Iron Man 3 is pretty unique in blockbuster terms. The film is not only a direct follow-up to Iron Man 2 but it also plays as a pseudo-sequel to The Avengers, with Tony Stark explaining that "Nothing has been the same since New York."
And it's a very different Stark that we meet in this movie. Not the arrogant playboy philanthropist that we've come to know and love over the course of three films, but rather a shadow of that guy, struggling to deal with the fact that he has encountered 'gods', aliens and a Hulk, and plagued by nightmares, anxiety and post-traumatic stress.
His situation quickly worsens as, via voiceover and flashback, we are transported to Berne, Switzerland on millennium eve, a night when Tony unwittingly created demons that more than a decade on would come back to haunt him.
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