♪ 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 ♪
Bright daylight?
Last I knew, it was dark out.
Rhodey! Pepper!
Yo! Anyone there? Why aren't you guys picking up?
Argh! Oh, man!
Feeling dizzy. My head!
Hey, guys? Anybody there?
Computer. Are communications down?
What's going on?
All communication systems are operating normally.
That's weird.
When I text Pepper, she texts me back in, like, half a second.
Something's not right here.
"Keep out. Archaeological research"?
What... ? Who put that up? Are they digging again?
Rhodey! Pepper!
Rhodey!
Pepper!
Where is everybody?
And everything?
My tech's gone! My computers! My armor...
My friends.
Computer, are there any bio-signatures here?
Scans show no higher life forms, other than Myotis lucifugus,
the common brown bat.
Great. Not even a special bat. OK, computer, locate my friends.
Find Rhodey and Pepper.
I have no record of a Pepper or a Rhodey.
-They do not exist. -What?
They don't... exist?
Rhodey! Pepper!
Where are you?
The joke's over! It's not funny any more!
Where are you?
Vanished! Rhodey... Pepper... the armory...
Who did this?
This is impossible. It has to be Gene!
Only Mandarin has that kind of power.
Or maybe... Dr Doom?
Well, computer, seems you're my only friend
-till I can locate the others. -I have no record of friends.
Thanks for reminding me!
If Rhodey's not here, maybe his mom'll know where he is.
It doesn't fit?
Hey! I know I can be annoying, but changing the locks on me?
Well? If you're selling magazines for your school,
I don't want any!
Who are you? Why are you here? Who do you work for?
-What have you done with them? -Work? I'm retired.
And I've lived here for more than ten years!
No one named Rhodes ever lived here!
They should be in physics, but they're not there!
What's going on? Rhodey almost never misses a class.
WHITNEY: You're reading the wrong part!
You're meant to play George!
But this George character is, like, a big dumb jock guy!
Do I complain 'cause my character
is the spoiled daughter of a wealthy man?
-How about we switch characters? -Happy, Whitney, listen!
Ugh! Happy, you have a slippery grasp on reality.
Guys, listen, this is beyond important!
Have you seen Rhodey or Pepper... anywhere?
Uh, you try the cafeteria, dude? They've got pepper there.
No time for jokes! Just tell me, where are they?
I went to Rhodey's house and a guy told me
he'd never lived there!
Whose house?
Oh! Is this some kind of theater exercise?
-You the new kid in class? -New kid?
Oh, that's it! Teacher's got you doing an assignment, huh?
Role playing and stuff?
I'm Harold, Harold Hogan. This is Whitney.
-What's your name, man? -What's my... ?
The question is, who are you two?
New guy's kind of an oddball.
Maybe, but I think he's super cute!
This can't be real! It's all a nightmare!
It has to be!
Computer, access psychological research on dreams.
How can dreamers know they're dreaming?
Accessing sleep data.
Dreamers may perform tests to see if they're dreaming.
Example, a person can read about dreaming,
but they cannot actually read in a dream.
"Hammer buys Stark International."
I can read that clearly enough. Wish that part was a dream.
No home, no school, no friends...
and I'm talking to myself, and my computer.
When I was a kid, my best friend was that talking robot
Dad made for me. Not good.
I never realized how much I count on my friends.
I was alone my whole life before I met those two.
Gotta focus! Come on, Tony! They couldn't have vanished,
like they were erased from reality. Think back!
When was the last time you saw Rhodey?
Hey, Pepper, your info on this illegal deal going down
looks about as real as the time you saw Thor at the mall!
Uh, I did see Thor.
He was eating meatballs at the food stand.
Oh, just wait.
I got a good lead monitoring Hammer's emails,
which seemed a bit easy to hack into, but, hey!
I'm not asking any questions.
All I'm getting here is cramped legs.
Could be them... and in a van
that used to belong to Stark International!
He better show quick. The boss wants us in and out.
See? This is why I should be a SHIELD agent!
Those two have gotta be selling illegal tech
that Hammer tests in the black market!
I just wonder who they're gonna sell it to.
AIM agents! Man, I thought we took care of them last year.
They're like cockroaches! Can't get rid of 'em!
-Is it all there? -We're not opening the crate.
We do this fast or we don't do it!
That fast enough for you?
Take it. We're outta here!
