May is months away, and it couldn't come sooner with the release of Iron Man 2 starring Robert Downing Junior once again playing billionaire playboy/superhero Tony Stark and Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper Potts. With the film comes comes more well known characters, Scarlett Johansson as The Black Widow, Samuel Jackson returning as Colonel Nick Fury, Don Cheadle playing James Rhodes/War Machine and Mickey Rourke as new supervillain Whiplash. While most fans of the series may recognize the combination of characters into a new creation, for those who don't I'll fill you in. The main chunks for Whiplash come from Iron Man villain Crimson Dynamo (first appearing in Tales of Suspense #46). Now the first man in the Dynamo armor was Russian scientist Anton Vanko, but since we've already had one armored supervillain, Paramount decided to get a little creative this time. As for the whips that give the villain his name, they come from the character Blacklash (first appearing in Tales of Suspense #97), a weapons master not unlike Daredevil villain Bullseye. Let's hope that Paramount thrills us again. Nuff said.
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