waiting is always a major aspect of this hobby.. but man, the wait for this is brutal. it's far FAR too long.
i'd at least like a reveal of an ultimate ultron in the meantime.
Most of the suits were not designed for combat in the first place, it was a sequence of armors made for testing every possible contingency by Tony who was losing his mind after Avengers, that he could hope to exert some control in a world that was now threatened by other planets and not just other people. High velocity suits (XIII, Shotgun), lightweight stealth suits (XI, XIV, Sneaky, Nightclub, Disco), high altitude suits (Python, Midas), heavy combat suits (HB, Tank) construction (Striker, Gamma, Fiddler, Igor) high energy suits (Blue Steel, Pison, Romeo, Centurion) disaster rescue (Southpaw, Snapper) riot control (Peacemaker), deep sea diving (Hammerhead), space travel (Starboost), modular prehensile suits (Bones, XLII). They were all boutique prototypes, it wasn't an army. That was kind of the point, and that even without armor or all his vast resources, he could still save the day with his cunning and wits. In the end, the man made the suits, the suits didn't make the man.
you're absolutely right. if all of the suits had been developed for combat, i'm sure they would've been decked out with a bit more weaponry.
After the trailer shown with Cap & Bucky going to town on Tony and Bucky practically ripping out the chest arc reactor, the MK46 looks likely to get pretty trashed. The same armor has never been fixed then re-used on screen in any IM/Avengers movie so far so it is a safe bet we'll be seeing a 2nd MK47 armor. Every movie has had at least 2 armors as well. So definitely safe assumptions here about a 2nd suit for CW.
yeah, i'm definitely going to be getting the 46 at this point. hot toys haven't even revealed one yet, and once they do, it'll be at least another year until it's actually released. so, by that time the 45 will have been out for a bit and i'll be jonesing for a new iron man armor. i however don't think there will be a 47 in the movie. i'd be happy to be proven wrong. but i would think they'd show it off in one of the trailers, even if it were for just one quick sequence. we'll find out soon enough. i sort of hope the 45 makes an appearance in the beginning and that there's some sort of rundown of the abilities of the 46.. but i think that's HIGHLY unlikely.
Ahem.
To be brutally honest, I think the armour designs have been a series of diminishing returns past the Mk IV and Mk VI. I wish they would pick one and stick to it for longer than one film again, give it some room to breathe.
i'm going to have to disagree. i like how many suits he has. i think him developing new ones is necessary. now, maybe it would be cool if he used the same base body and added different features throughout the movies. but i prefer the way they've handled it. we've learned that they're not indestructible, so it makes sense that he'd continue creating new ones and improving them.
plus, personally i like the variety, the different takes on the armor, and the different features they include. also, it's very rare that the look of any character stays the same throughout their movies.. the marvel characters have all changed looks in each movie (for the most part), the ninja turtles have changed, the transformers change in each movie, wolverine, etc. the only one off the top of my head that wasn't changed was the batman it was assembled in the dark knight and was used for the dark knight rises as well.
Iron Man 3 is actually underrated in my opinion. I liked that it took a different approach to a superhero film by showing that Stark could be heroic without the armor.
yeah, i distinctly remember how much i enjoyed the movie as i was leaving the theater. i think all of the iron man movies have focussed more on tony rather than tony in his iron man suit. i really liked that he had to figure out a way to accomplish his "mission" without his suit. it was neat. i also enjoyed the mandarin twist. it's a shame that the character wasn't used properly, but i still thought it was an interesting decision and made the movie more enjoyable. and then at the end you get an awesome sequence with what, like 37 different armors?
my only complaint about the movie is that some of the armors didn't really get their own little sequence at the end.
And Mark IV was supposed to be the suit he made his name by bringing world peace in 6 months!!! I would love to see some of that!
I really like VI and VII. I thought the suits reflects Tony's state of mind in all of the movies. When he is sharp, his suits are good. When he is a piece of crap, like in 3, his suits are, well, a piece of crap. Not to say I like 3, which was a glorified toy commercial for HT, specially how they wasted XXXIII, I think the many suits serve a point.
i'm going to have to disagree with the hot toys commercial comment.. it's not like transformers where the toy company owns the franchise and viola, nothing stays the same. i think it made sense in the story they were telling. i mean, the overriding theme of the movie was about the armors.
