Iron Patriot - or is it?

I can't see him being a big part as Black and Fiege have said this isn't another Robot vs Robot film

I'm confident that he'll be called "The Iron Patriot". It's a much more fitting name than "Detroit Steel" or "Coldblood". Now that we're in Phase Two -- the World Security Council is actively pursuing Superhero Registration. Eric Savin could be an (trusted) injured war veteran who (like you said) gets fused into the armor as it's permanent user. Adds more of a reason to be called "The Iron Patriot" (more fitting here than for Norman Osborn). Now, I think the story will deal with Eric Savin using the Extremis technology over the assumed Tony Stark (that story-arc can be saved for later). Aldrich Killian could somehow use the nanotechnology to "control" Eric Savin. And I'm sure the basis of the suit is the stolen War Machine armor. How else would the military power the suit? War Machine had an arc reactor. Also, they gave the helmet a more aggressive anglar shape -- therefore I sense.... "villain"!

at first i thought it was the iron patroit but now i think its detroit steel.

@marvel72

They may have taken the aspects of Detriot Steel, but that name (more than likely) won't be used in the film. World Security Council doesn't want a Iron Man, they want a Iron Patriot.

ThunderKat Sorry you feel spoiled by it but seriously even Yahoo reported it. Get over it. If you don't want to know anything about the movie don't type "comicbookmovie.com" in your browser. Not trying to be rude but you're complaining about something you did. LOL

No, the reason for the color scheme shift is to wisely avoid confusion during a fight/action scene. Now sure, in a still, you can easily spot the difference, and even while it's in motion, you would probably easily spot the difference because YOU know what the Iron Patriot armor looks like. For all the masses and comic book fans who haven't read Dark Avengers (as it is actually still very new) or seen Detroit Steel (even more so), this would be a problem.

I really don't know (beyond a quick wiki read) anything about Coldblood 7, or Firepower - they are actually pretty obscure characters that I'm assuming no one has a problem with amalgamizing. Truly though, we don't have enough information yet.

Superother,

I'm on Yahoo all the time and didn't see this pic. And your contention is silly. CBM, until now, has been very precautionary towards yielding spoilers without warning.

As much as I've loved the MCU so far (Avengers is one of my top 5 films), I'm really concerned about Iron Man 3. It's beginning to look like a cluster-[frick] in my opinion. Too many major characters, too many armors... and I really don't understand how this suit will fit in the story! It may go over well in the US, but I see it being a big WTF moment everywhere else in the world.

I mean, Spider-Man 3 had less characters than this, and it still suffered for including too many.

Plus the amalgamation of characters always pisses me off, and this'll be the 2nd time Iron Man movies have done it (Movie Whiplash was an amalgam of Comic Whiplash and Crimson Dynamo), which means those individual characters can't be used properly in the future. I liked the electro-whips in Iron Man 2, but why'd he have to be Ivan Vanko? At least this film is amalgamating a lesser known villain with the only part of one of Marvel's major villains they own the rights to (Norman Osborn's Iron Patriot).

Still, this whole idea of an 'armor war' thing... I remember a lot of people hoping there'd be no more armored villains in this film some time ago. I also hope Mandarin doesn't have any armor (or at least, powered armor).

Ah well, after Avengers, I guess this won't be bad at all... and even if it is, I can at least enjoy Robert Downey Jr's Tony Stark/Iron Man over everything else.

I peronally think that its a part of one on Tony Starks publicity stunts liek at the beginnig of Iron Man 2