Sup Forums's pretty divided on this, and I'm not knowledgeable enough about Stark to know who's right and who's not. Are the Starkfags in the right, or are the Starkhaters correct?
So is he evil or not?
Luis Allen
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Nolan Collins
He's a dickhead. That's all that needs to be said.
Wyatt Roberts
He's an anti-villain.
Ryan Wright
Stark is a manchild, hehnnn... believing the world to be his playground. He still plays with toys, but toys with mass destruction capabilities.
Don't believe his lies! I have proof that he takes part in the Bilderberger, Hellfire Club and Illuminati.
His main goal is total control over the world and monopolization of all technologies.
Liam Wright
>Hellfire Club and Illuminati.
Well, yeah, that's canon.
>His main goal is total control over the world and monopolization of all technologies.
Dunno about the former, but the latter is canon as well.
What does anti-villain even mean at this point?
Being a dickhead doesn't make someone good or bad.
Jayden Torres
He's just a very flaw human
William Sanders
>flawed*
Luke Collins
Only correct answer so far. He's not a hero or a villain the traditional sense, but in the Ancient Greek one. He's a Tragic Hero. A protagonist with positive and negative traits who tries to bring justice to the world and sate his deepest, selfish desires, but ends up being blinded by his hybris.
Benjamin Mitchell
He's most definitely not evil, but he'd be happier and have a much better life if he just became a supervillain. But he cares too much to ever do that.
David Garcia
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I'd post my opinion on Tony Stark, but Iposted it before on /m/ and I don't want to retype that shit.
Also this.
Juan Wilson
>An Anti-Villain is the opposite of an Anti-Hero — a villain with heroic goals, personality traits, and/or virtues. Their desired ends are mostly good, but their means of getting there are evil.
-TV Tropes
Lucas Powell
But that'spretty much what Anti-Hero has devolved into.
Luke Morris
But an anti-villain is an antagonist
Dominic Smith
But Stark headlines his own book so he's a Protagonist regardless of alignment.
Jaxson Williams
Read Iron Man: Fatal Frontier
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It's Ewing's wonderful summation of what is foul and what is fantastic about Tony Stark. The unfortunate implications, the tragic realities, and the noble dreams of the most human super scientist in the Marvel universe.
Austin Smith
He hates muties just like I do, Mr. Stark is a good man. What a strong guy!
Eli Martinez
DAS RITE! BASED!
Julian Flores
>Fatal Frontier
Best Iron Man story in a decade at least and a great story by itself
Ryan Bailey
What’s going on here?
Isaiah Cox
It's from X-Men Forever. Turns out the Starks and Trasks are family, and so Tony and Trask's daughter, who are cousins, create a device that'll kill every mutant. In the end he gets a change of heart and sacrifices himself to destroy the device. Which, conveniently, happens just as the X-Men arrive, and he mentions he was "very close" to making the other choice.
So, uh, yay...?
Charles Gutierrez
Did he bone his cousin?
Julian Sanders
Not that I know of.
Wyatt Myers
...
Grayson Gray
SuperOny is cheating.He's clearly the hero we need.
Easton Miller
Ultimate Tony > 616 Tony
Carson Stewart
...
Gabriel Parker
Kill all muties!
Jeremiah Bailey
AGREED.
David Fisher
It depends on the writer. When I grew up, Iron Man / Tony Stark was a superhero and a good man.
Even Matt Fraction wrote him as an essentially well-meaning person who was trying to do more than save the world from destruction, he was trying to help people by giving them access to clean water, medication and by removing mine fields and shit.
Gabriel Howard
...Is what your mother told me.
>Stark headlines his own book
Oh, does he? He hasn't in over a year.
Jaxson Perez
>Oh, does he? He hasn't in over a year.
>1 year vs ~6 decades
You sure showed me user!
Kayden Jenkins
Bad example: that was when he was inversed. So if he was bad when he was his photo-negative self, that means he must actually be good.
At this point in time - yes.
Julian Russell
Allow an old man his bitterness.
Owen Nelson
So, I've never really been interested in Tony, but you guys have piqued my interest. What specific runs and shit should I read about him?
Ethan Kelly
Startfrom Tales of Suspense and work your way towards Fraction's run. Iron Man's a character that you need to read everything, to get the impact of the stories.