Iron Man 2 goofs

(at about 53 minutes) When Tony asks Natasha how she might celebrate her last birthday, the sound of Natasha's heels clicking on the floor can be heard as she walks away, despite there being carpet beneath her feet.

(at around 1h 3 mins) When Nick Fury and Natalie Rushman are with Tony Stark and administer an injection intended to treat his blood poisoning, Nick Fury proffers a syringe he describes as containing "Lithium Dioxide". However, lithium ions carry a single positive charge while oxide ions bear a double negative charge. Consequently, lithium oxides consist of two lithium atoms per oxygen atom, not two oxygen atoms per lithium as the term "Lithium Dioxide" would suggest. Moreover, any lithium oxide would immediately decompose in an aqueous solution, such as the water-based medium required for injecting it into a person.

Ivan Vanko occasionally commits mistakes in his Russian — errors of tense, case and the like — which a native speaker would not make.

At around the 18-minute mark, while Tony is in his underground workshop, he's watching footage of himself at the Senate hearing. The caption displays "Tony Stark On Capital Hill" when it ought to read "Capitol Hill".

(at about 1 hour 11 minutes) Although this may be intended to underline Justin Hammer's ineptitude as a weapons designer, he misidentifies the M26 Modular Accessory Shotgun system as the M24.

(at around 1h 11 mins) When Justin Hammer demonstrates the M134 minigun, he says the military refer to it as "Puff the Magic Dragon". That nickname was actually coined by the North Vietnamese for AC-47 gunships that employed the minigun with a particular ammunition load in which every fifth round was a tracer, giving the impression the aircraft and its guns were belching fire.

(at about 1 hr 3 mins) When Colonel Fury confronts Tony, Natasha says "According to Mr Stark's database security guidelines, there are redundancies to prevent unauthorised usage". In practice, redundancies do not prevent unauthorised access; they serve as fallbacks.

At around 1 hr 11 min, while showing Rhodes a selection of weapons for sale, Hammer mistakenly refers to the M26 Modular Accessory Shotgun System as an M24 shotgun and also describes it as pump-action, when in fact it is a straight-pull bolt action.

The General salutes Rhodes before departing. Protocol dictates that the subordinate ought to salute first.

(at approximately 1 hr 11 min) Justin Hammer calls the assault rifle an "FN 2000." In fact, the weapon is the F2000, manufactured by the Belgian arms company FN Herstal.

At around 1:41:00, Rhodey warns Tony that there will be weapons fire nearby, saying "Ordinance coming in hot, Tony. Watch it!" The proper word for weapons and munitions is "ordnance" (two syllables, with no "i"), a term often mistaken for "ordinance." However, a long-standing member of the armed forces such as Rhodes would not be expected to make that error.

(at around the 1-minute mark) At the end of Железный человек (2008), when Tony Stark declares he is Iron Man, he is holding blue index cards. At the beginning of Iron Man 2, while Anton Vanko watches the news of Tony's revelation, the footage shows Tony without the cards in his hand, unlike in the earlier film.

(at around 1h 26 mins) When the particle beam from Iron Man's particle accelerator slices everything in two, it fails to sever the cables leading to the centrepiece that holds the material from which the new element will be formed, and it leaves the centrepiece undamaged as well. Nor does it harm the accelerator itself, which is extremely unlikely given that the beam is evidently capable of cutting through steel.

(at approximately 8 minutes in) During the Expo speech Stark is dressed in a pinstripe suit with a white shirt and a black bow-tie. When he checks his blood for toxicity straight after the speech he has on a different suit, a black shirt and no tie.

(at around 1 hour and 2 minutes) While Tony Stark is speaking with Nick Fury in the diner, the streaks of poisoning on his neck swap sides. For most of the time they appear on Tony's right-hand side, but in one shot they are on Tony's left-hand side.

