It really helps that at its core Iron Man is a story of redemption. One man seeing the war he supported from a distance witnessing first hand and going on different path because of it (the film enhanced that by making the weapons that killed the soldiers and wounded Tony be of his own design).
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Just a note on that note he put in the credits, that's not necessarily true that the song "Iron Man" has nothing to do with the character Iron Man. True, the lyrical content isn't actually about Tony Stark, but the name of the song comes from the name of the character (as Ozzy Osbourne was a big fan of the comics, IIRC).
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Only half way through the review, but the comic's plot seems like a Kids Next Door plot.
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"Not a lead among them huh? Better round up the usual sunfish." That made me smile.
-laughs happily at Aqualad's awesomeness- "Ha! The town is mine now suckers!"
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"The usual sunfish" line was great.
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I loved his rant about how Aquaman is not useless.
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I agree. It's getting stale.
He's only still perceived as useless by non-comic fans and Raj.
L Lawliet
He once threw a polar bear at some poachers. When you see someone do that you don't call that person useless.
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I wish he still had his post Blackest Night powers. Where he controlled undead sealife. I mean a fucking zombie shark.
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Oh, and being able to control a non-zombie shark isn't anything special?
Honestly, I kind of find it OUTRAGEOUS that people still can't take Aquaman seriously. Dude's badass.
Anyone who assigns themselves loads of character tropes is someone to be worried about.
Oh, man. Aqualad from WesternAnimation.Teen Titans is sexy-awesome, because that's totes a thing.
The "Aquaman is awesome not worthless" thing comes up often enough now it's kinda lost its effect.
S.E.A captain
especially as new 52 aquaman would stick his trident through a bitch if someone said that to him now. Hell it was revealed he eats fish!!!![[lol]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lol2v12_4863.png "[lol]"){kind=small}
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When Linkara made a "Topical Joke of the Week" about Tony Harris, was he talking about the comic book artist? If so, can someone explain the reference to me, cause it went right over my head.
Gamer-turning-maker
Basically, Tony Harris decided to go all slut-shamey on female cosplayers.
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Some Guy
Last week or the week before, artist Tony Harris (Starman, Ex Machina) posted an extremely misogynistic rant on Facebook in which he vitriolically insulted women who cosplay, calling them fake nerds who only want to seduce "real" male nerds.
edited 22nd Nov '12 4:18:45 PM by Filby
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Oh, yeah, I heard about that, but I didn't realize it was Tony Harris who said that.
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Hadn't heard of that...what the hell. (Besides, who would want to seduce a nerd anyway?)
EDIT: Just read the rant. Did he seriously just say "We are LEGION"? Really?
And it's depressing how many people in the comments section of that article are siding with him, including one person saying more or less, "If you don't want to be treated like a who're, don't dress like one!" Um, how about you shut the eff up and let people dress how they want to dress?
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I bet these are the same fans who resist any complaint of how whoreish CANON superheroine costumes are.
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L Lawliet
While I wouldn't call it whoreish, for a while I sort of silently complained to myself about how much I didn't like Power Girl's outfit. I'm so glad they changed it.
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I find the stuff about Iron Man and counterculture very interesting.
I don't know how much Jack Kirby had to do with Iron Man besides designing his costume, but I know he was really into the '60s counterculture. Hippies are always portrayed in a positive light in his comics, and his series The Forever People for DC was basically a love letter to the flower generation.
As for Stan Lee himself, he's always struck me as pretty apolitical. I'd bet him writing Spider-Man supporting protesters wasn't necessarily because he himself did, but because A) it made sense for the character, and B) Stan recognized young counterculture supporters as potential buyers and wanted to market to them.
For what it's worth, my father was a pretty big hippie back in the '60s and held liberal/counterculture views for the rest of his life, and he was a huge Iron Man fan.
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