Talk:Mark 48/@comment-34863038-20180619012009/@comment-31.52.44.77-20180728175613

No, I prefer to think of this suit as the mark 48 as well. The big prototype suits from previous films (the marks 2 and 42) were immediately followed by combat ready suits (the marks 3 and 43). So it doesn't make sense to me that Tony would experiment with a nano-suit prototype as the mark 48, then build a second Hulkbuster (comprised of comparatively simpler technology) for the 49, and then return to nano-tech for the mark 50.

RFSDfive, you're right about Iron Spider looking more like armour, but if you want to count that as an Iron Man suit, then why not include the War Machine suits?