When Obadiah removes Tony's arc reactor, Tony starts to bleed from around the socket and I can't understand why.
It's only a slow and small amount of bleeding but I still can't help but question why.
Can anybody offer any rationale for this?
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3When he initially removes the arc reactor, but it is still connected, there is no blood imgur.com/u06ZqeR but as soon as he disconnects the cable there s a small amount of bleeding viable around the socket imgur.com/DtcUzfX which spreads a little further towards the end of the scene imgur.com/Wnwza0w . There is also blood from his ear but that's just from the sonic devise that also caused the initial blue veins. Hope these screen shots help. – Sean Copley Oct 22 '13 at 12:57
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1Honestly, it just looks like shadows from the edge of his shirt to me, not blood. – gnovice Oct 22 '13 at 13:30
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1It could be... but it seems to slowly spread over the scene, though as I said, it could well be, thanks for your thoughts. – Sean Copley Oct 22 '13 at 13:41
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1I agree with @gnovice - from the squished photos, it sort of looks like the lighting is changing as Obadiah moves the arc reactor and it's creating a slightly different shadow. – phantom42 Oct 22 '13 at 13:41
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3Ok then, community decision, they're shadows not blood, thanks guys. – Sean Copley Oct 22 '13 at 14:09
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Remember the purpose of the Arc Reactor in his chest; it's there to power an electromagnet which keeps fragments of shrapnel from migrating into his heart. With the Arc Reactor gone, those fragments are now beginning to do their damage. Hence the bleeding.
The obvious plot hole is that putting in the "backup" Arc Reactor wouldn't undo the damage the shrapnel has done, it would just stop additional damage; he'd be just as hurt after putting his old reactor back in.
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4But that shrapnel was next to his heart, not around the edges of the socket. The shifting of a piece of shrapnel shouldn't magically cause breaks in your skin or bleeding. – Zoredache Oct 22 '13 at 16:46
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I just watched it in full-HD, the dark coloration you are referring to as possible blood is actually burnt parts of Tony's shirt, if you notice the remover tool burns through the shirt, this burnt part of the shirt is dark and from far away does kind of look like blood.. So not shadow play, burnt white t-shirt.
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I agree there appears to be bleeding. While Obadiah is sitting next to Tony on the couch talking about the arc reactor, if you watch you can see the "darkness" spread and grow deeper in color.
While I have nothing authoritative to back this up, I would presume this was caused by the "rough" manner in which Obadiah disconnected the arc reactor from the socket. He doesn't take any care in disconnecting it and just jerks the power connection free.
While the flesh around the socket is normally healed, this rough treatment may have caused some separation between the flesh around the socket and the socket itself. Odds are this is non-life threatening and would stop by itself within a short period of time, but it is enough to show on the white shirt that Tony is wearing at the time.