(at around 1h 21 mins) When Tony arrives at his mansion and is about to create the wireframe replica of the expo, he first blows the dust from it. This occurs after he races back in his car with the roof down and the expo panels standing upright in the passenger seat. Given Tony's driving manner, there ought not to be any dust remaining on the panels.

(at around the 55-minute mark) At Tony's birthday party, while one of the women starts "pulling" bottles, a dark-haired woman in a bikini is seen with a towel around her in one shot, and in the next the towel no longer covers her legs.

(around the 44-minute mark) Ivan meets Hammer in the aeroplane hangar. When the guards remove Ivan's cuffs there is nothing in his mouth; after the shot cuts away and then returns to him, he suddenly has a toothpick between his teeth.

(at approximately 36 minutes) After Whiplash is disarmed following his attack on Tony Stark at the race track, one shot shows him lying on his back looking upwards, with blood running from the right side of his mouth down to the base of his ear. When the camera angle then shifts to show the CRS taking him away, the blood has disappeared.

(at around 45 mins) While Ivan Vanko is dining with Justin Hammer in the airport hangar, the wine and water glasses repeatedly shift position and the levels of liquid in them change.

(at approximately 1 hour 40 minutes) Natalie Rushman incapacitates a security guard—who is about to spray her with pepper spray—by wrapping her legs around his neck. In all shots before he is thrown to the floor the guard appears to be tanned. At the moment he is thrown down, however, the man has been swapped for a pale-skinned guard who is no longer holding the spray.

(around 1 hour 15 minutes in) When Tony Stark is watching the 8mm film of his father supplied by Nick Fury, he is clearly seated in the projector's beam while facing the camera. In the reverse shots, however, this is not visible on the screen—there are no shadows or reflections.

(at approximately 1 hr 18 mins) The strawberries on Pepper's desk shift location during the course of the scene.

(at about the 12-minute mark) When LTC Rhodes enters the courtroom at Tony Stark's hearing, Pepper Potts is positioned directly behind Tony Stark, yet in the following shot she is several rows further back.

(at around 1 hr 37 mins) As the assault at the expo begins, all mobiles are out of service — the film explicitly states that the cellular networks are jammed. Pepper enters and dials the police on her mobile; when it cuts to Happy Hogan it's again made clear that none of the phones are working.

(at around 36 minutes) When Whiplash (Mickey Rourke) attacks Tony Stark at the racetrack, after Tony puts on the portable Iron Man suit, Whiplash coils the whip in his left hand around Tony’s right arm and the whip in his right hand around his throat. He then releases the left-hand whip and channels extra electrical charge through the right-hand one, electrocuting Tony. When the camera cuts to a close-up of Whiplash, he is plainly holding his left arm forward rather than his right; when the shot returns to a wider view he is again seen using his right hand.

At about the 10-minute mark, when the US marshal hands the subpoena to Stark, she holds it in her right hand while facing the camera. In the immediate reverse shot, which centres on Stark at the wheel, the subpoena is in her left hand.

Around the 35‑minute mark, when Happy uses the car to keep Ivan Vanko at bay from Tony Stark on the racetrack, the camera cuts between a close‑up of the driver and an exterior shot of the vehicle. Most of the close‑ups show Happy shifting into drive, even while the car is shown reversing.

(at about 1 hour 20 minutes) While Tony is alone in Pepper's office with his possessions, having just tossed the strawberries into the bin, he is seen facing Pepper's desk and looking to his right. In the subsequent cut he is instead facing the door and looking to his left.

(at around 54 mins) In the party scene, the Iron Man suit's jaw is open in one cut and shut in the following one.

(at around 45 minutes in) When Ivan is escorted in to meet Hammer for the first time, Hammer is eating a dessert. The way his serviette is tucked into his shirt varies between shots.

(at around 7 minutes) While Tony Stark is on the Stark Expo stage, he is clearly seen walking forwards in several close-ups. However, in every long shot he is shown standing in the very centre of the circular section of the stage.

