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JUSTIN HAMMER | IRON MAN | sort of reserved - i asked for one but it hasn't been listed yet | 1/2
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Character: Justin Hammer
Fandom: Iron Man 2 Movie Canon, tied in with Movie Novelization Canon.
Character Notes:
History: Justin Hammer is the 36 year old CEO of Hammer Industries, and the DOD's current primary weapons contractor, a position he took on after Stark and Stark Industries stopped producing weapons after Tony Stark's return from Afghanistan.
Born and raised in Queens, New York, he had a relatively normal childhood and teenage years with nothing of great impact happening. After high school he went on to college, attending Dartmouth and getting his MBA at Tuck. After that he started working on his life’s dream, that being Hammer Industries.
Hammer Industries has been Justin Hammer's life's work, as it can easily be called, because unlike Stark he has built the company from the ground up. This also plays a role in the jealousy (to be later mentioned) he feels towards Stark, since he feels as though Tony was handed everything wrapped up in a pretty box with a bow. He is, however, far more of a businessman than he is an engineer, and therefore he relies on hiring the best engineers he can to do the dirty work. Naturally everything gets overseen by him, and approved or rejected, but as it is things in theory don’t often work out the same way in practise.
That statement includes the work that Justin has been doing with trying to recreate the technology that Tony Stark has utilized with the Iron Man suit, because the aforementioned refuses to give up the technology. The government feels as though Stark should be handing it over because it could potentially be harmful, especially if another country got a hold of the technology and started using it against America. The government isn’t aware of what Hammer is doing – they would frown upon that, but he’s hoping to perfect it before bringing it to them, to show that yes, it has been recreated, but by an American. He’s hoping that, if he can recreate it, he’ll be set for life. (Ivan: “What do you want them do?”
Justin: ”Long term? I want it to put me in the Pentagon for the next 25 years. I wanna make Iron Man look like an antique. I wanna go to that Stark Expo. I wanna take a dump in Tony Stark’s yard, y’know what I’m talking about?”)
Always having been second best, and while he tried to be friendly to Tony Stark, he would constantly embarrass him in some way or another, Justin also wants to prove that he can do it to Tony, too. Not that he’ll ever admit to that, naturally.
Personality: Justin is, to put it simply, a dweeb who no one really likes, but who doesn’t realise that no one likes him, either. The type who, in a high school setting would hang out with the jocks – him thinking that it was because they thought that he was cool, but in truth they just kept him around because he would eagerly do their homework.
He’s not really well liked by…anyone, really, but he’s tolerated because he has money, substantial amounts, and where there’s money there’s suck ups.
The reason behind why he’s not so well liked is the front that he puts up. For lack of a better explanation, and to put it as simple as possible: he wants to be Tony Stark. However, Justin lacks the suave, smooth charm that Stark has, so instead he comes off as a bit of a sleaze with bad jokes and bad pick up lines. He does still get women, but they’re not falling over each other to get to him the way they do Stark. However, there’ll always be women who want men for no other reason than the chance of maybe getting their face in the paper, and having the chance to brag that they’ve slept with someone rich, and both things are possible through Justin.
But underneath it all, buried deep within Justin’s mind, and somewhat suppressed is the constant jealousy that he feels towards Stark, a jealousy that isn’t only when it comes to charms and women, but within the work field too. As mentioned earlier, he built his company from the ground up, and feels as though while being a boy genius, Stark would never have managed to create Stark Industries if he hadn’t been handed everything over from his father. Born with a silver spoon in his mouth, as he thinks it, and throughout life received everything on a platinum platter.
He comes off as a bit incompetent and bumbling, and though yes – on some things he is, but in general it’s more that he’s just bad at wording things. (Canon examples are aplenty, but a special not is at the Stark Expo and his speech, when he tells what he thinks is a hilarious joke, and it receives crickets and coughing.)
Another thing he does, is that he tries to act a whole lot younger than he is, trying to be hip and cool. (Canon example of this being during the Monaco scene where he actually says BTW as BEE-TEE-DOUBLE EWE hurr) Saying acronyms isn’t exactly cool, even though he thinks it is, which throws back to reasons why people are iffy about spending time with him more than they have to.
In general though he’s a good guy who’s just trying a bit too hard. He wants to be liked and cool and hip etc, but with trying as hard as he does, it has the opposite effect.
