There’s an odd set picture of Whiplash in the upcoming Iron-Man 2 movie, and probably the pic is intended to mislead people. All it shows is a really grungy overmuscly dude with a half-hearted power suit around him. And who knows what other villains or plotters might show up.
However, I am totally curious as to Who the heck is Whiplash? Not in my villain ecyclopedia, he isn’t. Presumably, of course, they’re doing this to wait a bit before brinigng on The Mandarin.
He’s a villain introduced and developed in the Ultimate Iron Man series if I’m not mistaken.
Dude, that’s Mickey Rourke. So I sort of doubt that it’s complete misdirection.
Better known as Backlash.
Originally appeared in Tales of Suspense #97. Never a particularly credible threat. It’s one of the most powerful superheroes Marvel has vs… a guy with a whip.
In the upcoming movie, they’re sort of combined Whiplash with Crimson Dynamo. Better threat that way.
That really confused me (a longtime Shellhead fan) when I read the little blurb next to the Rourke photo.
I think you’re right; it’s a good idea. Guys like Crimson Dynamo and Titanium Man would be way too similar to the villain of the first movie, so I don’t mind some mixing and matching.
The original Whiplash is probably now best known for dressing like a Gimp before being easily beaten to death by an Iron Man armor that gained sentience and went rogue.
That picture of Rourke does not look intimidating, I have to say.
According to your cite, he’s actually “Blacklash”, which would have made a far more interesting character name for the movie.
I have that comic shown in the page and I kind of liked Backlash from that one. He didn’t want to be a villain and (I think) did just one more job to try to make ends meet and the quit the biz. Of course he was thumped by Spidey and Iron Man. I kind of felt sorry for the guy.
Whiplash, on the other hand, kind of looks like He-Man got in a fight with a Power Loader.
…people getting in a nerd tizzy over this picture is akin to people seeing the pics of Tony from the first movie with just the gauntlet and the chest light and saying “That’s it! That’s his costume! That’s so stupid! Hollywood can’t get anything right!”
Since supposedly the backstory is Whiplash kind of “Tony Stark’s” his way out of a prison… pretty safe to say this is his jerry-rigged means of doing it.