After revealing himself to be Iron Man, smooth-talking billionaire Tony Stark is under pressure from the U.S. government to hand over the technology for his powerful suit. While Stark's competitor Justin Hammer begins work on a suit for the Government, another nemesis in the form of Ivan Vanko emerges. Under the persona of Whiplash, Vanko aims to take bloody revenge on the Stark family, and it isn't long before he joins forces with Hammer to destroy Iron Man