[theme song playing]
[♪♪♪]
♪ He's a man on a mission ♪
♪ In armor of high-tech ammunition ♪
♪ Trapped on the edge of an endless game ♪
♪ His teenage life will never be the same ♪
♪ In a dangerous world he does all he can ♪
♪ He's Iron Man ♪
♪ Iron Man ♪
[electric signal]
[sirens]
-AGENT 1: There he is! -AGENT 2: Get him!
HILL: Branch out!
Under no circumstances can he escape with the serum!
These guys aren't real SHIELD agents!
Bunch of amateurs!
This is Lieutenant Colonel Maria Hill!
Surrender now or we will bring you down!
Real agents never surrender.
I'll tear you all to pieces, every last one of you!
Let's see Fury say I'm not fit to serve now!
[groans]
[shouts]
HILL: OK, boys, capture and contain.
If he fights, you know what to do.
-We lost Mallen! -Where is he?
What is that?
[groans]
Grr!
-What is that? -He's over there!
HILL: Agent Coulson, come in!
Agent Dugan!
Anyone, respond!
I can't believe we'll be 18 in just a few months.
-Where did high school go! -You know what they say.
Time flies when you rocket around in a body armor.
No kidding! Did you decide on where you're going to school?
I'm thinking either Empire State or the Air Force.
The Air Force?
I can't really see you as a military guy.
My life's been so crazy with Stane and Hammer,
and now Gene being back,
I haven't had time to even think about it.
I guess MIT, cause Reed Richards teaches there.
-What about you, Pep? -I'll be a SHIELD agent. Duh!
I'm applying at the local SHIELD recruiting center right now.
-You can hang out if you want! -Can we?
That sounds pretty exciting, watching you fill out forms.
Uh, so what's with the guard?
It's a British thing. More for looks than anything else.
No one will attack the place!
Sorry. You have to be 18 to join.
Excuse me?
You must be 18 to apply for any maintenance jobs.
Maintenance? No, no, no, no, no, no.
I wanna be a SHIELD agent.
You know, carry laser pistols,
photon grenades, and the latest in high-tech!
Then you'd better study first.
Every agent must have a college degree.
HILL: All recruiting stations
and public facilities are now closed.
Repeat, all public facilities are on lockdown.
Station 4-B under attack.
Control, what's the situation?
The fugitive is where?
That's two blocks away! You kids get out of here, now!
What's going on?
[screaming]
What the... ? What's that thing supposed to be?
-Tony, where's your armor? -Inside Rhodey's car!
What are we gonna do?
SHIELD fires me. Yeah.
Says I'm not... I'm not "psychologically sound."
I'll show you sound!
You're not fit to wear those uniforms!
TONY: Quick, while he's distracted!
Aw, man! I still have, like, four years of payments on her!
My backpack, it's gone!
I found it! Tony, catch!
Is that all you weak excuses for SHIELD agents got? Huh?
OK, whatever you are, claws up! Don't move!
-Iron Man! -Easy, friend!
IRON MAN: Your vitals are going nuts.
Calm down. There's no reason for this.
Oh, there is. Lots of reasons.
When SHIELD sees me take you down,
they'll take me back!
Ha! I can't even feel that.
Computer, gimme a full bio scan!
Scanning incomplete. Biology unknown. Insufficient data.
Great! Can it get any worse? Don't answer that, computer.
What are you, some kinda zombie? This guy's beyond human.
Aaah!
Lower surface temperature.
Tony's getting his metal butt handed to him.
-I wish I had my armor. -Get up, Iron Man!
Don't let him beat you down! Get up!
[groans and coughs]
Whatever you are, you gotta have a central nervous system.
Let's see how you like this!
I can feel it in my belly. Almost... tickles.
Do you know pain, Iron Man? Let me tell you all about it.
COMPUTER: Warning. Torso unit breached.
I'm through playing. Let's finish this!
TONY: Aaah!
MALLEN: You're gonna burst inside that suit.
They're gonna have to pour you out!
[groans]
I'm gonna fry your heart.
[screams]
-No, no, no, no, no! -Iron Man, get outta there!
[screams]
COMPUTER: Power at 22% and falling.
