Iron Man

[The Wandering God]

Originally Posted by Mirai Gen

Magus: Roddy Rhodes is War Machine, yes, and he's even used the Iron Man suit a few times.

Also, seriously, am I the only one who totally didn't get what was with the bald, head terrorist basically coming in, seeing that he wasn't making a Jericho, and after holding a hot coal in front of the old guy, just walking away?

Seemed kind of lame to have the setup be about him figuring it out and then it being okay for them to keep working despite his knowledge.

I'm going to go with underestimating Stark. He probably thought that Stark was making some kind of "gun" at worst. He was willing to wait and didn't care if whatever Stark did killed a few of his minions. Certainly, he had now way of knowing that Stark would find a way to make himself virtually bulletproof.

Also, you have to understand the villain was evil from the very beginning. spoiler
Stane had ordered his execution by the 10 Rings faction.

Awesome movie really. Can't wait to go see it again.

The Wandering God

[MFD]

I particularly liked how the movie didn't bother with the cheesy names for their villains.

Although, if you know Iron Man's villains, and you would like to know who he's fighting before watching the movie, it's the Iron Monger and the Mandarin.

Although, they're using a thoroughly unmystified version of the Mandarin, probably hoping to combat the walking stereotype he honestly and truly is.

Spoiler: The "Bald Terrorist Guy" was the Mandarin, as he led the Ten Rings terrorist faction. Ten Rings of Mandarin? I dunno, I guess it could go either way, reading the Wiki article. Apparently he only had one ring in the movie, so maybe Tony only dealt with one of ten factions within the Ten Rings terrorist organization.

[Zoncker]

I think that the whole essence of the movie is somewhat summed up in one scene. The one where he's flying and gets shot down by the tank, only to get back up and dodge another shot and fire a tiny missle that you hear go *tink* only to conclude with the whole damned tank to blow. Sorta like Kwanza bott's missile in the Futurama movie.

[POS Industries]

And I just now found out that Stane was played by Jeff Bridges. Man, I fail at paying attention.

[Mirai Gen]

Damn, I totally missed the reference to The Mandarin.

Having fucked with the arms dealing that was funding his terrorist regime I think he's gonna come back kind of pissed at Tony.

I'm going to go with underestimating Stark. He probably thought that Stark was making some kind of "gun" at worst.

I'd go with that but the scene where he finds out shows Stark using the robotic 'leg' mechanism back and forth.

[P-Sleazy]

I don't think that was Mandarin. This guy was of middle-eastern descent. Mandarin is of Chinese-English descent. Plus, Mandarin is supposed to be leader of ALL the terrorist organizations on the world. The guy in the movie only lead one terrorist organization centered in primarily afghanistan.

[Mirai Gen]

BReal: That never was the Mandarin, he only referenced Mandarin as the "Ten Rings". He never even really made an appearance. I'm just predicting that he's going to come down on Tony really hard in Iron Man 2: The Inevitable Sequel.

[Magus]

The bald terrorist guy who may or may not be Mandarin probably saw what Tony was making and decided to let him make it in hopes it would be something even better than the Jericho missile, or Stane told him to let Tony make the new thing so they'd get a new thing to make money off of before Tony is killed, or something like that. In some sort of overarching grandmaster scheme which worked out for Stane, since he got a hold of Mark 1 and made the Iron Monger suit.

I don't think the terrorist is Mandarin, I think they referred to Mandarin, though. If he is Mandarin, the design is pretty different. I remember Mandarin had long hair and a long Mandarin mustache and such. I had some of those huge Iron Man toys when I was a kid (at least a foot tall). I had like War Machine instead of Iron Man, though. Parents. *shakes head*

How is someone's last name being "Stane" not cheesy, by the way. It's obviously a play on "Stain". Everyone else's name was okay, though, except for the alliteration in Pepper Potts. But hey, they got Clark Kent, Peter Parker, etc., I'm okay with alliteration.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

Guys, lead terrorist dude wasn't Mandarin. Mandarin wasn't in the film, event the producers/directors/rest of the crew have said that Mandarin wasn't actually in the movie. The organisation is called The Ten Rings, presumebly because it's divided into ten cells, with each leader having 1 ring (lead terrorist did indeed only have 1 ring).

I would imagine in the next movie Mandarin will kill them all and reclaim the rings himself.

[Mirai Gen]

Pretty much what I was saying.