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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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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Meanwhile, the Raimi SM films were very successful but that guy wasn't a wisecracker at all, so no one would notice if IM became one.
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Exactly! It's this weird saga where Raimi's first impulse was to do a Superman movie but those rights were way, way out of reach, so his version of Peter Parker is really a take on Clark Kent
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No wonder they get along so well when Peter arrives in the mcu
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