There really is nothing quite like the surprise villain monologue. I have a deep love of the overly dramatic "here's all the ways I convinced you that I was on your side" tangents.
Obviously, Gwyneth's plan isn't QUITE as perfect as she made it out to be, there was still a chance Vanko could have killed her in Monaco. But without armor on, as Rob demonstrated it was a VERY small chance.
A nice plan indeed. The kind where, though it may hurt or bother you in the moment, you really need to appreciate after the fact.
Then again, maybe I'm saying that because a mercenary I ran (in a non-D&D setting e.g. no Character Alignments) took advantage of the rest of his party getting stupid drunk to con them out of some coin. If I haven't embellished that memory, I believe the GM even told me after that if I hadn't done something, he would have. One of those "I get the PCs wanting to celebrate, but they were being stupid about it..." moments. ;)
There's just one flaw in Gwyneth's plan: this will probably piss off Rob. And a pissed off Rob will either find some obscure way to stay alive and go after Pepper, or will create an even more broken character and go after Pepper.
ETT #2: The entirety of Iron Man 3 will be Rob's elaborate plan to get revenge on Gwyneth by injecting Pepper with Explody-Virus, but will ultimately fail when she reveals that she secretly took levels of the Holy Divine Person prestige class, making her immune to disease
Author Notes:
Obviously, Gwyneth's plan isn't QUITE as perfect as she made it out to be, there was still a chance Vanko could have killed her in Monaco. But without armor on, as Rob demonstrated it was a VERY small chance.