Stark undergoes surgery to his chest to prevent the shrapnel from the Stark bomb that went in his chest from killing him.
We then see the ambush again, and Stark is captured by the Ten Rings Terrorist Group. Stark demonstrates his new weapon the all-powerful Jericho Missile. We also see Virgina 'Pepper' Potts, Stark's assistant and obvious love interest Obadiah Stane, Stark's friend and deputy of Stark Industries and Lieutenant Colonel James 'Rhodey' Rhodes, Stark's best friend. This mindset is not helped with Tony being described as one of the leading minds of our time. We are introduced to Stark as a self-obsessed, vain playboy. The film cuts back to the thirty six hours before this event. The bomb blows up and blood starts to pour out of Stark's chest. A bomb lands next to him with Stark Industries on it. Stark runs out of his truck and hides behind a rock. The soldiers in the car jump out only to be shot down. The soldiers ask to take Stark's picture, but before that happens, the car in front of them is blown up. It shows Tony Stark, a leading weapons manufacturer and CEO of Stark Industries, chatting with some soldiers.
The movie starts with a car convoy moving through the Kunar Province in Afghanistan. When wealthy industrialist Tony Stark is forced to build an armoured suit after a life-threatening incident, he ultimately decides to use its technology to fight against evil.