Iron-Man

Iron-Man film, released in 2008, was about the character of Iron-Man and how he reveals himself to the world. It was the first movie by MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe). In comics however, you will be surprised to hear this, the origin of Iron-Man does not come from the Iron-Man comic itself but Iron-Man was raised as a new hero by Marvel in “Tales of suspense” 1959 #39. Iron-man is one of the greatest heroes of Marvel because he has no supernatural powers, he is a reality that can come true.The origin story of Iron-Man in comics is tremendously different from the one in the movie itself.

• In the movie, Iron-Man 1, Tony is called to Afghanistan for the demonstration of his latest missile “Jericho”, which is a repulsorlift technology, it splits into 16 smaller missiles after reaching the entitled height and amplitude. It has a very powerful blast and creates the strongest shock wave. Whereas, in comic, tales of suspense 1959 #39, story starts with Tony Stark in a secluded area in U.S. defense perimeter showing US army general his latest invention of transistor that can increase the force of any device thousand fold.

• Next, in the movie Tony goes to Afghanistan with his friend Lieutenant Colonel James Rhodes for the demonstration of his “Jericho” missile to fight against the terrorist group called “Ten Rings”. In comic Tony goes to Vitenam with U.S military to end the rules of a menacing tyrant Wong-Chu also called “The Red Gorilla Tyrant”. He goes to villages and challenges people of that village for a fight, if they lose he takes over the village.  

• In movie, Tony’s convoy is ambushed by Ten Rings and he gets hurt with a missile of his own industry (irony much? Yeah!!!) And a shrapnel enters his body stabbing him near his heart. In comic, Tony steps on a booby trap setup by the enemy and a shrapnel stabs him near his heart.

• In movie, the character of Professor Yinsen is shown as an unknown Russian scientist. He puts electromagnet in Tony’s chest to keep the shrapnel from entering his heart. Tony does not recognize him though they have met before. In comic, Professor Yinsen is a famous Chinese Physicist and Tony appears to be his fan. Tony works without the electromagnet in his chest.

• In movie, Tony stark builds a miniaturized arc reactor to keep his heart running and to power his suit. Yinsen and tony work together to build the iron-man suit. A very detailed making of Iron-man’s suit is shown in the movie. In comic, Tony makes tony transistors instead of an arc reactor and not a great lot of detail is given about his suit. The suit he built in Iron-man 1 is the exact replica of that in comic. In both, movie and comic, Yinsen dies while buying time for Tony’s suit to power up. In both, movie and comic, Tony has only one week before the shrapnel enters his heart and he will die.

• In movie, Iron-man fights the ten rings and avenges the death of his fellow. He destroys every weapon Ten Rings own because all of them belong to stark industries. In comic, a detailed fight of Iron-man and Wong-Chu is demonstrated. There is no mention of any weapon related to stark industries. There is a detail of technology installed in his iron suit like suction cups, pressure powered jet, Top-Hat transistor, and fire torch etc.

• The comic ends with Iron-man killing Wong-Chu and his gang whereas the movie continues leading to a different story. There are also other characters in movie like Pepper Potts, Obadiah Stane, Lieutenant Colonel James Rhodes, Happy Hogan, Agent Phil Coulson (S.H.I.E.L.D) etc that are not there in the comic story.

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