They're using the basic origin story from the 1960's ( updating the captivity story from Vietnam to Afghanistan), and using some of the period of late 1970's to mid 1980's - the period when James Rhodes and Obidiah Stane were introduced. No strict storyline has been adapted.
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IM has always been known to general public as the bodybuard of Tony Stark, while Batman is a vigilante.Yeah considering Stark is the builder of the armor, reaching the conclusion that he's his own bodyguard ain't that hard, but Batman just doesn't fit with Bruce Wayne's playboy appearence.They are two different persona into one body.
He's used dodges in the past - like getting Rhodey to impersonate being him on TV (using Max Headroom tech to CG his face onto Rhodey's body) while giving a public demonstration of the armour for consumers. That one was right after he finished with the silver centurion armour.
What was even harder to believe was that up to the 1990's, he could carry all the armour in a briefcase, saying as 'electro-magnetized chain mail' it could flatten out.
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i was watching Spider-man 2 and when it comes to the part where they're thinking about names for Doc. Oc, the guy suggests Doctor Strange, but JJJ says it's taken
another character to appear in the Avengers movie perhaps?
That's what was throwing me off. Because I never remembered any arc reactor from the originals, and he never made his identity public until recently, and Nick Fury wasn't black as Sammy J until the Ultimates.
They rarely use a known storyline when it's the first film. It's all about the origin story. When it gets to the second film & onwards, they might start looking for some famous arcs - like 'God Loves, Man Kills' for X2, the Phoenix & the Cure storylines for X3, the Galactus story for FF2 & so on.
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Iron Man's Repulsors Set on The Mandarin for Sequel
With the Incredible Hulk tracking surprisingly well and threatening to smash Iron Man's box office records next weekend, director Jon Favreau is keeping Tony Stark and company in the news by hinting at the plot of the Iron Man sequel.
When the original film made mention of the terrorist organization The 10 Rings, it was a clear reference to Marvel history and the alien artifacts The Mandarin discovered before beginning his career of oppression and supervillainy. It seemed like a pretty obvious clue from Favreau and his writers that Iron Man's arch-nemesis would appear in a sequel.
Now, with the director saying he needs "heavy duty, heavyweight bad guys" to confront Iron Man in the next film, Mandarin seems all but a lock. There's no mention of casting yet for the Far Eastern troublemaker, but that will have to break soon, as Robert Downey Jr. will be ready to begin filming in the golden titanium suit again when he finishes the Hugh Hefner biography he's working on now.
He also had a brief role in Ironman (playing Happy Hogan), making him, as far as I can tell, the first person besides Stan Lee to have had different roles in more than one Marvel Comics-based film...
Although if anyone knows of any other names to add to that list, be my guest...
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