User blog comment:ADour/Some CRITICISM against criticism against Iron Man 3/@comment-24308873-20130928205806/@comment-4652104-20131003090533

Let me repeat myself: "I believe this discussion is utterly obsolete. Regardless of the effectiveness of Killian's firebreath, he most probably doesn't want to use it. He's a comicbook supervillain for goodness sake! He's grandstanding. He wants to shwo Stark who's boss. He wants to beat him to a bloody pulp with his bare hands, to prove his superiority.

And I have to agree with FJ on one count. This is moronic. But hey, who said supervillains are in their right mind?"

Although I believe AD is right - there may be any number of logical reasons for Killian not to want to use firebreath*, we just don't see it used often enough to be able to say anything for certain, I think that the most probable reason is illogical - Killian has a grudge against Stark and wants to take him down mano-a-mano.


 * it takes time to charge (does he have time to use it?), it's not so hot (we can tell by the color, is that an issue?) no other enhencile uses it, maybe it's tricky, maybe he has little experience with it, etc. etc.