Iron Man 2 The Official Whiplash Thread

[Ironfan72]

Varity reported that Rourke's character would be a combination of Crimson Dynamo & Whiplash, so most likely a armored villain with whips.
Dynamo is essentailly Russia's answer to Iron Man, he's fast, powerful and well armed, no energy weapons ie: repulsors, instead a gattling gun, just slightly weaker that Iron Man, but was always a dangerous enemy.

 

[Shemtov]

Varity reported that Rourke's character would be a combination of Crimson Dynamo & Whiplash, so most likely a armored villain with whips.
Dynamo is essentailly Russia's answer to Iron Man, he's fast, powerful and well armed, no energy weapons ie: repulsors, instead a gattling gun, just slightly weaker that Iron Man, but was always a dangerous enemy.

IRRC, he has electric blasters instead of repulsers.

 

[Ironfan72]

IRRC, he has electric blasters instead of repulsers.

Your right, there has been so many versions of Dynamo, that some have electric blasters, others had gattling guns, etc.

 

[Leto]

What's great is that there is no iconic pilot for the Crimson Dynamo armor, so having Whiplash commandeer the suit works great. You get that sense of escalation.

 

[FlawlessVictory]

I like where they are going with this Whiplash/CD combo. I think it will work out well.

 

[Balthus Dire]

So is he called Wiplash in the movie then? Cause I was soooooo looking forward to them calling him Crymson Dynamo. It's such a bad ass name for a villain.

 

[Chewy]

They could always refer to the armor as "Crimson Dynamo" even if the character himself goes by Whiplash

 

[Ironfan72]

I like the name Crimson Dynamo more than Whiplash, plus the name Whiplash was used already in the first film, it was used as the call signs for the two F-22 Raptors chasing Iron Man.
My hope is Favreau will clear the identity issue up soon, is Rourke playing Dynamo or Whiplash.

 

[Shemtov]

What I expect Whiplash to be is a Merc in armor with electronic Whips.

 

[Double Down]

Shooting starts in two weeks

 

[Raiden]

I like the name Crimson Dynamo more than Whiplash, plus the name Whiplash was used already in the first film, it was used as the call signs for the two F-22 Raptors chasing Iron Man.
My hope is Favreau will clear the identity issue up soon, is Rourke playing Dynamo or Whiplash.

Yeah, Crimson Dynamo sounds alot better than Whiplash, and Whiplash in the comics is just a 3rd-rated villain, unlike CD who was a Soviet version of IM. Not sure why Favreau wanted to use Whiplash.

 

[terry78]

They'll probably refer to it as the Crimson Dynamo as a codename for the prototype armor or something like that. You know how they do these things.

 

[ultimatefan]

I don´t think being a russian villain necessarily indicates Crymson Dynamo. The character could be related to BW.

 

[Chris B]

Personally, I wish they had just gone with Crimson Dynamo or Titanium Man if they wanted a Russian version of Iron Man, instead of the Whiplash/Dynamo amalgam they seem to be using.

But I have faith in Favreau to make it work. Reminds of how I wasn't too enthused when word leaked out that they were making Stane Stark's longtime business partner two years ago. And that worked out fine in the end.

 

[terry78]

 

[[A]]

Rourke will probably win an Oscar for this (you know, they always get one when they're not supposed to)

 

[Chewy]

The thing is that there isn't an iconic version of either Crimson Dynamo or Whiplash. There have been over a dozen Crimson Dynamos and a variety of Whiplashes (a guy wearing black tights and a pink cape, a chick, and a guy in S&M gear)

Introducing a new version of either of these characters is commonplace in the comics, and it doesn't really bother me that they're doing it on film. Nor that there will be one man under both guises (or, at least, using elements of both guises)

 

[Chris B]

The thing is that there isn't an iconic version of either Crimson Dynamo or Whiplash. There have been over a dozen Crimson Dynamos and a variety of Whiplashes (a guy wearing black tights and a pink cape, a chick, and a guy in S&M gear)

Introducing a new version of either of these characters is commonplace in the comics, and it doesn't really bother me that they're doing it on film. Nor that there will be one man under both guises (or, at least, using elements of both guises)

True. But I just don't really see the need to combine Crimson Dynamo and Whiplash into one guy. I mean why even call him Whiplash when it sounds like Rourke's character is basically going to be CD with whips?

 

[Sub-Zero]

idk. how is crimson dynamo different from iron monger? they're both armored villains. are all of iron man's villains going to be the opposite of him(armored men with villainous agendas)? seems somewhat redundant. sure the story will be different, but in the end the final battle is going to be iron man and/or war machine fighting yet another person in a suit of armor. /shrug

 

[Rac]

Varity reported that Rourke's character would be a combination of Crimson Dynamo & Whiplash, so most likely a armored villain with whips.

I hope he ends up being more Crimson Dynamo than Whiplash (never digged that one...).

 

[SurfDUI]

Not sure why Favreau wanted to use Whiplash.

I don't get that either...but In Fav's I trust-

Good thing about CD is that over the decades he's changed just like the severl dozen suits IM has, so there will be a heafty amout of artistic interpretation in how the character is seen-so that's groovy.

I hope they use the '80s CD preferably the one where he and Titanium Man jump IM during the Armor Wars or vice versa.

 

[topdog1]

I don't get that either...but In Fav's I trust-

There's the right answer. I was worried that fanboy nitpicking would start over this news but it's good to see most fans taking it easy. Favs and company have earned a ton of wiggle room in my book. Let them combine and do whatever they want!

 

[Chewy]

Sounds like Whiplash is spending some time in prison

March 13 (Bloomberg) -- Mickey Rourke toured Moscow’s overcrowded Butyrka jail to prepare for his new role as a Russian villain in “Iron Man 2,” becoming the first person in 35 years to don a tsarist torture device used to keep prisoners awake.
Rourke visited Butyrka yesterday to get a firsthand view of Russian prison life and inspect the 18th-century “slingshot” sleep-deprivation tool, which was last worn in the 1970s, according to the prison’s Web site. He attended the Moscow premier of “The Wrestler,” for which he won a Golden Globe award for best actor, the previous evening.
Butyrka is the main pre-sentencing facility in Moscow, whose inmates have included the KGB forerunner’s founder Felix Dzerzhinsky, Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn and oligarch Vladimir Gusinsky. Rourke’s next role is that of an evildoer named Ivan who goes by the name of Whiplash in “Iron Man 2,” a sequel to the blockbuster starring Robert Downey Jr.
Rourke inspected the kitchen and asked for a loaf of bread to take away. “If I ever did time, I would like to work in a bakery because the smell of fresh bread reminds me of childhood,” Rourke said, according to the prison’s Web site.
Rourke, 55, returned to prominence this year after a decade in cinematic obscurity that included a brief stint in a Miami jail in 2007. While at Butyrka, Rourke played table tennis with a guard and tried out a prisoner’s bed. “My sofa seems much stiffer,” he said.

SOURCE

 

[Chris B]

If it were up to me, I would design this reimagined Whiplash's armor with a resemblance to the sixth Crimson Dynamo's. Similar in size to Iron Man but bulkier, the color scheme being mainly black with some red thrown in, something like Raiden suggested where the whips spring out of the gauntlets or wrists, and both a small laser canon and missile launcher in either forearm.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Crimson_Dynamo_Shatalov.jpg

 

[Double Down]

I'd be okay with that.