The only time the dad showed up had that Game of Thrones rushed vibe to it. You could tell Bendis was out of time and just wrapping things up.
Arno Stark always seemed like an Armor design in search of a character. Someone came up with the 'cool' armor design and then tried to retrofit a character to meet that. The problem was that while the design (shoulder cogwheels!) is more interesting than the character, the design itself isn't really that cool to begin with.
Technically, Armored Adventures' future Iron Man/Stark descendant was Andros, who originally debuted in the sequel to that one arc where Iron Man and Doctor Doom ended up back in Camelot, only they ended up a century in the future --- some years before 2099, but close enough for Andros to be retrofitted by Armored Adventures as the Iron Man of 2099.
Speaking of doing something with 2020, given how virtual reality is starting to make a comeback in this decade, who wants to bet the Virtual Armor from the finale of that run will come back, or Tony will make something similar down the line? And now that I bring up his armors, any thoughts on the new Mysterium Armor?
The spider is always on the hunt.
I have two questions:
- I heard that the Original Tony Stark was Robert Downey Jr. before the actor became a thing. A key trait the MCU is his snarking, was Tony Stark that much more snarkier in the comics?
- Outside of the Mandarin, what Iron Man foe has given Tony the most trouble?
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The MCU may have cast Iron Man perfectly. But Armored Adventures nailed his world while it was sadly squandered in live action.
Good Marvel characters- Bring Them Back!!!
Maybe the comics version can be explained as having been told he needs to quip more by Spider-Man? They were on the Avengers together in the comics when the MCU started, and therefore when the comics started basing him on Robert Downey Jr's portrayal.
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Kang the Conqueror. He's killed Iron Man, and he's enslaved his mind, causing to him commit murder. He's kind of an odd case, since they only encounter each other in Avengers, not his solo book. But if Iron Man could be said to have a team-setting Arch-Enemy, that Arch-Enemy would be Kang the Conqueror.
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Yeah . . . The Crossing was a rough time.
Indeed, and contrary to popular assumption, it was Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow, not the MCU, that first posited Tony as the creator of Ultron, with The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes making him more of Ultron's cocreator with Hank Pym, who was (still) the primary designer that originally intended Ultron for peacekeeping.
The spider is always on the hunt.