Other:(I wasn’t sure if this was to go under history~ or not, so I’m putting it here since it’s a bit more vague then the rest) In the Iron Man 2 novelization from which I am also drawing canon, it is heavily alluded that Justin is a member of the Ten Rings organization, and something that I’ve included for my interpretation of the character. The Ten Rings is mentioned in the previous Iron Man film with Raza. He wears a ring that Obediah Stane then slips off his finger after he’s paralyzed him. A similar ring is seen in Iron Man 2 on Justin Hammer’s right pinky (visible best during the luncheon scene after he’s broken out Ivan Vanko). In the book it is said that Ivan Vanko goes to the Ten Rings to help him get to Stark, the shady dealings that we see in the movie where he meets the guy in the back alley, getting the passport and tickets. When the scene of Ivan’s breakout is brought up in the book, it is noted that to hint that it’s a trap to Ivan that the guard delivering the faulty potatoes scratches his neck on purpose so Ivan looks up and sees the Ten Rings tattoo visible over the collar of his shirt. Ivan, on the ride to the hangar concludes that the person who has broken him out is either a member of the Ten Rings, or someone so elite that they can make the Ten Rings do their bidding, and the former is far likelier than the latter.
Justin is a fantastic dancer, and loves to show off his ~sweet moves~ any chance he gets.
He has a Gulfstream G5.
Additional Links: Wikipedia.
JUSTIN HAMMER | IRON MAN | 2/2
I got my slot for the Stark Expo confirmed today. Finally. I’ve been waiting for it for weeks now. I was starting to think that maybe Anthony was going to reject it for some reason. Resentment for me having taken over his previous position, or something like that. But the e-mail I got in return seems to be generic enough, so I’m starting to wonder if he even has a hand in choosing who’s going to present, or if he’s just doing this whole thing to stroke his enormous ego. Between you and me: Knowing him I wouldn’t be surprised if that was the case.
I’m looking forward to it. It’s going to be good. No, scratch that. It’s going to be great. I just have to finish up the prototypes.
I think I mentioned in my last entry that we were going to do a test run on the current ones, and we have no. Conclusion: might have jumped the gun a bit early on this one. It wasn’t a total disaster or anything, and the pilot is fine. Relatively unscratched. Alive. But it didn’t work out quite the way I was hoping that it would. But I was excited, and it had to be tested out at some point. You can’t really blame me for it. Now I know what areas that really need to be worked on, and I’ll have my engineers get to that. Might have a harder time getting test pilots now, though, but I’m sure I’ll be able to work out something. Note to self: do that. Heh.
You know. I think having this personal blog thing was a great idea. Right now I’m just talking to myself, but I’m doing it without sounding completely crazy! And if I wanted to, I could talk to everyone on the internet, which is pretty much everyone in the world these days, which is neato, too. Maybe I should get a public one, too. Set it up on the Hammer Industries website. Though I’ll have to make sure that I put in some sort of difficult password that I won’t be able to put in when I’m drunk. I don’t want to be stupid, drunk and blogging at any time. The Social Network was a good movie.
Hammer Out.
Third Person:
Where to begin? was the only question that was on Justin’s mind as he surveyed the stretched out space in front of him.
Events were one of his favourite things about being in the position that he was in, but then again, for who wouldn’t it be? There was good food, good drink, good music and good people. Beautiful people, too, which was why he always came to these kinds of things alone, in hopes that he would find something to take home with him, if he was lucky.
He sipped the flute of champagne that he had snagged from a passing waiter, and with a bit of a jive in his step he started making his way across the room, throwing in some heys and hellos along the way. He nodded at his acquaintences that were too far off to get a verbal greeting as he passed them, making his way towards the buffet table, and then walking the length of it, back and forth. He grabbed a cracker with caviar and popped it in his mouth as he thought, and then went for a chocolate covered strawberry. Not the most ideal of combinations, but the stomach wanted what the stomach wanted, and it wasn’t the worst combination in the world either.
He considered taking another, but was distracted by a familiar head of dark hair, and if the hair hadn’t given him away, the entourage of women surrounding him would have given it away just as much. With a cocky grin spreading across his face he strode over to the group, nodding and greeting everyone in it before turning his attention to the man who was the center of attention.
“Anthony! I thought that it was you. I was wondering if I would see you here.” Justin added a friendly laugh at that, looking around for some sort of recognition over the fact that they were on a first name basis, and thus missing the roll of the other man’s eyes.
“Justin Hammer.” There was obvious annoyance in his voice, and the smile on his face was forced, though whether Justin knew it or not wasn’t clear, because either way, he acted like he didn’t. “How did you get in here?”
“Oh, always the funny man,” Justin let out another laugh at that, one that was louder than necessary for that “joke”. “I’m here for the same reasons that you’re here. Rich. Smart. Handsome.”
“I can think of several accounts of where you’re wrong in that statement,” Tony replied, clearly still annoyed as he quickly tried to make his escape. “I…see someone over there who I need to talk to. Hopefully I won’t see you later.”
Before Justin could say anything else, Tony had walked away, the majority of the group that had been surrounding him following after, though there were a few that stayed behind, although all they gave Justin were awkward smiles, before they to walked away.
If anyone had been looking closely, they would have noticed a slightly fall in his demeanour – his shoulders slumping a bit, and the smile faltering, but he shook that off of himself quickly, and laughed, making his way to the bar this time to get a stiffer drink than the champagne.
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