It's almost like that guy knows we're here.
So who do we go after?
All Hammer's men have is a bag of cash.
I wanna know what's inside that crate.
IRON MAN: Let's get into that truck. Piece of cake!
-I hate cake. -OK, that's kinda cool.
Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! Can you make my armor transform like that?
IRON MAN: Sure,
if you wanna be bent into 20 different directions!
-Uh-oh! -We got ordnance coming in hot!
MAN: Release heat-seeking nanos!
Aaah!
Rhodey!
Look out! Incoming. Two o'clock!
Argh!
That's how we got separated. But what happened to Rhodey?
And how did I end up... ?
Wait a minute. Computer, show me the last record of events
before I woke up on that rooftop.
Searching.
No record of activity exists.
What? OK, this is freaking me out.
Somehow AIM did something to me.
And if Hammer sold them that black-market tech,
I bet he knows where they're holing up.
Write me in for an appointment, Hammer! We need to talk!
Bursting with questions, Iron Man?
That's why you're here.
We both have so many questions.
Basil Sandhurst?
That name is dead to me. Call me "The Controller".
Call yourself the TV Remote Controller for all I care.
Just tell me how you got out of the Vault.
SHIELD had you in lockdown and they threw away the key!
High security's meaningless when you have AIM agents
on the inside.
There are a few true believers left.
That was you last night, buying tech from Hammer!
[chuckles]
That wasn't last night, Iron Man.
That was three nights ago.
Ask yourself again. How did you get here?
Stop with the mind games!
I... I flew here!
Did you? How'd you get to that rooftop where you came to?
Do you even know where you really are right now?
I know where you're going! A SHIELD prison cell!
You still don't get it. I am The Controller.
And, this time, I'm in control... of everything!
[evil laugh]
Aaah!
Ugh! Wasn't... expecting... that.
What is he on, Gamma steroids now?
That's one fast elevator.
I move with the speed of thought, Iron Man.
It's all mine, the entire world.
You missed one thing.
You don't control me!
Let's test that theory.
Aaah!
Computer, how'd he get so strong?
Super strength, new powers...
Insufficient data for hypothesis.
OK, Basil. Let's see how tough you really are!
[Basil laughs]
-Now he can fly too? -That's right, I do it all.
The world is at my command, and it roars with power!
Aaah!
You have serious issues, pal.
Is it 'cause your mom named you Basil?
You're a slow student, Iron Man.
A man with complete mastery of reality cannot be harmed!
Aaah!
Your mind subconsciously resists me.
My probes are only getting part of what I want.
Your probes? What are you talking about, Sandhurst?
I've heard about your little upgrade.
I need Extremis, the unique bio-electronic fusion
-you possess with your armor. -OK, I'm done with you.
This time I'm turning up the volume to eleven!
Tsk, tsk. You've dirtied my new suit.
Well, it doesn't matter.
I'll soon learn everything about you.
The hard way will work just as well.
That car just... blipped out?
Stupid glitch!
Glitch! As in programming?
Let's run a test!
OK. The program can't render explosions fast enough.
I see your glitch! I've caught you with your pixels down!
But that means we're in virtual reality.
[Basil laughs]
That's right, Iron Man.
Trapped in a world of my own creation.
Welcome to the mainframe!
This is all... virtual reality?
Everything? This... How is this possible?
Beautifully complete, isn't it?
Your new armor resisted my control discs,
so I needed a different route to your mind.
The mainframe!
A virtual environment designed to tap into everyone's mind.
Think of it as the ultimate social network,
with me in control of everything and everyone.
Comforting. Computer, scan the environment.
-Scans incomplete. -BASIL: I had to dive in deep.
Every time you interact with this world,
you reveal something.
I know you so much better now, Tony Stark.
Oh, awesome! Who doesn't know my secret identity by now?
Best I can do is keep you off balance!
This world responds only to me, Iron Man.
IRON MAN: It's just a computer program.
I'm guessing that tech you bought
went into your little video game!
Video game? Ha, ha! Close, Iron Man.
It's the future. Imagine every man, woman and child
hooked into the mainframe!
No more ignorance.
No more chaos.
No more individuality.
But for me to control billions of minds, I need Extremis.
I need the link your brain has to your armor.
Open your mind to me, Stark! Open your mind!
Aaah!
Feel the pressure? So does your real body.
If I squeeze hard enough, your physical body will expire.
