How do we fix him?
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Go back in time and kill RDJ before he's born. Kevin Feige too. Maybe Jon Favreau while you're at it. Strangle them with their own guts.
>>154278079Iron Man was mismanaged way before these guys
>>154278121Not the worst comic runs combined did even half of the comparable damage those three did to the character. Hell, to fucking Marvel as a whole.
>>154278079How are you going to strangle people before they're born? This isn't a sound plan.
>>154278200Strangle the Jewish hoohas who made them I suppose.
>>154277995>How do we fix him?Don't let people write him if they're ideologically opposed to everything he is and don't think he can be a hero.Ideally get a writer that's interested in tech but isn't Ellis or Gillen again.Bring back as much of his supporting cast as you can and give him one or more normie love interests instead of having him date random heroines.Use his rogues gallery as much as possible, as serious villains, not jobbers, allow them to catch up with the years of power creep Iron Man has had. Stop being afraid of using the Mandarin.Maybe retcon away that nonsense about Tony being adopted too.
>>154278208No
>>154277995He was the coolest of the B listers. Send him back to the B list.>>154278079No, then we wouldn't get RDJ as a great sidekick in films like Johnny B Good and Back To School, or Favreau in PCU. The other guy can die, idk who he is.
>>154277995It needs to be a straight superhero book or a straight mecha bookComplete overhaul of the Villains Corporate espionage needs to put on a shelf for a decade. Mommy and Daddy issues should never come back.No more fighting the Hulk.
>>154278173We'd still have Civil War Tony if the Iron Man movie didn't perform gangbusters. RDJ was perfectly fine in Iron Man 1, but with every movie the pendulum swung slowly from "RDJ playing Tony Stark" to "RDJ playing a sarcastic version of RDJ" and the comics aped that
>>154279028>It needs to be a straight superhero book or a straight mecha bookWhy?
>>154277995Accept that he's a villain. Start consciously writing him as one.
>>154279414No, secondary
>>154277995The last run with the sword had something with the corporate buyouts and the trying to use his weapon dealing past to shut down DoomThe problem is that Iron Man is too big a character to let someone have a nice long run on it anymore if the book isn't selling but not big enough to actually sell
>>154277995Have we tried making him the VP who then becomes POTUS through order of succession, and then have him launch a "special military operation" against Bagalia or some shit without congressional approval?
>>154279231artists can't draw mecha, so they need to simplify Iron Man's design and story telling
>>154277995The issue with modern marvel is that we never get a balance with civilian and hero anymore or we straight up only get super hero life 24/7.I read somewhere that Layton or Micheline had the idea of making a what if Tony stark was president could actually be a good idea maybe as a minister or a vice president
>>154280738>maybe as a ministerHe already served as Secretary of Defense in the immediate aftermath of the invasion of Iraq in '03.
Just use his rogue gallery.Did no one learn anything from armored adventures?
>>154282095>Did no one learn anything from armored adventures?2000s tacticool redesigns of supervillains just isn't going to fly now that it's an aesthetic that's close to 20 years out of date. You may as well ask for 90s Extreme redesigns. Even the 2010s "make it easy to cosplay or adapt to live action" style is old now.Sadly the new superhero comic aesthetic is "every guy looks kind of gay".
Stop giving him to writers who will just use him as a soapbox for "rich white men are all objectively and universally evil and need to Do Better." Tony is and always has been an asshole, but he's an asshole with a moral compass. No one understands that anymore and they just make him an asshole.
>>154278671>>154279667Yes, third worlder
