- [last lines]
- Tony Stark: There's been speculation that I was involved in the events that occurred on the freeway and the rooftop...
- Christine Everheart: I'm sorry, Mr. Stark, but do you honestly expect us to believe that that was a bodyguard in a suit that conveniently appeared, despite the fact that...
- Tony Stark: I know that it's confusing. It is one thing to question the official story, and another thing entirely to make wild accusations, or insinuate that I'm a superhero.
- Christine Everheart: I never said you were a superhero.
- Tony Stark: Didn't?
- Christine Everheart: Mmm-mmm.
- Tony Stark: Well, good, because that would be outlandish and, uh, fantastic. I'm just not the hero type. Clearly. With this laundry list of character defects, all the mistakes I've made, largely public.
- Rhodey: [whispers to Tony] Just stick to the cards, man.
- Tony Stark: Yeah, okay.
- [holds up his notes and pauses]
- Tony Stark: The truth is...
- [puts cards down]
- Tony Stark: I am Iron Man.
- Tony Stark: [reading the newspaper] Iron Man. That's kind of catchy. It's got a nice ring to it. I mean it's not technically accurate. The suit's a gold titanium alloy, but it's kind of provocative, the imagery anyway.
- Tony Stark: You got a family?
- Yinsen: Yes, and I will see them when I leave here. And you, Stark?
- Tony Stark: [quietly] No.
- Yinsen: So you're a man who has everything... and nothing.
- Tony Stark: [recording a log as he tests his rocket boots] Day 11, Test 37, Configuration 2.0. For lack of a better option, Dummy is still on fire safety.
- [turns to robot]
- Tony Stark: If you douse me again, and I'm not on fire, I'm donating you to a city college. Seriously, we're just gonna start off with 1% thrust capacity. And three... two... one.
- [performs test successfully, then lands. Dummy raises its extinguisher arm hopefully]
- Tony Stark: Please don't follow me around with it either because I feel like I'm going to catch on fire spontaneously. Just stand down. If something happens, then come in.
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: Tony, you know that I would help you with anything, but I cannot help you if you're going to start all this again.
- Tony Stark: There is nothing except this. There's no art opening, no charity, nothing to sign. There's the next mission, and nothing else.
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: Is that so? Well, then I quit.
- Tony Stark: You stood by my side all these years while I reaped the benefits of destruction. Now that I'm trying to protect the people I've put in harm's way, you're going to walk out?
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: You're going to kill yourself, Tony. I'm not going to be a part of it.
- Tony Stark: I shouldn't be alive... unless it was for a reason. I'm not crazy, Pepper. I just finally know what I have to do. And I know in my heart that it's right.
- Tony Stark: We gotta go. Come on, move with me. We got a plan, and we're going to stick to it.
- Yinsen: This was always the plan, Stark...
- Tony Stark: Come on, you're going to go see your family. Get up.
- Yinsen: My family is dead, Stark... and I'm going to see them now. It's okay, I want this... I want this.
- [Stark is silent for a moment]
- Tony Stark: Thank you for saving me.
- Yinsen: Don't waste it... don't waste your life, Stark.
- [dies]
- Tony Stark: They say that the best weapon is the one you never have to fire. I respectfully disagree. I prefer the weapon you only have to fire once. That's how Dad did it, that's how America does it, and it's worked out pretty well so far. I present to you the newest in Stark Industries' Freedom line. Find an excuse to let one of these off the chain, and I personally guarantee, the bad guys won't even wanna come out of their caves. Ladies and gentlemen, for your consideration... the Jericho.
- William Ginter Riva: Mr. Stane. Sir, we've explored what you've asked us and it seems as though there's a little hiccup. Actually, um...
- Obadiah Stane: A hiccup?
- William Ginter Riva: Yes, to power the suit... sir, the technology doesn't actually exist. So it...
- Obadiah Stane: Wait, wait, the technology?
- [puts an arm around him]
- Obadiah Stane: William...
- [points at the giant arc reactor]
- Obadiah Stane: Here is the technology. I've asked you to simply make it smaller.
- William Ginter Riva: All right, sir, that's what we're trying to do, but... honestly, it's impossible.
- Obadiah Stane: [shouting] Tony Stark was able to build this in a cave! With a box of scraps!
- William Ginter Riva: Well, I'm sorry. I'm not Tony Stark.
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: [after Stark's one night stand with Christine] I have your clothes here; they've been dry cleaned and pressed. And there's a car waiting for you outside that will take you anywhere you'd like to go.
- Christine Everheart: You must be the famous Pepper Potts.
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: [smiles and nods] Indeed I am.
- Christine Everheart: After all these years, Tony still has you picking up the dry cleaning.
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: I do anything and everything Mr. Stark requires. Including occasionally taking out the trash. Will that be all?
