The Mark 42 was one of the most impressive suits to look at, and easily the worst suit Tony ever used.

"Shame, I would have caught her."

Villainous line delivered perfectly! 👏🏾

I think the fragility of Tony's suits really showcases how he went for a quantity over quality approach, since he made about 40 suits in the year after the battle of New York. His trauma, depression, and anxiety really affected the suits he made. He just kept tinkering trying to make them better and better, but they just didn't hold up to his older suits, and they don't compare at all to the suits he made after this. He only made about 7 suits between here and Infinity war (five years) and we see that those are some of his most advanced suits.

Edit: Okay yall I posted this damn near three years ago. If you keep responding go ahead but I’m not gonna argue with you about anything I don’t even care about the MCU anymore

I like how Tony doesn’t respond to Killian’s jab after Pepper falls. Shows how devastated and angry he is. It’s even more impressive given Shane Black’s track record of ill-timed humor.

If Killian actually made a decent size of extremis soldiers, he would honestly be a bigger Avengers level threat than Loki and the Chitauri. They literally slice through Tony’s suits like it’s bread on a butter knife.

As much as people hate this movie, this has to be one of the most creative endings to a movie. To have Tony's suit be destructible, and because of it having to change so often on the fly and Tony's quick thinking is just fantastic.

1:14 Both Tony and Killian fist bumped so hard that one broke his arm gauntlet and the other broke his arm.

2:38 That went as poorly as it could’ve

2:40 even he is dissappointed 😂

For those people who complain why the Iron legion's armor is kinda weak, just to tell you all that this takes place after Avengers 1.

Not to mention Mark 8-42 were created in just mere months. While all of that, Tony suffers from PTSD and Anxiety attack.

1:56 I love this. It shows that Tony is more than just some guy in a fancy suit. Even in the heat of combat--against an enemy far more deadly than any he had previously encountered--he still had the instinct, perception, and skill to anticipate Killian's attack and adjust.

Everyone who’s complaining why the suits break easily should know that this movie takes place before ultron and plus that guy’s hands are basically lightsabers and he obviously knows how to fight.

I know a lot of people complain that these suits were weak compared to previous ones, but I feel people forget Tony’s condition at the time. He made 30+ suits in a short amount of time, becoming sleep deprived and probably didn’t have time to properly test them. So of course the quality of the suits were poor.

Should've analyzed his fight pattern Tony

1:04 , I like how tony instantly switched his armor to kill mode

Tony's suits in this scene apparently had the hardness of rice krispies.

Notice the fact that when Tony fights Killian in the Mark 16 , Killian is able to quite easily beat it in a matter of 20 seconds , but when Mark 40 ( a chronologically more advanced suit ) fights against Killian , it is actually able to match up to him pretty well and it takes Killian  almost a minute to take it down . The fight coordinators and filmmakers paid a lot of attention to this fight .

Fun Fact: Mark 40 is one of the fastest and could be the fastest suit ever made by Tony Stark, it can reach immense amount of speed...

2:38 Tony to Jarvis "You had one job"

When I first saw this as a kid I actually thought that Killian actually cut off Tony’s leg