Relive The MCU's Early Days With Epic IRON MAN 2, THOR, & CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER Concept Art

@L0RDbuckethead - not just Christmas , these are write offs for tax season :)

@knocturnalzen10 - I need to brush up on my Welsh tax law.

The U.S. has been screwing me six ways to Sunday for years! haha

@knocturnalzen10 - They turned Hammer, the mastermind behind Demon in a Bottle and Armor Wars, into a total joke.

@BlackBeltJones - exactly

@soberchimera - wish the entire concept of the story was used for IM2. It was the natural next step after Iron Man.

The core story about Stark being horrified about how his tech has slipped beyond his control. The first Iron Man was about this yes, but I think ESCALATION was missing in the sequel. We got hints of it with other countries trying to make their own armor, which is fine, but it was a gag of sorts in the senate hearings. Someone should’ve come dangerous close replicating his arc tech. Mined it to sell to the highest bidders.

Ezekiel Stane figured out a way to use black market Stark tech to turn people into powerful living bombs and is selling it to any fanatical group. Stark becomes increasingly aware that he may have let a fairly nasty genie out of the bottle when he created Iron Man. That would’ve been nice to see be the crux of Iron Man 2.

Tony built a weapon to rid the world of weapons he created that were then exploited. But this new weapon, the iron man, is just another weapon up for exploitation.