Now, my other fictional obsession at the time (which I still keep to this day) was the tales of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. And when you get right down to it - even without the story where Iron Man and Doctor Doom get pulled back in time to Camelot - Tony Stark is a knight. He's a wealthy landowner who is capable of equipping himself with state-of-the-art armor and weaponry and who frequently goes off on quests to protect his kingdom (be that his country, his planet, or his business) and to protect the weak. He is chivalrous, which doesn't always mean 'nice.' He gets the concept of noblesse oblige as only the super-wealthy ever could.