Review by Arsenal

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Both episodes of Iron Man: Armored Adventures feature one of Tony Stark�s corporate villains � Obadiah Stane in �Mettle� and Justin Hammer in �Hammer� � going absolutely buggy when they are on the verge of losing their industrial empire.

However, �Mettle� never coalesced � partly because it depended too much on clich�s and partly because Stane was a boring, one-dimensional character. Consequently, any episode that depends on him is going to drag.

Meanwhile, �The Hammer Falls� is pretty much critic-proof. I mean, how can someone hate Hammer threatening to drop a bomb filled with zombie gas on New York?

But, even more than the zombie bomb, �Hammer Falls� succeeds because of Justin Hammer.

Hammer is entirely id, which makes him a great counterpoint to thinkers like Stark, Stane and the Mandarin. Moreover, Hammer is entertaining � something that can�t always be said about Stane or Mandarin � and he�s doubly so when paired with his incredulous sidekick Sasha.

It�s a lot of fun to watch Hammer get progressively crazier (and watch Sasha react to his craziness) in �Hammer Falls.� And, if 1 � seasons of Mandarin and Stane-centric episodes taught us anything, then it�s that Armored Adventures almost never suffers from too much fun.