Iron Man 3 Super Bowl Trailer: Twitter Reacts

Generally, the 30-second spot that Marvel Studios ran for Iron Man 3 was not hugely well-received online. The ad, after all, was little more than an announcement that the movie is coming out, with instructions to go to the Iron Man 3 Facebook page to enjoy the "extended" trailer that felt quite a bit more like a trailer. But, much like tonight's power outage, it's created a surge (no pun intended) of interesting reactions on Twitter. Besides the huge number of responses that were asking for Tony Stark to swoop in, fix the outage and resume the game, most of them were making fun of the feeling that the trailer lacked payoff. Some of our favorites:

That Iron Man commercial would have been two panels of a comic book. — Adam Koford (@apelad) February 4, 2013

Was that it? That was all there was for IRON MAN 3?! — Chris Cardno (@VisualEdgeChris) February 4, 2013

IRON MAN 3 TRAILER GOT PWNED BY FAST & FURIOUS TV SPOT. — elmayimbe (@elmayimbe) February 4, 2013

I feel like I waited all day,put the kids to bed, and went for some Happy Time and wife was asleep.Thanks @iron_man#IronMan Barely a kiss! — Ed Torres (@ed_pool) February 4, 2013

UM, THAT WAS NOT NEARLY ENOUGH IRON MAN. — Laura Prudom (@LauinLA) February 4, 2013

That's ALL the IRON MAN trailer we get!?? — Matt Wieringo (@mattwieringo) February 4, 2013

Don't worry Marvel. You fumbled the ball. I recovered the it & I'm about to return it for a touchdown. I'm your playmaker baby! I GOT THIS. — elmayimbe (@elmayimbe) February 4, 2013

And, in the interest of a democratic response, there were a bunch of people just generally "squee"ing about the trailer that aren't worth repeating, but CNN and Comic Book Resources contributor Alan Kistler distilled the "calm down" argument pretty perfectly:

And for people complaining the Iron Man trailer is too short, it's a trailer/teaser. Not a plot summary. Wait for the film. — Alan Kistler (@SizzlerKistler) February 4, 2013