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What is Tony Stark injecting into himself in Iron Man 3?
Iron Man is constantly tinkering, and each suit evolution gets a new name - Mark 1 was built in the cave in the mountains, Mark 2 was built in his lab and has tech to deal with the icing problem etc.
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What is Tony Stark injecting into himself in Iron Man 3?
What Tony is injecting are the Subcutaneous Implants for controlling Mark 42, otherwise known as:
JARVIS: Mark 42, inbound.
Tony: I'll be damned. The prodigal son returns.
Source: Springfield! ...
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In Iron Man 3, who is the Mandarin's Boss?
The remainder of the movie makes it clear that he's talking about the Vice President. However, the VP is not Killian's boss, he's Killian's "patron". Killian is actually calling the shots, and the VP ...
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'The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese' - Why was this mentioned?
That saying means, essentially, that it's just as productive to learn from someone else's mistake as it is to be the pioneer. Tony Stark is the pioneer, but Killian took Maya Hansen's Extremis virus ...
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Why didn't Tony Stark summon his other suits earlier?
To provide actual evidence, earlier in the film, first there is the voicemail that Tony leaves for Pepper:
[Back at Tony's house, which is now surrounded by emergency rescue and news reporters, ...
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Did Tony Stark forget about Aldrich Killian waiting for him on the roof or did he leave him alone on purpose?
Most likely at then it was done on purpose, sorta like those pranks you see in teen high school films/series where the geeky guy gets called out to some location only to get stood up or something just ...
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What is Tony Stark injecting into himself in Iron Man 3?
While the “technical” in-universe answer is he’s injecting subcutaneous implants to control the Mark42 armor, Stark performs many technical tasks they don’t show us on screen. The entire Iron Man 3 ...
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Why is this formula useful in Iron Man 3?
This is the Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff formula. It demonstrates the difficulty in extending exponentials beyond strictly numbers to include things like vectors. Specifically in quantum physics it ...
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Why was S.H.I.E.L.D. noticeably missing from Iron Man 3?
This answer contains spoilers for Captain America: The Winter Soldier. You have been warned.
Because they were compromised at the time.
As we can see from @AnkitSharma's answer, Kevin Feige went on ...
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Why does nobody know Tony Stark's address?
Why does nobody know Tony Stark's address?
Tony's announcement of his address on air was more to underline that he did not fear the people behind the attacks (though the panic attacks suggest ...
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What is Tony Stark injecting into himself in Iron Man 3?
The answer starts with the previous year's movie, The Avengers, in the famous "offer Loki a drink" scene (cued up). Note the bracelets he is clipping onto his wrists.
Continue watching that clip. ...
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Why did they show Tennessee a snowy state?
It does snow in Tennessee, the eastern part of the state gets the most. In 2016 Nashville got 8 inches in one day.
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In Iron Man 3, who is the Mandarin's Boss?
@KutuluMike has the answer you were probably looking for, however a later video implies that your question is a lot deeper than you realize.
Check out All Hail the King.
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Did Tony Stark forget about Aldrich Killian waiting for him on the roof or did he leave him alone on purpose?
Tony wasn't paying Aldrich the slightest bit of attention - it was a party, and he was in an elevator with a rather large number of young ladies plus Maya Hansen. His key aim was just to get rid of ...
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Why didn't Tony Stark order Jarvis to save Pepper Potts?
The MK42 was a prototype, thus it was the only one that he had that he could send onto her body or summon to his own. The only one that had those gesture controls from when he injected himself with ...
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Did Aldrich Killian believe Extremis to be safe in his case?
I took from this that Aldrich was demonstrating that he believed he would have no trouble enforcing his will on Tony to complete the work that was necessary.
As you'll remember, Tony had several ...
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How come this Extremis Soldier died so easily?
Brandt was from earlier trials of Extremis (she is seen on the videos regrowing an arm during an early set of the experiments).
Savin is from after the work has been more refined, similar to Killian ...
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What is Tony Stark injecting into himself in Iron Man 3?
I didn't see the movie since months but from memory he injects the tracking chips that define the anchor points of his mobile armor when he calls it remotely. So, you know, the crotch part doesn't ...
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Did Tony deceive Aldrich Killian into thinking that Mark 42 malfunctioned?
We don't know.
However, the evidence suggests that Type 42 really did collide with an object and fall to pieces at the critical moment, and that this was not on purpose. The bad timing and ...
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Why was the removal of the shrapnel just "thrown-in" at the end?
At the close of the movie 'Pepper' Potts is safe yet the question remains: how on Earth can we undo the effects of the Extremis virus? Suitably motivated to engage with the Extremis biology, at last, ...
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Does Tony Stark really have PTSD or just a fear of things to come?
None of us has the ability to see the future, so there's no clinical term for fear of what's to come because I've seen it.
Your question is, what is he freaked out about, and why isn't he freaked ...
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