OMG it's the Iron Patriot!

So every nerd on the net blew a gasket today when photos from the set of Iron Man 3 hit the web. It shows James Badge Dale, who is supposed to be playing the part of evil cyborg Erik Savin/Coldblood, wearing what clearly looks like Norman Osborn's Iron Patriot armor.

I guess this is sort of a big deal, although if anyone thought Marvel was going to trot out a Cable looking 2 bit bad guy like Coldblood without a complete makeover they were smoking crack. The fact that it looks like they so clearly ripped off the Iron Patriot is sort of surprising, I guess. Most net nerds have reported that Iron Man 3 was going to lean heavy on Warren Ellis's Extremis storyline, maybe this Iron Patriot wrinkle shows us otherwise. Or not, who knows. This thing isn't slated to come out for another year at least and as cool as the Avengers was I'm a little Marvel movie'd out right now. Maybe I just ate too much shawarma.