Quote Originally Posted by MichaelC View Post
......why? I don't understand why it's even called "classic". It's his, what? Fourth or fifth armor? He wore it for, what, sixteen, seventeen years out of the fifty-five he's existed?
It's the classic because it was the first of that initial raw batch that clicked, 20 years is a long time in which it was used in tons of seminal stories, Tony having an armor for more than a third of his entire history is a big deal when most suits are lucky to get three years, and it is the fundamental model from which all Iron Man design is based off of. In short, it's the greatest of all time.