What happened to Steve's Shield in Iron Man 2?

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In Iron Man 2 when Tony is working on trying to create a new element for his arc reactor, Coulson finds a familiar looking shield which Tony uses to prop a coil

Agent Coulson: [Pulls a familiar looking object out of a box] What’s this doing here?
Tony: That’s it. Bring that to me.
Agent Coulson: You know what this is?
Tony: [As Agent Coulson hands it to him] It’s exactly what I need to make this work. Lift the coil. Go, go. Put your knees into it. There you go. And… Drop it. Drop it. [The shield is now in position and the coil straight.] Perfectly level. I’m busy. What do you want?

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Steve's Shield

It seems to be implied that it's Steve's Shield that Howard Stark must have kept or something. But the thing is that it looks as if the Shield was in the middle of being rebuilt but Steve's shield wasn't damaged like during his battle with Red Skull on the Valkyrie.

So what happened to Steve's shield for it to get like this?



Best Answer

That's just an easter egg for the next movie, Captain America: The First Avenger.

From this interview with director Jon Favreau,

"We introduced Captain America's shield briefly in one shot in the last film," he said. "An [Industrial Light and Magic] artist put it in there as a joke to us for our cineSync sessions, when we're approving visual effects.

"They got a laugh out of it, and I was like, 'Leave it in, that's pretty cool — let's see if anybody sees it,' " he explained. "Of course, everybody saw it — so now it really was in his room, so we had to figure out how to deal with the reality that the shield was in his workshop."

He didn't go into further details that what happened to it.




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What happened to Steves broken shield?

Captain America's Shield is a vibranium shield that was extensively used by Steve Rogers. After the original shield was destroyed by Thanos during the Battle of Earth, Rogers traveled to an alternate timeline and acquired another shield, bestowing it to Sam Wilson.

What happened to Captain America magnetic shield?

Furthermore, the point of the electromagnets was to allow Steve to retrieve his shield much more quickly, but he could get it back to him just as quickly by his usual method of throwing it so it bounced off of things as he could by using the electromagnets, so they were ultimately removed because they weren't necessary ...

Why did Steve give Sam a different shield?

That's probably why Steve chose to give the Captain America shield and title to Sam instead of Bucky. It wasn't because Steve believed Bucky's reputation and past made him unfit to hold the shield, but because he wanted to save his friend from the pressure of having to deal with being Captain America.




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