Otherwise he tells the story well enough without ever providing an image to really stick in the brain. Stark’s jogging gear midway through and his permed hair toward the end have to be seen to be believed, and Bright’s landed with some particularly clunky remodelled armour that makes Iron Man resemble a Transformer. This is partly because artist Mark Bright hasn’t the same eye for fashions, technology and cars that John Romita had (see Demon in a Bottle), and partly because the fashions featured here have dated even further. They’d been previously been very successful in presenting Tony Stark’s world of one of up to the minute glamour, but it doesn’t work as well the second time round. Their return in 1987 followed a period in which the series again sank into the doldrums, but it took them a fair while to settle back into the groove, and this is their opening selection. Whomever is the main character of Armor Wars has to grapple, on some level, with the guilt and suffering from Tony's legacy of invention.There’s a case to be made that from 1979 to 1982 the writing team of David Michelinie and Bob Layton produced the first continually high quality run of Iron Man comics. It will be a challenge to find what could make Rhodey go down a similar spiral, as he is a lot more level-headed and straight-laced than Stark, but it is critical to the adaptation to capture the tone. Exploring Rhodey's character, much like Sam Wilson in Falcon and the Winter Soldier, could be very interesting. A more interesting possibility is that Rhodey begins to go down a spiral of self-destruction. Armor Wars could work as a straightforward storyline of Rhodey beating up all the people who stole from Tony, but fundamentally that would be a waste of an incredibly emotional story. One problematic possibility is that Disney adapts the premise of Armor Wars, essentially of people stealing Tony's invention, but not entirely the themes. This is concerning, but also very exciting. However, now the mantle of lead role in this film has been passed to Don Cheadle's War Machine. If Tony were alive, Marvel Studios could adapt Armor Wars straightforwardly into a fourth Iron Man movie. This is a bit of a problem for Armor Wars, which is wrapped up so much in Tony's guilt and self-destructive habits. Iron Man sacrificed himself at the final battle of Avengers: Endgame to kill Thanos and stop his marauding army. We should get the elephant in the room out of the way first: Tony Stark is dead. Eventually, he comes back to defeat that employee, named Firepower, but much of the damage from the events of Armor Wars is already done. He is even kicked out of the West Coast Avengers and then eventually nearly killed by an employee of Justin Hammer. The entire situation leads Tony into a self-destructive spiral. Tony also ends up starting a fight with Steve Rogers that temporarily destroys Captain America's trust in him. and destroyed several suits of armor he created for them.

His attack on the US Agent Stingray led the Government to want to shut down Iron Man. However, it also put him in conflict with the superhero side of the world. Stark subsequently decides to go on what can only be described as a rampage, attacking these armored villains and then destroying their technology with special circuit packs.Īrmor Wars effectively put Stark into conflict with an array of colorful armored villains, from Stilt-Man to the Russian Crimson Dynamo. For Tony, someone who originally became Iron Man because of his guilt at being an amoral arms dealer, this is exactly his worst nightmare: his own technology being used to hurt people on a large scale.

These villains then integrate Stark's designs into their own technology. His technology is stolen by a figure known as the Spymaster and then sold to various villains who used their own armored suits.

Armor Wars is a classic self-destructive Iron Man storyline.

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