20 Things You Didn’t Know About Iron Man 2

19. The Photo Of Ivan's Arrest Is A Real Picture Of Mickey Rourke Being Arrested

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Mid-way through the movie when Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) is doing his homework on Ivan Vanko aka Whiplash (Mickey Rourke), he finds a newspaper front page which reveals that Vanko was arrested for selling Soviet weapons grade plutonium to Pakistan.

The story comes complete with a picture of a younger Vanko being arrested, and hilariously, the image is actually a totally genuine photo of Mickey Rourke being arrested on a drugs charge in the 1980s.

There's no word on whether or not Rourke's permission was sought to include the picture, but it certainly beats a thrown-together Photoshopped version.

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