What? They spend most of the first movie showing Tony building and testing all of those, so no, they aren't pulled out of nowhere. By contrast, with Groot we don't see him using any of his powers except his growth and regeneration at any point prior to a problem coming along that he then just uses the power to solve. I don't see him playing around with those glowing seeds or chemical generation or anything like that prior to him using those powers to solve the current problem.Phil the Nervous said:With that perspective, any of Iron man's weapon reveals: repulsors, shoulder gun, wrist rocket, even his flight would be considered random powers pulled out of nowhere. They're not mentioned by any of the character or foreshadowed in any way whatsoever prior to him using them. He's just wearing armor. Likewise, Groot is just made of branches.
And then showing how incredibly fragile they are at every opportunity. Space capsules are made out of significantly sterner stuff than branches.As for the crash, Groot enclosed his friends in a network of branches to spread out the kinetic energy from the crash. I'm no astrophysicist (Groot actually is) but a quick wiki search reveals space capsules using something very similar. It's called splashdown.
and that's not pulled out of thin air at all, the movie spends alot of time showing him growing branches.
No, I'm talking about characters using their abilities in ways that make them look like walking Deus Ex Machinas.actually, now that I've typed this, we're talking about two different things. You're talking about characters using existing abilities in an intelligent and non-linear way.
Except A. Spider-Man made those specially magnetic webshooters specifically to prevent what you are talking about,What I didn't like was Electro gaining Magneto's powers... and somehow forgetting he had Magneto's powers. Teleporting, then forgetting he could do that. At any point in that fight he could have thrown electricity through the "special magnetic" web shooters to kill Pete, compressed them to break his wrists, or simply stuck them together. Instead he takes two hits, runs off for exactly the amount of time for Gwen to give her strong independent woman speech, and comes back just in time to fall to the fake science plan. And all this this is five minutes of fight scene, it gets worse when they can talk!
B. Electro never shows any sort of control over magnetism, more like a side effect of his powers,
C. Electro teleports several times during the fight,
D. again, villains doing things they probably shouldn't or not doing things they probably should due to overconfidence, insanity, etc. is the main reason heroes keep beating the villains instead of getting their asses kicked, and
E. contrived coincidences are the bread and butter of all of fiction, not just superhero movies.
Again, you're complaining about something that's inherent to fiction in general really and superhero media in particular. If you don't like that then you aren't the intended audience and thus probably shouldn't be watching it.