Give me what I want.
No! Aaah!
Sweet, now the buildings hate me!
-I'll break you yet. -Aaah!
Computer, try again.
Analyze the world around me!
I could analyze, but I won't.
[voice changes to Sandhurst's] Because I am the Controller too.
Great. Shoulda saw that coming.
Open your mind to me, Stark. Give me Extremis.
You want it? Then take it! Gotta use Extremis...
Hack into the mainframe.
Come on... come on...
So... vast.
Losing... myself...
Can't keep my mind... together.
Aaah!
Stark! What... what are you doing?
Our nervous systems are wired to the mainframe!
You'll fry both of us! Stop!
[groans]
PEPPER: Tony, help me!
-Pepper! -Tony, get me outta here!
BASIL: Their minds are routed into the mainframe.
If they're destroyed here, they're destroyed physically!
Tony, make it stop!
Please!
Pepper! What did I get for your birthday?
I... I don't remember! Just help me, Tony!
It's not her! She'd never forget a training session with SHIELD!
PEPPER: Tony! Help me!
You're just VR. Not... real!
No!
Let go of the system! You'll destroy both of us!
I'm taking my life back, even if it means losing it!
We're going to... No!
Where... am I?
Argh! Shut it down!
My head...
What did you do to me, Sandhurst?
Oh, too bad. I couldn't manage to what I needed
before you so rudely interrupted us.
I guess I'll just have to penetrate your consciousness
at full power and risk destroying your mind.
You can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs.
Break this! Aaah!
Back atcha!
Where are my friends, Sandhurst?
Right here. Allow me to reintroduce...
-War Machine. -Rhodey? Oh, no!
His less advanced armor worked out wonderfully, Stark.
Some tinkering with my control disk and he's all mine.
War Machine, destroy Iron Man.
Rhodey, stop, it's me!
Can't just uni-beam him!
Pepper? Pepper, you there? Come in!
Aw, great, she's probably in school, worried sick!
Rhodey, stop!
Rhodey! No!
Listen to me! It's Tony! I know you're in there!
You've fought him before, you can fight him again!
BASIL: No he can't, Stark. I have him.
I am in complete control.
I...
RHODEY: I... Argh!
I can't fight him, Tony!
I'm... Aaah!
TONY: You've got to, Rhodey! Focus!
No. How? How can he be fighting it?
-More power! -Rhodey, no! Don't...
BASIL: I have him, Stark. He's my personal bodyguard.
Soon I'll control the entire world with the mainframe.
Once I have Extremis, I'll...
RHODEY: No! No!
I'm James Rhodes!
I'm no man's puppet!
Aaah!
Uh, Tony? You can let me go now.
Sorry.
What happened? Where are we?
The AIM base. I'm glad to see you, man.
I thought I'd lost you. I thought I'd lost everybody.
What... ? Who are you?
-What is this place? -Is he for real?
-Look at his eyes! -Are you... robots?
Man! Gotta be amnesia. He's gone.
Looks like his whole reality was wiped out
-when the helmet overloaded. -How'd I get here? I...
just want to go somewhere quiet.
Nice and quiet.
IRON MAN: Oh, I think that's something SHIELD can arrange.
Pick up your cell, Tony! Oh, don't do this to me!
I swear I'll leave my 4,000th message if you don't --
Tony? Rhodey!
-There's a sight for sore eyes! -Tony!
-I always knew you'd -- -Oh, what a relief!
All my tech is here!
Baby, I love you.
That you'd... um... never mind.
[chuckles]
You know I missed you, Pep!
What happened? I've been worried sick for three days!
You better explain everything! Rhodey, if your mom
wasn't in LA all weekend... She's been calling non-stop!
I told her you dropped your cell in the toilet!
Yuk! Thanks for covering, Pepper.
It's a really long story.
You OK, Tony? You look a little out of it.
Yeah... Yeah, I think so.
Just a little headache.
It... feels real.
But I kinda lost confidence in what's real and what isn't.
Sounds real.
But reality's always a simulation in our brains.
Um, yeah.
You guys do have a lot of explaining to do.
RHODEY: Over dinner!
I'm starving!
It's all just another... perception.
Wait up, guys!
♪ Iron Man ♪
♪ He's Iron Man ♪
♪ Iron Man ♪
Subtitles: Marisa Castle de Joncaire
Subtitles: TITRAFILM