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Our Favorite Explanations for the Giant Bunny in the Iron Man 3 Trailer

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The full trailer for Iron Man 3 premiered online in the wee hours of this morning, but the thing we’ve fixated on most in the hours since is not the hints of Tony finally enduring some significant psychological ramifications from his crime (ok, alien) fighting, the promise that his world will be pulled down, or Ben Kingsley‘s at-little-too-similar-and-a-little-too-soon-to-not-be-compared-to-Bane voice over. No.

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It’s the apparently enormous plush bunny in the back ground of one split second shot of an explosion in Tony’s Malibu mansion. We asked for explanation on Twitter, and here are some of our favorite Head Canons (that is, explanations).

First we had to put out the call:

Responses were instantaneous.

Of course we have our own theories:

@GoFlyAKate pointed out something very interesting, though

So now my favorite Head Canon is that this is the equivalent of the stuffed animal that you give to a kid who’s in the hospital.

And finally? The mysterious giant bunny in the background of one shot in the Iron Man 3 trailer has a twitter account. And it’s kind of sad. And kind of creepy.

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