Marvel Creative Committee Nixed IRON MAN 2 Scene With A Drunk Tony Stark Hitting Pepper Potts

@WhatIfRickJames - Which is weird since Peter Parker did worse to Mary Jane.

@Reeds2Much - It was actually unsettling hearing the amount of people who cheered during the scene in Spider-Man 3 where he hits her.

@mountainman - alcoholism is a disease, like diabetes...it is never cured...i honestly can't see a big, blockbuster doing more than having him get drunk in one movie...in the comics, he is an alcoholic (if i'm not mistaken)...the ptsd would excacerbate it, but didn't cause it...maybe doing it in a tv show would have been easier to flesh out

@Origame - how sensitive people have gotten

Nah, Pym has been treated as a wife beater since 1981. Ain't new.

@Reeds2Much - Agreed, a completely unintentional character assassination that resulted in not one but TWO original Avengers being cut from the cinematic team's first movie.

@PartyKiller - First of all, dipshit, it was suggested in the late 70s comics that Stark is an alcoholic. Second of all, that ''jackass'', I assume you mean Bob Layton, came up with a character flaw to make the character more relatable as his previous flaw, weak heart, has been cured since the early 70s. And it made total sense for a character like him to become an alcoholic. He was a rich playboy(Dennis O'Neil later dealt with that, too), so you can't create many personal obstacles for such a character that would come from within. Third of all, making Iron Man 2 a shitty action comedy and doing the same but worse for Iron Man 3 was a mistake, not actual fans and wrtiers of Iron Man creating interesting character flaws.

@PartyKiller - Kellum, if you have multiple sock accounts on the same site, at least have decency to use one of them at the time, instead of replying from them both and not even bothering to change the gargabe you spew, [frick]ing psycho.

[frick] off with your Snyder whataboutisms. This is an article about how the MCU have [frick]ed up Iron Man and his greatest stories. I know you suck off any garbage the MCU puts out, but you're not a comic-book fan; you're a snyder hate dickrider, so your priorities are somewhere else.

Nobody gives a shit about your fanfic explanations. I know what I heard when Bob Layton himself told me that he wanted to give Stark a weakness after his heart got healed during Archie Goodwin's run, so he and Michelini thought that alcoholism was a safe bet, since what else would make a famous rich guy go from hero to zero. Drugs obviously were off-limits, so they couldn't do that (plus it wouldn't be in character).

That was no a gimmick. Otherwise Peter Parker being (or used to being) poor was a gimmick.

Iron Man had his own comic that ran since 1968 till the movie with Downey Jr., was part of the most famous crossover team in Marvel Comics, and took part in almost every famous story event one can think in Marvel Comics, as well as had his own cartoon show that ran for two seasons and was consistently featured in video games (even in those where he wasn't part of the team; X-Men Legends II). Mother[frick]er, facts don't care about your feelings, and the facts are sayign that you're full of shit. And only casual losers who hate comics use this ''ABCDFG'' crap to grade characters like they're some product in a grocery store. A great character is a great character, dipshit.

Say... Mother[frick]er, you might wanna check the sales for your favorite Wonder Woman, whom you claim to be iconic and important, since her sales were never as good as Iron Man's in spite of him not having his own show.

Iron Man 3 was garbage that shat all over the comics and character assassinated Stark. You like that POS movie, yet you shit on everything DC movies do, even the great ones. You're a hypocrite with a bias.

The only real flaw I've noticted with the MCU Stark is that with each movie it became clear it's just Downey playing himself instead of attempting to do the character.

Now go read Mein Kampf, your favorite childhood book, psycho.