Six months after revealing he is Iron Man, Tony Stark is fighting the government, which wants his armor, while hiding that the palladium in his reactor is poisoning him. Ivan Vanko, son of Howard Stark's former partner, attacks Tony in Monaco with electric whips. Rival arms dealer Justin Hammer breaks Vanko out of prison to build suits. At a party where Tony gets drunk, Rhodes takes a suit to the military and becomes War Machine. Nick Fury reveals that assistant Natalie Rushman is agent Natasha Romanoff and hands over Howard's old material, which leads Tony to create a new element and cure himself. At the Stark Expo, Vanko hijacks Hammer's drones and Rhodes's armor. The two friends beat him, Vanko dies and Hammer is arrested.
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Post-credits scenes
After the credits Agent Coulson arrives at a crater in the New Mexico desert and reports that they found it. Inside is Thor's hammer.
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Hidden details
ReferenceThe shield becomes a shim
Coulson finds Captain America's shield in a box in the lab. Tony uses it to level the particle accelerator he's building, without a second thought.
At the S.H.I.E.L.D. base, the TVs show news of the battle at Culver University. That's the fight from The Incredible Hulk, which happens the same week.
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