State Your Opinion on a Character!!!! (Reboot) - Part 2

[Anubis]

Eh.

Sick of him at this point. I'm with Krypto. Shoulda stayed dead.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

I like Tony, especially the current vogue of emphasizing how intelligent he is and how much scientific acumen he really has. I even like the tact of giving him a voice in the comics closer to RDJ's Stark. In many ways I actually think that's true to the character from his inception to before the first IM film came out. Tony's always been a breezy, free wheeling character that was confident to the point of arrogance, which was leavened by his charm and wit and moral compass. The RDJ version is just updated in tenor for the modern world and with the knobs turned up to eleven. Adapting that to the comics is a-ok with this fanboy. I do wish that writers could find some way to do interesting stories with a status quo Tony and not have to add all the "everything is different" bells and whistles. I mean can dramatic and fun Iron Man stories only be about when Tony is on the run, losing his company, losing his millions, an alcoholic, paralyzed ect. ect.? But I digress. I think Tony has a similar thing as Ollie Queen going on. A very poor bench of enemies, but his flaws are his actual enemies. Tony can be fun, but vain, selfless, yet hurtful to friends... Tony can be a great character when a writer puts in the effort. He's not always in the right, and he can make some flaky decisions, which is kind of refreshing in a superhero. In some ways, the billions aside, he's kind of more reflective of the everyday guy than even Spidey, in that Spidey has this high level of self awareness. Tony is oblivious to his faults right up until they bite him on the hinder, which to my eyes is the majority of people on this planet. All in all a great creation from the old House of Ideas.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

He's one of my favorite Marvel heroes
Back in 2008 I heard praise for his movie, I was thinking to myself "What makes him so appealing", so I took a truckload of Iron Man comics and really enjoyed the work, starting with the very classic Iron Man v1 #002, I instantly had fond experience with the character
Funny thing is how he never ticked me, not even during Civil War, or any event involving the Hulk starting with the Illuminati

 

[Iceman]

One of my Marvel favourites too, just behind Cap, Spidey, Hulk, Thor & some X-characters.

 

[slicer4444]

Like him in the movies, but I've honestly never cared about him in the comics. Not that he's unlikable, I've just never been drawn to him. Not sure why.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

I like him but I wish his personality would stop flip-flopping. He's going back to being a jerk of a person in October and that'll prob last a few years before he's Mr.Nice Guy again.

 

[DarthDaveBanner]

If you told me 10 years ago that he would be as popular as he is today, I would have laughed.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I like Iron Man, but I agree with Spoons, his personality is really erratic. It's getting to the point that it just doesn't make sense for Captain America to consider him worthy Avengers material, let alone one of his best friends. Dude dips his toe in the pool of straight-up megalomania and borderline evil once every couple years at this point.

 

[squeekness]

Oh! Another one I actually know, hee hee. Was never a fan until I started reading the Ultimates way the heck back. I like him just fine now though I do prefer movie-verse. Downy Jr. was awesome.

 

[random_havoc]

Love him in the movies. Enjoy his moral ambiguity these days in the comics

 

[squeekness]

The best characters are morally grey, not black or white. Like most of us.

 

[runawayboulder]

If you told me 10 years ago that he would be as popular as he is today, I would have laughed.

I kind of agree with that. RDJ made Iron Man a s**t ton more popular/important than he ever was. The movies had a real positive effect on the comic (for once).

 

[WolfCypher]

I love Stark. I think it started with the Extremis story arc. I love his grey-area tactics, his swagger, and being a tech-fan myself, his technological genius caters to me.

Pretty much out of the Big Avengers 4, he and Hulk are the only ones I seem to follow out of the Avengers books, in their own solo titles.

I will admit I am getting a little tired of writers always revealing that Tony is behind some new plot that turns him into an antagonist in the eyes of everyone else.

 

[Mad Ones]

He's ok. Not my favourite. I'm kind of digging the incursion stuff right now.

 

[SymbioticToxin]

I like him when they don't make him an a-hole. So basically him before Civil War and some things after.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

Iron Man has been my favorite superhero (I don't consider Magneto a hero) going on 25 years now. Interesting that my two favorite Marvel characters show up one after the other.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Iron Man has been my favorite superhero (I don't consider Magneto a hero) going on 25 years now. Interesting that my two favorite Marvel characters show up one after the other.

You said Magneto is your favorite character, I decided to see where Tony ranks after Erik
Iron vs Magnet is entertaining

 

[Spider-Aziz]

ATLAS/SMUGGLER/POWER MAN/GOLIATH
Uuuuhhhh... ERIK JOSTEN​

 

[lost&forgotten]

I love Stark. I think it started with the Extremis story arc. I love his grey-area tactics, his swagger, and being a tech-fan myself, his technological genius caters to me.

Pretty much out of the Big Avengers 4, he and Hulk are the only ones I seem to follow out of the Avengers books, in their own solo titles.
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I feel the oposite. i dont care about hulk and iron man cap and thor were always better characters to me not that the other 2 are bad but they just dont apeal to me as much. As to Iron Man himself like i said i never really liked him that much don't even know why the comic version is just kind of weird i like Gillen's run though and extemis. i find that in his own series he's always better than for example in the avengers. He is good on new avengers currently though.

 

[lost&forgotten]

Never really read the classic Thunderbolts. Can someone explain to me what happened to him? i thought he reformed but he was in the revengers (which was fking stupid btw) recently in the Bendis Avengers run

 

[Wesley Dodds]

Iron Man's one of a tiny list of comicbook characters I actually much prefer in movies. Downey Jr's acting skill and comedic timing make Stark's *****iness fun and oddly endearing.
In the books, he's just a tool.

Not a big Marvel guy, so I've got nothing for Goliath ... But someone shouldtell Gambit he's stolen his weird 90s head scarf, er, thing.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Hey Wes, long time no see

 

[Wesley Dodds]

Hey, Aziz! Good to see ya! Yeah, 2014's been ridiculously busy so far ... It hasn't left me a lot of time to talk comics on the interwebs. I visited the old state your opinion on a character thread earlier and got weirdly nostalgic,

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Thanks for dropping by