Air Force in the department of acquisitions. Colonel James "Rhodey" Rhodes:Ī friend of Stark's, and the liaison between Stark Industries and the U.S. He takes charge of Stark Industries at the age of 21 from Stane, who had been in control of the company since Howard's death. The son of a Manhattan Project engineer, Howard Stark, he is an engineering child prodigy, having built a circuit board at four years old and an engine at six, as well as graduating from MIT summa cum laude at the age of 17.
as Anthony "Tony" Stark / Iron Man:Ī billionaire industrialist, genius inventor, and consummate playboy, he is CEO of Stark Industries, a chief weapons manufacturer for the U.S. The next day Stark is named "Iron Man" and is advised to keep the identity a secret but reveals it anyways. Stane's scientists cannot duplicate the ARC Reactor tech so Stane steals Tony's and dons his suit to attack SHIELD and goes after Pepper, but however Tony using his original ARC Reactor saves her and the two warriors battle, and once they get atop the Stark facility, Tony orders Potts to overload the giant arc reactor to electrocute Stane, defeating him. Stark decides to find out who sent the Ten Rings the weapons, so he sends his assistant Pepper Potts to hack into Stane's computer believing he could have been dealing with them, and she finds out Stane had sent the Ten Rings to kill Stark but they reneged. After discovering the Ten Rings are using his weapons and Stane had betrayed him, Stark dons his armor to fight the Ten Rings, who later find parts of Stark's prototype suit and contact Stane so he could build them an army of iron soldiers to rule Asia but he betrays them and steals the armor for his own purposes, reverse-engineering it into his own suit. There, Stark announces no more weapons, and it disappoints Obadiah Stane while Stark at home builds a streamlined and newer suit, every day making it more capable of flight. He, however, crash-lands in the middle of the desert during flight and without his armor, he runs in the desert broken down but is found by his best friend James Rhodes as they return. During the escape, Yinsen is killed and Stark's suit charges and he uses it to defeat the Ten Rings. But there, Stark is attacked and kidnapped by terrorists known as the Ten Rings who order him and doctor Yinsen to build the Jericho, but instead, they spend days in the cave creating an arc reactor to keep shrapnel from Stark's heart and armor to escape. Years later, Howard dies and his company is taken over by Tony, who is about to present the new "Jericho" missile in Afghanistan. Returning to America, Stark refines the suit and uses it to combat crime and terrorism.īillionaire, genius, and Stark Industries CEO Howard Stark has his spotlight taken by his son Tony, who amazes the world with his brilliant creations. Instead, he builds an armored suit and upends his captors. It's an imperfect movie, but perfectly satisfying conclusion to this arc of the Marvel saga.A billionaire industrialist and genius inventor, Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.), is conducting weapons tests overseas, but terrorists kidnap him to force him to build a devastating weapon. That it works this well is even more of a miracle. Seriously this is like watching someone juggle 10 flaming chainsaws, it's a godamn miracle it works at all.
The movie has a big emotional core, and a climactic end that is godamn powerful. Okay so those are my criticisms, what did I like about the movie? I guess everything else? The time travel plot let's us revisit and honor some old moments in Marvel with a new lens in sort of a Back to the Future Part 2 way that's a lot of fun, and it brings back some characters I didn't think we'd ever see again.
Also I hate Professor Hulk, he's just not that fun. This final battle, while boasting the biggest ensemble of Marvel heroes we've ever seen on screen, is weirdly dark and muddied in CGI scenery compared to the battle at Wakanda from Infinity War. Not only that, Infinity War I think had a better final battle. At the end of the day, Infinity War was just a wildly new experience, it was such a gamechanger and crowd-pleaser. Overall, I really do like Infinity War better. As a conclusion to over a decades worth of storytelling, it's got a lot to live up to, and it's about as good as you could really hope for it to be.