duragrip wrote:By cheapen, I mean Ironman is not really one of a kind. That's why I was not interested in watching Ironman 2 because the enemy had a whole army of Ironmen with suits more powerful than him.
Tony Stark's Iron Man suits, be it his own or the one Rhody commandeered, were never meant to be one of a kind but part of an ever-expanding series of newer suits.
War Machine is a retrofitted MK.II prototype from the first movie...taken from Tony Stark by Rhodes (although dialogue between Fury, Black Widow and Tony at the donut shop implies that Tony actually let Rhodes fly away with the suit), and then placed in the hands of the hack industrialist Justin Hammer, and hastily prettied up in time for his big reveal at the Stark Expo. If you actually gave IM2 a chance and watched the movie, then you'll have known why.
It's impossible to expect the IM suit to be like Thor's Hammer or Spidey's super powers because replication and upgrading is the very nature of technology. No weapon remains one of a kind or even top of the line forever, not even for longer than a decade. Information gets leaked or stolen, companies try to replicate it, etc.
And having different iterations of the same base design is expected of a movie with elements involving the military industry--it's what makes it believable. Just look at the F-22 Raptor. Not long after it's unveiled and enters service, both China and Russia also start R&D on their own version, with a very similar silhouette. What happened in IM2 reflects the realities of the military industry.
And to set the record straight, the DRONES in IM2 were obviously unmanned--that's why they're called Hammer Drones (although Tony prefers to call them Hammer-oids
).
