A beaten up Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), meanwhile, looks murderous as a mid-air battle rages behind him.
This is just the latest in a series of posters and trailers and stuff that's hit the internet recently to promote Shane Black's upcoming conclusion to the Armored Avenger's trilogy, in which Stark will face his most malevolent enemy yet - the Mandarin (Sir Ben Kingsley).
And with around two months to go until the film's release, we're betting it won't be the last.
Meanwhile, Black and Marvel's top bod Kevin Feige have been busy on the promo trail, giving us some interesting info about the film's direction.
First up, Black explains how he adapted Warren Ellis's Extremis story to SFX:
"In the Extremis comic book, there's a type of thing that takes over and basically upgrades DNA. Sometimes you die. But if you live through the experience then you come out this changed thing. But the way they do it is the guy that does it is not some man chosen to be the super soldier — he's just a militia guy. There's an element of realism to it as well. So what we've tried to do is take this very science-fictiony concept of super people, and ground it in the type of people who volunteer for this being not necessarily super villains, but just people who upgrade.
"I love the idea of a super villain that doesn't wear a cape, that doesn't wear a super suit. That goes around dressed as you are right now. As for the science of it, once again we've gone back to the comic books, and I think pretty much lifted the Maya Hensen idea, that she met [Tony] long ago and had the germ of an idea, which now has come to fruition full circle, but she's afraid because it's gotten out there. And we go from there. I think you'll be interested in the effect that we generate to demonstrate what Extremis does to a human being. It's a pretty interesting special effect. But we've deliberately stayed away from defining, ‘Oh it's nanites.' What we do keep from the comic is the idea that there's a slot in the brain that seems to have been dormant, but exists in human beings, almost as though it's waiting for human beings to find a way to fill it. It's been there forever."
And Feige talked to IGN about how Iron Man 3 goes right back to the franchise's beginnings:
"In a way, The Avengers liberated us in the development process, because we knew we couldn't go bigger than Avengers. We didn't want to go bigger than Avengers. What are you going to do? Crack the Earth in two, and Iron Man's gonna have to put it together? No, that's not what it's about. We were much more inspired by the first half of the first Iron Man film. We said, ‘Let's put him, metaphorically, back in a cave with a box of scraps and see how he uses his brain to get out of it.' And that's very much in Shane's wheelhouse, taking cinematic tropes and conceits, and spinning them in an unexpected way."
In an interview with /Film, Feige has also revealed that the question of why Stark doesn't simply call upon his fellow Avengers for help with this latest crisis:
"It's a good question, and it's sort of half and half. I am betting that like the comics you don't have to keep – if you are reading a standalone "Iron Man" comic, they don't spend every page explaining where every other Marvel hero is. The audience kind of accepts that there are times when they're on their own and there are times when they are together. I'm betting that movie audiences will feel the same way. That being said, there is a little bit of lip service here and there to that. There is also just the very nature of Tony wants to, once he barely survives that house attack you saw today, and even you saw it in the message he left for Pepper, he's basically saying 'I'm going off the grid to try to figure something out'."
Iron Man 3 will open in UK cinemas on April 25 in the UK and May 3 in the US.
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