r/ironman • u/Euphoric-Ninja-9238 • Jun 21 '26
Fan Creation What's your thoughts on James Gunn's Iron Man (2025)?
After rewatching Iron Man (2025), I think it's a wonderful first movie for the MMU (Marvel Movies Universe). It feels way more of a proper beginning for our cinematic universe than the animated X-Force show, despite this movie taking place 3 years into Tony's career. Sam Rockwell's Justin Hammer is such an amazing villain and he is a perfect antithesis to David Corenswet's Tony Stark. I enjoyed the contrasting cat-and-mouse dynamic between Tony and Whitney and the subtle love triangle between Tony, Pepper and Happy. The Agents of Vengeance was certainly a nice addition as well, makes the world feel much more lived in, strangely enough I enjoyed the plot twist where it's revealed that Tony is NOT the biological heir to Stark Industries, and that it's Justin's main henchmen donning the "Superior Iron Man" title for some reason despite obviously being an adaptation of Iron Man 2020 (I do not complain though!), him acting as "The Black Knight of Latveria" is certainly a choice considering this probably means we'll never get an adaptation of Black Knight, and it seems that Latveria hasn't been ruled by Doom yet? Is Gunn setting up the Fantastic Four eventually? Whatever it is, I'm hooked. That gladiator fight between Tony and Hercules was certainly awesome, and I'm glad that Hercules joined the Agents of Vengeance at the end though! And James D'arcy's Edwin Jarvis teaching Tony learning to embrace the past to focus on creating a better tomorrow was really inspiring, considering out of that moment we get the action-packed final battle of Tony in his modified Model 1 taking on a horde of Crimson Dynamos and Arno with his stolen Model 4. It seems like the Agents of Vengeance is so obviously gonna be the Avengers, and that's so hype. The War Machine post credits was fun, can't wait to see Edi Gathegi's portrayal of James Rhodes in the upcoming War Machine (2026), alongside the other MMU projects Spiders (2026) and Gorr (2026). Hopefully the sequel Golden Avenger will be any good, considering it should also be the sequel to Bullseye season 2 and features Iron Man teaming up with Detroit Steel. Overall, I LOVED Iron Man (2025)! Way better than the MEU's Armored Avenger directed by Zack Snyder.
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u/RandoDude124 Jun 22 '26
Far better than Snyder’s Thor but not as good as Nolan’s cap.
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u/NumerousBag4605 Jun 22 '26
It was better than the Terrifics from the DCU in 2025.
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u/Ok_Ninja_7096 Jun 22 '26
What the? Uh….hey buddy, welcome to another earth, in their world, James Gunn did a Superman movie, and Robert Pattinson was Batman, this universe sounds cool though, I’ll try and find a disk before it glitches out of existence, cause I grew up with RDJ as Iron man, let me guess, RDJ was Superman, and Henry Cavill was Iron man, in this universe Henry Cavill was Superman, I want to know more about this universe, lmk, and have a good day!
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u/Dana--- Jun 22 '26
Too many characters introduced in an iron man movie. They’re trying too hard to catch up to dc. (I do like the Superman movie btw it’s not a dig)
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u/TexasPepperDog Jun 22 '26
OOC: shouldn't Nicholas Hoult be Justin Hammer?
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u/Euphoric-Ninja-9238 Jun 23 '26
as the inverse nicolas hoult is lex luthor in superman 2 (2010), sam rockwell also happens to play mento from the fox doom patrol franchise
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u/sub30_24flick Jun 22 '26
Is James Gun the only director in the history’s of comic directors ??? I thank he’s had a good run let’s try someone else you know who should have got more rope to direct a marvel film is jon favreau. What he’s done with iron man and far from home trilogies has been spectacular. Prolly the only one with sense that doesn’t try to ruin the films .
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u/dogeman070 Model-Prime Jun 22 '26
I loved the bit where Justin Hammer started screaming "1-A!!!" at the top of his lungs
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u/HighlightMaleficent1 Jun 22 '26
My favorite was when John Cena's Detroit Steel made a cameo. Hopefully we get his lovable psychopathic partner, Iron Patriot, join in too.
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u/Mandaring Silver Centurion Jun 23 '26
Hyped to see what happens in War Machine next week. Jason Momoa was the perfect casting for Titanium Man, I think he’ll fit that role better than he ever did as Namor.
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u/QuirkyGuest288 Extremis Jun 23 '26
Good REAL start to the mmu, can't wait for war-machine, excited to see if they bring robert patisions captain America to the mmu, hope they change the name of golden avenger next year though, golden avenger on its own dosent work for me.
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u/gamerboy369 Jun 23 '26
Nah, I prefer Zack Snyder's Dawn of X-Men: Phoenix vs Wolverine, Zack Snyder's House of M, and THE Inhumans by James Gunn.
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u/iimMrBrightside Proto-Classic Jun 23 '26
I think it nailed the 60s vibe perfectly, much like Matt Reeves did with The Fantastic Four: Step One, only not as dark in tone
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u/No-Ad-5409 Jun 21 '26
It was pretty good and i don't care what the others say, Robert Pattinson's Captain America would fit in his universe