The Wolverine/Iron Man3... Not Your Typical Superhero Movies?

The Wolverine/Iron Man3... Not Your Typical Superhero Movies?

The Wolverine and Iron Man 3 both cam out in 2013 and both have mixed reactions from fans. Some say Iron 3 is dog poop while others say it is "deep" and " above other superhero movies". Some say The Wolverine is boring. Some say The Wolverine " stays away from superhero averageness" and is a "character study". I take a look into how both movies are more similar than you thought.

Editorial Opinion
By WimpyKid4Life - Nov 09, 2014 08:11 AM EST
Filed Under: Marvel Comics
Source: ComicBookMovie.com
The Wolverine's main villain is an old grandpa dressed up in a robot costume who tries to steal Wolverine's healing powers in order to live forever. Iron Man 3's main villain is a man who Tony ignored and he then went on to become a powerful business man who wants to have most powerful president and most powerful terrorist at the same time. Both are "twists". The audience was not supposed to know the old grandpa was evil because he supposedly died. The Mandarin was teased as the main threat unit it was revealed that he was a fake. How are they similar? They were both enemies from the hero's past who returned with a vengeance to destroy the hero and become powerful while the hero was in the mist of a crisis ( Wolverine was being a whiner/ Tony was having nervous breakdowns) Another reason the villains were similar is how they were defeated. Tao from The Wolverine killed her grandfather just before he took all of Wolverine's healing powers and Wolverine died. Then Wolverine threw him out the building. In Iron Man 3, Pepper beat Flame boy after he said he was the Mandarin. Pepper saved Tony and Tao saved Wolverine. What happened after that was even more amazing. Wolverine lost his metal claws and Tony threw away his heart reactor. The metal claws and Tony's heart reactors are both what define their respective heroes. They lost them because they realize they don't need them. Tony IS Iron Man and Wolverine IS a soldier. The Wolverine starts with a flashback to Wolverine saving the same man he will fight in the future. Iron Man 3 starts in a flashback where Tony ignores the same guy he will fight in the future. Coincidence? I think not. Wolverine had a sidekick who was new to the franchise. Tony has a sidekick who was new to the series. Both sidekicks admired their respective heroes and helped them on their journey. The kid from Iron Man 3 was loyal to Tony and they shared jokes. The girl from The Wolverine was loyal to Wolverine and they shared jokes. We will probably never see them again. End Credit scenes were used in both Iron Man 3 and The Wolverine. Both are considered pointless and disappointing to the audience. Iron Man 3's end credit scene involved Tony telling Bruce the story and he's asleep. Yawn. The Wolverine's end credit scene involves Wolverine in an airport and Ian Mckellan and Professor Xavier comes back from the dead. Now this end credit scene was supposed to explain how Xavier came back from the dead. Instead we get nothing. " I have gift."' BOOOOORING!" I just realized another similarity between the villains. They are both hated and no longer exist. For example, The Mandarin is supposedly real because of a Thor The Dark World " one shot" and The Silver Samurai can be used again because the timeline is rebooted and everything that happened in The Wolverine never happened. That's all I could think from the top of head right now , folks. Sorry, I had more similarities written down ,but I lost the paper. That's my fault. If you have other similarities between Iron Man 3 and The Wolverine, let me know in the comments below. Thanks - WimpyKid4Life
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Dingbat
Dingbat - 11/9/2014, 9:27 AM
Iron Man 3 WAS a typical superhero movie and that's not necessarily a bad thing. I personally didn't care for it though.
Tuuralihn
Tuuralihn - 11/9/2014, 9:32 AM
I loved IM3. It was streets ahead of IM2 and still better than IM1. Deep in character and answered the question Cap gave in Avengers. "Take that suit off and what are you?"

Sadly, the average moviegoer and, self-proclaimed, "fans" where to stupid to understand that.
HulkOnion
HulkOnion - 11/9/2014, 10:41 AM
Whimper kid does articles?
PerfectAss
PerfectAss - 11/9/2014, 11:49 AM
Interesting stuff here.....

Also can someone help me get my profile gif animated?
SauronsBANE
SauronsBANE - 11/9/2014, 12:08 PM
The Wolverine was mostly good, until it completely dropped the ball in the 3rd act. It was building on the theme that Wolverine SHOULD find it within himself to help those who can't help themselves, and so he does by rescuing the Japanese soldier (forgot his name) from the atomic bomb explosion. So it implies that the way to get over his past mistakes and choices (killing Jean, for example) is to help others.

Awesome message, great character study, and natural progression for Wolverine's arc.

...But then it turns out that, in a lame plot twist, the villain the whole time has been the guy he saved all those years ago. Which then suggests that he SHOULDN'T have saved him, because he eventually turned bad. So that implies that he shouldn't save ANYONE, because EVERYONE has the capacity to go full-out evil. Which is a really shitty thing for a superhero movie to say.

Basically, it shot itself in the foot at the end, in favor of a cheap plot twist for shock value. I still mostly enjoy it, just not that ending.
SauronsBANE
SauronsBANE - 11/9/2014, 12:12 PM
There's definitely some similarities between Iron Man 3 and The Wolverine...but they're just coincidences. Heck, you can look at ANY two movies and find a ton of similarities, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything. So you're not necessarily wrong with any of your points...but all it does is elicit a shrug from me. It's not particularly meaningful, IMO.
Dingbat
Dingbat - 11/9/2014, 2:53 PM
IM3 had the lamest twist I've seen in years.
SauronsBANE
SauronsBANE - 11/10/2014, 7:30 AM
@0megaDaGod Haha great point! When it comes to the X-Men movies, it seems like Fox has a mandate to put spectacle and cool scenes above common sense and simple movie logic. The writers of The Wolverine definitely forced Shingen to construct a ridiculously unnecessary, self-defeating, overly-convoluted plot just so that they could have a lame plot twist at the last minute.

Meanwhile, Days of Future Past jumped through multiple hoops in order to get Magneto back in the thick of things...even though he obviously would cause nothing but trouble for them. And yeah, it's even worse that they stumble across one of the most powerful mutants in ANY of the movies, and then just kick him to the curb as soon as they're done with him. Because a mutant who can basically manipulate time itself REALLY wouldn't come in handy when they're trying to prevent a dystopian future. Go figure.
SauronsBANE
SauronsBANE - 11/10/2014, 7:31 AM
@dethpillow It's comments like these that pretty much guarantee that you're winning the "Best commenter" category for the CBM awards haha.
FilmDork1221
FilmDork1221 - 11/10/2014, 11:35 AM
Jesus... please use a paragraph once in a while
MileHighRonin
MileHighRonin - 11/10/2014, 12:26 PM
Neither is in my top 10 but both in my film collection.

Iron freaking Samurai.
MercwithMouth
MercwithMouth - 11/13/2014, 7:02 AM
Terrible article about 2 incredible good CBMs.
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