>At the end of Iron Man 3, didn't Stark renounce being Iron
>Man? (Or have I completely misinterpreted the end of that
>film?). I thought part of AOU would have been about him
>making the decision to put the suit back on but there wasn't
>really any mention of it.

I too would have loved an explanation for this, because he blew all of his suits up, then just leaves and... builds more suits? That doesn't really make any sort of sense. Perhaps there is a deleted scene somewhere with an explanation of some kind.

>On a side note, when Fury turns up at the end, if the ship was
>being manned by the SHIELD TV crew, I would've genuinely
>fist-bumped the sky.

This would have been AWESOME, and really helped solidify Agents of SHIELD more. I still don't get why the Avengers don't know about Phil Coulson, seeing as how his death was the catalyst that made them come together in the first film, and Fury and Hill both know that he's been alive for some time.