Terrence Howard is getting sued for a gigantic chunk of change by a music composer that says Howard assaulted him like a year ago or something.

The Iron Man star is totally getting sued by a guy that claims to have been on the knuckle end of an encounter with him last winter.

Terrence Howard is getting sued by music composer Andrew “Tex” Allen for five million dollars, which is ironic because that’s the exact amount Howard was gonna get for Iron Man II. Talk about coincidence.

Howard and Allen were both working on a Broadway play called Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, which, as we understand it, revolves around a very poor family that makes a fortune selling feline bacon cooked in an ‘out of the box’ sort of way. We don’t have the recipe.

Anyhow – both men worked on the musical. Allen was sitting innocently at the piano playing a song about rainbows and butterflies one day when Howard allegedly stormed in with one fist taped to a wet sponge, and the other to an open packet of delicious Pop Rocks candy.

Then, alternating fists,  Howard began hand-bashing the musician in the head and face. We hear the whole encounter was apparently very sticky and loud.

Then, to finish him off once and for all, Howard gave the most awesome round-house kick anybody has ever seen. Can you believe it?

Our details were exaggerated where necessary. The New York Post’s aren’t though:

“The suit alleges that Howard confronted Allen while he sat at the piano at around 2:30 p.m. during a Jan. 24 rehearsal at the Walter Kerr Theatre and punched him repeatedly in the face and head. The suit does not divulge the reason for the fight.”

Allen, the wounded victim, states his music-playing ability has been ruined forever due to the assault.

All we can say is this – Good thing Howard didn’t already have access to the War Machine suit his former character is rumored to play in Iron Man II.

Imagine if all those face punches were thrown with metal-covered, hydraulic powered fists and backed up with sleek-looking shoulder torpedoes?

Why, had that been the case, Allen’s next musical performance would probably have been for the likes of St. Peter, Joan of Arc, and possibly a resurrected, nicer version of the giant, town-eating monster that got blown up in the end of Cloverfield.

Yes, that’s how Cloverfield ended. Now you have one less reason to see it.