(at about 1h 28 mins) When Justin Hammer bolts Ivan Vanko into the "babysitters", Vanko is clad in a black jacket that unzips with each cut. Yet in the final cut back to Vanko the jacket is fully zipped up once more.

At about the 45-minute mark, while Ivan Vanko and Hammer are in the hangar, a waiter is shown pouring a glass of wine for Vanko; he’s caught mid-pour in one shot, but in the very next cut he has disappeared.

(at approximately 1 hour 20 minutes) When Tony Stark is left alone in Pepper's office to collect his personal belongings, the main door is left shut but then slowly opens as though the latch hadn’t engaged. However, in the next shot showing Tony staring at the large-scale model of the futuristic city, the main door is clearly closed in the background.

(at about the 50-minute mark) While Vanko is inspecting Hammer's drones, a lock of his hair is trapped under the arm of his spectacles in close-ups, but falls over the frames in long shots.

(at about the 32-minute mark) When a Rolls-Royce is parked outside the Hôtel de Paris, the Louis Vuitton shop is visible just one door along the street. However, as the car drives off from the hotel, the Louis Vuitton shop is shown much further down the street, with two other shops between it and the hotel's entrance.

(at about 8 minutes) The position of Stark's hand shifted from front-facing to back-facing at the end of his Stark Expo welcome address.

In the final scene, when Senator Stern awards Tony & Rhodes their medals, he stands between them. Tony puts his arm behind Stern, but when the camera cuts from their viewpoint to the crowd the arm is no longer behind Stern; when the view returns to a front-facing shot, the arm is once again behind Stern.

While Howard is recounting his proudest achievement, Tony raises a glass to his lips holding it by the rim; in the following camera angle his hand is shown at the base of the glass.

(at around the 7-minute mark) Once the 'Ironettes' have finished their performance, Tony Stark steps out onto the stage. As he faces the Ironettes the camera is positioned front-on and his bow tie is askew. The shot then changes to show his back, and when he turns back to face the camera his bow tie is straight.

(around the 43-minute mark) During the prison breakout, the guards frog‑march Ivan down the stairs while he is facing backwards. Afterwards he is walking forwards.

At about 28 minutes, in the Hôtel de Paris, Hammer places his drink on the table with his left hand before taking his seat; when the camera cuts, the glass is in his right hand as he sits.

(at approximately 27 minutes) At the Hôtel de Paris, Hammer meets Tony at the bar. He drinks from a glass held in his right hand, but when he points at Tony that right hand is empty.

(at approximately 1 hr 18 mins) During Pepper and Tony's meeting, the sheet covering the Expo shifts position.

The clip of the press conference in which Tony announced he was Iron Man, as shown in Iron Man 2 (2010), is different from the footage used in Iron Man (2008): in the 2008 film he is holding blue cue cards when he admits he is Iron Man, but in the Iron Man 2 footage he is not.

(at about 1 hr 18 mins) The arrangement of the tape dispenser and the box containing a letter-opener on Pepper's desk when Tony picks up the Expo model.

(at around 1h 1 min) When Rhodes brings the armour to Edwards Air Force Base and touches down, the camera is mirrored in the shield.

Although numerous scenes were filmed in and around Los Angeles at various locations, the film is portrayed as taking place in New York City.

(at around 1 hr 2 mins) Randy's Donuts, a well-known Los Angeles landmark, has no indoor seating.

(at approximately 2 hours) In the credits of the cinema release, the song "Highway to Hell" erroneously credits Brian Johnson as a co-writer. The rightful writers are Angus Young, Malcolm Young and Bon Scott; this was corrected on the home-video release.

At approximately 1 hour 11 minutes, the fully assembled M134 weighs in at more than 100 lb, yet Justin Hammer handles it with apparent ease.

LTC Rhodes is wearing a United States Air Force Academy class ring on the middle finger of his left hand. Traditionally these rings are worn on the ring finger, a holdover from regulations that once limited the amount of jewellery a service member could display. Graduates of the service academies who were single while cadets or midshipmen were often unwilling to part with their class rings after marriage, so many wear a custom-made wedding band set flush against the class ring, adjacent to the knuckle.

