Just in time for Christmas, we peer into this holiday classic for all the nerdy references and callbacks.
This article is nothing but spoilers for a movie that came out in 2013.
If youre really worried and havent already seen it, go watchIron Man 3and come back.
Tony begins the narration by saying A famous man once said we all create our own demons.'
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The song playing over the Y2K party in the flashback is Eiffel65s Blue.
It is period-accurate, and terrible.
Comics Dr. Wu worked as the head of Parker Industries bio-tech division.
Theres also a great Steely Dan song.
Hansen was much as she appeared in the movie, but Killian was very different.
He mostly just killed himself in despair after creating Extremis.
However, in the comics, Killian had nothing to do with the creation of AIM.
Those stories are excellent.
The main armor in this movie is listed as Mark 42.
The Mandarin of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is a massive deviation from the pretty racist comics version.
Comics Mandarin was created inTales of Suspense#50 in 1964.
Each ring had a different power, and was activated when The Mandarin willed it.
We know that Stan Lee isUatu the Watcher.
Like AIM and The Mandarin, movie Iron Patriot is quite different from his comics counterpart.
James Rhodes never donned the Iron Patriot armor until after this movie came out.
It was a protective suit that had no effective offensive weaponry.
It also looks a ton like the Hulkbuster that well see inAge ofUltron.
Happy mocks Tonys time with the Avengers by saying Now youre off with the Superfriends.
They are not the Superfriends.
Thats the Justice League of the 70s cartoons.
Apparently Tony is one of the few fans of the originalWestworld.
He calls out Savin, Killians top henchman, for being pretty robotic with aWestworldjoke.
Thomas, the accountant the Mandarin shoots in the head on live television, is an accountant for Roxxon.
Roxxon is kind of the catch all evil corporation in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
