omg war machine's mask moves like an actual face when he talks but tony's doesn't, i can't

this tony uses only two fingers to peck at a keyboard but he does it really fast

oop gotta use the same exact armor up sequence a second time in same ep to save on animation costs ofc

there's radioactive zombies covered by green sea goop everywhere but their lil sailor berets btw.

also the mandarin and his henchmen grey gargoyle, whirlwind, blizzard, dreadknight, modok, hypontica. and fin fang foom appears. tony has a little hero team of him, war machine, scarlet witch, spider-woman, sentry, and hawkeye. they really just threw everything into the first ep.

for anyone interested this is on disney+. if you're not a fan of bad things/don't find them funny like i do, skip to ep 14. it's a totally different show.

AND titanium man?? how many more characters you wanna throw in, guys?

"it's time to...iron things out!" it's moment like this i'm glad to be alive

tony gets captured by his bad guy second ep, big surprise

ohhh it's century, not sentry. that's a different character. i completely forgot about force works.

"shaaa la la la la la" is part of scarlet witch's mystical chant

Bill Clinton and Tony Stark in Iron Man 1x03 (1994)it's bill clinton i'm fucking losing it

this tony is still working with and making stuff for the military apparently. at least tanks. also rhodes is his vice president.

their bromance is very strong

grown woman doing a sassy 1990s teen girl voice. good, good.

tony being a weak damsel because the armor's battery gets low

he science-bullshits his way out of it, naturally

u2! meatloaf! it is truly the 90s.

yup, this tony is still making and selling weapons for the military, which is weird, because by 1994 it'd already been established for a couple decades that he stopped in his comics origin story.

(i can't remember exactly when, but i know it wasn't right away)

(it was a retcon, or less a retcon and more of "oh yeah he did this too")

issue 78 found it with reddit's help

wanda and julia (spiderwoman) are fighting passive-aggressively for tony's affections and tony doesn't know wtf to do with this. julia has it bad for him and he's like oblivious.

"stark's weapons have no effect because we are in a different ~tiiiime fiieeeld!~"

ah yes one of tony's "bad shit is happening, can't stop or rest even though friends are worrying over me" stages where his stubble grows out

omg he gets injured and goes back to the physical therapist (in this shrapnel is near his spine which caused him to be paralyzed at first) and while getting therapy in a pool wanda and julia come in and argue and the therapist (also a woman) starts arguing with them too and he just goes D: and slowly disappears under the water to hide

women amirite

anyway then they say something that gives him a eureka moment and he gets out and kisses each of them on the cheek and leaves

i forgot modok has a supermodel wife in this

"sentimental fool"? tony? noooooo can't be

the end screen of this ep was julia and wanda leaning in and kissing tony on opposite armored cheeks at the same time, what

"in this economy, i don't know where i'll find the money to rebuild!" this tony is the most broke

this mandarin is also the most melodramatic. even more than trevor

oh hey, bill clinton AND al gore cameos

even the one lady villain is crushing on tony. literally every recurring woman in this show. all 3 of them. he has not even flirted with them,

century, your soul-searching magic can't distinguish between real tony and a robotic replica? seriously???

"YOO HULAH!" shouts james rhodes in a war cry, for some reason

ofc there's a robot with squid tentacles that grapple tony. of course.

oh cool reusing animations from the very first ep. didn't think we'd notice...but we did.

flashback origin eps! i remember these actually not being bad, even though they're from the first season.

clint called tony "babe"

this stark dad is more like mcu howard except they call him walter here for some reason. they love each other but it's strained and he's critical of his kid

he dies in a workplace accident orchestrated by hammer but at least mama stark lives for a while

and he gets kidnapped by the mandarin and his henchmen in this which explains why the mandarin's whole motivation this is killing iron man. also global domination ofc but mainly he jut wants to kill iron man

every episode for him is just "how will i (try to) ruin iron man today??"

"i was in torment. day and night merged into a seamless tapestry of despair!" tony is also melodramatic, as is expected

wait why is there suddenly a lion man jumping out of a coffin?? welp i'll find out after work i guess

oh it's yinsen in a mask lol

anyway yinsen calls tony "my son" in that "i'm the old mentor guy" way and tony's all "you...you called me son. it was unexpected." and yinsen is all "unexpected, but sincere" and then tony has serious "imma make you so proud ;-;" energy

lmao tony absolutely struggling sweat and all with tying a bowtie, so much that rhodey just does it for him

oh fuck yea, onto the actual good half of this series

Iron Man TAS Intro 2 (1080p HD)the quality jumps up a lot

IRON MAN Cartoon Theme Song (1994) Marveloriginal opening, for comparison

"fury is waiting for you" me: fully expecting sam jackson. completely forgot fury was a white guy in og 616 lol

tony's eyes keep switching between being blue and brown. rdj was foretold.

