spoiler: the Makluan Overlord]].

* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler: This is how the show ends. Tony, Pepper and Rhodey are all alive. The status quo has changed dramatically now that [[BrokenMasquerade the world knows who they all are]]. Gene seeks to become TheAtoner and use the Makluan rings for good. And the events of the episode may well have led to the creation of ComicBook/TheAvengers.]] [[CutShort And that's all we'll get]].

* ArtificialLimbs: [[spoiler: Whiplash gets one after Iron Man rips his old arm off.]]

** [[spoiler: Andy Erwin, the Awesome Android. Rhona created and programmed Andy to be her brother. Interestingly, when Rhona ordered Andy to get rid of the main teens, he told Pepper that he hated having to hurt her because he always liked her. It is unclear if Andy somehow developed those emotions on his own, or if Rhona programmed them (which is unlikely, seeing as she tried to kill Pepper).]]
* AscendedExtra: Rhona and Andy. In every episode you can see them in the background with other students before they were given their own speaking roles. They don't become more than crowd filler until season two, and the real punchline doesn't come until the middle of the season. Can count as a MythologyGag to anyone who read [[spoiler: Ultimate Fantastic Four]].

** Several characters. Living Laser before his reform, as well as the Mad Thinker (aka [[spoiler: Rhona]]) come to mind as especially strong examples.

--> '''Pepper:''' All those times I wanted us to hang out? This isn't exactly what I meant. \\

** [[spoiler: The Makluan Overlord]] tells Gene it's unfortunate that [[spoiler: he murdered the Makluan who stole the ten rings]], for he was his son, and he longed for the day they would meet again... so he could murder him for his treachery.

* BenevolentPrecursors: Surprisingly, [[spoiler: the original Mandarin]]. Despite his reputation, he appears to have been an honorable and benevolent leader who was disgusted by the greed, ambition and cruelty of his progeny - in stark contrast to both Gene and Zhang. The FridgeBrilliance kicks in when you realize he was based off of Genghis Khan, who had a reputation for being a ruthless conqueror, but was also known as a wise and benevolent ruler to those already under his power.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Season one. Fin Fang Foom is stopped, the fifth ring is found, and Zhang is dead. But the armory is destroyed, and Gene reveals himself as true Mandarin and cops to causing the plane crash that killed Tony's father (who is revealed to be NotQuiteDead). Worse, he now knows that there are not five, but '''''TEN''''' Makluan Rings, and he has the first five, making him the only one who knows the location of the rest.]]
** "Heavy Mettle:" [[spoiler: Stane is finally outed as a CorruptCorporateExecutive and ousted from his CEO position by the {{Reasonable Authority Figure}}s on the Stark International Board of Directors. However, as a result Stane goes temporarily nuts, figures out Tony is Iron Man, steals the Iron Monger suit and tries to call him out to a final battle by kidnapping Pepper. It gets worse, for just when Stane has had a change of heart thanks to the love of his daughter, Hammer shows up, hacks Iron Monger's systems and causes it to go on a rampage, which Stane is blamed for. In the effort to stop the Monger suit from the inside, Stane causes the suit to plummet off a building, while Tony and Rhodey are unable to save him. End result, Stane is in a coma, Whitney blames Tony for everything and swears revenge, and Hammer, though momentarily disabled, avoids all blame and is poised to become even more powerful than he already is.]]

** In "Iron Monger Lives," [[spoiler:Whitney Stane]] threatens to reveal Iron Man's identity to S.H.I.E.L.D. if he doesn't let her escape. Iron Man doesn't have to worry because [[spoiler: they already know.]]
** In the SeriesFinale, Ghost's plan to use Iron Man's identity as leverage once Tony Stark inherits Stark International is ruined once [[spoiler: the identity is exposed to the whole world.]]

* BrainUploading: It turns out that the explosive nanites meant to kill [[spoiler: Mr. Fix]] had the secondary affect of transferring his mind to an external disk, which [[spoiler: Hammer then uploads into his mainframe so Fix can continue his work. Needless to say, Fix is not pleased.]]

