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Now you take that back, I could get ostrichisized from the Philly fanbase! That sorta stuff is frowned upon, ya know.

Have you (or anyone) been following the news about Iron Man 3?  Some pics are floating around of the Iron Patriot armor.

What I read today was that Mandarin may be involved, but he's not the primary villain.  The Iron Patriot armor also won't involve Osborn since obviously he's tied into Spidey which is Sony's, it has to do with trying to recreate the Super Soldier serum.  Although it's been said Cap won't cameo in IM3 cause it'd waste one of Evan's six contracted movies, it's pretty cool that they'll likely talk about him a bit.

That seems pretty much the same as Stane from IM1 though.  I don't think it's too much of a stretch use the Iron Patriot armor since it was just Osborn's way of giving the middle finger to Cap and IM.  Given that the Spidey movies are in another universe where there is no Cap and IM, it wouldn't make much sense for Osborn to ever use it or even if Marvel Studios would let them cause of the likeness to both Cap and IM.  I think for IM3, it's nothing more than a coat of paint and nod to the fans.  I haven't read Extremis though, so maybe Iron can shed some better light on this.

I know it's about using nanotechnology to recreate the Super Soldier Serum so I could see the symbolism of combining Cap (Super Soldier Serum) and Iron Man (nanotechnology) to get the Iron Patriot.  I don't really see it as a big deal, Iron Patriot was just something Osborn fooled around with for a few months, Green Goblin will always be his real bread and butter.  It's not like it's a major established character with decades of history, like Vision, for a five second nod to the comics.