this season is having to deal with the "story" threads and quality of the first 13 eps but i think they wrap it up by the end of ep 1 (or 14, since disney+ puts them all into 1 season)

bless their hearts for trying to keep some kind of continuity

rhodey absolutely losing his shit on the bad guys when he thinks they killed tony

yup, they close up and send off the extra forceworks characters for a tigther focus on tony, rhodey, and julia, and (for now) put down the mandarin's group and scatter his rings so they can start telling their own stories in just 1 ep

oh now tony wears nothing but white briefs in the armor ok lol

oh i remember now! they actually have rhodey deal with some ptsd after almost dying in his armor too, so he doesn't wear it for a while

OH GOD the reason the almost-drowning in the armor fucks him up so bad is that he saw his..little brother?? friend?? drown in a river when he was a kid.

stays up till 3:07am working on armor, takes it out for a live test run against the advice of his AI. sasses at said AI for being a mother hen. all is as it should be.

dum dum dugan's character traits: he's a shield agent and he's irish

i forgot tony turns himself into a beam-shooting beyblade one time

1 ep before work. oh, goody, it's the daddy issues ep where tony (thinks he) finds his father alive

yeah, their relationship is way closer to mcu than comics in this.

finds out it's not actually his dad, cries 90s tears, then is angry

rhodey singing scat music while he fries the bad guy is my favorite thing of the day, i think

onward! thank god second season gives julia actual powers instead of just like..psychic nets. real webbing now! and super strength!

tony goes underground to find people out of the armor and his radio stops working. he shines his light on it and it says "manufactured by hammer industries" lol

man, this is the batshit whitney frost i wanted. if i pretend agent carter isn't completely canon can i make my own mcu whitney frost?

though maybe if we'd gotten a third season of agent carter we could've seen her closer to comic madam masque.

ooo this is the ep where he shrinks down to microscopic size to go into hawkeye's body to find..something i can't remember BUT i love this trope!

"son of a-" aww so close. they almost allowed him to curse.

"tony! not everything is your fault!" YES IT IS JULIA, ABLOO BLOO BLOO

"tie him up like an old boyfriend" yes tony we all know you like being tied up

hell yea, more julia kicking ass! first season the lady heroes mainly just...needed to be rescued.

yeah the whole whitney frost thing in agent carter was definitely a writing choice

give me my batshit criminal mastermind tony- and beauty-obsessed ex-girlfriend whitney please

awww yea next 2 eps is the armor wars arc. tomorrow!

also WEH it opens with a little intro from stan lee ;-;

staaaan

miss seeing him

armor WAAAAAARS LET'S GO tony being blamed for a tragedy he tried to prevent, what else is new

agonizing over the lives lost. refusing help bc it's "[his] problem, [his] fault" he has to deal with this alooooooone

they seem to have settled on blue for his eyes at some point after the first ep. or the colorists remembered it more.

in one shot he lands in front of some mind-controlled people sitting far behind him, the very next shot he's being held back by those same people. missed some animation there, guys

i forgot that stilt man is an actual villain

fuck yea, ghost

clint: "you're crazy!"
tony: "crazy? ... that's entirely possible. /walks away solemnly"
the picture of mental health for sure

his house is round and white and on a beach. i can't remember all his homes in the comics but some of the things in this show makes me think they took some inspiration from it for 2008 iron man.

julia shouting up at him while he's on his balcony romeo and juliet style except she's really pissed

stressing himself out so much he's getting chest pain

"i have to do this! i have to!" how to justify your actions to yourself and others and not even consider other options because of your overwhelming guilt/fear/etc and need to handle it on your own, by tony stark

has officially Lost It

wow rhodey and julia are actually legit concerned about tony committing suicide when he locks himself up in a room for days. like, they talk about and heavily hint at it. but no it's ok, he's just building a new armor now that he's stopped losing it.

awww hammer, you think tony's a pretty boy?

mandarin's back on his obsessive bullshit over killing iron man. not that he ever went off it.

"how ironic," the mandarin dramatizes after viewing the obligatory season recap episode via his rings, "that iron man covers not only his body in armor, but also his heaaaart!"

two-part finale! wow, mandarin gives a "like the great genghis khan..." speech like raza does. if that's not directly from the comics, now i'm convinced im1 took some inspiration from this.

i love it when rhodey and tony hi-five in the armors and it's just a heavy CLONK

can tony's villains not creepily grab his throat/chin/face/hair so often. come on, guys

hey remember the time the mandarin tied tony up, hands and feet, half-naked, onto a st andrew's cross? pepperidge farm remembers

dripping sweat

subtitles: [sighs in despair]

im dying

how did the henchmen villains get free?? they were literally captured and tied up at the end of the last episode. were they just....left on their own

sudden dr. su yin cameo

a satisfying ending

now, what's next on the rewatch... animated im movies, im anime, armored adventures, avengers assemble, or earth's mightiest heroes :|a