He isn’t really either character, though. Soon enough you get Vanko cranking out the electro-whips, and (kind of) turning into Whiplash-by-way-of-Crimson Dynamo.
#IRON MAN 2 MICKEY ROURKE MOVIE#
It doesn't help that his first scene in the movie contains one of those “scream to the heavens over a body that just died” moments.įorget that. T dressed up as the pope. He’s set up as a Russian Tony Stark, but, not really. Rourke, for his part, spends most of this movie in a black hoodie, covered in tattoos, sporting quarantine hair, and wearing a cross necklace that he borrowed from that time Mr. I know everyone panned it, but I love Hammer and I love that bird and I love Iron Man 2, which, thank Thor, is celebrating its 10-year anniversary on May 7, which means I get to write about Vanko and his bird. Resume the throwing of rocks, doesn't matter, I am what I am. I have a serious soft spot for everything and anything Iron Man 2 (can’t explain it), especially the movie’s depiction of Justin Hammer (Sam Rockwell), who is my favorite antagonist in the MCU. Without Rourke’s Vanko and his magic word, however, much of the wonder of Hammer would not be possible. It's really all about the way he says one single word.īa-ba-ba-bird is indeed the word when it comes to Rourke in this movie.
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Why, then, am I obsessed with Vanko, played by Micky Rourke in Iron Man 2? He ain't snapping anything. He probably wouldn’t even crack the top five, if I'm really being honest.
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Ivan Vanko isn’t my favorite villain in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.