While Starscream is busy trying to find a jack on Iron Man suit, Iron Man's just going to blast away at him. Also, the weaponry that they showed was ordinary military odrinance. Only Ironhide, Optimus, Bumblebee, and Megatron showed anything that was alien. And the movie proved that Iron- Man could handle tank shells and bullets and things like that with no problem.
Faulty logic to assume that just because it appeared to be normal military ordinance, does not mean it actually is.
Starscream appears to be a typical F22, yet he is able to fly into space, and indeed, to the moon (in Transformers: Reign of Starscream comic, which is canon and part of the movie continuity).
Even more on point...a few of Starscream's "nomral military ordinance" discharges destroyed bumblebee's legs.
Contrast this with the pounding that Scorponok, a small drone transformer, whereas bumblebee is a full-sized autobot, took with a10 thunderbolts and the ac-130 gunship, resulting only in a small piece of his tail being broken off...it's quite clear that starscream's weaponry is vastly superior to conventional ordinance.
Do you think ironman could stand up to the same punishment, when he was running away from a single missile fired by an F22? No.
Originally posted by spawnwest
And didn't Starscream take out like 6 F22's in the air in about 4 seconds
Yeah but he had the element of Surprise. Remember it was like "WTF is that, is that one of ours?" Then BAM 2 birds out of the sky before they even knew that it wasn't one of theirs. So Don't give Starscream that much credit. IF it was the same amount of jet and they knew He was going. Starscream still might win but he would sustain considerable damage.
Originally posted by Tenebrous
Do you think ironman could stand up to the same punishment, when he was running away from a single missile fired by an F22? No.
yes, ironman and iron monger can definitely take on devastator and starscream. ironman will use his scanner operating system to figure out the weak spot on the decepticons, their chest. he can launch his laser/heat guided antitank missiles, which is tipped with tungsten rounds, should be able to Peirce through the decepticon's hide. they will have more problem with starscream then devastator though.
if normal solders can take down decepticons with rocket launchers, then i don't see any reason why ironman and ironmonger can't.
Originally posted by Doctor-Alvis
I don't disagree with your point here but I think any sane person would try to run away from a missile when they're wearing an experimental suit of powered armor that has gone through little stress testing.
true true... i would run or avoid it too even though i know i can take the damage.. 🙂, perhaps it is extremely expensive to replace and fix the armor, so trying to avoid unnecessary risk.
Originally posted by wolverex84
true true... i would run or avoid it too even though i know i can take the damage.. 🙂, perhaps it is extremely expensive to replace and fix the armor, so trying to avoid unnecessary risk.
Originally posted by Doctor-Alvis
If I knew my powered armor could take the shot, I suppose I would avoid it still to avoid the risk of disorienting myself and putting myself in a comprising position. However, I don't recall him doing a lot of testing on the durability of the suit. I forget if he gets hit by the tank before or after he runs from the missile but if it were me I probably wouldn't have risked it at that point either way. Maybe after something like the Ironmonger fight I'd have a little more faith in how rugged my suit is.
Originally posted by FrothByte
you saw the difference between the agility of starscream in the air compared with ironman. if the fight is taken to the air, starscream would kill him.