Because of the fact that Iron Man was always a second-stringer before the MCU, I don't think people fully appreciate that the Robert Downey Jr version of Tony Stark is something they basically made uphttps://twitter.com/mightygodking/status/1290339919731335176 …
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I mean from my POV it's kind of obvious that their actual most popular character, Spider-Man, was still languishing under Sony's control So they just said "Let's do a movie where Peter Parker is Iron Man instead"
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Which for a Marvel fan at the time sounds like a hilariously bad idea BUT IT WORKED It worked so well Somehow all this snarky bitchy angsty scrappy teenager energy transplanted into a middle-aged billionaire struck a deep chord with America
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To the point where they took it full circle, when they got the Spider-Man rights back and could have an actual Peter Parker in the movies he's just Iron-Lad He's defined by worshiping Tony and being in his shadow
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Didn't even confront his alcoholism issues, either. Just quietly decided that once you get rid of his reactor being dangerous for his body, his alcoholism goes away.
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No. David Michelinie was working the snark hard, starting allll the way back in 1978.
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