


Here begins the true struggle of 'Iron Man 3'.Īn Iron Man adventure where Tony Stark is all alone and stripped of his super-suit. When Happy is nearly killed in the next Mandarin attack, Tony, in complete denial of his current capabilities, publicly invites The Mandarin to bring his jihad right to Tony's literal front door, where upon Iron Man gets his ass fully kicked and left for dead. Tony's long time bodyguard, Happy (Jon Favreau), thinks Killian has romantic eyes for Pepper. Second, a man named Aldrige Killian (Guy Pearce) returns from Tony's past to pitch Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow) - who is not only Tony's girlfriend, but the President of Stark Industries - on a new technology that will allow them to hack and unlock the full potential of the mind. There have been nine attacks thus far, and the weird part is investigators have been unable to find any trace of the bombs, or The Mandarin.

First, an international terrorist who calls himself The Mandarin (Sir Ben Kingsly) is bombing US targets around the world. While Tony is close to cracking, two events threaten to send him all the way over the edge. Tony, being who he is, knows he needs help, but instead spends time tinkering, creating and building an entire fleet of new Iron Man suits. He can't sleep, thanks to recurring nightmares of falling through an inter-dimensional wormhole, and any brief mention of New York is enough to give him an extreme anxiety attack. Sure, he's still acerbic and brilliant and snarky, but Tony's suffering from superhero PTSD. Picking up after "the events in New York City", we find ex-military industrialist turned self-made superhero, Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr) a shell of his former self. Or, the first stand alone adventure that will keep audiences happy until 'The Avengers: Age of Ultron'. After the box office and critical success of 'The Avengers', 'Iron Man 3' is the first entry of Marvel's Cinematic Universe Phase Two.
