As a superhero who knows how to make money, satisfy the ladies and save the day, Iron Man has always been my favorite.
High-tech suit of body armor aside, Tony Stark is everything I wasn’t as a teenager (and still ain’t). His line in “The Avengers” sums it up nicely when Captain America asks him what he is without his suit of armor. Stark quips: “genius billionaire playboy philanthropist.”
Stark — played in the movies with eerie perfection by Robert Downey Jr. — is an unabashed capitalist and true American patriot who says stuff like “I’m tired of the liberal agenda. It bores me.”
He’s the exception to the rule: a likable jerk.