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killer shrike
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HH

Subj: Re: Here's a comment I just received via e-mail about the picture
Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 at 08:01:20 pm EDT
Reply Subj: Here's a comment I just received via e-mail about the picture
Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 at 07:38:43 pm EDT (Viewed 1 times)


> "See, there's just something wrong about portraying Iron Man as an
> asshole in that classic armor.


So s/he prefers the armor he wore when he was an addict? ;\)

>In today's impersonal, robotic-looking armor, fine. But not in classic "Shellhead" mode."
>
> Perceptive point.
>

Tony, more than almost any other A-list superhero, has been shown with caddish tendencies. The drinking, the vigilante actions of Armor Wars, killing the Supreme Intelligence, THE CROSSING....

Civil War just took that trope and amped it up to the Nth degree.