SDCC 2012: Iron Man 3 Footage From Comic Con Detailed Along With New Armor Specifics - SPOILER ALERT

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By Daniel Wolf 
Editor-in-Chief

Marvel Studios showed footage from Iron Man 3 at the 2012 San Diego Comic Con and even though we here at The Daily SuperHero were not able to catch a glimpse ourselves, Hollywood.com did and has a detailed account of it.

SPOILER ALERT!

"The opening scene features Stark (Downey Jr.) preparing for a new experiment. It's Christmastime and he sets the mood with a little hip-hop holiday music riff. Standing around his many armors, Stark commands his JARVIS computer to being the test. Stark strikes a kung fu pose — nothing. He taps his forearm, trying to get something inside to work, before striking the pose again. Suddenly, from across the room, the Iron Man glove comes flying on to his arm. This is the Extremis in its beginnings, a type of armor ripped straight from the comics that allows Stark to control his Iron Man suit...with his mind. After the glove flies on to his arm, he tells Jarvis to let it rip. Pieces of armor start flying on to his body, but it's all starts happening too quickly. Now the metal braces are zipping every which way, breaking Stark's lab and forcing him to dodge like he's got Spidey sense. Eventually, all the pieces assemble on his body, save for the face mask. Turned upside and soaring straight at him, Tony does a flip in the air, rips his glove jets and clips the final piece of armor on upside in the air. Tony Stark: always a showboat.

The rest of the footage was a trailer, opening with a comedic scene between Stark and former security guard, Happy (Jon Favreau). The two banter before Stark is startled by a boom. That's when a chilling voice over by Ben Kingsley kicks in, set to images of mass destruction. 'Some people call me a terrorist. I consider myself a teacher. Lesson number one: heroes there is no such thing.' Scattered between shots of a city under attack are glimpses of newcomers Rebecca Hall and Guy Pearce, who looks especially slimy as he gives Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow) a kiss on the cheek. The grand finale is a helicopter attack on Stark's Malibu pad. Launching missles into the glass facade, Stark and Potts are blown backwards as the building begins to crumble into the ocean below. At some point, Stark gets the Iron Man armor on and attempts to survive the attack by going underwater. Whoever is behind this attack wants Stark dead.

In true Marvel fashion, the trailer had an end teaser of its own. Who is Ben Kingsley? He's none other than notorious Marvel villain The Mandarin. The leader of the Ten Rings terrorist group (hinted at in the first Iron Man). He's got a crazy hairdo — shaved in the back with a single ponytail. He's decked out in flowing robes and a ton of bling. Ten rings is right! Kingsley looks evil as hell, and he sits awaiting Stark's next move in a throne fit for Iron Man's ultimate villain."

As much as some news outlets, websites and fans have assumed that Stark's new armor would be exactly like it was in the Extremis comics—in which his armor was stored inside of his own body—they were all wrong. Stark seems to have a neurological bond with his armor to be able to fully control it more then he has ever been able to in past films. 


If you weren't excited about Iron Man 3 before, you should be now.






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