10 Supposedly Smart Movie Characters Who Totally Dropped The Ball

4. Tony Stark Invites The Mandarin To Attack Him... Doesn't Prepare For The Attack - Iron Man 3

Iron Man Billionaire. Playboy. Genius. Philanthropist. These are the traits that define Tony Stark according to... well, Tony Stark, actually, going by a witty self-description we hear him using in The Avengers. A word that Tony Stark - whose aliases is superhero Iron Man - probably wouldn't use to describe himself, though? How about "dumbass," which is totally what he acts like at the beginning of Iron Man 3, when he baits a supervillain into attacking him at home by disclosing his address on television, and then fails to prepare himself for the attack. Seriously. When the Mandarin almost kills Tony's best friend Happy, Tony gets mad and wages war on the Mandarin personally on live television, disclosing his address as a location for a fight. The Mandarin, being a bad guy of epic proportions, complies, and sends a wave of deadly helicopters to Tony's beachside mansion and blows it up with missiles. But at this point Tony's ego has got the better of him, apparently, because he hasn't set up a single precautionary measure, which leads to the very near of his girlfriend, Pepper Potts. Genius? I'm not so sure about that.
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