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During the events of the “Dark Reign“, Norman Osborn created a new identity, the Iron Patriot (an amalgam of Captain America and Iron Man), to cement his standing as a hero. As the Iron Patriot, he utilized a version of Iron Man’s armor. The armor featured superhuman strength, enhanced durability via a pliable crystalline material with a molecular structure that can collimate into super-hard planes upon the application of an electrical field, flight, magnetic impact blasts, heat seeking missiles, miniaturized lasers, flamethrowers, and a communications system housed in his helmet which allowed him to interface with any U.S.-controlled satellite or computer network. While the original Iron Man armor utilized repulsor technology, Osborn’s design does not; Stark destroyed all but one repulsor, and stated that “Oz is too stupid” to make his own repulsor-based weapons system. The star shaped Uni Beam projector on his chest, because of its shape, also has a less powerful output than that of the original Iron Man model.
What does that mean?
Translation: Norman Osborn (famed Spider-Man baddie) is trying to establish himself as a hero, and in order to do so creates a less powerful version of Tony Stark’s Iron Man armor.
Now, obviously it won’t be Norman Osborn in the armor (Spider-Man is owned by Sony and Iron Man by Marvel), so who is the man in the suit? It is actor James Badge Dale, who is playing Eric Savin, who turns into the cyborg villain Coldblood in the comics. Now here’s where it gets complicated. Iron Patriot and Coldblood are not the same person. So why is Dale wearing the armor? My theory is that Iron Man 3 writer/director, Shane Black has altered the storyline a bit, having Eric Savin become Iron Patriot before he becomes Coldblood
