[Masterless]

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Originally Posted by trebleshot

With regards to Thor, he could've been pulling his punches when he fought Tony. He wasn't there to fight, he was there to find Loki. And the individual Chitauri weren't a threat to him, but their giant flying snake ships were.

Also, most of the armors that Tony had at the end of IM3 were probably half-realized thoughts, including his MK 42 (which was explicitly stated as being a prototype and shown to be twitchy throughout the film). The MK VI and VII were both destroyed during AIM's attack on his house. He was also incredibly disturbed by the events in Avengers and tinkered to keep himself from reliving those moments. Basically, he had PTSD. I think the writers tried to do as much as they could to show Tony at his weakest, both inside and out.

Having said all that, I still agree that the Extremis soldiers were overpowered. I'd have been fine with Killian having those abilities, but not all of them.

A viable thought in regards to Thor and the Iron Man battle; but I would surmise that Thor was also in a hurry so being 'bothered' by a mere 'metal man' and pulling punches wasn't in his best interest. Then again, Thor does show a lot of reluctancy since he has lacked the testicular fortitude to slay his brother since his solo movie. Again, your thought process is adequate, but in regards to the Chitauri, I still think they are a bit more of a threat than mere Extremis peons, but as you stated, with the exception of Killain, they were overpowered.

I fully comprehended that MK. 42 was extremely glitchy(first clues of it was when it sensed Potts as a threat when she was waking him up, and of course the blatant words of Jarvis during the helicopter scene), which makes me wonder why it was his main 'gun' throughout the whole movie, but go figure. Having 'half thought out' Armors wasn't exactly practicing prudence in Stark's part, but I guess the whole notion of 'quantity over quality' was in affect in regards to the 'Iron Men' since he was doing it in his 'spare time', or what little of it he had during the whole thing. Having 'everything else' rampaging him, I can understand how his armors weren't as durable as MK VI and MK VII. Perhaps they were all as durable as MK V. Again, I understand that part but I still have qualms with it. The SIlver Centurion is one of my favorite armor he has and to see it obliterated in a mere two minutes was heart wrenching.

And while I know that MK VI was destroyed, I believe MK VII was not. It was the armor that Pepper destroyed herself in the last scene... which again, having gone through Thor and Chitauri, it was disposed off rather easily. Again I could be completely wrong and that could've been another one of the Mark whatever that Tony summoned, but if my memory serves me right I think it was MK VII.