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Iron Man 2 (2010) - 17 corrections

starring Don Cheadle, Gwyneth Paltrow, Mickey Rourke, Robert Downey Jr., Sam Rockwell, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson (add more)

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During the movie S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Phil Coulson tells Tony Stark that he has to go because "something has come up in New Mexico". That something is Thor. [Thor's hammer is shown at the very end of this film, and Agent Coulson appears in the Thor movie, making this far too obvious to be valid trivia.]
Edit Corrected by S. Ha
In the shot where Ivan Vanko is looking at his fake passport we can see that his nationality is written as Russkaja in Russian. However that would mean that he is a female. [No, it means that the Russian word for nationality is feminine. This also happens in French, for example, where nationality would be written as Française, Canadienne, etc. even for a man.]
Edit Corrected by Sereenie
When Natalie asks Tony for his fingerprint when handing over the company to Pepper, Tony gives his fingerprint while still wearing his boxing glove. [Throughout the scene, it can be seen that Tony's gloves leave the tips of his fingers and thumbs exposed.]
Edit Corrected by Tailkinker
After the scene where Tony Stark takes strawberries to Pepper in the office, as he leaves after everyone else he pauses to look at the 'Expo' city model. In the next scene he has the model disassembled and sticking up out of his care as he speeds down the highway. Then in the next scene after he has reassembled the model he blows dust from it. After being driven at high speed, much less all the handling to disassemble and reassemble it, the model should not have any significant dust on it. [Only the front piece and the edges of the other pieces would have had the dust blown off them. The middle sections of the other pieces would still be dusty.]
Edit Corrected by Phixius
When Tony is creating the new element, he deflectes the prismatic accelerator's beam, which pretty much cuts everything it touches before reaching the new triangular core. However, the beam does not cut through the accelerator's own containment glass, and just passes through it. This is seen in the shot where the prism is rotating and the beam is starting to be deflected, as it has its own VFX for the beam diffraction on glass. [And? With a detailed explanation as to why this is a mistake, this would be considered a mistake.]
Edit Corrected by THGhost
During the final aerial battle at Hammer's expo, when War Machine's suit is still compromised and he is helping Iron Man evade Whiplash's drones, Iron Man accidentally once refers to War Machine as "Don," as in Don Cheadle, when War Machine's name is James Rhodes. [He says "locked on" not "don".]
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While Tony is being attacked at Monaco he hits Whiplash with the "suitcase" when it is supposed to be in the car with Pepper and Hogan still: they do not toss the case to him until later on in the scene. [This is not the suitcase. It's a panel from one of the destroyed cars.]
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When Rhodey is in Tony's office he points out a stain on the right of Tony's neck due to the blood toxicity. Later when Natalie asks Tony which watch he will wear that night the stain switches to the left side of his neck. [When we first see Tony ask Natalie about the watch, we see his image in the mirror he is looking at. Hence the flipped image.]
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When Pepper and Tony Stark are in the CEO office, just before Tony takes the expo model home, a few things go wrong. Look behind Pepper and see the word Stark, from Stark Industries, appearing and disappearing behind Pepper. Then when Tony Stark opens the door, he looks at the model over his left shoulder. Next shot, he's looking over his right shoulder and is eating a strawberry from the punet he has just thrown in the bin. [The appearance/disappearance of the Stark sign appears to be simply related to the angle of the shot. And Stark clearly takes a strawberry from the punnet before dropping it in the bin - his movements are very clear as he takes one and puts it in his mouth.]
Edit Corrected by Tailkinker
At the end of the movie, Tony stark sits at a desk with the Initiative preliminary report before him. Before he picks up the report in the foreground for a few moments you can see a news report with an Asian female reporter. However, this report has been looped as you see the same people walk past the reporter twice and her making the same facial expressions. [Of course it's looped. This isn't live - it would be a bit too much of a coincidence for the Hulk's battle at Culver University to be being reported live at that very moment. This is an earlier report on that battle that SHIELD have recorded; as such, hardly unreasonable for it to be displayed in a looped format.]
Edit Corrected by Tailkinker
At the scene where Tony Stark was making the new element, the circular holder was supposedly cut by the laser beam that was directed into the triangle. However, when he went forward to pick the element up, the cut/burn line was not there and everything was intact. [After the element has been made you only see the holder from the back and since the beam didn't cut all the way through the holder its still intact at the back.]
Edit Corrected by lionhead
In the scene where Tony Stark is testifying before Congress, Pepper Pots disappears and then reappears, and then finally disappears again about half way through. [She is not allowed to leave her seat? She leaves her seat the moment Justin Hammer starts talking. Seems like a good moment.]
Edit Corrected by lionhead
While the Black Widow is fighting in the hallway near the end of the movie, she uses a rope and wraps it around a guy's neck. When Happy is finished with his one guy he is fighting you see a guy hanging from the ceiling. She never hung anyone from the ceiling. [The scene cuts from a shot of the Black Widow fighting to a long shot of Happy finishing his fight with one guard. The Black Widow has plenty of time off camera to hang the guard she is fighting from the ceiling.]
Edit Corrected by BocaDavie
During a scene at the military base a vast selection of military aircraft are shown. One of them is the B2 Stealth bomber. These are ONLY kept at Whiteman Air base in Missouri. [True, they are only kept in Missouri, but being a military aircraft they can be deployed anywhere.]
Edit Corrected by BocaDavie
In the scene where Tony is watching his fathers film and reading through his notebook, he picks up a plastic bottle and drinks from it. In the preceding shot, the bottle has changed to a glass of alcohol. [Maybe he had both on the table.]
Edit Corrected by Gavin Jackson
When Hammer leaves Whiplash to go to the Expo, he leaves him at the Hammer headquarters in NY (Queens, to be exact). The Expo is in California though, and when Scarlet Johansen leaves the Expo, she goes to Hammer to get Whiplash. How can that be when the Expo is in CA and Whiplash is at Hammer in NY? [The Stark Expo is in Queens, NY. You can actually see the Unisphere in Flushing Meadows Park next to it.]
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During the scene when Hammer is about to lock Whiplash in the white room before going to the expo, in one shot Whiplash has his jacket unzipped showing his white vest underneath and the very next shot his jacket is zipped up to his neck. [In between shots he had plenty of time to zip up his jacket.]
Edit Corrected by lionhead