User blog comment:ADour/Some CRITICISM against criticism against Iron Man 3/@comment-24308873-20130924235722/@comment-4651179-20130925174949

No. It didn't take him 3 seconds and he didn't do it with little effort. And there aren't 3 good chances he could have used it in the battle either.

Getting whipped, not killed. The death of the Extremis soldiers didn't have to happen right after the battle with the armors started, remember the armors still fought the Extremis soldiers when they were off-screen.