Iron Man 3
The events ofSpider - Man : Far From Homemade Tony Stark ’s ( Robert Downey Jr. ) joke inIron Man 3aboutA Christmas Storybetter . On the heels ofThe Avengers ' achiever , Marvel Studios kick off Phase 2 with its initiatory hero ’s third and final solo outing . Directed by Shane Black , it tackled Tony ’s PTSD after his near - last experience during the Battle of New York . Despite the grievous premise , it still had the MCU ’s signature humor , which was expect look at that it has the sarcastic and quippy character at the center of its history .
Over the years , Tony has dropped a draw of pop culture references . He principally used it as nicknames to other characters either because they ’re alike in looks or personality . As examples , he promise Ebony Maw Squidward and Peter Quill / Star - Lord ( Chris Pratt ) Flash Gordon inAvengers : Infinity War . He also calledThor(Chris Hemsworth ) Point Break and Clint Barton / Hawkeye ( Jeremy Renner ) Legolas inThe Avengers . What ’s more interesting is , it did n’t matter what the spot he was in or what the reason was , he would always take any opportunity to give people nicknames .
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Tony was so quick - witted that he did n’t have to call up knockout about these tonic culture references . He could dish one when his life was in peril and even when he was in the middle of a burgeoning affright attack , which was what happen inIron Man 3 . While he andJames " Rhodey " Rhodes / War Machine ( Don Cheadle)eat out in a restaurant , two tyke approached them to postulate for Iron Man ’s autograph — one of them looks like Ralphie Parker fromA Christmas Story . Despite being on the brink of another panic flack after seeing a drafting of Iron Man hauling the nuclear turkey to outer space , Tony is still able to come out with a snarky quip , telling the boy that he loved him in the 1983 Bob Clark - directed vacation film .
The sarcasm in this is , the histrion who played Ralphie inA Christmas Storyis actually in the MCU since the very first and he has a distich of connexion to Stark . Peter Billingsley plays William Ginter Riva who was first introduced inIron Man . He was the pitiful scientist that Obadiah Stane ( Jeff Bridges ) chastised for his inability to re - make the mini arc - reactor which Stark made"in a cave ! With a box of scraps!“The character was then wanting in the franchise from the 2008 movie until he was let out to beQuentin Beck Mysterio ’s ( Jake Gyllenhaal ) basal technical guy inFar From Home . Interestingly , while Tony declare for Billingsley inIron Man , he might need to reconsider that if he only knew what part Riva played in Peter Parker / Spider - Man ’s ( Tom Holland ) current quandary . InFar From Home ’s mid - credits scene , a heavily edited video of Mysterio not only framed Peter for the villain ’s death but also confirmed his real identity .
The oecumenical assumption is that Mysterio is dead , and since Riva was his"guy in a chair,“he had unmediated access to the scoundrel , presumably before he actually died . A abbreviated panorama inSpider - Man : Far From Homealso showed the disgruntled Stark Industries scientist running off with a flash drive in his hand . This imply that he ’s the one who tipped The Daily Bugle the news whichJ. Jonah Jameson ( J.K. Simmons)gladly claim . While Tony and Riva never encountered each other in the MCU , It ’s good to assume that if the enfranchisement ’s inaugural hero is still around , he would have a unlike opinion about Ralphie than the one he had inIron Man 3 .
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