First, the defense.
Why didn't he call his other suits earlier?
I'm reading a lot of people saying that it doesn't make sense why he kept using the crappy Mark 42 prototype instead of just calling his Iron Legion like he did at the end. Well, while it's true that there should be no reason the MK 42 shouldn't have proper power (as I've explained before), they actually did explain why he couldn't call the other suits. When his house got destroyed, there was a ton of debris blocking the door to the vault that all of the suits were in. JARVIS had to bring in cranes and heavy machinery to get it clear, which he updates Stark about at one point. When Stark starts realizing he's going to need more, he asks JARVIS "Is it that time?" He's basically asking if the debris is finally clear so he can get the suits he's wanted all along. So it actually makes sense.
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| Of course, that doesn't explain why Igor or another heavy-duty suit couldn't just clear the debris away. Blame JARVIS. |
I've also seen a lot of complaints at the lack of iron legion. I'm actually OK with this. Unlike the Mandarin, who they marketed out the whazoo, the way they handled the suits was that if you cared enough and wanted to find out more, you could, but they didn't really focus on it. They showed ths suits briefly in the trailer, and people (myself included) started making a huge deal out of it, but they didn't really give us any reason to think it would be a huge plot point. Had it been, it would have likely gotten redundant and boring quickly, so I'm actually OK with how they handled it.
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| Our moment to shine! And then blow up. |
Another comment I keep seeing is that they brought in this kid character just to throw him away at the end. I posted a link to an article on how that might not be the case, so I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
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| "Iron Man doesn't have a sidekick." Right, Stark. Except for Pepper, Happy, Rhodey, and now this kid. |
Iron Man 4
There has to be an Iron Man 4. Unless they make an Avengers 2 or 3 very focused around Iron Man, which the first Avengers film has already been criticized as doing (even though it didn't), Iron Man needs another solo film. And it needs to do some things.
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| Alternatively called "Tony Stark 2" |
First off, redeem the Mandarin. Not Killian, Mandarin. I mentioned a few ideas in an older post, but basically I see three ways of doing this.
1) The real Mandarin has been there all along, giving orders to Killian, who had a double made as bait/fake closure for the US government. After Killian fails, the real Mandarin rises from behind the scenes to thwart Tony Stark himself.
2) Somebody else rises to the mantle. My first pic would be Raza as a nice full-circle effect, but if could be somebody new. With the 10 Rings still existing without its head, somebody (maybe somebody wronged by the Stark family similar to Vanko) steps in to take control of the organization, and becomes the Mandarin.
3) The real Mandarin isn't a man, but some ancient creature who has been resting through the ages. Killian, reading into all the lore and legend of this being, brings the mythology to life with the same sort of intent as Hitler and Red Skull in CA:TFA. He creates Trevor as a public image, all while trying to turn himself into this being of power via Extremis. When he states that he is the real Mandarin, its wish fulfillment, not fact. After some magic hoo-hah happens, maybe Thanos can be brought in here, the real Mandarin awakes, and continues to wreak destruction on this new world. I realize this isn't anywhere near the comics origins of the character, but it would still allow him to be a bada$$ villain up there with Loki, and it would allow the rings to be used as they should - not as decor, not as supervillain bling, but as powerful weapons with "magical" (alien tech) properties to rival Stark's technological genius. THAT would have been the smart way to move after his ordeal in The Avengers, dealing with gods and magic and other dimensions, to have him face off against something that, to him, is magic.
4) Not my idea and not something I think would work well but I've seen it a lot around the web, would be that the Mandarin was pretending to be an actor and Trevor is actually the real deal. They'd have to do a lot to make this work, since we saw him acting silly before he knew Stark was there (unless he knew already and the whole scene was a ruse). And they'd have to explain why Killian went along with it, he doesn't seem like the guy for straight loyalty. Maybe Mandarin was withholding something that Killian wanted. It could work, but it's be messy.
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| Or, they could always bring in ManBearPig as the next villain. |
After fixing the Mandarin, they need to fix Killian.
What was Killian's whole plan? What was his goal? To control terror, sure, but why? To what end? What does he want done with Stark? In Iron Man 1, the 10 Rings (supposedly being headed by Killian the whole time), tries to kill Stark. He escapes. In Iron Man 2, the 10 Rings provide Vanko with paperwork and such to get to the US so that he can kill Stark. Once again, it doesn't work. Towards the beginning of Iron Man 3, Coldblood (Killian's henchman) fires a missle into Stark's house to try and kill him. But when Coldblood captures him at the Mandarin's palace, Killian keeps him alive? Why the change of heart? It's inconsistent. What is Killian after?
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| Just a glorified cameo, right Mr. Pearce? Kings to you. |
Also, why are all of the Extremis soldiers evil? Is it just that they all happen to be evil already, and now they just have superpowers to go with it? I think some people would be pretty offended if they found out that, according to IM3, if you are disable then you are evil. So I doub't that's it. Does Extremis feature some aspect that corrupts people into becoming evil? If so, why didn't explain that? Or maybe Killian is brainwashing them somehow? Again, it doesn't explain why all of these soldiers are following Killian. I'm assuming if there were some non-evil soldiers, they would have been fighting against him. But there weren't so...what? Explain this.
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| The prime example of one-dimensional villains. |
Next, make the Christmas thing relevant. It wasn't really a "problem" per se, but it was annoying and unimportant. So make it important. Revolve the timeline of Phase 2 around that, so that we know how things line up, and make it worth something.
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| One thing the suit doesn't have - snowblower |
Bring the kid back. Whether its as Star-Lord, Nova, or just the kid still being the kid. Last we saw him Stark left him in the cold, then gave him a bunch of stuff for his workshop. Follow up on this, don't just throw him away.
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| Congrats kid, you got your own car! Six years later, you can get a license and drive it. |
Finally, explain why the prototype was running out of power. Explain whyt this super mega-awesome power source was dead, and needed to be charged. It makes zero sense, even though the suit was a prototype, the arc reactor wasn't...or was it. Show that Stark has been trying to develop the arc reactor more (continuing the story from IM2), and use that to explain this. Maybe he was making a less potent, rechargable version for the government. Maybe General Ross or SHIELD commissioned him to do something specific, and so it wasn't just another cut-and-dry arc reactor that inexplicably doesn't work.
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| The best power source ever! Except when you don't want it to be. |
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