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SDcomics said:
Wasn't there also a Fin Fang Foombuster?

Of course, what's really needed js a Warbowbuster.
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JakeEkiss said:
Ok, yeah, pretty sure it's the punisher exo-suit now:
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Okay i'm officially on board with this.
Akatsuki said:
Yeah, they are fun concepts but not my favorite designs aesthetically. Whereas classic Hulkbuster and Thorbuster both look fantastic.
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Agreed with you and @NORM. Phoenix Killer and WWH Hulkbuster were just not good designs.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
Too many Iron Man diehards for me to voice my opinion of Tony Stark around here.
CTV said:
Other than the Phoenix 5 designs being cool (make them pls Hasbro)
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One of Illyana's worst costumes. I'd buy it.
CTV said:
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.
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Strongly agree, outside of the Bruce Wayne slander.
 
I'm having difficulty posting pictures from my trusty photo source Comic Vine. Any recommendations for a new photo source?
 
Akatsuki said:
Punisher Mecha would be a weird choice to use the budget for a new sculpt. If you are going with a big armor, why not Titanium Man, Crimson Dynamo, or Firepower?
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My assumption is they aren't doing a whole new sculpt. I bet money it's Detroit Steel or something similar with a few new parts.
Damien said:
For me, I kind of lose interest after Hulkbuster and Thorbuster. After that, it becomes its own trope and I lose interest.
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I lose interest after Hulkbuster for the same reasons. He gets one for the novelty, but Tony already builds too many new special-er armors that never seem to really have tradeoffs for the tech they incorporate. Once you get into various "buster" armors, it just becomes too silly.
Damien said:
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?
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If we do the semiotic square you've got hero (does the good thing for selfless reasons), the villain (does the evil thing for selfish reasons), the anti-hero (does the good thing, but for selfish reasons), and the anti-villain (does the evil thing for selfless reasons). Tony's often in that anti-villain role.
 
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I don’t mind the ‘Buster armors.

I just miss when Tony was an addict in recovery, working hard to make up for past mistakes, *humbled* by experience. “I used to be on the wrong side, now I’m trying to be better” Tony. Pre-Civil War, pre-MCU Tony. Mustache Tony. That Tony could wear any armor he wanted, and I’d love him.
 
Damien said:
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.
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This is one of the worst takes on Tony I have ever read. I hope you're not a writer.

It reads like someone who has only read Iron Man written by Mark Millar in Civil War.
 
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