Warning. Extensive damage to user's heart.
Heart monitor shutting down.
[manic laugh]
-Tony! -He's not getting up!
He's not moving!
This is Special Agent Romanoff, codename Black Widow.
Iron Man is down. Repeat. Iron Man is down.
I have Mallen in my sights. Engaging target.
Mallen, step away from Iron Man and put your hands on your head!
This is your first and last warning.
What took you so long? Is Nick Fury with you?
Does he see what I can do?
Nick Fury doesn't have time for the likes of you.
Stand down now!
All right. I'll show Nick Fury and the world.
You want me? Come and get me!
I'm invincible. I can't be touched!
You shouldn't have fired me. You ruined me!
Bring me Fury now or I'll tear the city apart!
He injured dozens of agents because Fury fired him?
Overreact much?
Widow to base, I've got him on the run.
Looks bad. Vitals low.
Unresponsive.
Hill to base. I'll need medical prepped for emergency surgery.
Tony! Oh, no! No! Wait!
He's alive. He's gotta be alive! I know he is. Right, Rhodey?
Yeah. Yeah. Gotta be.
Agent Hill, what's his status?
He'll die if we don't get this armor off right now.
Hack into his com frequency. Get me his contacts.
[phone rings]
What? It's Tony!
This is General Nick Fury from SHIELD.
-Come in. Please respond. -Um...
General Fury? Oh, wow, it's an honor, sir.
Uh, em, how is, uh, Iron Man doing?
FURY: His heart is failing.
He's going to die, unless you can help us
get this armor off him.
He's... he's that bad?
Yes, of course, General. I'll remote unlock his armor!
We have to act fast or he won't make it.
Black Widow to base. I've lost Mallen.
Repeat. The fugitive is still at large.
[angry muttering]
MALLEN: Nick... Fury?
Agent Mallen, you are the best agent
SHIELD has seen in decades.
I knew you'd recognize my talent, sir.
Everyone has their time.
-You are lucky to have survived. -Where... where am I?
Welcome back to the world of the living, Mr Stark.
Oh, man. I really hope... I'm dreaming this.
Calm down, Tony. Your secret is safe here.
We've suspected you're Iron Man for months.
You think we wouldn't do our homework
for national security?
This is all too much. Wait. When did you become a good guy?
I was always a good guy. I used to play for a different team.
Tony, let me put it to you plain and simple.
Your days of being Iron Man are over.
I'm afraid he's telling you the truth.
We saved you, but your heart has been through too much trauma.
I'm fine. I just need to rest.
If you suit up and fight again, you won't make it out alive.
Your heart just can't take it, son.
You're only human.
BLACK WIDOW: Rest now, kid. It's a lot to take in.
A few weeks ago I wanted to quit being Iron Man.
Now I'm forced to?
Take me back, sir.
I've gotten my head back together.
I didn't mean to lash out at Dugan.
You have serious dissociative problems, Agent Mallen.
You are relieved of duty.
[echoing] You're a failure, a fraud.
You're not fit to serve!
Shut up! Shut up!
Fury! Fury! I am going to tear you limb from limb!
HILL: Stark, you have visitors.
Tony!
Pepper! Rhodey? What are you... ?
Oh, man, we heard everything.
You can't be Iron Man any more?
I don't know. I...
Agent Hill, I've replayed the fight in my mind
and it doesn't make sense.
How was Mallen able to endure all that?
How can he be so powerful?
I overheard you mention a serum.
What did he steal?
FURY: The serum is called Extremis.
It's a bio-enhancer,
a few billion nanotubes suspended in a carrier fluid.
-How does it work? -It rewrites our system,
using nutrients and body mass to build a new network.
It's a modern attempt to recreate
the Super Soldier serum from World War II.
The serum is that old?
This new serum isn't.
It's one of thousands of attempts to copy
an accidental breakthrough lost more than 70 years ago.
Every version affects humans a little differently.
No kidding!
It turned Mallen into a mega-scary psycho monster!
This is the original Super Soldier.
SHIELD recently discovered him frozen in the Arctic Circle.
That's... Captain America! Everyone knows who he is!
He fought in World War II against the Red Skull!
