Have these guys even read the comics?
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lunga — 19 years ago(February 10, 2007 12:56 AM)
They probably rewrote his origin to alleviate a lot of royalty checks to writers.
I mean its a real easy fix to make it a gulf war I origin instead of Vietnam. That would put Stark in his thirties and Rhodey still would have been an ex army chopper pilot dude. Make Tony one of the WMD inspectors. Hey they can even throw in Hans blix!
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cs_cyberstorm — 18 years ago(January 15, 2008 11:51 PM)
"Fair points but these animated movies are the Ultimate universe and not the regular Marvel one- so going on about Iron Man's history isn't really relevant."
Prove it.
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soupdawg30 — 19 years ago(March 22, 2007 12:51 AM)
If you have the DVD watch the Origin special feature. It made sense to me.
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the_frog_princess — 19 years ago(February 10, 2007 09:39 AM)
It seems nearly ALL the recent Marvel movies have moved away from alien influence to favor the mystical. I guess mysticism is more stylish. The one exception I've noticed was the Ultimate Avengers.
Between space nasties and mystic mumbo jumbo I prefer space nasties. Oh well.
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Lionsden99 — 19 years ago(February 11, 2007 04:02 PM)
I'm a big X-man comic reader and I know just how frustrating it is when a movie goes out of it's way to butcher it's original core material (X3) so I can totally sympathize there. However because the core Characters mostly retaied there personalityies and backgrounds I felt with this movie some of it's changes were forgiveable. Like I didn't mind the Guardians being themed after Mandarin's henchman, if you ever watched the 1st season of the 90's Iron Man cartoon you saw how poorly and goofy they were implemented and I'd say the Guardians were a step up and only foreshadowed that Mandarin would seek henchman with these powers in the future after he was resureccted. And while the physist role did get mangaled I liked having Rhody being in more of the movie imprisoned with Stark and Mandarin's rings still might have come from aliens that being how he held his first dynasty of China.
Other elements are less forgiveable like not mentioning how the Suit keeps him alive, not having him go to war, and having the hall of armors SO prematurely. But in the end I was suprised to see them stay as true as they did by including the original gray armor, I half expeceted the entire movie to be in Ultimate armor.
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djjazzystev — 19 years ago(February 13, 2007 08:28 AM)
Isn't this suppose to be the Ultimate Universe?
This is different from the original Marvel Universe, ergo whatever is cannon in Marvel universe is not necessarily cannon in Ultimate universe (hence the difference in Avengers). If this is so I would not imagine the Marvel origins of Iron Man or Mandarin hold true (can't say for sure never really liked the Ultimate universe only read Spidey for the first 2 years, X-Men for one, and Avengers for 4 issues then i stopped altogether, though I did enjoy the Ultimate Avengers movies) when telling the story of the Ultimate universe.
Damn comic book companies and there need to multi-verse, especially DC who did away with it for a good reason and then stupidly reintroduced it.
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b_ska_13 — 19 years ago(February 18, 2007 09:10 PM)
To all those who oppose to this movie, I enjoyed it immensely. I haven't read the comics, just the first two volumes of The New Avengers, so I don't really know the original origins of Iron Man, or the whole Mandarin story. But I enjoyed the movie none the less.
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the_frog_princess — 19 years ago(February 19, 2007 08:02 AM)
No, this is not Ultimate Univese. For a start, Tony's father died when he was a teen in Ultimate, and he has a brain tumor instead of a heart condition. The attitude of the character is
slightly
more like Ultimate, but more PC. I'm guessing it IS supposed to be the same universe as the Ultimate Avengers animated movies however. While the movies were based on and character portrayals are similar to the Ultimates comic books, they borrowed from both canonical and Ultimate universes.
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omega2064 — 18 years ago(February 04, 2008 10:02 PM)
Sometimes it seems as if Avi Arad has a secret hatred of all things Marvel and is out solely to drag every character down that he can. To this end he seems to hire alot of writers with nearly the same mentality. They may claim that they are "Big Fans" of the source material. But the evidence on the little and big screne says they are damn liars. Real fans dont screw things up so badly. Real fans dont totally replace characters. Iron Man and Doctor Strange and the Live action X-Men 3 are prime examples of this.