** [[spoiler: Rhona and Andy are the Mad Thinker and the Awesome Android]].
** Annie is [[spoiler: Jean Grey]].

--> '''Pepper:''' Well! that went perfectly. except for every single detail. Well, it was a good plan, though! \\

* SmashCut*\\

--->'''Black Widow''', who has just planted a bomb on Iron Man: "Don't follow us, understood?"\\

* DeathIsCheap: Mr. Fix restores [[spoiler: The Living Laser]] to life in Season 2.

* EsotericHappyEnding: "Control+Alt+Delete" has one: In the last moments of the episode, Tony considers that he would not be able to tell if his world is truly real or not after what he's just experienced. As he walks out of the room, [[spoiler: it glitches out. What the viewer is meant to take away from that is this: Like Tony, we must [[WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief suspend our disbelief]] in order to enjoy the show, and the fact that it's a fictional story doesn't invalidate it or any of the emotions it might give you in any way, [[FictionIdentityPostulate which is true for all works of fiction]]. It's still pretty worrying in-universe, though.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Obadiah Stane may be a CorruptCorporateExecutive and a {{Jerkass}}, but he does genuinely love his daughter Whitney, despite appearances. This eventually leads to [[spoiler: a HeroicSacrifice of sorts.]]

** [[spoiler: The Living Laser]] has his good and evil sides split after he's brought back to life, resulting in the good one needing Tony's help to rejoin with the bad one.

* EvilOrphan: [[spoiler: Rhona, who is a SelfMadeOrphan]].

** Justin Hammer injects Mr. Fix with explosive nano machines after he fails and is not shy about reminding him of it. [[spoiler: Or finally using it, but saving Fix's mind through BrainUploading.]]

* HappyEndingOverride: {{Inverted|Trope}} by [[spoiler: the Living Laser]], who gets a ''Downer'' Ending Override when he returns in Season 2.

* HeelRealization: The Living Laser has one just as [[spoiler: [[RedemptionEqualsDeath he dies]]]].

** [[spoiler: Living Laser sacrifices himself to save Tony in "Designed Only for Chaos."]]

** [[spoiler: It's not clear whether he actually knew what he was doing or just acting out of desperation, but Stane breaks the out-of-control Iron Monger armor from the inside to stop it from killing Whitney, which causes it to shut down and fall off a building with him inside, putting him into a coma.]]

* HighAltitudeInterrogation: In the season one finale, [[spoiler: Rhodey catches up with Zhang's helicopter, and when Zhang refuses to tell him where Tony and the others are, he casually tosses him out of the helicopter in order to intimidate him. It took a second drop to do the job, but he talked.]]

** Doom is [[spoiler: swallowed up]] by the EldritchAbomination he summoned.

* HumongousMecha: [[spoiler: The Iron Monger Armor.]]

** Stane started the series off bouncing an IdiotBall when he tried to weaponize the Starks' laser-drilling HumongousMecha, forgetting that only Tony and Howard knew how the things ''actually worked'', nearly wiping out half of the state of New York when they inevitably misfired. His track record for the rest of season one isn't much better. His only real victory is [[spoiler: hiring Ghost to steal the plans for the Iron Man armors]], and even that backfired on him when [[spoiler: Ghost sold a copy of the plans to Justin Hammer]].

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: In "Best Served Cold," [[spoiler: it is revealed that the mask Whitney Stane uses to become Madame Masque is powered by a hazardous mineral, driving her insane. Tony Stark cures her, but removing the residue from her brain also removed her memories of her life from the first time she used the mask.]]

** The Living Laser blaming Iron Man for his problems. He hangs a lampshade on it, [[spoiler: just before he dies]].
** Black Panther [[LampshadeHanging points out]] the hypocrisy of [[spoiler: Nakia wanting revenge for him exiling her brother]] when ''she'' was the one who told him to banish him in the first place.

* NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: Temugin "Gene" Khan is named after the ancient warlord Genghis Khan - birth name Temugin. This is no coincidence, [[spoiler: as he was the first Mandarin]].

** However, after he [[spoiler: gives Hammer a FateWorseThanDeath]], Tony ''does'' make [[spoiler: Fix actually dead]].

-->'''Iron Man''': Oh nuts!

* PrecisionFStrike: Rhodey said "crap" in "Technovore" when he sees the virus out from the computer. Surprisingly, Nick didn't bothered about it!

