Iron Man Movies Abandoned What Makes Him Special in Marvel Comics

Iron Man Movies Abandoned What Makes Him Special in Marvel Comics

Iron Man 3 was a divisive film in the MCU, but the biggest mistake in the movie changed Tony Stark’s character forever – for the worse.

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Iron Man Movies Abandoned What Makes Him Special in Marvel Comics

In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the third Iron Man film typically well-regarded by the fans – but the film’s biggest mistake was a deviation from the comics so drastic that it changed Tony Stark’s character forever in the MCU. Perhaps the franchise hadn’t yet found the successful formula upon which it would rely for later installments, or perhaps the film was edited drastically during production. But the ending of the film changed what Stan Lee fundamentally intended for the character.

In Iron Man 3, Tony Stark is challenged by the Mandarin, who destroys his house and nearly all his armor in one surprise attack. From there, Tony finds himself on the run without his money or influence, forcing him to be resourceful and invent new defenses for himself, all while his suit continuously malfunctions (and all while he continues to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder brought on by the events in 2012’s The Avengers). But the Mandarin is ultimately defeated (at least, the fake one was – the true ‘Mandarin’ wouldn’t appear until 2021’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings), and Tony destroys all his armors at the end of the climactic final fight…hinting at a much more drastic change just a scene later.

Tony Stark surprisingly elects to undergo surgery to remove the dangerous shrapnel close to his heart that has been lodged in his chest since the beginning of the MCU. The scene is even elongated in the Chinese version of the film, in which Chinese megastars Fan Bingbing and Xueqi Wang play surgeons operating on Stark. But when the creative team allowed Stark to remove the shrapnel, they also removed a key vulnerability of Iron Man: his reliance on machinery to keep him alive.

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Ever since Tales of Suspense #39 in 1959, Tony has been completely dependent on the electromagnet in his chest to live. In the character’s early days, he had to periodically plug his chestpiece of the armor (which he couldn’t remove from his chest) into a wall outlet; plenty of stories depicted Tony scrambling for emergency sources of power when his own reserves ran dangerously low. While the shrapnel was eventually removed in the comics, Tony suffered an accident not long after that left him paralyzed, unable to walk without wearing the armor. Even more recently in 2021’s Iron Man comics written by Christopher Cantwell, Tony has broken his neck and can no longer remove his helmet without dying. An arms manufacturer who must use his inventions to save his own life instead of taking others was a key component of Stan Lee’s creation.

Much like Cyborg and Professor X, Iron Man has also been seen to represent those with disabilities in comics. Tony receiving surgery is akin to the powerful Professor X regaining the ability to walk, or Cyborg obtaining a human body. While the comics version of Iron Man continues to be dependent on technology (and therefore sympathetic), the MCU version of the character lost that key element as of Iron Man 3.

Link Source : https://screenrant.com/iron-man-mcu-worst-comic-change-arc-reactor/

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