USA Today has just released the first image of Mickey Rourke as Whiplash of Iron Man 2. Rourke plays a russian villain named Ivan Vanko A.K.A. Whiplash. If you're not into marvel characters, you would not have heard of this villain yet... just like me. Bleh. I did a little search and copy *winks* on the internet and found some very confusing info on this character.