Iron Man film

[Edward McArdle]

I saw the film today, and really enjoyed it.
It had a small advantage over films like Spider-Man, because it was
really about Tony Stark. They didn't have to have him continually taking
off him mask, like Tobey Maguire. Also the plot was quite linear.

But it had small flaws. I was immersed in Spider-Man, because I could
*believe* that a person with spider powers could do all sorts of
nonsensical things. And then Doc Octopus whipped Aunt May up with his
tentacle, and my belief was broken. A normal elderly woman would be dead.
In the same way, when Tony Stark is trying out his jets and is slammed
into a wall at high speed (twice!), he would be injured or dead! It made
a good scene, but broke my belief.

But I liked it a lot.

And I had the idea there was an end scene (I must have read it
somewhere) so I stayed for what seemed like half an hour through the end
credits. For about twenty seconds of extra film.

I haven't read the comics for years. Does the world know that Tony is
Iron Man?

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[William George Ferguson]

On Mon, 12 May 2008 17:47:22 +1000, Edward McArdle <mca...@ozemail.com.au>
wrote:

Currently yes. (Over the years, his identity has been revealed and then
unrevealed about a half-dozen times)

Lessee, currently in Marvel

Tnoy Stark is publicly known to be the guy in the suit

The Fantastic Four (Reed,Sue, Ben, and Johnny) were always publicly known

Thor is not known to be Don Blake (and is Don Blake again)

Bruce Banner is known to be the Hulk

The X-dudes never really had secret identities

Peter Parker is currently not publicly known to be Spider-Man, through a
recent planetary mind-wipe

I'm not sure what the current sich is with Matt Murdock/Daredevil. He was
publicly exposed, but Daredevil kept operating while Matt was in custody
(Iron Fist masqueraded as DD)

Hank Pym was revealed to be Ant-Man/Giant-Man/Yellowjacket some time ago,
and is still publicly known

Ditto Janet Van Dyne as the Wasp

Scott Lang was publicly known to be the second Ant-Man, he's currently dead
in the main Marvel time-line.

Scott's daughter, Cassie. is pretty much publicly known to be Stature.

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