Thread:ADour/@comment-3048593-20150606192710/@comment-3048593-20150606193714

Maybe they gave him the same name, so people wouldn't automatically assume he is the son of the Crimson Dynamo-Anton Vanko, after watching the Iron Man 2 film.

That version of Crimson Dynamo is typically regarded as one of the classic Iron Man-villains, so by giving Whiplash that same legal name it would somehow pay homage to it.