But watch his eyes during that scene. He’s not smug. He’s bored. He’s already dead inside. He’s on a road trip with no destination, and he’s taking everyone along for the ride.
From the penthouse of his Malibu mansion, the arc reactor in his chest didn’t just hum—it gnawed . A beautiful, terrifying circle of light that was simultaneously his greatest creation and the poison dripping into his blood. The palladium core, the very heart of Iron Man, was killing him. Slowly. Systematically. And Tony, the man with a solution for everything, had no cure. iron-man 2
He doesn’t cure himself with a particle accelerator. He cures himself by finally looking in the mirror and deciding that the man staring back is worth saving. But watch his eyes during that scene