Warning: SPOILERS for All-Out Avengers #2One of the coolest Iron Man scenes from the MCU was just reversed by Marvel Comics into a moment of complete humiliation for Tony Stark. The epic opening scene from Iron Man 2 shows Tony Stark's grandiose entrance at the Stark Expo to the notes of "Shoot To Kill" from AC/DC, but in the comics things went very differently.
In 2010, Columbia Records and Marvel Studios partnered for a unique collaboration that let the music from the iconic Australian rock band AC/DC be featured in the movie Iron Man 2. In the alternate opening scene of the film (later released online), Tony's assistant Pepper Potts kisses the Iron Man helmet before tossing it from a plane, so Tony has to jump off, retrieve it, and then make his awesome landing on the main stage of the Stark Expo. The whole sequence is made even more energetic by "Shoot To Kill", one of AC/DC's most famous songs, playing in the background.
The partnership between AC/DC and Iron Man was so well received that fans are still making videos splicing together the group's songs with the best scenes from the movie. In the comics, however, Tony Stark is not so lucky with his music selection. In All-Out Avengers #2, by Derek Landy, Greg Land, and Frank D'Armata, the Avengers are trying to stop an evil doppelganger of Doctor Doom, Dark-Doom, from taking over Earth. When the Avengers, including "good" Doom, begin the attack on Dark-Doom's fortress, Iron Man leads the charge, and he tells his A.I., B.O.S.S., to "play some AC/DC on loud". However, Dark-Doom has hacked Tony's computer, and instead shuts his armor off and cuts his oxygen supply, sending Iron Mam ignominiously crashing to the ground.
How The Comics Reversed Iron Man 2's Epic Opening Scene
Dark-Doom was created when the original Victor Von Doom experimented with an artifact called Soulsplitter Stone and accidentally birthed two versions of himself, one purely good and one purely evil. Dark-Doom is the most powerful of the two and his magic is unbeatable, but still, this was a very humiliating moment for Iron Man. When fans of the MCU think of the character, the "Shoot To Thrill" opening sequence from Iron Man 2 is one of the first things that come to mind. It's clear that the authors of All-Out Avengers wanted to reference that, but they created a hugely anticlimactic moment that takes Tony Stark with his classic smugness and swagger and hilariously (and literally) throws him down from his pedestal.
The opening scene from Iron Man 2 will always remain one of the most iconic MCU sequences, thanks to the perfect pairing of music and action. However, Marvel Comics fans who read All-Out Avengers will always remember how the coolest Iron Man moment from the movies was reversed into one of Tony Stark's most humiliating and total defeats.