No. Howard said the arc reactor was the stepping stone to something greater. He was about to kick off an energy race that was gonna dwarf the arms race.

8 seconds sound clip from the Iron Man 2 movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:07:11.719 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- It's functional?

- Fully mission-capable.

- Good. Get Hammer down here to weaponize it.

- Sir?

- Justin Hammer's making a weapons presentation at the Expo. We'd like this to introduce it.

- Sir, I don't believe that the Expo...

- Colonel, the world needs to see this fast. We've got to make this happen.

- Yes, General, but...

- It's also an order.

- Yes, sir.

- Good work, Colonel. You've made your country proud.

- Thank you, sir.

- That thing in your chest is based on unfinished technology.

- No, it was finished. It has never been particularly effective until I miniaturized it and put it in my...

- No. Howard said the arc reactor was the stepping stone to something greater. He was about to kick off an energy race that was gonna dwarf the arms race.

- He was on to something big, something so big that it was gonna make the nuclear reactor look like a triple-A battery.

- Just him, or was Anton Vanko in on this, too?

- Anton Vanko is the other side of that coin. Anton saw it as a way to get rich. When your father found out, he had him deported.

- When the Russians found out he couldn't deliver, they shipped his ass off to Siberia and he spent the next 20 years in a vodka-fueled rage.

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