Tony Stark deals with his difficult board of directors and fights Spymaster, the industrial sabateur who takes over the armor and tries to give Iron Man a bad name.
Tony Stark goes to attend a meeting with Samuel Smithers, who has developed an organism called Plantman who threatens to take over the world with his vines unless Iron Man stops him.
Iron Man investigates his empty industrial facility in China and has an encounter with the Mandarin, who has the factory workers under mind control and attacks Beijing with a giant metal dragon.
Tony Stark, aka Iron Man, uncovers a bunker in Nebraska that was created by his father, Howard Stark, thirty years earlier, prior to his disgrace and disappearance.