(At about 1 hour 13 minutes) The Dallas Record found inside Howard Stark's lock box, which recounts Anton Vanko's defection, is dated Wednesday, 16 October 1966 — a date that in fact fell on a Sunday.

(at approximately 14 minutes) While LTC Rhodes is giving evidence to the Senate Committee, he appears in his dress uniform with gold oak leaf clusters on his epaulettes. Oak leaf clusters worn by a lieutenant colonel are silver; gold oak leaves denote the rank of major.

The striped sign on Vanko's workshop is a DOT placard affixed to a lorry; it indicates that the lorry is carrying environmentally hazardous liquids (DOT 3082). Doors on the buildings are marked with four-part NFPA hazard labels.

The SUV Agent Coulson pulls up in after the end credits bears a New Mexico front number plate. The State of New Mexico neither issues nor requires front number plates on vehicles.

The film's closing credits list "Highway to Hell" as written by Young/Young/Johnson, but the proper attribution should be to Scott, as Brian Johnson had not yet joined AC/DC at the time.

Tony Stark is not eligible to receive the medal he is presented with at the conclusion of the film. The decoration shown is the Army Distinguished Service Medal. That medal can only be awarded to non-members of the United States Armed Forces for wartime service, and only then in exceptional circumstances and with the express approval of the President. Civilian awards for valour would have been more appropriate.

In the end credits for the song "Groove Holmes," writer Adam Yauch's surname is misspelt as "Youch."

On several occasions the "Hall Of Armour" is visible in the background. Every Iron Man Mark suit contains an arc reactor in its chest, so it is plausible that Rhodey could have piloted the Mark II suit.

Around the three-minute mark a newspaper on a stand reads "Stark takes reigns at 21"; it ought to read "reins". This is a recurring joke from Железный человек (2008).

Ivan Vanko's moustache appears to vary in thickness and in how much of his upper lip it covers on several occasions. This is easily accounted for by the long period he spent developing his own arc reactor; during that time he may well have shaved and let it grow back several times.

Tony Stark makes his entrance at the exhibition by flying his Iron Man suit in from an aeroplane. Since he can already fly in that suit, the aeroplane is unnecessary. Tony was aiming for a spectacular entrance rather than practicality, and he has more than enough wealth to stage any lavish arrival he chooses. While impractical and costly, it is certainly in keeping with Tony Stark's character.

At the start of Ironman 2 he lands at the Stark Expo in his powered armour, the unmistakable arc reactor glowing in the centre of his chest. Moments later, robots remove the Ironman suit to reveal a full dinner suit underneath; the arc reactor is positioned beneath the jacket. There's no reason to criticise this, since proximity chargers already exist for pacemakers and for mobile phones, so the suit could plausibly draw power wirelessly from the chest unit, provided it's kept within very close range.

The Monaco Grand Prix race scene lacks any continuity. Traditionally, drivers tackle the street circuit in a clockwise direction. In the film they start the race going clockwise, a few seconds later are shown driving anticlockwise at the Louis Chiron curve, and then revert to clockwise around Mirabeu Haute and the Fairmont Hotel for the remainder of the scene.

At approximately 5 minutes and 5 seconds, the pilot's line — "you are clear for exfiltration over the drop zone" — is nonsensical. Stark is not being exfiltrated to the Expo; he is being "infiltrated".

At the Expo, Hammer unveils drones that stand for four of the five branches of the United States military — the Army, the Navy, the Air Force and the Marines. Missing is the United States Coast Guard; whilst it is administered by the Department of Homeland Security rather than the Department of Defense, it nonetheless remains an official US military service. The Marines undergo the most demanding training, with the Coast Guard in second place, followed by the Navy, the Army and finally the Air Force.