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler: The Living Laser, a mook who gained superpowers accidentally, first used them to strike it big on his own and find his calling in life. In the end, he found his calling was being a hero and sacrificed himself to take down A.I.M.'s super-weapon MODOC and save Iron Man's life.]]

** [[spoiler: Obadiah, for his part,]] gives his life to save Whitney's.

* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: [[spoiler: Andy, who Tony believed just had super powers before his computer scan. Also, the fake social services woman who took Rhona away]].

** Also [[spoiler: the fake social service woman who took Rhona away. Flashing a TraitorShot at the end]].

-->'''Pepper''': Yeah, real original. What are you going to do now? [[Film/KingKong1933 Make ape sounds and knock planes out of the sky?]]

* SuperSerum: The Extremis Serum is supposed to be one, since it's based on the original super soldier serum that created Captain America. It... doesn't quite work as intended. [[spoiler: It works for Tony, though, who only took a drop.]]

** [[spoiler: "I feel like I'm going to explode!"]] Pepper even lampshades this afterwards. [[spoiler: She made the above declaration just before the Titanium Man blew the armor she was remote-controlling to bits.]]

* TitleDrop: Doctor Doom title drops his debut episode with "Feel... [[FunetikAksent Ze]] might... of DOOM!" And [[spoiler: Rhona]] also title drops "All the best people are mad".

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Tony thinks nothing of [[spoiler: destroying Fix 2.0 even though he was a BrainUploading victim]] and a real person. What had [[spoiler: Fix]] done? Given [[spoiler: Hammer a dose of his own zombie virus.]]

* {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler: Whitney Stane when she's Madame Masque.]] [[AIIsACrapshoot Iron Man OS 7.4B]], as a direct adaptation of the sentient Safe Armor from the comics, is one towards Tony as well.

-->Yeah, real original. What are you going to do now? [[Film/KingKong1933 Make ape sounds and knock planes out of the sky?]]

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** When Tony, Gene, Rhodey, and Pepper go to the temple where the second Makluan ring was found, Tony believes they have to break into it because he expects Obadiah Stane to have the temple guarded with armed guards, high-tech security, and possibly even dogs, since the temple is the property of Stark International. When Tony goes to check, he discovers that the temple isn't being guarded at all, Stane just abandoned it because it didn't make any money for him.
** Because the Iron Man armors were never patented, as Tony would have had to reveal his secret identity, when Ghost steals the schematics from him, and gives to Stane and Hammer, both men are legally allowed to do whatever they please with the schematics.
*** That said, should it become known that Stane acquired the tech from a known criminal, it would deliver a blow to his credability. [[spoiler: Tony and Rhodes' mother were able to gather enough evidence to expose the shady deal, prompting Stark Industries' board to fire Stane and have Tony finally take company ownership back.]]
*** Unfortunately [[spoiler: getting Stane fired has a consequence [[DidntThinkThisThrough Tony didn't consider]], such as giving Hammer the opportunity to buy Stark International and take control of his inheritance.]] Removing one enemy from power can allow another enemy to seize it.
** [[spoiler:In "Heavy Mettle", Iron Man and War Machine face off against Titanium Man, whose suit's titanium-[[{{Unobtanium}} vibranium]] alloy makes it practically indestructible. The two heroes wait until their enemy is in the air, then hit him with their most powerful weapons at the same time. While Titanium Man's suit is structurally undamaged, the sheer force of the explosion sends him flying for miles, with the villain unable to stop himself, due to the suit's inner workings being locked up as a result of the massive explosive force it was hit with. No matter how tough an object is, it is still affected by the laws of physics, and a strong outer shell can only protect the innards so much.]]
** At the ending of "The X-Factor", [[spoiler: after the final fight with Magneto when Senator Kelly expresses his hatred for Annie, who is really Jean Grey, and blames her for what happened, despite the fact she saved his life, which was filmed by a camera crew, everyone present immediately turns on him and he loses his supporters, which the camera crew also filmed, leaving Kelly with no platform to stand on for his anti-mutant campaign. Acting like an UngratefulBastard to someone who saved your life can cause people to turn on you, especially if your a politician.]]

** ContrivedCoincidence: The field trip of the eponymous episode could have ended ''very'' badly for our heroes if not for a lot of things happening at exactly the right times.