Iron Man 3: New armour shown off at SDCC

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Pai Pai Master said:
That was the Silver Centurion armor though, something that had already been featured in the books. I'm not familiar with recent Iron Man stuff but I don't know what this abomination is. It looks even worse than the armor he had in the first Avengers promotional art. There's simply not enough red.
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You mean the suitcase armor? That's Mark V, right? Yeah, I got the purpose of that. It's a portable version of the armor in case he never needs to change but doesn't have a building of his real armor around.

What I don't get is all the other upgrades. Mark IV is just a different shade of color, Mark VI just has a Triangle shaped chest piece plus some silver, and Mark VII is back to circle and...kind of larger than usual, I guess?

I just don't see what new toys stark keeps adding that make it necessary to completely remake the suit.
 
It looks like those ugly neon armor variant toys you see left over in toy stores because no one wanted them. I'm taken day-go colored Batman and that kind of crap.
 
Pie and Beans said:
Kinda weird looking! Can't tell if thats white or very subdued gold. Extremis armour did require a bit of a different look though, if thats what this is. Seems a bit like Steve Job's iRON MAN.
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Looks like a gold that's supposed to look more metallic and less yellow.
 
BY2K said:
You mean like the Iron Patriot?
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That was a case of a suit being re-purposed for someone other than Stark to use though. If they're presenting this as the Iron Man 3 armor, then I'm pretty sure it will be something Stark uses at least at some point in the movie. I think it might be compromised in some way though... Extremis?
 
I'm suddenly reminded of this

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lol
 
Pure speculation here but Extremis armour is formed from the hollows of Stark's bones at will. That could explain all the ceramic look white (or very pale gold) being the predominant colour of this armour.
 
Out of the loop here but do we know who the bad guy Stark is up against this time around? Maybe the white is supposed to contrast against the darkness of space?
 
Kinda strange looking. Won't be stuck with it for too long though, it's not like there will be only one armor in the movie anyway.
 
The very concept of Extremis is hilarious. I can't wait to see the reaction of the average filmgoer when they see that shit. Backlash ahoy.
 
duckroll said:
I have this feeling that the armor we're looking at here isn't intentionally designed by Stark. It's so far away from the general aesthetic of his previous suit, this one looks almost like an alteration or an accident. Maybe an... "infected" suit in some way?
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It could just be a different material they want to show off. The other movies (including Avengers) had the story explain/influence the suit design (or vice versa). The gold instead of silver in the first; the triangle chest piece in the second.


edit: that red version does look better.
 
People talking about how organic it looks makes me like the suit more than I did initially. It's because throughout the Iron Man films, I believe my brain somehow registered the gold as his body and the red as clothing, and thus since the suit is now primarily gold my brain instantly rejects it because it's as if he's missing clothing if that makes sense.
 
James Woods said:
The very concept of Extremis is hilarious. I can't wait to see the reaction of the average filmgoer when they see that shit. Backlash ahoy.
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Yes, because the notion of genetic modification is completely alien to the average movie-going populace these days.

I would wager actual science would bore the average crowd, while pseudo-science with just enough real concepts excites.

*rolls eyes*
 
The Antitype said:
Yes, because the notion of genetic modification is completely alien to the average movie-going populace these days.

I would wager actual science would bore the average crowd, while pseudo-science with just enough real concepts excites.

*rolls eyes*
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The complete suit coming out of his skin really does sound kind of weird to me. Wouldn't it make more sense if his skin basically becomes the suit?

Also do I feel like that it removes an interesting weakness of Iron-man. Usually he doesn't stand a chance without his suit, but now it's just always there.
 
The Antitype said:
Yes, because the notion of genetic modification is completely alien to the average movie-going populace these days.

I would wager actual science would bore the average crowd, while pseudo-science with just enough real concepts excites.

*rolls eyes*
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I think its going to be more a case of losing one of the movies great fx hallmarks with the suit getting put on and all the interlocking and hi-tech f1-esque quick bolt on armour (Avengers film's falling sequence was SO CASH) to some amorphous ITS COMING OUT OF MY BONES liquid metal thing forming the suit. It wont seems as cool.
 
The_Technomancer said:
Why does Iron Man have an iron skirt?
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That's clearly a tunic, not a skirt. Iron Man isn't that fabulous.


The new armour, I don't like it. It's not flashy, the colours look too organic. That might be the intention behind it, but right now it reminds me of centrifuged blood with a buffy coat. Or muscles with slightly off-coloroud cartilage. I don't know if this fits with this virus storyline that I have heard people talk about for IM3, but I like my Iron Man shiny and blinged out, no matter what.

I don't like the proportions, either, did Tony Stark get fat or why does it lack the narrowed waist the other armours have? Looks like a strange coloured barrel.
 
Kinyou said:
The complete suit coming out of his skin really does sound kind of weird to me. Wouldn't it make more sense if his skin basically becomes the suit?

Also do I feel like that it removes an interesting weakness of Iron-man. Usually he doesn't stand a chance without his suit, but now it's just always there.
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What? He's genetically modified to grow his suit? That's fucking stupid. Iron man is like batman - a human with money and tech. If he starts growing stuff out of his body then he's more a mutant/classic superhero. Plus why would his skin be armour plated and enable him to fly?

Ugh
 
mrklaw said:
What? He's genetically modified to grow his suit? That's fucking stupid. Iron man is like batman - a human with money and tech. If he starts growing stuff out of his body then he's more a mutant/classic superhero. Plus why would his skin be armour plated and enable him to fly?

Ugh
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I haven't read any of the comics myself, that's just what I gathered from one or two wikipedia entries. I hope that it's actually less weird than I imagine it.
 
mrklaw said:
What? He's genetically modified to grow his suit? That's fucking stupid. Iron man is like batman - a human with money and tech. If he starts growing stuff out of his body then he's more a mutant/classic superhero. Plus why would his skin be armour plated and enable him to fly?

Ugh
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It comes out of his skin, it's not his skin.
 
duckroll said:
I have this feeling that the armor we're looking at here isn't intentionally designed by Stark. It's so far away from the general aesthetic of his previous suit, this one looks almost like an alteration or an accident. Maybe an... "infected" suit in some way?
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Yeah, it's pretty bad. Stupid of them to show it without any explanation, as well. Hopefully this isn't the primary suit he'll be using most of the movie.. guess the excess of gold plays a part somehow, but who knows.
 
If in Iron Man 3 they actually go down the "growing the suit out of his skin" route...then lol.

Having said that, the suit looks good. Flipped version posted looks better, though. Maybe like someone posted, they are planning on having space scenes or something and they wanted him to be more visible against the black backdrop of space?
 
mrklaw said:
What? He's genetically modified to grow his suit? That's fucking stupid. Iron man is like batman - a human with money and tech. If he starts growing stuff out of his body then he's more a mutant/classic superhero. Plus why would his skin be armour plated and enable him to fly?

Ugh
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Ironman is not like Batman, Tony actually knows how to build his own shit. And he is always building the next great thing, it is a logical extension he would eventually make his armor and himself one and the same. Hell he even states it in the second movie.
 
Sentry said:
Yeah, it's pretty bad. Stupid of them to show it without any explanation, as well. Hopefully this isn't the primary suit he'll be using most of the movie.. guess the excess of gold plays a part somehow, but who knows.
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I don't think it's stupid. They have a panel later today, so they'll probably talk about it. Right now it's just an attempt to get eyeballs. When the movie is so far away, whether opinions are positive or negative, as long as they get people noticing and talking about it, it's paying off.
 
mrklaw said:
What? He's genetically modified to grow his suit? That's fucking stupid. Iron man is like batman - a human with money and tech. If he starts growing stuff out of his body then he's more a mutant/classic superhero. Plus why would his skin be armour plated and enable him to fly?

Ugh
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The suit comes from his bones. It's formed by nanomachines, can regenerate itself, takes seconds to reboot (practically unaffected by EMPs), etc. He can also make specific parts of his suit appear so he can choose to only have Iron Man's arm materialize so that he can blast someone. And since the suit is connected to his nervous system and brain (iirc), he has super-human intelligence and reflexes.
 
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