General Marvel Legends

[SalemCrow]

"Now who's the stupid jerk, you stupid jerk."

What thrillingly complex dialogue.

 

[Resilient]

Wasn't there also a Fin Fang Foombuster?

Of course, what's really needed js a Warbowbuster.

Ok, yeah, pretty sure it's the punisher exo-suit now:

Okay i'm officially on board with this.

Yeah, they are fun concepts but not my favorite designs aesthetically. Whereas classic Hulkbuster and Thorbuster both look fantastic.

Agreed with you and @NORM. Phoenix Killer and WWH Hulkbuster were just not good designs.

 

[Schizm]

The Phoenix Killer armor looks like a Power Rangers Zord mated with a Transformer.

And not in a good way.

 

[Damien]

I think I just like Tony better when he's a dude in a battlesuit. The more ridiculous it gets, like the Phoenix Buster or what was it.. the Celestial armor? It's just too much. Such an obvious try-hard move to put Marvel in a position to slap 'IRON MAN' into a comic where he'd rightfully get his shit stomped in, so they just gotta create ever more ridiculously powerful Megazords for him to pilot.

For me, I kind of lose interest after Hulkbuster and Thorbuster. After that, it becomes its own trope and I lose interest.

 

[fac]

Hulk and Thor Busters work for me the way that Batman had contingency plans for taking out other heroes if needed. But at some point you have to ask if he could make a suit that powerful (like to take on Phoenix or Galactus) why not use it all the time.

 

[CTV]

Agree, but I'm not a big fan of the super rich white billionaire buys his way into superheroics trope. Batman works (for me) because Batman is clearly nuts. Lex Luthor feels way more realistic than Tony Stark, who gets played too straight as being A Super Cool Guy.

 

[Damien]

I feel like Tony often works best when he's whatever the opposite of an anti-hero is. What's a character who's theoretically a good guy, but constantly serves the interests of the bad guys? That's Tony. Just constantly making stupid fucking decisions because he's an egotistical prick. Yeah, he's a 'good guy,' in the sense that he fights alongside the good guys and genuinely wants to be good and do good, but too many of his decisions are motivated by ego which ends up with things like the bad guys gaining control of an army of Iron Man armours that Tony was too full of himself to properly secure or destroy.

Tony is basically a built-in foil for the Avengers that they can never defeat because he's ostensibly on their side. And, in this day and age, I think that's the best position to put a 'good guy billionaire' into; a bumbling, arrogant dickhead too high on his own farts to see how much damage he's doing.

 

[TheSameIdiot]

Too many Iron Man diehards for me to voice my opinion of Tony Stark around here.

Other than the Phoenix 5 designs being cool (make them pls Hasbro)

One of Illyana's worst costumes. I'd buy it.

Agree, but I'm not a big fan of the super rich white billionaire buys his way into superheroics trope. Batman works (for me) because Batman is clearly nuts. Lex Luthor feels way more realistic than Tony Stark, who gets played too straight as being A Super Cool Guy.

Strongly agree, outside of the Bruce Wayne slander.

 

[Misfit]

"Now who's the stupid jerk, you stupid jerk."

What thrillingly complex dialogue.

I didn’t even get to that one because I was stuck on “Holy crapping crap…”

 

[AceofKnaves]

Too many Iron Man diehards for me to voice my opinion of Tony Stark around here.

Leave that to me!!

 

[Beamish]

I'm having difficulty posting pictures from my trusty photo source Comic Vine. Any recommendations for a new photo source?

 

[Lucid Silverback]

@Beamish you should check out imgbox.com. Simple. No frills. No self-promoting inserts. And did I mention, FREE? I just pimped it the other day in the Help With Image Posting thread over in the Housekeeping thread.