Board Thread:Movies/@comment-7999061-20130502135427/@comment-4651179-20130513020041

IvanRider wrote: I was referring to him threatening a terrorist, giving his address away, and having zero backup plans.

I think the anger of his BFF's near-death experience plus his usual attitude of "shooting first, questions later" plus his little "insanity" made his action make sense. It's that kind of things you make than leave you "wait... did I just do that?"

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.

I think it would've been risky to deploy his armors when his entire house was collapsing. Not to mention it wouldn't have saved his house, as the first missile already did a lot of damage.

And ending the movie early. And later on, he remote-pilots the Mark 42 directly into a truck.

The truck "came out of nowhere" (lol). Still, he was distracted by the saving he just did. Irresponsible, but explainable

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.

Stark can build more suits, and Iron Patriot Armor's software was A.I.M.'s not Stark's. Not to mention it can be safely assumed Rhodey's suit isn't exactly just one of Stark's suits.

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.

Technically, no one knew he threw it in the ocean. If I were Tony I would bury as deep as I could, but still, it's not like any supervillain would come to that cliff searching for anything.

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.

I think it should've gotten a little foreshadow, but it's not like we had a lot of Tony time after his non-sacrifice. Also, I don't think PSD appears right after the trauma, it's like Tony needed a little bit of time to realize what did just happen, and not when the water was still turbid.