The crux of the film is Tony Stark's search for a substitute for the palladium in the device in his chest, which is poisoning him. Rhodey's Iron Man armour is powered by an arc reactor that is not implanted in his chest. Tony could have had his arc reactor removed and replaced with a non-toxic battery at any time without ceasing to be Iron Man.

Ivan Venko's aim in his initial attack was to demonstrate that Iron Man could be harmed, but his scheme depended on a number of events beyond his control. 1. Stark had to be at the race, or at least close enough to respond to Venko's actions on the track. 2. If Stark was at the race, he would need to be able to access his Iron Man armour. 3. If Stark was on the track suited up, he would need to be near enough that Iron Man would not simply obliterate Whiplash from a distance with the suit's numerous long‑range weapons.

Vanko slips onto the racetrack in a track-emergency-crew uniform & helmet, but Stark had only chosen to drive a few minutes earlier and hadn't informed even Pepper or Happy. So Vanko couldn't have anticipated it - he would have expected Stark to be in the restaurant, where such an emergency outfit would have looked completely out of place.

Vanko's initial weapon was an energised harness rather than an armoured suit. Such a system would have offered no protection from injury. On the Monaco racetrack, when Happy drives the limousine and slams him into the safety barrier three times, Vanko ought to have sustained crippling, if not fatal, injuries.

For Tony Stark to create a previously unknown chemical element would be as impossible as discovering another integer between 1 and, say, 100. Chemical elements are uniquely defined by the number of protons in their atoms (the atomic number). There are no undiscovered elements with atomic numbers up to 118. Pushing the atomic number beyond 118 is futile because elements from 83 to 94 are already unstable and radioactive, and those beyond 94 become progressively more unstable with extremely short half-lives.

In the party sequence where Tony is intoxicated while wearing the Iron Man armour, Rhodes descends to the cellar and, without difficulty, slips into one of the spare armours to stop him. However, any Iron Man armour is supposed to draw its energy from the ARC generator in Tony's chest (which Rhodes lacks).

The fact that Rhodes can use one of Tony's other Iron Man armours from his cellar without needing an ARC generator implanted in his chest renders the climax of the first film pointless, since Tony, in order to save his life and stop Stane, could simply have taken the generator from any other suit.

(at around 1 hr 30 mins) Tony distinctly presses the Mute button while he's on the phone to Ivan so he can speak to JARVIS without Ivan realising. He doesn't touch the screen again to unmute when he starts speaking to Ivan once more.

(at around 1h 1 min) After Rhodey touches down at Edwards Air Force Base, the wide shot shows neither the B-2 stealth bomber nor War Machine. This is because the Air Force would not allow the aircraft to be filmed from that angle, and War Machine was omitted to reduce production costs.

(at around the 40-minute mark) When Tony mutes the video on the aeroplane, the word "mute" appears on the screen slightly before he gives the command.

(at approximately 1 hr 50 mins) "Kodak" appears reversed on a building in the film's final rooftop scene, indicating a mirror-image was employed.

(at about 28 minutes) Just before the car race, when Tony peers into the mirror, his "reflection" does not synchronise with his movements, suggesting there was no real mirror used for that shot.

(at approximately 35 minutes) The Rolls-Royce is driven into a wall repeatedly in an attempt to stop Whiplash; however, the airbags do not inflate until after the vehicle has come to rest.

(around the 40‑minute mark) Pepper Potts is shown a full intraday chart of Stark Industries' shares on television at 7:30am Pacific Time (10:30am Eastern Time). The NYSE opens at 9:30am Eastern, so it has been trading for only one hour.

At roughly 1 hour 26 minutes in, as the accelerator’s beam slices through objects, it strikes the flammables cabinet and its lid instantly falls off, even though the beam has not yet fully passed through it.

(at approximately 1 h 26 min) As Tony turns the particle accelerator's beam, the central piece holding the material is positioned beneath the beam. Consequently, the beam would not have struck the material.