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Iron Man
Iron Man, like knights of old, is identified by the armor he wears. The best-dressed of the Marvel heroes, he has changed his look frequently since his debut in 1963, but he can afford to: the man who wears the suits (and designs them) is wealthy inventor Tony Stark. So the man make the clothes, but do the clothes make the man?
Not only does Tony Stark have no super powers of his own, but the armor that gives him strength was also created to keep his damaged heart beating; he could not survive without his iron shell. Eventually his cardiac condition was corrected by a heart transplant, and a later that left him paralyzed was repaired with a microchip. So even without his high-tech costume Tony Stark is a mixture of man and machine, what science fiction writers call a cyborg.
Exactly who Stark might be without his armor is difficult to say. Writer Stan Lee and artist Don Heck initially presented him as a suave playboy, part of a long tradition of rich men who have become masked heroes. Yet unlike most of his predecessors, Stark got his income from a specific source: he manufactured and sold weapons. This was a slightly sinister occupation, despite its undoubted utility, and there were hints that Stark was ambivalent about his role. When his business was menaced by a hostile takeover in a 1979 storyline, he collapsed into alcoholism, and a friend was obliged to take over temporarily the job of Iron Man. So the suit an function without Stark, but can Stark function without the suit?
Stark publicly proclaims that Iron Man is his bodyguard, and to avoid prosecution for his own violence he once announced that the man in the suit had died and been replaced. He might have been talking about himself, since he is empowered by machinery and sustained by another man's heart. Beneath his polished veneer, Iron Man may be the most troubled of Marvel's heroes, forever fighting to prove that his armor is not hollow.
Not only does Tony Stark have no super powers of his own, but the armor that gives him strength was also created to keep his damaged heart beating; he could not survive without his iron shell. Eventually his cardiac condition was corrected by a heart transplant, and a later that left him paralyzed was repaired with a microchip. So even without his high-tech costume Tony Stark is a mixture of man and machine, what science fiction writers call a cyborg.
Exactly who Stark might be without his armor is difficult to say. Writer Stan Lee and artist Don Heck initially presented him as a suave playboy, part of a long tradition of rich men who have become masked heroes. Yet unlike most of his predecessors, Stark got his income from a specific source: he manufactured and sold weapons. This was a slightly sinister occupation, despite its undoubted utility, and there were hints that Stark was ambivalent about his role. When his business was menaced by a hostile takeover in a 1979 storyline, he collapsed into alcoholism, and a friend was obliged to take over temporarily the job of Iron Man. So the suit an function without Stark, but can Stark function without the suit?
Stark publicly proclaims that Iron Man is his bodyguard, and to avoid prosecution for his own violence he once announced that the man in the suit had died and been replaced. He might have been talking about himself, since he is empowered by machinery and sustained by another man's heart. Beneath his polished veneer, Iron Man may be the most troubled of Marvel's heroes, forever fighting to prove that his armor is not hollow.
Hulk
The Hulk, sometimes referred to as The Incredible Hulk (The Incredible Hulk, in the original in English) is a comic book / comic book character of the superhero genre, owned by Marvel Comics, the publisher by which the character's stories have been published since his creation. creation in the 1960s.
had its first appearance with the original public of the United States in the magazine The Incredible Hulk n°1, launched in the American market by Marvel Comics in May 1962, a solo title of the character, guaranteeing him access to what would later be popularly known like the Marvel Universe of comics/comics. Since then, the Hulk has appeared, starring or not, in several of the publisher's stories, becoming one of the most visually recognizable of the same, with the universe surrounding the character expanding continuously over the last few decades.
Despite running away from several pre-established standards for superheroes as a character in world pop culture, Hulk is considered a superhero, more for the superhuman characteristics he presents than for basic concepts of insertion in the genre.
had its first appearance with the original public of the United States in the magazine The Incredible Hulk n°1, launched in the American market by Marvel Comics in May 1962, a solo title of the character, guaranteeing him access to what would later be popularly known like the Marvel Universe of comics/comics. Since then, the Hulk has appeared, starring or not, in several of the publisher's stories, becoming one of the most visually recognizable of the same, with the universe surrounding the character expanding continuously over the last few decades.
Despite running away from several pre-established standards for superheroes as a character in world pop culture, Hulk is considered a superhero, more for the superhuman characteristics he presents than for basic concepts of insertion in the genre.