How could the President be held captive in the Iron Patriot?
Tony Stark's suits are designed to be controlled from inside. Why didn't the President just use it to fight his captors?
How can it be used as a prison to transport him? Was it remote controlled/deactivated?
Best Answer
As Tony demonstrates the ability to remotely control his own suits in the movie, it's not beyond reason to assume that the same would be possible with the Iron Patriot, thus rendering it an effective if rather unconventional prison.
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How did Killian use the Iron Patriot?
Fire/Heat: The Iron Patriot armor was proven to be vulnerable to extreme heat. When Aldrich Killian used his Extremis powers to heat the suit, the suit opened itself and ejected James Rhodes.What happened Iron Patriot?
It was left in the possession of Rhodes, who preferred War Machine over Iron Patriot. By the events of Avengers: Age of Ultron, the Iron Patriot armor seems to have been retired, because Rhodes shows up to fight in the War Machine armor and at the end of the movie is still War Machine for his role in the New Avengers.Who is in the Iron Patriot suit?
The Iron Patriot armor appears in live-action films set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, primarily used by James Rhodes in Iron Man 3 (2013) and Avengers: Endgame (2019). The former film also featured Eric Savin impersonating Iron Patriot.Why did they kidnap Iron Man?
The Kidnapping of Tony Stark was the abduction of Tony Stark carried out by the Ten Rings through orders by Obadiah Stane, who intended to kill Stark after he had tested the Jericho missile in Afghanistan.Iron Man 3 - Fake Mandarin Scene | Kidnapping The President Scene
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Answer 2
There is a scene in Iron Man 3 when Colonel Rhodes is holding up a bunch of guys in a building somewhere when Tony calls him and asks "Your re-design, your big re-brand, that was AIM, right?" and Colonel Rhodes replies "Yeah". So if AIM did the redesign and updated the software for the suit, then chances are Killian put in a override in the suits software to prevent the wearer from being able to control it.
Answer 3
It is not a mystery anymore. In Iron Man 2, we saw the Russian physicist made such Iron Man suits that can't be operated from the inside. Remember how Agent Rhodes got confined in that suit and could not leave it. The villain in this movie who held the president captive is a scientist himself. As we saw, at the end of Iron Man 2, the suit was retained by the United States government. However, Rhodes took it away. It is presumable no new upgrades have been done to it (at least not shown). So the suit still remains vulnerable and, as @Avner rightly commented, the villain possibly got the equipment to control the suit and connected to it during the upgrade by AIM.
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