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d21lewis on 16 April 2016
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S.T.A.G.E. said:
d21lewis said:

This worries me.  I was kind of a fan of Iron Man in the early 90's but then they did some crazy story where he turned evil and got replaced with a kid version of himself to take on himself.  That story.... the less said about it, the better.  Then, they screwed him up in heroes reborn.  Anyway, long story short, Iron Man wasn't an A-List character until his movie.

Now, he's the box office draw.  He may even be the average fan's favorite character.  I've seen several animated adaptations since the first film where he was actually leading the team instead of Cap.  When Civil War (comics) came around, I was pretty impressed by Tony Stark.  Even though he was logically right, he came off as the villain against Captain America who, in my opinion, was morally right.  I don't think the movies have the guts to make Tony Stark the obvious bad guy and if they do, I will stand up and applaud in the middle of the theater.

Very true. Marvel is turning many of their b list characters into A list characters .  DC cannot say the same.

I don't know. They've only made two movies in this universe. We'll see what Suicide Squad does.  It's definitely not a roster of their best characters. Only a few are known by casual fans. I have my fingers crossed that it's a good movie. Nobody (aside from blind fanboys, I guess) actually wants a movie to be bad.

 

*edit* I see where I said Iron Man wasn't an "A-List character".  I may have misspoken. In the 90's ( when they said comics sucked but it's when I got into comics), it was all about X-Men characters and Spider-man at Marvel comics. That's why they got guys like Jim Lee and Rob Liefeld to reboot the " non mutant " heroes in the Heroes Reborn storyline. When they did "Heroes Return", the Avengers were a big deal again.  There's probably a thousand heroes in the Avengers but (just like how Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman are the JLA's " Trinity "), Captain America, Thor, and Iron Man have been the " Trinity". Iron Man was an important guy but, for a period between maybe 1997-2006, his stories weren't very memorable. He was like Silver Surfer or Dr. Strange. People knew him and he even had his own cartoons but they didn't really care about him. He wasn't an icon, imo.