Solid Snake

IM3 made a point as to how many different suits he's made so this isn't surprising in any form for AoU.

taffer

Yeah, I know Tony doesn't actually manufacture them. It's just funny that he has redesigned it so often. I don't think the MCU actually occurs in "real time." So while the MCU is 7 years old to us viewers, I think only maybe a couple years have passed in the MCU itself. 43 revisions in 2 years is a lot. It's a rate of about one every other week.

I know part of the plot of Iron Man 3 was Tony's PTSD was making him create all these new armors, but I thought he quit that by the end.

He didn't have 40 armors in IM 3. It was only about a dozen or so. Plus, he supposedly quit with this rapid manufacturing at the end of the movie.

Solid Snake

He did have numbers for them though from what his last prototype was called. So 43 isn't amazing. IM3 had 42, after New York he went proactive and a bit fearsome.. so he just had a bunch of suits made. It isn't that odd to think he'd have that many. 42 was his last one in IM3. AoU gets us 43. Makes sense.

Mondo Kane

Is there anybody else out there who can't get enough of this shot?

Solid Snake

Yeah. She's going to be exciting to see. I love Viz and Pietro but Wanda is a very interesting character.

Mike86

Those pictures are actually of the Hot Toys figure that's coming out. It should be pretty close to how the suit looks as their figures are very highly detailed and generally top of the line, but those aren't actual screen shots or final spec pictures of the suit.

taffer

Okay. I didn't know Mark 42 was actually in IM3. I knew there were a bunch of them, but I didn't know he was up to 42 already by then.

Plus, as mentioned before, I just find it funny that he has gone through 43 in so little time. The MCU isn't "real-time" so only about 2 years or so have actually passed since Tony built his first armor in that cave. He has gone through 43 different armors since then in only 2 years. With 52 weeks in a year, that is 104 weeks. 43 armors in 104 weeks is about one every other week. That is what I find funny, that he has gone through that at a rate of one every other week.

Solid Snake

Feige has talked about timelines. In context of time, It seems like unless a film notifies us on the passage of time, it seems like Feige kind of wants the MCU to "age" w/ a normal passage of time. I'm reading a bunch of stuff and it's a jumbled up from what links I found. I'll have to clean it up later if possible.

But one mention from Feige that seems consistent is that there is a passage of time worth noting. 2 years have passed since Thor 1 to Thor 2 from a line that Jane says. I think I remember her saying that it was 2 years since she saw him. Unless noted in some form in the medium, I don't mind them going through a real world passage of time. Makes it very interesting as a string of narratives.

taffer

"Real-time" aging causes the characters to age too fast. These characters are supposed to be ageless. When Stan Lee first created these characters back in the 60s, he did use real-time aging at first. Peter Parker was 15 when he was bitten by the spider. Then 30 or so issues later he was 18 and graduating high school and starting college. Stan Lee wisely realized that the characters were aging too fast, and then the "real-time" aging stopped. The characters have been stuck as perpetual 20-year olds ever since.

Also, I think the MCU "real-time" aging might be thrown out the window with Infinity War since it is a two-part movie. It's possible an actual year could pass between parts 1 and 2, but I doubt it.

Jason

I imagine both will be filmed at the same time.

taffer

That's not what I was talking about. In real-time there is a year between parts 1 and 2. However, does a year actually pass in the actual MCU timeline?

Another example: Star Wars Episode II was released in real time 3 years after Episode I. However, in the actual Star Wars universe timeline, there was a 10 year difference between Episodes I and II.

OldBoy

great shot, but i am fascinated by Hawkeye pulling back nothing for a bow.

Solid Snake

They did it in Avengers as well.

Not sure as to why they take out the bow string though. Safety? I dunno.

taffer

CGI arrows

Either that or Scarlet Witch said, "No more arrow." What she was actually trying to do was to say, "No more Arrow" with a capital A to get rid of the DC competition (Green Arrow TV series).

Also, very recent comic spoilers

The Valeyard

Obi-Wanma

It's one of his trick arrows. The invisible arrow.

Where's my no-prize?

Double_Oh_7

Yeah, we know they will be filmed at the same time Will they be SET in the same time period is what was being asked.

Mike86

Actually I'm fairly certain that he did have forty-two armors in Iron Man 3. We didn't see them all up close but at the end of the film when Tony told Jarvis to initiate the House Party Protocol the Iron Legion of armors showed up. That was honestly one of the biggest disappointments about that film to me. The previews made it seem like the various armors would have a somewhat larger role in the film but really it was mostly the Mark XLII and the Iron Patriot that we saw in action. There were a couple of other armors that Tony used briefly or that we saw during the end battle but overall they really weren't focused on much.

Solid Snake

fumanstan

Bad ass

taffer

I see Boba Fett in that picture... I wonder if that has anything to do with Episode VII...

Big Boy Laroux

I want that hulkbuster as a lawn ornament.

slop101

Well, both Star Wars and Avengers are Disney properties now, so it could be a crossover. Though there might have to be some time traveling involved, as SW is "a long time ago"...

taffer

Boba Fett is Star-Lord's father!

Yoda is Hulk's father!

candyrocket786

Its the new 1/4 scale figure by HT.