Iron Man 2 Movie Facts, Easter Eggs and hidden details

Tony tells Pepper to wear a surgical mask because she's sick. This is an ad-libbed line made up by Robert Downey Jr. on the spot because, in this scene, Gwyneth Paltrow was actually sick.

You can see Elon Musk appear as a cameo in the racing lobby scene. In a meeting they had together in the past, Elon Musk is said to have contributed in inspiring Robert Downey Jr's interpretation for Tony Stark's character and quirks.

Walking onto the track in Monaco, Ivan Vanko's pot jacket says "B. Turgenov". In the comics, Boris Turgenov was a KGB agent, who, along with Black Widow, was assigned to dispose of Anthony Stark and Anton Vanko.

When discussing Tony's involvement with the Avengers, a map pinpointing every future movie location is shown in the background, including Wakanda and possibly Atlantis.

During Fury and Stark's meeting, you can see a map of locations where each future Avenger was located. (Malibu - Iron Man; New Mexico - Thor; Greenland - Captain America; etc). Even Namor was hinted this early, since a location in the south Atlantic is encircled.

When Tony is looking through Howard Stark's briefcase, a copy of "Captain America #1" can be seen among the items. I've never seen this Easter egg mentioned before, so I thought I'd post it here.

In the Hotel de Paris scene, Elon Musk mentions to Tony he has an idea for an all electric plane. Following the Monaco race scene, Tony's plane is briefly viewed in flight, showing he's already beaten Musk to the invention.

When the grid order for the Monaco Grand Prix is updated to reflect Tony Stark's participation in the race, one of the drivers is called "Chapman", who happens to be driving a John Player Special Lotus. This is a hidden tribute to Colin Chapman, founder of Team Lotus and Lotus Cars.

Rhodes (War Machine) enters the courtroom saying "it's me, I'm here, deal with it", a not-subtle reference to the recasting of the character from Terrence Howard to Don Cheadle.

Tony is going through his father's, Howard Stark's, notes. In them contains a drawing of a Tesseract. This now makes more sense as we seen that the Tesseract was kept at a Shield facility where Howard Stark prominently worked at

Wakanda was mentioned as a location on a S.H.I.E.L.D. monitor in Iron Man 2 (2010). The location pinpoints the country as being situated at Lake Turkana, on the borders of Kenya and Ethopia. MORE IN COMMENTS

The F1 pilot who is replaced by Tony is named after the son's director.

Pepper Potts drinks Dr. Pepper.

Elon Musk makes a small cameo in exchange for letting the crew film at SpaceX.

Ironman 2 they address the elephant in the room immediately (Rhodey actor change)

The watch Tony Stark uses to pay for strawberries is the watch gifted to him by Obadiah in Iron Man 1

The ExWife fizzles out when used on Vanko. The duo chastises Hammer's inferior tech, but it actually failed because Rhodes was standing still, and too close. The ExWife is a "Kinetic-kill" missile, which requires the added velocity of its supersonic firer, and time to get up to speed.

Stark criticizes the design of Vanko's Arc Reacter, he says Hz are a little low and it's not very efficient. You can see that when he analyzes Vanko's reacter that the energy output is 1.81 GJ/sec whereas the reacter Tony developed in a cave with a bunch of scraps could output 5 GJ/s.

We see the MARK I labeled as a reconstruction because the original was never recovered by Stark

Immediately after Tony and Rodey crash from the ceiling, Black Widow goes into a fighting stance, hinting to us her real identity.

The Mark V "Football" Suit has two footholds so it can be deployed on either side.

Tony's fist bump hurts the DJ's hand

When Happy hits Ivan with the Rolls-Royce, the Spirit of Ecstasy can be seen retracted. That's because any physical contact with it will cause it to retract into the car, preventing theft.

Whilst Tony is looking through his father's notes a two page spread can be seen dedicated to the mathematical concept of a Tesseract. Two films later a cube called the Tesseract is introduced which goes on to play a major role in several MCU films.

Wakanda can be seen highlighted behind Stark and Fury during their discussion about Stark's lack of reccommendation for the Avengers

While Jarvis is turning on all the UI in Tony's workshop , you can see that the Iron Man suit mark I is actually only a reconstruction.

Justin Hammer's tech guy couldn't fix Vanko's hacks because it is in a different language, Justin suggests to try using Russian. Later Black Widow was able to un-hack Rhodey's War Machine because she can understand Russian, presumably can code in Russian too

Tony comes to a complete stop before grabbing Pepper because he doesn't want to snap her neck with a fly-by grab

first ironman movie yinsen told tony stark that he met him before in a conference in bern. In ironman3 ,he makes a cameo during flashback sequence congratulating stark's speech .

Happy's boxing gloves have a small white circle similar to Iron Man's repulsors on his gloves.

Natasha Romanova (Black Widow) potentially blows her cover by adopting a defensive stance when Tony and Rhodey crash through the ceiling during their fight.

When Col. Rhodes is arming the suit he took, he is wearing a USAF Weapons School patch. He would be a fairly authoritative source on available weapons.

When Tony begins construction on his newly rediscovered element, he pulls building supplies from crates labeled "Project Pegasus".

: You can see the schematics for the suitcase suit, sixteen minutes before Tony actually wears it.

- Black Widow's alias Natalie Rushman's resume includes experience at Hammer Industries, which is perhaps why (later in the film) she is already familiar with the security, building layout and computer systems at Hammer Industries.

The War Machine suit has an AFMC patch painted on its arm in the same place it would be on a test pilot's flight suit.

War Machine has a shoulder mounted rocket. In Avengers Endgame (2019), War Machine has rocket mounted on his shoulder

The Navy Hammer Drones are part of VX23, which in real life is the US Navy's actual testing and evaluation squadron.

When Tony fistbumps the DJ at the party, the DJ winces and shakes off his hand since he basically punched a lump of metal.

Tony and Rhodey fall through the ceiling at the party, surprising Pepper and Black Widow. Black Widow reacts by moving into a fighting stance, hinting at the reveal that she is more than she seems

When Tony is in the sparring session with Happy, he hits Happy with his elbow and Happy calls it "dirty boxing." Later in the movie when Happy is boxing the security guard at the Hammer facility, he bites the security guard in the ear which is precisely dirty boxing.

Tony's father's notes include a diagram of a tesseract. At the end of Captain America (2011) we see him fish the Tesseract out of the water while looking for Cap.

Tony tells Ivan Vanko that his cycles were low after their fight. This is because Jarvis gave a brief readout right as he crushed the other arc reactor.

Pepper Potts uses a cellphone 30 seconds after Justin Hammer is told cell phones aren't working

There are information about an hypercube in Howard Starck's notes.

A billboard features concept art of the villain Fin Fang Foom, who was supposed to appear in the film.

Before Natasha reveal herself as a spy, in the mansion fight scene she pose-fighted when Tony and Rodhey both fell from the roof.

Tony calls Rhodeh a War Machine, which is where he got inspiration for the name.

Elon Musk had a cameo where he told Tony Stark about his idea for an electric jet. That might soon be a reality as mentioned by Musk on Joe Rogan's Podcast yesterday.

Elon Musk has a cameo. Robert Downey Jr took a tour of SpaceX facility for a perspective into Stark's life. They loved the visit so much that a cameo was offered.