Thematically that's what his superpower is - building ever more elaborate suits of armorhttps://twitter.com/drnerdlove/status/728972486591680512 …
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Avengers pointed out this is the diff btwn him and Hulk. He can put a shield (money, tech, politics) btwn himself & his actions. Hulk can't
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Iron Man is about displacing inner demons & responsibility - putting them in Ultron, etc. He wants to save Hulk bc Hulk is a living rebuttal
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Hulk was orig not just a metaphor fr anger but for displaced responsibility. It's Oppenheimer literally becoming the A-bomb
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Amadeus Cho Hulk graduates from the moral safe zone of being the kid sidekick to being the guy who hurts and kills ppl with his bare hands
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Superhero genre is in some sense about making physical and literal conflicts that in real life are abstract - Superman punching Hitler
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Iron Man & Captain America are both avatars - what if both "the business class" & "the voting public" personally fought in wars they wage
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Stark warmongers from a 1%er elite politico POV, Rogers fr a true-believer Democrat voter POV, both have those beliefs tested firsthand
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Replying to @arthur_affect
That's a theme that goes back to the beginning. Superman's 1st long form story was kidnapping an arms dealer & making him fight in a war
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