He's the greatest hero who ever lived!
Sorry, Tony.
RHODEY: Wow, that's really him? Alive? Frozen?
Yes, he's alive.
We're just trying to figure out how to revive him.
And we were hoping, when you recover,
you could help us.
How could Mallen be anywhere near
the same ballpark as Captain America?
Extremis is a modern simulation.
It's a best guess. We lost the original formula
and can't simply recreate a Captain America.
If the Extremis formula can heal the body
and enhance my biology, I want it.
Can you inject me with a reconfigured dose?
-What? -You could turn into a monster!
You're out of your skull. We're still in testing!
Did you see what Mallen did to me?
He's gonna do the same to you, to everyone!
He's a biological combat machine and he won't stop.
Pull up the COM SCREENS.
FURY: That's it. I'm leading the intercept personally.
If Mallen wants me, he's got me!
Hill, prep the Mandroids.
-TONY: I wanna help! -FURY: Yeah? Then get some rest.
Remember what the doc said.
Iron Man needs to retire.
PEPPER: So, I'm just curious, Agent Hill.
How does one become a SHIELD agent?
I don't think this is the time.
Can't I go directly into boot camp?
All I'm asking is to shoot lasers and spy on people,
is that so wrong?
[Hill groans]
Tony, we brought you some... yuk... yummy mess-hall food!
RHODEY: Where'd he go?
Oh, no, Stark. You didn't!
COMPUTER: Access denied.
Open this door now, Stark!
I gotta wire the armor directly into my brain.
I need to be the suit.
Only a tiny bit should do it. Literally a drop.
[groans]
HILL: Stand back!
PEPPER: Tony?
[moans]
Oh, my gosh! Your chest!
TONY: My heart feels... warm again.
-Tony, you... you took Extremis? -Are you OK?
I'm better than OK.
I feel like new, more alive than I've ever felt!
Whoa! Easy, man! You're gonna crush my spine!
Are you out of your mind?
Stark, you could have killed yourself.
HILL: Or worse, turned into another Mallen!
I only took a tiny amount.
Enough to repair my heart. Even if it was a gamble,
I'm not gonna give up being who I am ever again.
[laughs]
Mallen!
General Fury, welcome to the afterlife.
We're all dead here.
You, me, this whole stinking world.
It's over! You're under arrest!
On your knees, your hands on your head,
or I'll knock that skull off of you.
I told you I would be
the greatest SHIELD agent who ever lived.
FURY: Now you'll be known
as the ex-SHIELD agent with the longest prison sentence.
[laughs]
You'll have to do more than send toy robots!
I don't believe this!
[groans]
Mandroids. Knew we shouldn't have bought Hammer tech.
HILL: I need you to check Tony's vitals.
What's going on? I'm not...
Are you doing this somehow?
I can sense the technology around me.
That computer screen.
It says I'm fully healed and my heart rate is normal.
-How do you know that? -I know this will sound crazy,
but I can sense the data inside the machine with my mind.
-Whoa! -Tony, what have you done?
If I can talk to the computer systems here,
maybe I can interact with my suit.
I can't believe it.
I'm seeing it, but I'm not believing it.
I told you, I can sense technology.
The cyber link with my armor feels like it's a part of me!
I'm taking down Mallen, once...
and for all.
I'm really getting sick of you, freak!
[roars]
[laughs]
I'm gonna send you back to your afterlife.
First class.
Ha, ha, ha! Fury, you're mine!
Die!
Mallen, we have some unfinished business, you and me.
[screaming]
What? Where'd he go?
I would've killed you the last time if it wasn't for SHIELD.
I had your heart in my hands, Iron Man!
Aaah!
IRON MAN: Chew on this!
MALLEN: Aaah!
I think I'll help you upgrade your security systems
so this never, ever happens again.
When you turn 18,
you could be a big part of a team I'm creating.
Thanks, Fury, but I'm not much of a team player.
Well, whatever you plan to do, son,
just remember, SHIELD could always use you.
Thanks, General Fury.
I'm not sure what the future holds, but, you know,
I'm OK with that.
♪ Iron Man ♪
♪ He's Iron Man ♪
♪ Iron Man ♪
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