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: [walking in on Stark's robots trying to get him out of the Iron Man suit] What is going on here?
- Tony Stark: Let's face it, this is not the worst thing you've caught me doing.
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: Are those bullet holes?
- Christine Everheart: Mr. Stark! Christine Everheart, Vanity Fair magazine. Can I ask you a couple of questions?
- Hogan: [whispers to Stark] She's cute.
- Tony Stark: [whispers to Hogan] She's alright.
- [turns around]
- Tony Stark: Hi!
- Christine Everheart: Hi.
- Tony Stark: Yeah. Okay, go.
- Christine Everheart: You've been called the Da Vinci of our time. What do you say to that?
- Tony Stark: Absolutely ridiculous. I don't paint.
- Christine Everheart: And what do you say to your other nickname, the Merchant of Death?
- Tony Stark: That's not bad. Let me guess... Berkeley?
- Christine Everheart: Brown, actually.
- Tony Stark: Well, Ms. Brown. It's an imperfect world, but it's the only one we got. I guarantee you the day weapons are no longer needed to keep the peace, I'll start making bricks and beams for baby hospitals.
- Christine Everheart: Rehearse that much?
- Tony Stark: Every night in front of the mirror before bedtime.
- Christine Everheart: I can see that.
- Tony Stark: I'd like to show you firsthand.
- Christine Everheart: [exasperated] All I'm looking for is a straight answer.
- Tony Stark: OK, here's a straight answer. My old man had a philosophy: peace means having a bigger stick than the other guy.
- Christine Everheart: That's a great line, coming from a guy selling the sticks.
- Tony Stark: My father helped defeat Nazis. He worked on the Manhattan Project. A lot of people, including your professors at Brown, would call that being a hero.
- Christine Everheart: And a lot of people would also call that war-profiteering.
- Tony Stark: Tell me,
- [removing his shades]
- Tony Stark: do you plan to report on the millions we've saved by advancing medical technology or kept from starvation with our intelli-crops? All those breakthroughs, military funding, honey.
- Christine Everheart: Have you ever lost an hour of sleep in your life?
- Tony Stark: I'd be prepared to lose a few with you.
- Tony Stark: What are you trying to get rid of me for? You got plans?
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: As a matter of fact, I do.
- Tony Stark: I don't like it when you have plans.
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: I'm allowed to have plans on my birthday.
- Tony Stark: It's your birthday?
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: Yes.
- Tony Stark: I knew that. Already?
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: Yeah, isn't that strange? It's the same day as last year.
- Tony Stark: Well, get yourself something nice for me.
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: I already did.
- Tony Stark: Yeah? And?
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: Oh, it's very nice... very tasteful. Thank you, Mr. Stark.
- Tony Stark: You're welcome, Ms. Potts.
- Tony Stark: Am I making you uncomfortable?
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: Oh, no, I always forget to wear deodorant and dance with my boss in a room full of people I work with in a dress with no back.
- Tony Stark: Well, you look great, you smell great. But I could fire you if that would take the edge off.
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: I don't think you could tie your shoes without me.
- Tony Stark: I'd make it a week.
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: A week, really? What's your social security number?
- Tony Stark: [he pauses]
- Tony Stark: Five...
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: [smiling] "Five?" You're missing just a couple of digits.
- Tony Stark: Right, the other eight. Well, I have you for the other eight.
- [first lines]
- Tony Stark: I feel like you're driving me to court martial. This is crazy. What did I do? I feel like you're gonna pull over and snuff me. What, you're not allowed to talk? Hey, Forrest!
- Jimmy: We can talk, sir.
- Tony Stark: Oh, I see. So it's personal.
- Ramirez: No, you intimidate them.
- Tony Stark: Good God, you're a woman! I honestly, I couldn't have called that. I mean, I would apologize, but isn't that what we're going for here? I thought of you as a soldier first.
- Ramirez: I'm an airman.
- Tony Stark: Well, you have actually excellent bone structure there. I'm kinda having a hard time not looking at you now. Is that weird?
- [soldiers laugh]
- [Stark and Potts carry out an arc reactor transplant]
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: Don't ever, ever, ever, ask me to do anything like that, ever again!
- Tony Stark: I don't have anyone but you.
- [Pepper is reaching into Tony's chest cavity]
- Tony Stark: Okay now, the copper wire - you got it?
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: Yeah, I've got it.
- Tony Stark: Now pull it out, gently, and just make sure you don't touch the s...
- [BUZZ!]
- Tony Stark: AH! - i-i-i-des!
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: Sorry, I'm sorry!
- Tony Stark: Don't touch the sides, that's what I was trying to tell you before. Now, just gently pull that out, and whatever you do, don't pull out the...
- [Pepper pulls out the end, Tony's heart monitors go off]
- Tony Stark: The magnet at the end of it. See, that was it. You just...
