Six months after the end of the first movie, Tony Stark (Robert Downey,
Jr.) has used his Iron Man armor to bring about a negotiated peace
treaty between the major super powers of the world, and his immense
popularity with the general public is only furthered when he fulfills his
father's dream by opening the "Stark Expo", to showcase all the latest
inventions that will benefit the world. Stark is, however, still vilified by the
United States government, and Senator Stern (Gary Shandling) in
particular, who demands that he hand his armor technology over for
military application. Stark refuses, publicly shaming rival Justin Hammer
(Sam Rockwell) in the process by highlighting his own failed attempts at
recreating the technology. All is not well in Stark's life, however: he has
discovered that the palladium in the arc reactor keeping his heart beating
has begun to poison his body, slowly killing him, and all attempts to find a
substitute element have failed. Slowly going off the rails as a
consequence of what he believes to be his impending death, he appoints
his former personal assistant Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow) CEO of
Stark Industries, replacing her with Natalie Rushman (Scarlett
Johansson).
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