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Hey Peaches! We've reached the half way point of Phase 1 of the MCU, the other kind of forgotten early MCU movie. Is it as mid as people remember, or can Justin Hammer dance his way back into our hearts?

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Iron Man 2 Watch Along

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Stephen Hert

I liked this movie. Sam Rockwell gives it 150% in anything he's in. The film overall is definitely polarizing, though.

Stephen Morris

As the credits crawled I noticed something neat, the Stark Expo Fight Sequence design was credited to Genndy Tartakovsky. Samurai Jack and the original Clone Wars animated series.

fivefingers_through_fire

Best I can determine, the new element is standalone, and not meant to be vibranium, adamantium, or otherwise. The MCU Fandom wiki quotes a comic that says Tony attempted to patent it as “Badassium”; otherwise, never comes up again.

Austin Arminio

So accoring the the wiki, the metal was called Vibranim in the novelzation (and maybe the script) but it was later retconned not to be

Shennon

Jay-i picked up the Howard Stark/Walt Disney vibe as well!

Black Crow

TIL: The screenplay was written by Justin Theroux, who we last saw trying to marry Lydia Deetz in Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice. He also wrote Tropic Thunder.... That's like Carrie Fisher level of underground screenwriting.

Samantha Whaley

Sam Rockwell is such a good actor that I absolutely HATE Hammer so much. Please keep in your post-credits waiting talks, I quite enjoyed that.

Bernard Manansala

The internets have coined Tony's new element "Badassium"