New Iron Man 3 Pictures

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None of the trailers I've watched for MoS have made me feel the way the IM3 trailers have, so unless MoS can pull a hail-Mary, then 3 is the clear winner.

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Presenting, the Mark XXVI Heavy Duty Brute Armor v. 02:

Or, what it's called in the comics, the Hulkbuster Armor.

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>Or, what it's called in the comics, the Hulkbuster Armor.

Hey! It's the original Warhammer 40K Terminator Marine armour!

Don C.

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>Or, what it's called in the comics, the Hulkbuster Armor.

Hey! It's the original Warhammer 40K Terminator Marine armour!

Don C.

It does have a similar design:

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New poster:

http://www.imdb.com/media/rm685547520/tt1300854

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>It does have a similar design

That's the Mk 3; I was thinkin' MK 2:



Don C.

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'Iron Man 3' Director Peels Off Mandarin's Real-Life 'Cloak'

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1703155/iron-man-3-mandarin-origin.jhtml

Sounds like The Mandarin will be the #1 villain this summer.

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Silver Centurion Armor, don’t know, don’t know, might be Stealth Armor, don’t know

Hulkbuster! Or the Mark XXVI Heavy Duty Brute Armor v. 02, just to be specific.

http://images6.fanpop.com/image/photos/33800000/New-Iron-Man-3-Trailer-5-3-2013-robert-downey-jr-33832035-500-386.png

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>It does have a similar design

That's the Mk 3; I was thinkin' MK 2:



Don C.

Wow, yeah, that design's really similar. The stripes on the forearms, the elongated head design, etc.

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>that design's really similar

One of the weird problems I saw creeping into the nerdly arts during the late 80's.... that's gotten worse with time.... is that they all seem to draw from the same wells. So you get a LOT of the same ideas, designs, tehcniques, themes.... over and over. On an almost subconscious level. I think part of it has to do with the instatutionalization of the nerdly arts; so many artists attend the same schools of design, or drawing, or CGI.... where they have a lot of the same instructors, who all hung out back in the day working for whoever, and all watched the same stuff, read the same books, were inspired by the same things.... My favourite example is the power loader from "Aliens." EVERY MECH you see in an American film is the power loader.... look at the suits from Avatar for instance.... even though it's a really, REALLY bad design for a combat suit. In the original film it was used like a forklift and only saw combat out of desperation. But that scene made such an impact on people that they subconsciously replicated it over and over, while losing all context. The power loader became the standard; like it or not.

In the last decade or so I've seen LOTS of Warhammer 40K creeping into sci-fi; as well as Japanese cartoons from the 80's. (The movie Iron Man armour is pretty much Knight Saber armour from Bubblegum Crisis. And I think EVERY sci-fi video game features the Imperial Marines.)

Don C.

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looks liek they are stacking the deck with action figure tie ins.

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In this film, the Iron Patriot is a new set of armor that bears Captain America's color scheme. Kevin Feige described it as a post-Avengers government response: "These crazy heroes the Avengers saved the day, not the government. The government felt they needed a hero of their own - they have a military officer that has one of these suits, and they paint it red, white, and blue. The notion in the movie is that a red, white and blue suit is a bold statement, and it’s meant to be. It gave us a place to go with Rhodey and his split loyalties between his friend and his duty, and you also get to be reminded of the trust and friendship between Rhodey and Stark in that great Shane Black great buddy-cop fashion."

According to Kevin Feige, the Mandarin is inspired by Colonel Kurtz from Apocalypse Now: "He wants to represent this sort of prototypical terrorist, someone who worked for the intelligence community, who went nuts in the field and became this sort of devotee of war tactics." Also, Shane Black explains that the Mandarin is not Chinese in the film as he is in the comics in order to avoid the Fu Manchu stereotype: “We’re not saying he’s Chinese, we’re saying he, in fact, draws a cloak around him of Chinese symbols and dragons because it represents his obsessions with Sun Tzu in various ancient arts of warfare that he studied.”

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The Mandarin has Captain America's shield tattooed on his neck, but the star in the center of the shield has been replaced with an "A", the symbol for anarchy. Kevin Feige has said that the Mandarin uses "symbolism of various cultures and iconography that he perverts for his own end." The reason for this is that he is attempting to twist the ideals the shield represents. This fits in with the speech that he gives in the trailer.

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Some extreme poses: