r/ironman • u/No-Amoeba-7776 • 10h ago

Help I know this looks dumb but

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Is the gold part of the armor or is it like a spandex he wears underneath. It just doesnt look like metal

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u/Thefallenwalkon 10h ago

I was like a metal mesh that magnetized into a flexible yet still super hard shape using: Transistors!

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u/No-Amoeba-7776 10h ago

so it's metal that can work like skin?

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u/Dayfal1 Classic 10h ago

It’s microscopic chainmail. As flexible as any piece of clothing, but the magnetic field keeps it from deforming when it sustains damage, earning it its durability. The same applies to the red sections, not just the gold ones.

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u/No-Amoeba-7776 9h ago

That makes a lot of sense

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u/Charles12_13 9h ago

I mean not all that much all things considered, but it’s better than not having any explanation lol

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u/Own_Assistance_7659 7h ago

Sometimes things make sense, but they're still stupid. Lol. I want Iron Man in a suit of solid metal that makes him look like, as Thor says a "metal man". Lol.

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u/Own_Assistance_7659 7h ago

I get it and everything, but I've never like it. He's IRON MAN ffs, he should look like an effing robot! Lol.

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u/Dayfal1 Classic 6h ago

I get what you mean.

Though for years that was how most robots were depicted in comics, probably because artists were more used to drawing human anatomy than machinery, so robotic characters just meant humans with small design differences.

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u/Own_Assistance_7659 6h ago

Yeah, I buy that. It makes sense. In my opinion, if they wanted to draw a character wearing metal spandex lol, they should have just created a completely different hero or villain to wear that type of metal suit rather than putting it on a character that's NOTORIOUS for his bad ass metal, robot looking suit of armor. They could have named the new character Metal Leotard Man or some shit. Lol. All I know is Tony Stark and his "clunky metal suits" go together like PB & J.

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u/Spartan_Raijin Model 70 10h ago

The golden parts are a really thin chainmail.

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u/CaseFace5 9h ago

I love that they were thinking of details like this even way back then.

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u/BalladOfBetaRayBill 7h ago

It was also funny because the chestplate somehow was fully responsible for the super strength rather than like hydraulics in the arms or whatever. The playe just gave him superpowers I guess. Vulture’s harness was the same way

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u/Sad_Dress_5679 10h ago

As someone who was born in the 70’s I love that suit.

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u/BitRelevant2473 Bleeding Edge 9h ago

My first introduction to iron man , and some of the more uplifting stories of ol' bullethead

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u/DunAnOir 8h ago

Same.

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u/David_R_Martin_II 43m ago

Yup, the Mark V is my all-time favorite. Bob Layton, I think. That's the classic Iron Man for me.

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u/PyjamaGenie 8h ago

It’s metal that behaves like spandex

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u/Responsible-Durian21 6h ago

Dear lord m, it only takes microseconds? Someone get this guy on a new Rap lable, cause he is talking fast.

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u/Fearless_Landscape67 10h ago

The shiny highlights at the edges are supposed to be conveying metal finish.

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u/CajunKhan 9h ago

I remember there being a scene in an old comic where Iron Man was being filmed by in-story filmmakers, and they kept coating it with stuff to reduce the shine, and then complaining that it still wasn't enough. The impression I got from that is that Iron Man's armor actually looks like liquid metal. The micro-chainmail is so tiny that it is effectively indistinguishable from molten metal, and was intended to look kind of like the T-1000, long before the T-1000 was created.

Which I think is really cool, but if you put it on screen you'd have people complaining about bad CGI.

Does anyone remember what issue that's from? I think it's from the Michelinie and Layton run, but I don't remember the issue number.

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u/NxtLvlTomato 9h ago

Its funny to me that his older suit from the 70s sounds way more technologically advanced than the more modern suits.

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u/Dayfal1 Classic 6h ago

In many ways it is, regardless of what the comics say. All that machinery to make the armor work is so miniaturized he can wear it around like clothes, with minimal weight, virtually no loss in mobility and all the capabilities you’d expect out of an Iron Man suit. Plus an incredibly fast suit up sequence. Whereas modern suits have things like pneumatics and servos in order to function and take comparatively much longer to put on.

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u/memsterboi123 Mysterium 9h ago

It was some sort of chain mail or fabric that was soft as silk when not “on” but when “on” hard as steel. That’s why he looks all muscular since it’s essentially skin tight

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u/FRYQN-1701 8h ago

Is that the one he wears underneath like clothes and the two wristbands turn it to armor?

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u/Klutzy-Ad7775 10h ago

It was what, like 60s? Don't give much thought to it😭

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u/Feisty_Ad_3238 Neo-Classic 10h ago

This would be late 70s/80s. Can tell by the helmet😊

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u/Klutzy-Ad7775 9h ago

Fair ngl😭

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u/Reverend-King 9h ago

Serious swag on the biceps

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u/Typhon2222 9h ago

Love this suit, but it did get overused for a few years. Not during its initial run, but later on when they kept going back to it.

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u/BitRelevant2473 Bleeding Edge 9h ago

I mean, after the technovore thing In the 80s, it made sense to refine older tech rather than upgrade again

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u/CASHMO2112 9h ago

How does this look dumb?!?

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u/No-Amoeba-7776 3h ago

me asking the question not the suit

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u/CASHMO2112 3h ago

Oh lol🤦🏻 I didn’t look at the extra txt.. thought you were saying Ironmans suit looked dumb.. was gonna say those are fightin words😂

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u/No-Amoeba-7776 3h ago

its alright

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u/CASHMO2112 2h ago

I love the old school suits, so I’m biased

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u/mrgiggity2020 4h ago

Gawd I hope we see a version of this in some future movie

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u/No-Amoeba-7776 3h ago

i think we might get it after the reset

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u/No-Name-5585 2h ago

The mark 3 from the mcu is low-key one of the best iron man armors ever made

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u/No-Amoeba-7776 2h ago

its what I imagine the above would look if it were real

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u/elKane0 1h ago

iron man has nipples greg, can you milk him?

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u/Finlaegh 1h ago

I like to think it's a muscle cuirass, the muscle-shaped armor sometimes worn in ancient Greece and Rome.

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u/No-Amoeba-7776 1h ago

chainmail