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: What?
- Tony Stark: What I was trying to tell you - no, don't put it back in! Just put it over there, we have to hurry...
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: What's wrong?
- Tony Stark: Oh, nothing, I'm just going into cardiac arrest, because you...
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: *What*? I thought you said this was safe!
- Tony Stark: ...just yanked it out like a trout!
- Rhodey: Oh, my God, you crazy son of a bitch! You owe me a plane, you know that, right?
- Tony Stark: [chuckling] Yeah, well, technically he hit me, so...
- [after end credits]
- Tony Stark: [arriving home] Evening, JARVIS!
- Jarvis: [voice distorted] Welcome home, sir...
- [Stark stops as he sees a figure in his living room]
- Nick Fury: "I am Iron Man". You think you're the only superhero in the world? Mr. Stark, you've become part of a bigger universe. You just don't know it yet.
- Tony Stark: Who the hell are you?
- Nick Fury: Nick Fury. Director of S.H.I.E.L.D.
- Tony Stark: Ah.
- Nick Fury: I'm here to talk to you about the Avenger Initiative.
- Yinsen: We met, you know, in a technical conference in Bern.
- Tony Stark: I don't remember.
- Yinsen: [chuckling] Of course not. If I had been that drunk, I wouldn't have been able to stand, let alone give a lecture on integrated circuits.
- Tony Stark: Hmmm. Your eyes are red. Tears for your long lost boss?
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: Tears of joy. I hate job hunting.
- Tony Stark: Yeah, well, vacation's over.
- Tony Stark: If I were Iron Man, I'd have this girlfriend who knew my true identity. She'd be a wreck. She'd always be worrying I was going to die, yet so proud of the man I've become. She'd be wildly conflicted, which would only make her more crazy about me...
- Tony Stark: [as Pepper is walking down the stairs] Hey. Ow,Ah Ah Ah Ah Ah Ah Ah Ah Ah Ah.
- Jarvis: It is a tight fit sir.
- Tony Stark: Hey, Ah.
- Jarvis: Sir the more you struggle the more this is going to hurt
- Tony Stark: Be gentle. This is my first time.
- Tony Stark: I designed this to come off, so... hey. I really should be able to...
- Jarvis: Please, try not to move sir.
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: Whats going on here?
- Tony Stark: [pauses] Lets face it. This is not the worst thing you've caught me doing.
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: Are those bullet holes?
- Tony Stark: Pepper, uh, how big are your hands?
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: What?
- Tony Stark: How big are your hands?
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: I don't understand why...
- Tony Stark: Get down here. I need you.
- Agent Phil Coulson: Mr. Stark.
- Tony Stark: Yeah?
- Agent Phil Coulson: Agent Coulson.
- Tony Stark: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, the guy from the...
- Agent Phil Coulson: Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division.
- Tony Stark: Whew! God, you really need a new name for that.
- Agent Phil Coulson: Yeah, I hear that a lot.
- [Tony emerges from the cave wearing the Mark I armour. The terrorists yell and open fire, but their bullets just bounce off the suit. Eventually they stop shooting]
- Tony Stark: My turn.
- [unleashes his flamethrowers]
- Jarvis: Yes. Shall I render using proposed specifications?
- Tony Stark: Thrill me.
- [as Jarvis works on the render, Tony watches benefit at the Disney Concert Hall on TV]
- Jarvis: The render is complete.
- Tony Stark: A little ostentatious, don't you think?
- Jarvis: What was I thinking? You're usually so discreet.
- Tony Stark: [gazes at a 1930s hotrod] Tell you what. Throw a little hotrod red in there.
- Jarvis: Yes, that should help you keep a low profile. The render is complete.
- Tony Stark: Hey, I like it. Fabricate it. Paint it.
- Jarvis: Commencing automated assembly. Estimated completion time is five hours.
- Tony Stark: [looks at his watch] Don't wait up for me, honey.
- [Abu Bakaar speaks to Tony]
- Yinsen: [translating] He wants you to build the Jericho missile. He has everything you need here, he wants you to begin immediately. After it is completed, he will set you free.
- [Abu Bakaar smiles and holds out his hand. Tony smiles and shakes it]
- Tony Stark: [still smiling] No, he won't.
- Yinsen: [also smiling] No, he won't.
- Rhodey: [seeing Stark in the Iron Man suit] That's the coolest thing I've ever seen.
- Tony Stark: Not bad, huh?
- Jarvis: [while Tony is wearing the Mark II Armor] Test complete. Preparing to power down and begin diagnostics...
- Tony Stark: Uh, yeah, tell you what. Do a weather and ATC check, start listening in on ground control.
- Jarvis: Sir, there are still terabytes of calculations required before an actual flight is...
- Tony Stark: Jarvis... sometimes you gotta run before you can walk.
