Talk:Mark 45/@comment-117.196.253.72-20160812141454/@comment-92.19.75.220-20170307201654

Because he must of rushed it when it was built just before confronting cap's team in civil war.

After age of ultron: He was proberly spending his time looking over the new look of his mk 45 + trying to perfect the design from mk 45 onwards into mk 46... but didnt build it back then until it lead up to the recent events that forced him to add only what he needed in weapons for the events, also he was possibly spending time with Pepper and doing other stuff most of that year in the time gap between the two events. So it wasn't complete, like mk 7 was back in the first avengers film it was still in the prototype stages before proper completion and its possible that Stark didn't have time to properly forge + use full flege resilient materials for his new armor = so that could be why it was so inferior to what it could've been and maybe in the later films if perfected and properly built like mk 43. Plus we have to put into account that Cap with his vibranium shield + Barnes with his metal arm and both with superhuman durability + strength would be efficient enough at a highpoint to do real damage to anything when going toe to toe with other superheros/villians when careful enough in their fighting.