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‘Iron Patriot’ And ‘Tony Stark’ Stills From IRON MAN 3 Officially Released

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Further showcasing (Don Cheadle) James “Rhodey” Rhodes’ red, white and blue paint job for his War Machine armor, dubbed Iron Patriot, Marvel has officially released Iron Man 3 still images in anticipation for the Shane Black-helmed action thriller. Although previously seen as scans, the photos also feature (Robert Downey Jr.) billionaire Tony Stark caught agaze at something.









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firefox1490 30th-Nov-2012 05:18 am (UTC)
I thought it was a contingency Tony had incase Extremis got out of hand? And Norman ended up with it when be ended up in charge of H.A.M.M.E.R. and since Norman is greedy and stupid he just added a bunch of other bits from other stuff in Tony's lab to the suit.
dramatik_irony 30th-Nov-2012 05:23 am (UTC)
From what i remember, Norman kept trying to find something to tie all the Dark Avengers together and he realized it was Captain America who was the face of the Avengers. He created the Iron Patriot as a way to tie the images of Iron Man and Captain America together.
firefox1490 30th-Nov-2012 05:25 am (UTC)
Oh Norman.

That's like a terrible idea. But then he's the same person who thought it was a good idea to put Venom on Thunderbolt. Do you know what ever happen with that?
dramatik_irony 30th-Nov-2012 05:39 am (UTC)
Venom was taken into custody by SHIELD during Siege and now Flash Thompson (Peter Parker's high school bully) uses it as a tool for good. They've completely redesigned the costume and the book is really well-written. I don't want to spoil too much of it for you in case you decide to read the book. I'd be happy to tell you more about it though if you'd like.
firefox1490 30th-Nov-2012 05:42 am (UTC)
Venom is well written or Thunderbolts is well written. Because I loved it when Fabian Nicieza was writing it. And its not that I don't like Warren Ellis but I liked Fabian better?
dramatik_irony 30th-Nov-2012 05:47 am (UTC)
Venom is well-written. They just came out of a really stupid crossover arc with Scarlet Spider though which I wasn't here for.

I haven't really kept up with Thunderbolts. They renamed it to Dark Avengers and last I knew, Luke Cage was leading them but since he just left the Avengers, I'm not sure what's going on there.

They're relaunching the Thunderbolts as a part of Marvel Now with Elektra, Red Hulk, Venom, and Punisher which I feel is too "fan-ficy" for me but I'll reserve judgement until I read it.
firefox1490 30th-Nov-2012 05:53 am (UTC)
See I loved New Thunderbolts, Right to Power and Born Better. Once they sent Zemo time hopping - which was fun but meh - I was side eying them.

I need to step my comic reading game up. I'm super out of date these days. Secret Invasion kind of killed me. Like I tried but I was too broke for that shit. Then Dark Reign happened and I was just like Look no.
dramatik_irony 30th-Nov-2012 05:58 am (UTC)
I thought Dark Reign was a really good idea but with most of their huge events, the execution was just so off. AvX this summer was a fucking disaster but the Marvel Now books we're getting out of it now are turning out to be fantastic.
firefox1490 30th-Nov-2012 06:03 am (UTC)
I keep hearing terrible things about AxV but Wanda! I adore her and I would read it for her comeback.
dramatik_irony 30th-Nov-2012 06:07 am (UTC)
There were pretty cute scenes with her at the end but now she's one of the flagship members of the Uncanny Avengers so you'll definitely get your Wanda fix there.
firefox1490 30th-Nov-2012 06:08 am (UTC)
SHES AN AVENGER AGAIN!!! W00T!!! ITS LIKE NONE OF THE BAD STUFF EVER HAPPENED!!!!!!!!!!!
booster_blue 30th-Nov-2012 06:44 am (UTC)
Your both mixing up two different things.

Iron Patriot is a suit that Norman snatched and painted up as a means to represent Cap - since there was no way in hell his Dark Avengers was going to be able to have a villain stand-in for him (what with Bucky still out there being a badass)

Tony did make a suit for Steve long ago. And he programmed in an override for him, as well, that works on his suits in the offchance he was ever unable to pilot.
firefox1490 30th-Nov-2012 06:47 am (UTC)
My brain does that going 1+2+4 1+1a=2a! It's a thing.

Thanks for clearing that up :D

I knew at one point Tony made Steve a suit I just didn't remember what happened to it.

ETA: For a "better" math reference.

Edited at 2012-11-30 06:48 am (UTC)
booster_blue 30th-Nov-2012 06:50 am (UTC)
IIRC, he had the suit made not too long after the whole Armor Wars fiasco.
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