With the second movie now here, I'm going to preserve the hustle and bustle on Tony's profile page for other yummy-ness (ie: gifs, basic info, verse stuff and communities that he apart of). Obviously cut to save your friends list, because I, unlike the CEO I write for, prefers NOT to be completely in your face.

Iron Man Summary

On Stark's way back from a business trip in Afghanistan, where he demonstrated Stark Industries' new weapon , the Jericho cluster missile, the military convoy Stark is with is ambushed. During the ensuing firefight, Stark is wounded by one of his own bombs, which knocks him unconscious and consequently embeds shrapnel in his chest, one fragment dangerously too close to his heart. Waking up hours later in a Afghan cave, Stark discovers he's attached to an electromagnet which is powered by a car battery. The set up is designed and implemented by Dr. Yinsen to keep the schrapnel from piercing his heart which without, would inevitably kill Stark in a matter of hours. During their time together, Yinsen acts as Tony's conscience, forcing him to realize the terrible nature of his creations.

A terrorist group known as the 'Ten Rings' goes to Stark and orders him to build them a Jericho missile, providing him with scraps of building materials. Stark lies, saying he will and after 3 months and the aid of Yinsen, he designs a miniature 'arc reactor', a smaller version of a power source previously invented by his father which currently powered Stark Industries back in California. With the reactor now powering the electromagnet in his chest now, Tony designs a rough prototype armor as a means of escape.

When the terrorists realize Tony is not building the Jericho, the two hostages activate the armor, but it requires time which they soon realize they don't have enough of. Yinsen runs out to buy the time they need but ends up getting shot. Tony successfully escapes but meets with Yinsen once more and it is then that Stark decides to change the direction of his company after his friend succumbs to his injuries. Before leaving the camp completely, Tony destroys all of his weapons and attempts to fly off but crash lands in the desert where he is soon found by his friend and military liasion, Lieutenant Colonel James Rhodes (Rhodey).

Finally returning home, Tony reveals that while he was held captive that he was showed the error in his ways and thus closing the weapons division of his company. He then retreats from the public eye and focuses on creating a better arc reactor for himself while also perfecting the design of his power suit by refining its size and improving the flight and fighting capability of it. Through this time, he not only finds that he is developing feelings for his Personal Assistant, Pepper Potts, but also that his Executive Officer, Obadiah Stane (Obi) was beginning to shut him out of his own company by dealing Tonys weapons to the enemy under the table.

Tony calls Pepper to go to SI and hack into the computer and find the shipping records of these 'under the table dealings' and copy them on to a flash drive. As she does this, she not only discovers that Obi hired the Ten Rings to kill Tony, which they reneged on the whole deal once they realized it was him, but that Obi recovered the first power suit prototype and was in the process of reverse engineering, only to fall short in powering the suit because his engineers cannot duplicate Tony's arc reactor without having one to copy from. Barely starting the download onto the flash drive, Pepper is interupted by Obi, who comes to understand what she was doing after she leaves. On her way out, she runs into the S.H.I.E.L.D agent who has been wanting to debrief Tony since returning from the mountains in Afghanistan. Instead, she tells him of Obadiah's plans.

Obi ambushes Tony at Starks home, paralyzing him with another new Stark Industry prototype mechanism and detaches the arc reactor from Tony's chest, leaving again shortly after to power up his own suit.

As Pepper tries to alert Tony of Obi's plans by calling the house, to no avail, so instead enlists the help of Rhodey to go make sure her employer is okay then takes S.H.I.E.L.D agents to arrest Stane only to find that he had already activated his suit and disappeared.

With barely enough energy to get himself down to the lab, Tony finds the first arc reactor which he'd told Pepper to dispose of, incased in glass which she'd given to him as a souvenir. Although not as powerful as the second one he'd made, he still suits up and goes after Stane.

Fighting through the streets, the two end up on Stark Industries roof top and on Tony's orders, Pepper overloads the reactor that Howard Stark invented which causes a massive electrical surge, knocking Stane out, who then falls into the reactor which explodes, destroying Stark Industries and Stane himself.

At a press conference the next day, Tony is advised to tell reporters of a made up alibi attesting to not being involved in the incident. Inadvertantly revealing hints of his altar ego, Stark abandons the alibi altogether and announces that he is Iron Man.

Iron Man 2 Summary

Soon to come