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I had my hopes for mandarin or going into Extremis arc but I still can't wrap my head around what they pulled out.

The only thing that would draw me into this is the story alone. I think since in IM2, the senator wanted the IM armor and Rhodes also brought them the mark II, they created their own armor which obviously is the iron patriot. I think in IM3, since tony and avengers destroyed new York, the senator doesn't want stark to be the one to bear the armor. Now the synopsis for IM3 is they want to remove tony from all his toys and put him in a desperate situation, I believe they are going to raid his home and armory due to the events in avengers and they are going to appoint cold blood as the iron patriot to take over. Then lalalala tony stark fights his way back as iron patriot shows his true colors and stark saves us all again