Iron Man 2’s Cut Ending Makes Pepper’s MCU Arc Better (By Initially Being Worse)

An unused ending for Iron Man 2 could have improved Pepper Potts’ overall Marvel Cinematic Universe arc – though it would have initially been worse. As the Iron Man trilogy was the first movie series in the MCU movie timeline, it is also where audiences can get the best sense of the franchise attempting to find its feet while setting up an on-screen superhero empire of unprecedented size. The famously improvised scenes and iconic moments in the original Iron Man movie trilogy played an integral role in this, with the creatives involved providing many different prospective versions of things for the finished movie to capitalize on.