Havok wrote:Ted C wrote:Havok wrote:There are two arc reactors. One in the suit, one in Tony's chest. I don't think Stark is the type of guy to make one not have enough power to power the suit.
It's possible that the newer suits, having their own reactors, no longer have a way to pull power from the one in his chest.
Yes, because Tony Stark likes to UNDER-engineer things.
Well, Tony may not have wanted to put an uprated arc reactor into his chest to replace the one that was in there at the end of Iron Man II; he may have upgraded in that way. Also, he may have wanted to ever have to deal with the problem he faced in the first movie, with the suit draining power he needs in order to not die.
Napoleon the Clown wrote:Though as far as needing air, he does use it underwater. So either it can put water to use, too, or it doesn't need air for basic operation. Now, to dispose of waste heat...
If the suit works by using the repulsor beams to push against the surrounding medium, that would work underwater.
Problem of space is getting rid of excess heat, since there's nothing to pick up the energy. How plausible is the idea that his suit, or the reactor, is designed to shut down if heat builds up too much?
Perfectly plausible, it just seems like the suit wasn't space-capable
at all, but your explanation might well be the one.
I mean, yeah, his suit not being able to operate in a vacuum is reason to assume it needs air (or water) to function properly. But that doesn't really explain why he lost power entirely.
Well, it suggests he physically ran out of power during the battle, separate from or in addition to the suit failing to work in vacuum.