Tony Stark issues a challenge in first 'Iron Man 3' clip

If one thing has been made clear by the numerous posters, trailers, and TV spots for Iron Man 3, it's that Tony Stark is going to take a beating worse than anything he's ever experienced. Everything points to this being the darkest chapter in the armored hero's story, and the Mandarin his toughest foe yet. What we haven't seen until now is Stark tossing aside his calm playboy demeanor and actually getting angry about it.

The first clip from the film features a scene we've seen bits and pieces of before, as an obviously shaken up Stark issues a challenge to Mandarin, basically stating that the villain is a dead man. It's an especially fiery moment for the typically relaxed Avenger, and suggests that something far more personal than his mountaintop lab was destroyed in Mandarin's attack. He appears to have been leaving a hospital, possibly after leaving an injured Pepper Potts?

Directed by Shane Black with Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Ben Kingsley, Guy Pearce, and Rebecca Hall starring, Iron Man 3 kicks off Marvel's second phase on May 3rd.