Iron Man 2 spoilers

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The last bit of info got me pretty excited.

It's Saturday at Comic-Con and Superhero Hype! has gotten into Hall H and we're not leaving because in just a few minutes they're about to start the panel for Marvel Studios' Iron Man 2 with director Jon Favreau, Robert Downey Jr. and who knows who else on hand to talk about next year's most anticipated sequel, and hopefully to show a bit of footage. Stay tuned over the next hour or so as we report live on all of the happenings!

UPDATED FOOTAGE DESCRIPTION: So the craziness of the Iron Man 2 panel has died down and now we're going to go over our notes and give you a much more detailed version of the footage shown as well as a few direct quotes from Favreau and the cast. They actually showed the footage twice, the second time at the request of Don Cheadle who missed it the first time.

As mentioned before, the footage opened with Iron Man sitting in a giant donut enjoying one of those fine pastries when Sam Jackson shows up as Nick Fury and shouts to him, "Stark, I'm going to have to ask you to exit the donut!" Then they're in the coffee shop and Stark is telling Fury he doesn't want to join his "super secret boy band," and Fury says that he remembers that Stark likes doing everything himself. Stark jokes that he's not sure whether he should be looking at Fury's patch or his eye and suggest that maybe Fury is a figment of his imagination, but Fury assures him that he is "very real, I'm the realest person you're ever going to meet." "Just my luck," responds Stark.

The courtroom scene is fairly revealing about one of the main plotpoints, which involves the government wanting to get the Iron Man armor away from Stark, because they consider it a "specialized weapon" that they should own. The scene starts with Shandling's Senator Stern banging his gavel on the table to call the hearings to order, suggesting they continue where they left off and when he tries to get Stark's attention, Stark quips, "Yes, dear?" Stern wants to know whether Stark considers the armor a "specialized weapon" but Stark says that he sees it more as a "hi-tech prosthetis." But Stern insists that it is a weapon, and they go back and forth for a little while with the type of quick dialogue that was all over the first movie. Stark ends the discussion by saying, "I am Iron Man, the suit and I are one" and he suggests that turning over the suit would be "tantamount to indentured servitude or prostitution." When Stern begins to respond that he's no expert, Stark says, "In prostitution? Of course not, you're a senator." Stern then calls Lt. Col. James Rhodes to the stand and Cheadle walks in, met halfway down the aisle by Stark who says he's surprised to see his friend Rhodey being called to testify against him. Rhodey responds, "It's me, I'm here, deal with it and let's move on." (That first bit sounds like a response to the fact that Cheadle was replacing Terrence Howard in the role.) Stern asks if Stark is trying to make a point to which Downey gives one of those great speeches from the first movie, claiming to be a "nuclear detterent" who is keeping America safe, saying that he has successfully "privatized world peace." "What more do you want?" he asks to cheers from the courtroom (and the audience). He gets the senator so riled up that he yells, "F*ck you, Mr. Stark" but it's bleeped by the CNN cameras.

Watching the scene with Mickey Rourke as Whiplash was much easier to hear and understand a second time as the audience remained a lot quieter, and essentially the voiceover reveals that Whiplash is getting revenge on some of the things that the Stark family has done in the past. The voiceover explains this as Rourke's character sits at the workbench soldering his own bit of technology that will turn him into Whiplash. The voiceover starts something like, "You come from world of thieves and butchers" and it talks about how Tony is forgetting how many lives the Stark family has destroyed with their actions. It states that there will be blood in the water and the sharks will come, which is clearly referring to himself and the Black Widow, who we see briefly in action, and then Rourke lets out a great laugh. As mentioned earlier, the quickly cut footage leads to the first look at Whiplash in his full costume (similar to the picture that was released a few weeks ago) and he's whipping these insane energy whips on the ground sending up sparks. That leads into a shot of Iron Man flying through the air and the new "Iron Man 2" logo to the opening chords of the Sabbath song.

The last bit clearly ties into the courtroom scene earlier where Rhodey is remaining faithful to his government like a good soldier and they have called upon weapons expert Justin Hammer, played by Sam Rockwell, to modify the first wave Iron Man armor into something more suitable of either taking on or replacing Stark's Iron Man. Hammer walks up to the original Iron Man lying on a table asking what they did to it, which Rhodes says is classified then asks what Hammer is going to do for them. "I'm talking about firepower," he clarifies. Hammer says they're talking to the right guy and he starts pulling out all sorts of guns and weapons to retrofit on the armor, but doesn't seem to be getting much reaction from Rhodes or the general, even with something he calls "Uncle Gazpacho or Puff the Magic Dragon." Cheadle says "I think I'll take it..." and when Hammer asks which one, Rhodey responds, "All of it." And then we see our first look at the retrofitted Iron Man armor as WAR MACHINE, which looks BAD-ASS!!

I'm sure all of this will be leaked somewhere soon, if not already.

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I'm looking forward to it.