Comment on Do "rich" superheroes have to be rich in order for the story to work?
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Batman probably doesn’t need the money; he was originally just a really good Sherlock Holmes type detective. Didn’t have gadgets. Hell, he even used guns.
Ironman, on the other hand… I’m split. In the movies, he builds his suit in a cave with scraps sure… But he didn’t make the power source. The other dude with him did. In the animated series I’ve seen, his father made the power source. IDK about the comics; I was more into Spider-Man than anything else so I never read Ironman. Tony is smart and capable; but only when it comes to engineering. And if he can’t engineer a power source for his suits, he has no chance of being as helpful. Dude is also kind of an asshole and an alcoholic. If he didn’t have money, I don’t know how much people would have put up with his behaviour.
Lumisal@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Tony Stark broke idea: he’s a genius who got into uni on scholarships but then got kicked out because of alcoholism. He now works at a scrap yard as he tries to sober up. He’s also been working on making a suit to help his mother who has multiple sclerosis move. One day the Power McGuffin falls from space into his junkyard. He studies it and makes it a power source. Yadda yadda some tragedy happens and he makes the iron man suit
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
It’s giving Steel vibes.