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Iron Man (1994) Season 1 Episode 5

The Grim Reaper Wears a Teflon Coat

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AIRED: 10/22/94

Stark Enterprises has developed the Grim Reaper for the American military. This jet is highly advanced and undetectable by radar – making it a valuable piece of equipment. Thanks to M.O.D.O.K.'s technological expertise, Blacklash, Blizzard, Whirlwind, Dreadknight and Grey Gargoyle pull off a successful heist. This all looks very bad for Stark Enterprises – threatening their business relationship with the government. Even worse, the Mandarin now has a mighty advantage in his quest for world domination. Will Force Works be able to retrieve the Grim Reaper in time?moreless

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I don't know about you, but for me THIS is the stupidest Iron Man episode!

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By McRazor, Oct 20, 2006

This episode could easily be told in, not 20 minutes, not 10 minutes, but just 2 minutes. That's about all the important plot. Everything else is one big drag and so uncreative, that I think that the writer came up with this in one or two minutes.

This is another basic plot so typical for the 1st season - "Mandarin wants to steal some Stark's invention, (despite the fact that he is a powerfull magician with a bunch of henchmen and alien robots on his side), and Iron Man have to stop him."

Today Mandy is after Grim Reaper - some special jet which can't be beaten in combat. As I understood, Stark sold this jet to army. Suddenly, Mandarin's thugs arrives to steal the jet with a plan so unbelievably stupid that even the writers for those corny shows from the 60s and 70s would laugh - they wear special suits to be in different time zone and that's why they can't be seen on cameras? What the....!?!?!?!? How many drinks did the writer had while he wrote this? I sometimes respect writers, cuz they sometimes use technology to explain some weird stuffs in their stories, but this is just ridiculus. Anyway, the jet is stolen, and dum,dum,dum,dum...stupid plot part 2 - Stark, even though he know that the Mandarin did it, he knows where is he, and still he doesn't want to take any actions until he realize how did the Mandarin did it, rather then go there, ask him and kick his ass. To makes thing worse (and more stupid), the government puts pressure on Stark because he wasted their money. And of course, after 10 minutes of Tony walking around the room thinking, somebody said the word "time", and suddenly he realized it all, went to Mandy to whup his ass and retrieve the GR, and everything is OK.

It's quite obvious that Ron Friedman who wrote the 1st season, is not exactly very good with this kind of genre (unlike shows he did like Transformers and Fantastic Four which were much better). And I wonder why did producers wanted him for this? Have they atleast read some of his scripts? Could anyone out there say just one sentence which would change it all - "No, it's too stupid, we need something else!" No wonder they changed the entire crew in the second season. Those who pulled through the 1st season, really deserved such cool 2nd one.moreless
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Jim Cummings	voice of MODOK
James Avery	voice of Jim Rhodes/War Machine (1994-1995)
John Reilly	voice of Clint Barton/Hawkeye
James Warwick	voice of Century (Season 1)
Robert Hays	voice of Tony Stark/Iron Man
Katherine Moffat	voice of Scarlet Witch (Season 1)

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Tony Steedman	voice of Justin Hammer	Guest Star
Jim Cummings	Grey Gargoyle	Guest Star
Neil Ross	Anchorman	Guest Star
Neil Dickson	voice of Dreadknight	Recurring Role

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- An adaptation of the episode was published in the comic book Marvel Action Hour: Iron Man #4. A notable addition in the comic book version of the story includes Justin Hammer hiring The Chameleon (enemy of Spider-Man) to steal The Grim Reaper.
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- In some scenes, James Rhodes/War Machine's voices were done by a differnt actor.
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- Why was so important for Stark to find out how did the Mandarin stole the Grim Reaper that he delayed his attack on Mandarin and retrieve the GR?
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- Gray Gargoyle: Get ready to be your own headstone, Hawkeye!
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- A new transformation sequence is used in this episode
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