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You know what, it’s hard to argue with some of the stuff in this (spoilery) Iron Man 3 video from How It Should Have Ended. Specifically, how it calls out the movie’s biggest WTF moment.
I liked the movie a good deal, but I had the same question at the end: Why on Earth did Tony blow up his suits? I get the gesture, and it’s sweet and everything, but dude… you’re probably going to need a suit at some point. Maybe even soon! Evil can be somewhat unpredictable, after all.
Yeah the first thing really annoyed me. You call out a terrorist but you do NOTHING to prepare?!
Iron Man just constantly got his ass kicked in this thing.
He called out a terrorist whose probably based out in the Middle East and gets attacked that very afternoon. He also did do something to prepare; he got in his suit. He just wasn’t anticipating the Manadrin to have attack chopters ready to strike so quickly.
But it fits Tony’s character to think he’s invicible and can outsmart the competition.
Blowing up the suit represents old Tony getting over the obsessive emotional period you see play out in the movie.
Kind of like how I deleted the 20 odd different Skyrim characters I once created when I was depressed and instead of of sorting myself out, distracted myself by explorer character builds.
I like the way Shane Black didn’t shove it down our throat with flippant exposition that cheapens the moment.
Another thing is all the extremis-enabled lackeys that were just kicked off of bridges/into water that they conveniently ignored. They’re not dead you know! Don’t blow up your suit yet!
My question always was: What about Roadies suit? Did he inadvertently blow up his best friend (who was carrying the President) in an attempt to impress his girlfriend?
I mean, bros before hoes Tony. Come on.
Rhodes’ suit in this movie was a gift Tony gave him between 2 and 3 (and seen in the comics) because the War Machine suit wasn’t designed for him and could have had negative consequences (which is why the Mark II is back in Tony’s house), so it’s unlikely Tony would have blown up a suit that no longer belongs to him.
Ah interesting to know that it was a different suit which wasn’t shown in the transition, I was going off the second movie where Roadie just flat out takes a suit out of Tonys house and then the military develops it.
Still, I think my comment was about 90% misguided humour anyway.
It was explained in the movie, the only reason he was keeping the suits was to pretect Pepper because he felt like he couldnt.
Once he realised she was safe because of extremis he didnt feel the need to protect her so he destroyed the suits.
They also explained why he was able to get the operation now and not before (using his own new technology which he created).
How are they “wtf” moments when they’re actually explained
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