He met up with Maya experimented with Extremis on soldiers and himself and then used that to build up AIM.
He then got AIM a contact with the Government for Iron Patriot, presumably a part of the terrorist plan. Which only was made after the fact to cover up his Extremis issues. Which apparently only became an issue with the public until then recently.
So why did he go to Pepper in the midst of his big plan? Was that just to satisfy is boner for fucking with Tony/fucking Pepper?
And why bother with the Mandari 's big theater show on the oil rig? Killing the Potus alone would be enough to Spark his Metal Gear Sheev eternal war where we owned both sides.
And why did Rhodey's username and password let him acess all the AIM files? That would ruin everything.
He was doing a Palpatine. Controlling both sides in a conflict so that he looks great the whole time.
Nolan Lewis
In the original script, Killian was just a henchman while the female scientist was the main villain. But Perlmutter said that women can’t be taken seriously as villains and demanded it changed.
Thomas Perry
I'm so glad Perlfucker is out of the MCU.
John Hughes
Yes I know the whole Outer Haven/Palpatine Bs was the end goal but the pieces dont fit.
The film makes it seem like he didn't make up the Mandarin plot until an AIM Soldier accidently blew up a base. But he already had the Iron Patriot contract which means she either got that REALLY quick or he just rolled in a pre existing fuck Tony spite plan into the terrorist operation.
And then his going to pepper makes no sense for any of his plan. It was out it for narrative purposes to set the film in motion but it doesnt really connect to the AIM/Mandarin plan.
Also why not make an OC terrorist instead of co opting an already existing one. You can say "real mandarin" was a retcon but Ten Rings existed in Iron Man 1 and AIM didnt start the mandarin plan until a year or so before Iron Man 3.
Jackson Perry
I didn’t hate Killian. His MGS type of villainy I felt fit the character. Stark could use such a villain the books, too.
Samuel Brooks
Iron Man 3 WAS metal gear as shit wasn't it.
Ethan Bennett
Ten Rings were just a namedrop in one and I can't remember if in 2 a dude was credited as a Ten Rings guy or it was revealed that he was in outside material. They didn't know what to do with them because there was barely any real MCU planning at that point.
Parker Sullivan
That doesn't make any difference to the problems with the villains' plan, and it wouldn't have fixed the problems that the fake villain was more compelling than the real villain. To get away with that twist, Killian needed to be such a great villain that everyone would forget about the Mandarin.
Isaiah Lee
The guy Whiplash buys fake identity papers from in IM2 was credited as a Ten Rings guy, IIRC.
Matthew Sanders
Who?
Caleb Myers
>IM3 fucked both Mandarin and AIM to deliver a halfassed EXTREMIS plot That’s all you had to say.
Andrew Edwards
Fuck, can you imagine if he was still around for Thor: Ragnarok?
Jose Hernandez
I know he was described as Ten Rings in the novelization.
Evan Ross
>The guy Whiplash buys fake identity papers from in IM2 was credited as a Ten Rings guy, IIRC. Sounds like an asspull and it won’t matter because Shang is about to retcon everything
Jordan Ramirez
People say Thor: The Dark World is the worst MCU movie. It's not. It's not the best by any means, but the worst MCU movie is EASILY Iron Man 3. And Tony is my favorite MCU hero.
>Marvel fucks fans out of an MCU Mandarain and MODOK to give us... Evil Businessman
Nicholas Bell
He invented the cure for death but forgot to write it down.
Lucas Phillips
This was one of the first big "twists for the sake of twists as opposed to narrative satisfaction" movies
Nicholas Nguyen
Yeah it kinda was wasn’t it.
Carson Watson
The Dark World is just forgettable. The problem with Iron Man 3 is that it's actually a good movie until the twist, then everything goes wrong. In addition to replacing the Mandarin with Killian, they refuse to let Tony suit up as Iron Man all the way to the end.
David Johnson
>>Marvel fucks fans out of an MCU Mandarain and MODOK to give us... Evil Businessman >MCU fucks fans out of both amazing villains to give you metrosexual businessman and Tony having PTSD
Ryder Gonzalez
>Another villain connected to the past in a dumb way (if only tony had been nice to him none of this would have happened). >Kinda shits on the lore and impetus to be iron man. >PTSD drama. >Lack of suiting up. >Twist that goes far too campy comedic. >Ends in such a weird way loads of people were like, is he retiring? >Kid actor.
Jayden Gonzalez
It probably would've been better
Brayden Morris
Thor: The Dark World sucks because they basically cut out all of Chris Ecclestones badguy parts. Originally he was more of a sympathetic badguy because Odin's dad slaughtered his family and shit.
But they were like nahhh cut all that dark shit (in dark world) and add more Marvel comedy with Kat Dennings! People like that stuff.
Lucas Flores
IM3 may as well not be canon, Marvel backpedaled on everything it introduced or set up.
Parker Nguyen
Kat Dennings was the least funny character in the entire movie...but they kept giving her screentime.
Isaac Long
Honestly all of Phase 2 feels like a blur. Most of the things that transpired meant nothing.
Isaac Reed
>>Ends in such a weird way loads of people were like, is he retiring? But he destroyed all his armor at the end then just comes back any way. I remember people all being like huh? So he shouldn't obessively build shit? Then you get to Age of Ultron and he's just building shit loads of stuff again??
Yeah she was. And as I said, it is shit that stuff that may have been good was cut to give her shit more time. Some producer or something probably got a heck of a tit job from her.
Wyatt Williams
Unrelated, but I believe the same is true for that big titty extra in AOU. Why else would some random woman get so much screen time in a multi million dollar film?
They really wanted the whole "show the normal person reacting" scene. In Avengers they had that Waitress who says she was saved by Cap. Originally she was gonna be a potential love interest as they had him at a cafe where she worked in deleted scenes.
They just seemingly had it mandated "have woman get rescued and look in awe at heroes".
Gavin Carter
>Implying Hela was a good villain
Being a hot milf doesn't make you a good villain, user
Joshua Perry
>tfw most villains in Marvel movies have been utter horse shit