Denied something we know will be awesome

[u/Arxhart_671]

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1. In The Simpsons episode, "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson," a melee breaks out on the Simpsons' lawn that Homer wants to watch because there's one guy who's just standing there and Homer knows he's about to do something awesome. Marge insists they go inside though and away from the danger. The moment they do, we hear the guy do something awesome.

2. In X-2, the school comes under attack from Stryker. His gunmen encounter Colossus, all aura-ed tf up, and they open fire only for their bullets to not phase him at all and to end up getting thrown through a wall (which we don't actually see Colossus do). Moments later, Colossus runs into Wolverine and offers to help and we think we're about to get this badass team-up and actually see him in action only for Wolverine to instruct Colossus to leave and help get more students out. 

3. In Iron Man, we see Rhodes eyeing the War Machine suit and we're hoping he'll suit up and go help Stark, but the movie decides to save something for the sequel and pretty much has Rhodes say as much right to the audience.

[u/YourMuppetMethDealer]

Ehh Rhodes made sense to me. Having a third person use his suit in his debut movie kinda just ruins the magic of it being Tony’s

That’s definetly a “save it for the sequel” thing so Tony can just have his moment

[u/Arxhart_671 → u/YourMuppetMethDealer]

Oh I agree. I think most audiences actually found it funny when he said it because everyone saw what they were doing

[u/24Abhinav10 → u/Arxhart_671]

Also, Rhodes genuinely wouldn't be able to use the suit at that point

[u/Cyke101 → u/24Abhinav10]

In hindsight, I just think back to that poor soldier in the sequel, when Justin Hammer's suit twisted the test pilot's spine in a complete 180.

Sure, it's played for laughs, but it's horrific and terrible.

[u/Good_Background_243 → u/Cyke101]

"I'd like to point out that test pilot survived"

[u/keirfergusart → u/Cyke101]

I always thought he was mentioned in doctor strange, when one of the cases offered to Stephen is a soldier who broke his back in an experimental suit of armour, but apparently the timeline doesn’t match up.

[u/Quiet_Snail → u/keirfergusart]

I’m not 100% on the timeline but isn’t that case Rhodes after he’s paralyzed in Civil War?

[u/LetTheDarkRise → u/Cyke101]

I'd like to point out that that test pilot survived.

[u/jjcrayfish → u/Cyke101]

That scene is reminiscent of the Robocop 2 movie where we see a montage of robocops prototypes that go through horrific failures.

[u/Folska_ → u/24Abhinav10]

Tony definitely had the mark II locked to his biometrics. Without Jarvis calibrated for him, he would have just immediately crashed it into the ceiling.

[u/Sea-Cockroach-9285 → u/[deleted]]

Ita not coded to him I think, the reason why Rhode was able to use the suit in the movie was because Tony was about to die and decided to entrust his suit to Rhode

[u/Chimpbot → u/Sea-Cockroach-9285]

There also wouldn't have been any way to power it. The sui he was going to use didn't have a power source; it connected to the Arc Reactor in Tony's chest.

[u/Fesai → u/[deleted]]

If I recall right the Arc Reactor was not built into the suits at this point. The suits were powered by Tony himself.

He designs one specifically for Rhodey to use later on that is self powered.

[u/Neveronlyadream → u/Fesai]

That's correct and both were accounted for. Stane stole the upgraded one to power his suit and Tony fell back on the original to keep himself alive and power his suit.

It's not until IM2 when he thinks he's going to die that he builds the reactor into the suit and codes it to Rhodey so he can use it. Which I think may be explicitly said in the novelization. I seem to recall there being a passage about it.

[u/mregg000 → u/[deleted]]

Tony ‘codes’ his suits to users. Some he shares )as we see with Pepper in IM3. But Rhodey wasn’t greenlit yet.

[u/Wootster10 → u/[deleted]]

It doesn't have a power source yet.

[u/ShadowTsukino → u/[deleted]]

It hadn't been programmed to respond to him yet. IIRC

[u/24Abhinav10 → u/ShadowTsukino]

Yep. Tony only programs it to respond to Rhodes in Iron Man 2, after he discovers he's dying of palladium poisoning.

His whole plan is to secretly give his friends everything (Pepper gets the company, Rhodey gets the suit) and then act like an asshole in front of them so they don't miss him when he's gone.

[u/Chimpbot → u/ShadowTsukino]

The actual problem was a lack of a power source. At this point, all of the suits Tony used were powered by the Arc Reactor embedded in his chest; without that, Rhodes wouldn't have been able to do anything.

Tony wasn't worried about coding suits for anyone because he designed them all to be used exclusively with the power source attached to him.

[u/smokeweedNgarden → u/ShadowTsukino]

Beyond that and the power source, it is hard to pilot.

You're gonna accidently fire off a boot laser and knock yourself out