Talk:Mark 46/@comment-35163166-20201001144431/@comment-35163166-20201001175259

It doesn't completely shut down though. Of course its combat incapable and that's why Rogers aimed for the main reactor, to render Stark incapable to continue to fight. as for why he aimed for the helmet first, is because rogers wanted stark to expose his main arc reactor in order to disable it. basically what suit did after main reactor got damaged is that micro-RTs still powered the exoskeleton enough to allow Tony movement inside the thing. In fact at the end of the fight all reactors started flickerling lightly (after Cap pulled the shield out) indicating very low energy level inside the suit, a shortcircuit if you will (if that term applies to fusion reactors).