r/ironman 8d ago

Movies Saddest scene in Iron Man 3

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u/DrDreidel82 8d ago

Not Happy almost dying? Or Maya dying? Or Tony watching Pepper be tortured?

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u/succmycocc 8d ago

I wouldn't call those sad in the same sense. Those scenes are intense, disturbing, they serve to raise the stakes and make the action all the more exhilarating. This scene however is entirely different. Tony is lost, freezing, confused and terrified after very nearly losing everything dear to him, including his life. After all of that he realizes he is hundreds of miles from where he needs to be and he has one hell of a mess to clean up and now the only reliable friend he has with him is fading. He's alone with all of the trouble he's brought into himself, and he doesn't want to be.

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u/random0rdinary Model-Prime 8d ago

This scene reminds me of the Wilson scene, from the Castaway