Okay, it does not exactly *surprise* me that Marvel rejected China Miéville's Iron Man pitch, but it always makes me gleeful when people step back and go, Wait, actually. Tony Stark is kind of a *villain* for our age.

(Maybe next arc wold have been about how he is also the IP police if they had rocket launchers. ONLY TONY STARK GETS A FREE ENERGY MACHINE, YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO INVENT YOUR OWN. BECAUSE ROCKET LAUNCHERS THAT'S WHY.)
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I would like to MARRY THAT POST, ahahaha. Clearly I need to read some Mieville.
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I am not terribly surprised that the biggest Tony Stark fans I know IRL are the same asshole dudes who unironically think Rorschach is a "Knight Templar," and not in the TV Tropes way but the "real crusaders were awesome noble defenders of Christendom" way.

The first Iron Man movie was bad enough, but just the preview for the second one (and that "I've just privatized world peace" line said asshole dudes think is so hilarious) made me want to punch things.
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I felt like the first movie could be read as somewhat self-aware and tongue-in-cheek, although sadly I don't think a lot of viewers took it that way.

Afterwards, a couple teenagers in front of me looked puzzledly at each other. "That was a very American movie, wasn't it?" one of them said. Which I understand because pretty much that movie is what America-as-a-nation's moral philosophy looks like from other people's news.

HAHA, it's so true.
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