The Comics Q. Why would the Crimson Dynamo rob a bank?

[Fantasyartist]

Answer"because that's where the money is, silly!" as Willie "The Actor" Sutton put it
But seriously apropos of the Crimson Dynamo's recent appearance in Iron Man- why is he shown engaging robbing a bank of all things?
I realise that with the demise of Soviet power, he lost the state funding necessary to keep his armor reparied and upgraded, but it still seems out of character for a "doctrinaire Bolshevik" to be engaged in such a common crime as "bank robbery"

 

[Ironfan72]

Man, I wish I knew way Crimson Dynamo robbed a bank, it apparently is expensive to maintain the armor, with no Soviet Money, he could work for AIM.

 

[3dman27]

maybe it was to lure iron man out so he could follow him to where stark stores the im tech and steal it

 

[Iron Man™]

^ That could be it. I was thinking the same thing a few days ago.....

 

[The Question]

The Crymson Dynamo we saw was not the origional. There have been about six or seven. The one we saw was probably a mercenary of some kind who bought the suit on the black market, fell on hard times or into debt, and robbed a bank for quick cash.

 

[buckaroo banzai]

As Paul McCarteny noted, its because he came along for the ride.