- Yinsen: Did you see that? Those are YOUR weapons... in the hands of those murderers! Is this what you want? Is this what you wish the legacy of the great Tony Stark to be?
- Tony Stark: I shouldn't do anything. They could kill you, they're gonna kill me, either way, and even if they don't, I'll probably be dead in a week.
- Yinsen: Then this is a very important week for you, isn't it?
- Obadiah Stane: You had a great idea, Tony, but my suit is more advanced in every way!
- Tony Stark: How'd you solve the icing problem?
- Obadiah Stane: Icing problem?
- [his suit begins to fail]
- Tony Stark: Might want to look into it.
- [He raps his fist on Iron Monger's frozen helmet as his suit fails and plummets to the ground]
- Tony Stark: [under fire from Obadiah] Time to hit the button!
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: You told me not to...
- Tony Stark: JUST DO IT!
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: YOU'LL DIE!
- Tony Stark: PUSH IT!
- [testing his rocket boots for the first time]
- Tony Stark: Okay, let's do this right. Start mark, half a meter and to the right. Dummy, look alive, you're on standby for fire safety. You, roll it. Activate hand controls... okay, we're gonna start off nice and easy. See if 10% thrust capacity achieves lift. In three... two... one...
- [He activates his rocket boots, which launch him right up into the ceiling, to crash back down. Dummy sprays him with extinguisher foam]
- Agent Phil Coulson: I'm Agent Phil Coulson with the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division.
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: That's quite a mouthful.
- Agent Phil Coulson: I know. We're working on it.
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: Agent Coulson, I just wanted to say thank you very much for all of your help.
- Agent Phil Coulson: That's what we do. You'll be hearing from us.
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: From the Strategic Homeland...
- Agent Phil Coulson: Just call us S.H.I.E.L.D.
- Tony Stark: I never got to say goodbye to my father. There's questions I would've asked him. I would've asked him how he felt about what his company did, if he was conflicted, if he ever had doubts. Or maybe he was every inch of man we remember from the newsreels. I saw young Americans killed by the very weapons I created to defend them and protect them. And I saw that I had become part of a system that is comfortable with zero-accountability.
- Press Reporter #1: Mr. Stark! What happened over there?
- Tony Stark: I had my eyes opened. I came to realize that I had more to offer this world than just making things that blow up. And that is why, effective immediately, I am shutting down the weapons manufacturing division of Stark Industries.
- Tony Stark: [to Jimmy, who's raising his hand] You're kidding me with the hand up, right?
- Jimmy: Is it cool if I take a picture with you?
- Tony Stark: Yes, it's very cool.
- [Jimmy hands Pratt his camera and poses with a peace sign]
- Tony Stark: I don't want to see this on your myspace page. Please no gang signs.
- [Jimmy lowers hand]
- Tony Stark: No, throw it up. I'm kidding. Yeah, peace. I love peace. I'd be out of a job for peace.
- [Tony is going into cardiac arrest]
- Tony Stark: We have to hurry. Take this, take this...
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: Okay, okay...
- Tony Stark: Now you have to take this wire and attach it to the base plate, there.
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: Okay... Tony?
- Tony Stark: What?
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: Tony, it's gonna be okay.
- Tony Stark: Is it?
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: It's gonna be okay. I-I am gonna make this okay.
- Tony Stark: Let's hope.
- [She reaches in again and hooks up the new heart machine - CLICK!]
- Tony Stark: YAAA-OOOOOW...!
- [normal voice]
- Tony Stark: Was that so hard? That was fun, right?
- Obadiah Stane: How ironic, Tony! Trying to rid the world of weapons, you gave it its best one ever! And now, I'm going to kill you with it!
- [Pepper sends Stark a gift: an arc reactor in a case]
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: [inscription] "Proof that Tony Stark has a heart."
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: [upon seeing Stark wearing a machine around his arm] I thought you said you were done making weapons?
- Tony Stark: It isn't. This is a flight stabilizer. It's completely harmless.
- [Stark is blasted back by the force of the machine]
- Tony Stark: I didn't expect that.
- Rhodey: [answering his phone during the attack on Iron Man] Hello.
- Tony Stark: Hi, Rhodey, its me.
- Rhodey: It's who?
- Tony Stark: Oh, I'm sorry, it is ME. You asked. What your asking about, it's me.
- Rhodey: No, you see, this isn't a game. You do not send civilian equipment into my active war zone. You understand that?
- Tony Stark: It's not a piece of equipment, I'm in it! Its a suit! It's ME!
- Obadiah Stane: [to Stark] When I ordered the hit on you, I was worried that I was killing the golden goose. But, you see, it was just fate that you survived it, leaving one last golden egg to give. You really think that just because you have an idea, it belongs to you? Your father, he helped give us the atomic bomb. Now what kind of world would it be today if he was as selfish as you?
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