Board Thread:Movies/@comment-7999061-20130502135427/@comment-3545644-20130513013323

ADour wrote: When referring to those moments in which Tony suddenly lost all grasp of common sense, are you talking about the anxiety attacks, right? Because they made sense. It's not like an anxiety attack has to occur all the time, it's just something that strikes in an specific moment, in some cases when he was mentioned his near-death experience or when he felt he was lost (when he was informed of the MK XLII not being ready.)

I was referring to him threatening a terrorist, giving his address away, and having zero backup plans. Also, choosing to use a prototype armor instead of his finished armors. Also, not deploying the other armors when he had the chance, which could have saved him his house. And ending the movie early. And later on, he remote-pilots the Mark 42 directly into a truck. Also, I would've kept at least one of the other armors alive, just in case he ever had to go back to Iron Manning in the future. To say nothing of the fact that if he weren't careful, then "clean slate" would've wiped out Iron Patriot as well as all the Iron Men. Which would have killed Rhodie and the president.

The most logical thing he does in the whole movie is undergo surgery to get the shrapnel out of his chest, so he doesn't need the arc reactor anymore. And then...he throws his obsolete arc reactor in the ocean! Which would...make it way too easy for a supervillain to find! I get that he wanted have more time for Pepper. But the way he goes about it is...so impractical.

Actually, I didn't mind the anxiety attack thing. Though, I wish that Avengers had given some more foreshadowing that he was starting to have them. He ends Avengers showing no real signs of having been traumatized. Then suddenly, he has insomnia because he saw a ship being operated by Thanos, while realizing that Thor was a god and that Bruce Banner turns into a big green monster. We're given no signs in Avengers that he's even remotely bothered by these revelations.

It's an oversight. But again...sloppy though the film is at filling in its own holes, it still manages to be better than it had any right to be.